An Improved Fastening for Purses, Bags, Satchels, Writing Cases, Portmanteaus, Trunks, and other similar Receptacles.
Year: 1887

page_text: An Improved Fastening for Purses, Bags, Satchels, Writing Cases,
Portmanteaus, Trunks, and other similar Receptacles.
We WILLIAM DORNAN of 67, Walmsley Street Hull in the County of York
Commercial Traveller and ARTHUR DOUGLASS SOUTHGATE and WILLIAM GEORGE
SOUTHGATE of the firm of John Southgate and Sons of 75 and 76 Watling Street in
the City of London Portmanteau Manufacturers, 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 fastening for purses, porte-monnaies, pocket-
books, cigar and other satchels, bags, cases, portmanteaus, trunks, boxes, and other
similar receptacles. This improved fastening is at once simple and strong and may
be readily fastened and unfastened. When applied to portmanteaus, trunks, and
other receptacles which may pass out of the custody of the owner, it may be
combined with a locking mechanism capable of being operated only by an
appropriate key.
The fastening as applied to purses and similar portable receptacles and to the hasps
of portmanteaus, trunks, and the like; consists essentially in the combination with
the parts of the purse or other receptacle to be fastened, of a staple and a pivoted
segment shaped bolt or latch adapted to enter or pass beneath the staple, the bolt and
staple being respectively applied to the two parts of the purse or other receptacle to
be fastened, as hereafter described.
Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings forming part of this specifica-
tion, in which the invention is illustrated as applied to a purse. The various other
applications of the fastening will be readily understood without special illustration the
fastening varying only in dimensions according to the kind of receptacle to which it
is applied. Figure 1 is a front view of the fastening locked. Figure 2 is a similar
view of the same, unlocked, and figures 3 and 4 are sections on lines 3-3 and 4-4
figure 1 respectively. The same letters of reference indicate the same parts in all the
figures.

page_text: The bolt or latch plate a is pivoted at b to a plate c affixed to the one flap A to be
fastened (as for example, to the overlapping part of a purse or trunk, or the hasp of a
trunk) in which is a slot d adapted to give passage to the staple e affixed to the other
or underlapping portion B, of the purse or trunk. The segment shaped free end of
the pivoted bolt a works just over this slot d, so that after the staple e has been passed
through the slot by closing the two parts A B of the purse or other receptacle
together, the free end of the bolt a will pass beneath the portion of the staple which
projects through the slotted plate c, and so lock the two parts A B securely together,
as shewn in figures 1, 3 and 4. The one end e¹ of the staple is rather nearer the
centre than the other end e², so that it will form a stop for the pivoted plate a to
abut against, to limit its motion and determine when it is in the locked position, the
bolt swinging clear of the other end e² of the staple, as shewn in figure 2. A separate
stop may however, he provided for the bolt u, if preferred.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said invention
and in what manner the same is to be performed; it should be observed that the
invention is not limited to the precise form of the parts, shewn, as the same may be
varied; but that what we claim is ;-
The herein described fastening for purses and other receptacles; consisting of a
pivoted plate or bolt and of a staple adapted to pass through a slot over which the
free end of the pivoted plate works and to engage with, and form a stop for, the
pivoted plate, the said plate and staple being combined and respectively applied to
the two parts of the article to be fastened, substantially as specified and illustrated in
the drawings.