An Improvement connected with Drawer and like Locks and Latches.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 12th June, 1891
Complete Specification Left, 5th Mar., 1892-Accepted, 9th Apr., 1892
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improvement connected with Drawer and like Locks and
Latches.
I, CAESAR HASS, of 298 Burdett Road, Limehouse, Middlesex, Manager, do
hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention has for object, a novel construction of locks specially adapted for
drawers, draw out trays, and the like, in order that said locks may be slid into
recesses of corresponding shape cut in the required part of a drawer or tray and be
secured without the use of screws as at present in vogue.
By the use of my invention, the lock is firmly held in position by angle side
wings in conjunction with the back plate only in order to form a dovetail housing.
For the purpose of my invention, I make the case of a lock with side wings set
in at any desired angle for engaging within angled recesses cut in the wood. In
combination with said angle side wings, to the lock casing, I employ the ordinary
drawer lock back plate with selvedge for fitting in to the cleared out portion of the
wood usually made for their reception, so that said back plate and selvedge are
flush with the surfaces of the wood when the lock is pushed in and forced home.
To give the back plate the ordinary appearance of a holed plate for screws I
make imitation screw heads in the surface of the back plate by stamping or
otherwise, but I do not use any screws, the securing of the lock in position being
effected by the lipped or angled sides of the recess and those of the lock casing,
which serve as a dovetail wedge when the lock is in place.
CT1001
H. GARDNER,
Patent Agent, 166, Fleet Street, London,
Agent for the said Caesar Hass.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improvement connected with Drawer and like Locks and
Latches.
I, CAESAR HAss, of 298 Burdett Road, Limehouse, Middlesex, .Manager, 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 has for object, a novel construction of locks specially adapted for
money tills, drawers, draw out trays, and the like in order that said locks may be
slid into recesses of corresponding shape cut in the required part of a drawer or
tray and be secured without the use of screws as at present in vogue.
By the use of my invention the lock is firmly held in position by angle side wings
in conjunction with the back plate only in order to form a dovetail housing.
Figure 1 of the annexed drawings is a front perspective elevation of my lock.
Figure 2, a back perspective elevation on a smaller scale, and
Figure 3, a perspective elevation of the inside of a drawer showing the angled
side portions into which my lock can be pushed and be held firmly in its proper
position without screws or other of the usual fasteners.
For the purpose of my invention, I make the back case A of a lock with two
inwardly bent side wings B, C, at any desired angle for engaging within angled
recesses D, E, cut in the wood. In combination with said angled side wings B, C,
to the lock casing, I employ the ordinary drawer lock back plate with selvedge G

page_text: for fitting into the cleared out portion of the wood usually made for their reception,
so that said back plate F and selvedge G are flush with the surfaces of the wood
when the lock is pushed in and forced home.
To give the back plate the ordinary appearance of a holed plate for screws, I
make imitation screw heads in the surface of the back plate, as indicated at H, H,
Figure 2, by stamping or otherwise but I do not use any screws, the securing of
the lock in position being effected by the inwardly bent lip or angled sides of the
recess and those of the lock casing A which serve as a dovetail wedge when the
lock is in place.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is :-
A till lock or catch (for drawers and trays) with side ends B, C, of front plate A
bent inwardly as a device in conjunction with inwardly chamfered side walls D, E,
of the aperture in which said lock fits for securing such lock firmly without other
fasteners as described.
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H. GARDNER,
Patent Agent, 166, Fleet Street, London,
Agent for the said Caesar Hass.
H. GARDNER,
Patent Agent, 166, Fleet Street, London,
Agent for the said Caesar Hass.