Year: 1886

page_text: Date of Application, 17th Dec., 1886.
Complete Left, 23rd Dec., 1886.
Complete Accepted, 25th Jan., 1887.
We JOHN MINORS, DENNIS MINORS, and ALBERT MINORS of Union Street Willenhall
in the County of Stafford Pad lock Manufacturers do hereby declare the nature of this
invention to be as follows:-
The novel feature in our invention is that of giving motion to the shackle (which is
enclosed within the cap or cover of the lock) by the action of the bolt in locking and
-unlocking, that is to say as the locking bolt is shot into a locked position and vice
versa by the key, the shackle is at the same time locked into and withdrawn from the
staple to which it may have been secured.
We preferably make these locks round or circular, and the shackle works upon a
solid stud or pin in the centre of the back-plate of the lock, in which back-plate as also
the cap or cover, we form a slot diametrically over the stud or pin upon which the koy
iurns in giving action to the lock.
This said slot through the body of the lock is for the reception of the staple to which
it is intended to be secured, and the head of the shackle by which these locks are
secured to the staple, fills up the cap or cover on the one side and has a vertical arm
on the other side in which we either form a vertical longitudinal slot or employ a pin
or stud thereon, and when the said shackle is shot forward into a locked position it
crosses the slot through the body of the same and renders it positively impossible to
tamper with it in any way.
Immediately below the shackle and between the stud or pin upon which it works and
the pin upon which the key turns we employ two other pins upon which we run the
locking bolt. This bolt has also on its left hand side a vertical arin at right angles with
two longitudinal slots which move on the aforesaid two pins, and in or upon the said
vertical arm we either form a longitudinal slot or employ a stud or pin corresponding
and coinciding with the stud or pin or longitudinal slot as the case may be in or upon
the vertical arm of the shackle.
The bolt is gated in the ordinary way so that the key being turned to left or right
locks or unlocks the same, and by virtue of the longitudinal slot in the vertical arm of
the same having the pin or stud of the vertical arm of the shackle within it the shackle
0 is shot into or withdrawn from the staple as motion is given to the locking bolt.
The whole of the parts of these locks may be cast and may be made either on the
common tumbler or lever principle.

page_text: We JOHN MINORS, DENNIS MINORS and ALBERT MINORS of Union Street Willenhall
in the County of Stafford Pad Lock Manufacturers do hereby declare the nature of our
invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN PAD LOCKS" and in what manner the same is to be
performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement:
The novel feature in our invention is that of giving motion to the shackle which is
enclosed within the cap or cover of the lock by the action of the bolt in locking and
unlocking, that is to say as the locking bolt is shot into a locked position and vice versa
by the key, the shackle is at the same time locked into and withdrawn from the staple
to which it may have been secured.
We preferably make these locks round or circular and the shackle works upon a
solid stud or pin-"a"-Fig. 1-in the centre of the back-plate of the lock, in which
back-plate as also the cap or cover, we form a slot-""Fig. 1-diametrically over
the stud or pin "e"-Fig. 1-upon which the key turns in giving action to the lock.
This said slot ""-through the body of the lock is for the reception of the staple
to which it is intended to be secured, and the head of the shackle-"d"-Fig. 1-
by which these locks are secured to the staples, fills up the cap or cover on the one side,
and has a vertical arm-"e"-Fig. 1-on the other side, in which we either form a
vertical longitudinal slot, or employ a stud or pin-"thereon, and when the said
shackle is shot forward into a locked position it crosses the slot", "-through the
body of the same and renders it positively impossible to tamper with it in any way.
Immediately below the shackle and between the stud or pin-"a"-upon which it
works and the pin-""upon which the key turns, we employ two other pins-
g.g"-Fig. 1-upon which we run the locking bolt. This bolt has also on its left
hand side a vertical arm-""-Fig. 1-at right angles with two longitudinal slots
which move on the aforesaid two pins-"g.g." and in or upon the said vertical arm-
"1"
-we either form a longitudinal slot--or employ a stud or pin corresponding
and coinciding with the stud or pin-""or longitudinal slot as the case may be in
or upon the vertical arm of the shackle."
*
The bolt-Fig. 1-is gated in the ordinary way, so that the key being turned to
left or right locks or unlocks the same, and by virtue of the longitudinal slot in the
vertical arm-"" of the same having the stud or pin-"/"of the vertical arm-
"e"-of the shackle within it, the shackle is shot info or withdrawn from the staple as
motion is given to the locking holt.

page_text: "" Fig. 1-is a pin against which the spring of the lever or tumbler press or
bear as they are raised by the key.-"1"-Fig. 3 is the tumbler working underneath
the bolt.m"-Fig. 4 is the lever working upon the bolt. This is an ordinary
arrangement
The dotted lines Fig. 1 shews the bolt and shackle shot into a locked position.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said Invention,
and in what manner the same is to. be performed, we declare that what we claim is
The improved device for locking and unlocking the shackle within the body of the
lock substantially as herein described and illustrated by the accompanying drawings.