Improvements in Locks for Bags.
Year: 1889

page_text: Date of Application, 4th Feb., 1889
Complete Specification Left, 1st Nov., 1889-Accepted. 1st Feb.: 1890
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Locks for Bags.
I, OTTO SEEFELS of 16 & 17 Barbican in the City of London, Dressing Bag
Manufacturer do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:
The Lock of the Bag is protected by a sliding plate which covers the key-hole on
the outside of the Bag, and on purpose to reveal the key-hole this plate or slide has
to be pushed on one side, from whence, through the action of a spring, it returns to
its former position. By a combination of levers in the construction of the lock [ utilize
an extension or continuation of the above mentioned action of pushing the slide on
one side for the second purpose of opening the lock (when not bolted with the key)
and thus one movement of the hand uncovers the key-hole and opens the Bag. When
however the lock is bolted with the key, then the movement of the slide exfonds only
to the point at which the key hole is uncovered.
Dated this 4th day of February 1889.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Locks for Bags.
I, OTTO SEEFELS of 16 & 17 Barbican in the City of London, Dressing-Bag-
Manufacturer do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what manner
the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by
the following statement :-
I construct a lock-box similar in shape to the usual bag-lock-box of rectangular
form with two (or more) vertical open slots into which the staples of the hasp can
enter from the opposite half or back of the bag-frame, while the lock-box itself is
attached by suitable means such as screws or rivets on to the front-half of the
frame.
Into this lock-box I place a long, mostly flat shaped bolt in vertical position, with
sufficient play or liberty for movement in a horizontal direction to permit the catches
on the bolt to enter into and withdraw out of the staples of the hasp when the
latter, in closing the bag is pushed into the lock-box. This bolt is connected with
the lock-box by a spring which holds it in the position indicated above and which,
though allowing the bolt the above mentioned sufficient play, returns it into its former
position when released after its having been moved on one side. The top-part of the
bolt is further provided by me with a projecting striking-plate which is so situated
under a corresponding slot or opening in the top of the lock-box as to afford a means
of communicating a movement to the bolt from the outside of the bag.
To effect this communication I also construct a sliding-top lock-plate, the base of
which is fixed on the outside of the bag and the sliding top of which has a long
vertical foot or leg descending through a slot in the frame into the top-slot or opening
of the lock-box, and is thus enabled to come into contact with the striking-plate of the
bolt. This lock-plate has also an expanding spring connecting the base with the
sliding-top, and the action of this spring returns the sliding-top into its position when
released by the hand.
The sliding-top of the lock-plate, when in its position of rest, covers with its one
end the key-hole of the lock and serves to keep dust and moisture out of the lock.
When the sliding-top of the lock-plate is pushed on one side and in so doing the action
of the lock-plate-spring is overcome, the key hole is uncovered and the key can be
inserted into the lock, but the foot of the lock plate still works free, and at the point
at which the key hole is fully disclosed the foot of the lock plate only just touches the
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page_text: striking-plate of the bolt inside in the lock. When however this same movement is
extended and a little more force is employed to overcome also the action of the spring
of the holt, then the foot of the lockplate moves the bolt on one side also and the result
is the opening of the bag.
The action of the key is not here described as it is immaterial and not affected by 5
this invention, various systems of locking may be adapted to this lock, all of which
however must result in this effect that the locking with the key arrests or fixes the
bolt in the place of rest into which it is pushed by the spring; I may only mention
that from the lock-case ascends a funnel or key-guide through corresponding holes in
the frame-cap and in the base of the lock-plate and ends in the key-hole, level with 1
the top of the lock-plate-base under the end of the sliding-top.
In the drawing herewith Fig. 1. shows side views of:
OTTO SEEFELS.