Improvements in Hasps and Hinges.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 19th Sept., 1892
Complete Specification Left, 26th June, 1893-Accepted, 29th July, 1893
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Hasps and Hinges.
I, JOSEPH LEGGE, of Willenhall in the County of Stafford, Lock Manufacturer,
do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
"
It has long been a disadvantage attaching to hasps and hinges, and particularly
to the hasps of "Scarboro"" trunk locks, that the wire on which the two "halves
of the hasp turn is liable to get out of place, either by the constant jar of travelling,
or through being tampered with. The object of my invention is to do away with
this defect by so securing the said wire that it shall neither shake loose nor be
wilfully knocked out by a dishonest person.
I shall describe my invention as applied to the upper "half" of the hasp of a
"Scarboro"" trunk lock, which is usually formed with two curls at its lower edge
to receive the wire, an interval being left between the said curls. The interval
receives the curl on the lower "half" or hasp proper.
In forming or pressing the upper "half" of the hasp blank, I leave a small ear or
projection on each side at the bottom in such a position that when the lower edge
of the metal has been curled to form the two curls that receive the wire, the said
ears on the metal project outwards beyond the wire. I then bend the said cars
over the ends of the wire, which they enclose and protect, thus rendering it quite
impossible for the wire to slide out of the curl, either through the jarring caused by
railway travelling, or through being tampered with.
A modification of my invention would consist in forming or pressing the blank
quite plain and shaping the two curled parts from separate blanks altogether.
These curled parts would then have the appearance of small metal channels closed
at one end by a bent down ear as above described, and. would be riveted in any
suitable manner in their position against the blank and over the wire, with their
closed end outwards.
To further increase the security afforded by the bent down ear I may (in either
modification above described) provide it with a small rivet shaped projection, and
the blank with a corresponding hole or niche to receive the said rivet shaped
projection, which could when in its proper position be riveted to the blank.
In those hasps where the two curls occur on the lower "half" or hasp proper
instead of on the upper "half," it would of course be the lower "half" or hasp
proper which would be provided with the cars above described.
I have described my invention as applied to a hasp in which only three curls are
used (one on the lower and two on the upper "half") to contain the wire on which
the upper and lower "halves" hinge, but it is obviously equally applicable to those
in which four or more curls are used. The outside curls alone would be provided
with the cars above described at their outer extremities.
Although I have described my invention only as applied to the hasp of a
"Scarboro' "trunk lock, it is evidently applicable also to all kinds of hasps and
hinges, such for instance as coal-vase hinges.
Dated this Sixteenth day of September 1892.

page_text: FOR.
Improvements in Hasps and Hinges.
I, JOSEPH LEGGE, of 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:-
It has long been a disadvantage attaching to hasps and hinges, and particularly
to the hasps of "Scarboro"" trunk locks, that the wire on which the two parts of
the hasp turn is liable to get out of place either by the constant jar of travelling or
through being tampered with. The object of my invention is to do away with
this defect by so securing the said wire that it shall neither shake loose nor be
wilfully knocked out by a dishonest person.
I shall describe my invention as applied to the upper "half" of the hasp of a
"Scarboro"" trunk lock, which is usually formed with two curls at its lower edge
to receive the wire, an interval being left between the said curls. The interval
receives the curl on the lower "half" or hasp proper.
In forming or pressing the upper "half" of the hasp blank, I leave a small ear
or projection on each side at the bottom in such a position that when the lower edge
of the metal has been curled to form the two curls that receive the wire the said
ears on the metal project outwards beyond the wire. After the wire is threaded
into position through the two curls at the lower part of the top "half" of the hasp
and through the curl at the top of the lower "half" of the basp, I bend the said
ears over the ends of the wire which they enclose and protect, thus rendering it
quite impossible for the wire to slide out of the curl, either through the jarring
caused by railway travelling or through being tampered with.
One modification of my invention would consist in forming or pressing the blank
quite plain, and shaping the two curled parts from separate blanks altogether.
These curled parts would then have the appearance of small metal channels closed
at one end by a bent down ear as above described, and would be riveted in any
suitable manner in their position against the blank and over the wire, with their
closed end outwards. But neither this nor the foregoing modification are so
convenient in practice as that which I shall now describe.
In forming or pressing the blank for the upper "half" of the hasp, I leave a
small ear or projection as aforesaid on each side near but not quite at the bottom.
I bend these two ears at right angles to the plane of the blank. I then curl the
lower edge of the blank (either by hand or by means of machinery adapted to the
purpose) to form the two curls that receive the wire, taking care that the curling
of the said lower edge is in the direction of the ears. The position of the ears on
the blank, and in regard to the said lower edge, is such that when the curl is
completed the ears close up the outer ends of the curls and thus enclose the wire.
Obviously when this modification is used the wire must be inserted and the lower
half of the hasp thereby hinged at any convenient moment before the curls on the
upper half are finally completed.
In order that this last modification may be more clearly understood I will now
describe it with reference to the accompanying drawings and the letters of reference
marked thereon. The same letters of reference occurring in different figures indicate
corresponding parts.
Figure 1 is a side elevation and Figure 2 a plan of the blank for the upper half
of a hasp for a "Scarboro "trunk lock. It will be seen that the blank is formed
or pressed out of sheet metal with small ears or projections A A thereon on each
side near but not quite at the bottom of blank, the bottom edge being the one to
be curled.
Figure 3 is a side elevation and Figure 4 a plan of the same blank when it has

page_text: undergone the second process. It will be seen that the ears A A are here bent up
at right angles to the plane of the blank.
Figure 4 is a side elevation and Figure 5 a plan of the completed hasp. The
blank of the top "half" has here had its lower edge curled round either by hand or
by the use of a suitable machine, and in the process has carried round the ears A A
with it so that when the curls are completed (with the wire in position within them)
the said ears A A lie closely over the ends of the wire. The wire cannot then be
removed. The wire is shown by dotted lines in Figures 5 and 6. B, the lower
"half" of the hasp with a curl formed thereon at the upper extremity to fit in the
gap between the two curls in the upper half is shown only on Figures 5 and 6. Of
course the wire is first threaded through the curl in the lower "half" and then the
two halves are hinged together, when the curls on the upper "half" are only
partially formed.
To further increase the security afforded by the bent down ears A A I may (in
either modification described) provide the said ears each with a small rivet shaped
projection and the blank with a corresponding hole or niche to receive the said
rivet shaped projection, which could when in its proper position be riveted to the
blank. But in practice I find this further security unnecessary.
In those cases where the two curls occur on the lower "half" or hasp proper
instead of on the upper "half," it would of course be the lower half or hasp proper
which would be provided with the ears above described.
I have described my invention as applied to a hasp in which only three curls are
used (one on the lower and two on the upper half) to contain the wire on which the
upper and lower halves hinge, but obviously it is equally applicable to those in
which four or more curls are used. The outside curls alone would be provided
with the ears above described at their outer extremities.
Although I have described my invention only as applied to the hasp of a
"Scarboro"" trunk lock it is evidently applicable also to all kinds of hasps and
hinges such for instance as coal-vase hinges.
Having thus stated the nature of my invention and in what manner the same is
to be performed, I declare that what I claim is :-
1st. In hinges of all kinds, securing the wires on which the two halves turn, by
means of ears bent over the ends of the said wires substantially as and for the
purpose herein described and illustrated by the accompanying drawings.
2nd. Forming or pressing the said ears on the blank whether of the lower or
upper "half" of a hasp out of the metal of the blank itself, and at one process
with it.
Dated this 19th dow of Tune 1802
JOSEPH LEGGE.