Year: 1888

page_text: Date of Application, 20th June, 1888
Complete Specification Left, 20th Mar., 1889
Complete Specification Accepted, 25th May, 1889
I, WILLIAM PAULGRAVE ELLMORE, trading as W. T. Ellmore and Son, of 16, City
Road, in the county of Middlesex, Furniture Manufacturer, do hereby declare the
nature of this invention to be as follows:-
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This invention relates to an improved lock and fastening for hampers and
the like.
In carrying out my invention I employ a lock the case of which is of a shape
such that it can be conveniently worked into the wicker-work from which the
hamper is made, and on the front part of the hamper. The lock is provided with a
spring bolt or catch adapted to be operated by means of a key; in the front of the
lock case is a slot for receiving a catch on the end of a hasp working in the lid
of the hamper; the bar or rod carrying the hasp is worked into the wicker work of the
front part of the lid of the hamper so that it can rotate therein and the said har is
provided with hooks or catches so placed that when the hasp is in its closed position
the said hooks or catches engage with hooks or catches on the front part of the
hamper.
If a hamper be provided with my improved lock and fastening, in order to close the
same it will be merely necessary to turn the hasp downwards so that its catch will
pass into the slot in the lock case and the said catch will engage with the spring bolt
of the lock; at the same time the above named catches on the bar of the hasp will
engage with the catches on the front of the hamper thereby preventing the lid being
prised up at the ends. To open the hamper it is only necessary to remove the spring
bolt from its engagement with the catch of the hasp by means of the key.
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C T1000
G. F. REDFERN & Co.,
4, South Street, Finsbury, London.
Agents for the Applicant.

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I, WILLIAM PAULGRAVE ELLMORE, trading as W. T. Ellmore and Son of 16 City
Road in the county of Middlesex, Furniture 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 :-
This invention relates to an improved lock and fastening for hampers and the like
and it comprises the improvements hereinafter described.
In the accompanying drawing
Figures 1 and 2 are perspective views of a hamper provided with my improved lock
and fastening, figure 1 shewing the hamper locked and figure 2 shewing it open.
Figures 3 to 7 are detached views drawn to an enlarged scale of the various parts
of the lock and fastening.
Similar letters in all the figures indicate similar parts.
In carrying out my invention I employ a lock a shewn in front elevation at figure 3
the case of which is of a shape such that it can be conveniently attached to the front
part of the hamper A as shewn in figures 1 and 2. The lock a is provided with a
spring bolt or catch (not shewn in the drawing) adapted to be operated by means
of a key. In the front of the lock case is a slot 6 for receiving a catch c on the end
of a hasp d (shewn most clearly in perspective view at figure 4) working in the lid B
of the hamper A. The har or rod e carrying the basp d and shewn detached from the
hamper at figures 5 and 6 is worked into the wicker work of the front part of the lid
of the hamper A as shown at fin figures 1 and 2 so that it can rotate therein and the
bare is provided with hooks or catches g, g so placed that when the hasp d is in its
closed position the hooks or catches g, g engage with eyes or catches h, h on the front
part of the hamper A.
One of the eyes or catches h is shewn detached in perspective view at figure :7
and figure 5 shews clearly the manner in which the catches g, g on the bar e engage
with the said eyes.
It is of course understood that the hasp d must be fixed. on the
bar in order that the latter shall rotate and disengage or engage its hooks when
the hasp is moved up or down.
If a hamper be provided with my improved lock and fastening, in order to close
the same, the lid of the same being open as at figure 2, it will be merely necessary
after closing down the lid B to turn the hasp d downwards so that its catch c will pass
into the slot b, in the lock case a and the catch will engage with the spring bolt of
the lock. At the same time the catches g, g in the bar e of the hasp will engage with
the eyes h, h on the front of the hamper A as shewn in figure 1 thereby preventing the
lid being prised up at the ends. To open the hamper it is only necessary to remove
the spring bolt from its engagement with the catch c of the hasp d by means of the
key when the lid can be raised.

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is :-
(1) The improvements relating to the fastening of hampers and the like substantially
as hereinbefore described.
(2) The manufacture and use of the improved fastening for hampers and the like
hereinbefore described and illustrated in the accompanying drawing.
Dated the 20th day of March 1889.
G. F. REDFERN & Co.,
4, South Street, Finsbury, London,
Agents for the Applicant.