Improvements in Looks for Bags.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 16th June, 1894
Complete Specification Left, 15th Mar., 1995-Accepted, 16th June, 1895
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Looks for Bags.
I, ERNST ARTHUR GRIMMER of 66 Fore Street in the City of London,
Dressing Bag Manufacturer do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
In place of a rigid staple or hasp such as is fixed to the frame for all previously
constructed bag-locks I attach to the back-half of the frame by means of a hinge a
movable catch or hook which enters into the lock-box fixed to the front-half of the
frame securing itself therein by the action of a spring when the bag is closed.
To this catch I add a hinged pull-piece, the end of which penetrates through the
back of the frame and through the outside of the bag, and in connection with a
suitable tab or finger-piece this pull-piece enables the band to unlatch the lock and
to open the bag by one single pull.
Dated this 16th day of June 1894.
ERNST ARTHUR GRIMMER.
Improvements in Locks for Bags.
ERNST ARTHUR GRIMMER of 66 Fore Street 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 :-
This invention consists in the production of a hinged moveable hasp or lock
catch in the place of the rigid hasp employed with previously constructed bag
locks and in the connection of the hinged hasp with the tab or thumb piece
used for opening the bag in such a manner that one single action or pull on this tab
performs the two functions of unlatching the lock and opening the bag.
For this purpose I make the lock-box of a proportionately narrower dimensions
than hitherto used and I construct a similar corresponding box for enclosing and
protecting the mechanism of the hinged hasp.
The lock-box is fixed on the front-half of the bag-frame and the hasp-box
in a corresponding position on the back-half of same. The hasp in its main
consists of a lever, one end of which projects through a hole in the front of the
hasp-box and this end enters through a corresponding hole into the lock-box and
secures itself therein by a barbed hook placed on its extremity, when the two
frame-halves and with them the lock box and the hasp box are brought together
in closing the bag. On the other end of this lever I place a hinge which secures
the base of the lever to the hasp-box and gives it the play necessary for its action.
I provide a spring inside the hasp-box, the action of which presses the hook-end
of the lever downwards and holds it secure in its proper position in the lock-box
when the bag is closed. I also attach to the lever by means of a further hinge a
connecting link or pull-piece which is so designed that one end of it penetrates to
the outside of the bag through a corresponding slot in the back of the frame and
through a small hole cut in the top of the bag. To this end of the connecting link

page_text: I attach by suitable means the tab or thumb piece usually employed only for
opening the bag and I now obtain the desired result as here before mentioned.
For the further purpose of locking the bag lock with a key I employ various
methods resulting in arresting the rising action of the lever, when its hooked end
has entered into the lock-box, by means of a bolt being shot, by turning the key,
across the top of the end of the lever when at rest in the lock-box.
The more clearly to explain my meaning I illustrate in the attached sheet of
drawings in Fig. 1. a back-view of the hasp-box, in Fig. 2. a back-view of the
lock-box and in Fig. 3. a side view of lock-box and hasp-box in the position of a
closed bag, in all of which A is the hasp with its hook-end a and its hinged end at
base a B is the pull-piece or connecting link; C is the spring acting on the
hasp; and D is the bolt for locking with a key.
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. A bag-lock with a moveable hinged hasp suitable for the purpose hereinbefore
mentioned and constructed substantially as in the manner hereinbefore described.
2. The connection of a moveable bag-lock-hasp by means of hinges and links or
otherwise with the tab or thumbpiece employed for opening the bag.
3. The combination of a bag-lock with moveable hasp in connection with the tab
or thumb piece of the bag for the purpose of one action on the latter resulting in
the un-latching of the bag-lock and the opening of the bag.
Dated this 15th day of March 1895.
ERNST ARTHUR GRIMMER.