Improvements in connection with Scarboro' Trunk Looks.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 10th May, 1893
Complete Specification Left, 23rd Oct., 1893-Accepted, 13th Jan., 1894
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in connection with Scarboro' Trunk Looks.
I, SAMUEL WAKELAM of Stringes Lane Willenhall in the County of Stafford,
Lock Manufacturer do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
The hasp to a common Scarboro trunk lock is made of light brass for cheapness
but a great objection to such a hasp is that it is not strong enough for the purpose
for which it is required.
To obviate this I now intend casing in the hasp on the back side a piece of
stronger metal such as iron, steel & the like which will have the effect of making
the hasp much stronger.
شديد
1002
SAMUEL WAKELAM.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in connection with Scarboro' Trunk Locks.
I, SAMUEL WAKELAM, of Stringes Lane, Willenhall, in the County of Stafford,
Lock 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 improvements in the manufacture or in the construction
of the clasp fastening parts of "Scarboro" and like trunk locks technically known
as the hasp, or that part, which is hinged and carries generally the loops.
Now these loops have heretofore been made separate from and rivetted to the
hasps, and as these said loops and hasps are made from thin or light metal, the
former readily become knocked off or removed by rough usage and wear from
the latter.
Or the loops of the hasp have heretofore been made integral with and from the
metal of the body of the hasp itself.
Now in consequence of the thinness of metal employed, and also of being made
of brass (which is not strong), the said loops oftentimes become distorted in shape
or broken.
Now my invention has for one of its objects, the cheapening of the manufacture
of the said articles, and has for another of its objects, the rendering of the same
strong, and this I accomplish by providing the clasp plate of the hasp (which is of
sheet brass) with an added or supplementary plate or lining of iron or some such
tough metal, and from which the loops are fashioned or made, as hereinafter
described.
Figure 1 of the accompanying drawing represents in front elevation, a hasp
provided with improvements made according to my invention.
Figure 2 represents a back elevation of the same showing the supplementary or
lining plate of tough metal, secured to the hasp by the turning over of the boundary
edges of the one upon the other, and with the loops, which are engaged by the bolt
of the lock, made from out of the metal of the said plate.
Figure 3 represents a longitudinal vertical section of the said hasp upon the
dotted lines A. B. Figure 1.
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page_text: Figure 5 shows a cross section of the parts upon the said dotted lines CD
separately.
Figure 6 represents a longitudinal section of the hasp separately, before the
boundary edges have been turned over the boundary edges of the strengthening
and loop-carrying plate, as represented separately in vertical section in Figure 7.
Figure 8 represents a modified form of my invention, likewise does Figure 9.
The same letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in Figures 1 to 7 of
the drawing.
a is the clasp or body of the hasp, made from thin sheet brass, and with the same
lined or provided with an underside or an inner strengthening plate b, made from
some tough metal such as iron or steel, and which is secured in its lining or internal
supporting position by turning over the boundary edges a¹, of the sheet brass clasp
part a, upon the primary boundary edges 6', of the inner strengthening plate or
lining b, and from which supplementary or added plate, which may be corrugated
or strengthened, the loops 62, are made, or formed from out of the metal of it,
leaving the hasp or the clasp of the hasp intact.
The said plate of tough metal b, may be continued only half way up the body
of the hasp, which is hinged or jointed by a pin or otherwise at c, to an attachment
plate d, which is secured to the lid of a box by rivetting or otherwise.
The hasp may have passing through it and through its lining plate, a padlock
staple hole e, so that the said hasp or fastening may be doubly secured, viz., by a
bolt or bolts engaging both with the loops, and a padlock engaging with a loop
(such as in Figure 10), which is passed through the said hole.
In the modification Figure 8, a is the clasp or hasp body part, and b is a
supplementary plate with loops 2, and with the said plate b, secured to the plate a,
by the rivettings a¹.
In Figure 9, which represents a padlock hasp, no loops are employed.
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 :-
First. In the hasps of trunk locks, making the clasp or the body part of the
same of two component parts, viz., a front sheet metal brass part, and an iron,
steel or like tough metal back or lining or part lining part, substantially as described
and set forth.
.:
Secondly. In the hasps of trunk locks, providing the clasp or body part, which
is made from thin sheet brass, with a supplementary back or lining of sheet iron
or steel, secured in position by turning the edges of the said sheet metal brass
part over the edges of the supplementary iron or steel plate or lining part, or by
rivetting, substantially as described and set forth.
Thirdly. In the hasps of trunk locks, fitting the sheet brass clasp or body part
with a sheet iron or steel back or lining or part lining part having fastener loops
made integral or in one piece therewith, substantially as described and set forth in
Figures 1, 2, 3, 7 and 8.
Fourthly. The improvements in the manufacture or construction in the hasps or
clasps of locks, substantially as described and set forth, whereby the said manufacture
is greatly simplified and the articles strengthened.
Baica
اليوم
of October 1908.
CHLO SUCH
SAMUEL WAKELAM,
.
By Henry Skerrett,
6, Livery Street, Birmingham; Agent for Applicant.