IMPROVEMENTS IN LOCKS FOR POCKET BOOKS TRAVELLING BAGS AND OTHER USES
Year: 1885

page_text: Other uses.
I ALFRED GEORGE BROOKES of the firm of Wm Brookes & Son of 55 & 56
Chancery Lane in the County of Middlesex, Fellow of the Institute of Patent
Agents do hereby declare the nature of my invention for IMPROVEMENTS IN LOCKS
FOR POCKET BOOKS TRAVELLING BAGS AND OTHER USES, to be as follows:-
The invention relates to improvements in locks, which serve to close pocket-
books, travelling bags and similar devices, and the objects of these improvements
are to provide means for arresting or controlling the locking device when desired.
A hook or suitably formed catch piece fixed to the one part of the frame which
forms the upper part of a travelling bag, pocket-book et cetera; engages behind a
spring on the other part of the frame hinged to the former. This spring may be
raised by means of a button passing through the frame. This may be the usual
device for locking the two parts of the frame which are hinged to each other. If
the spring is to be prevented from being raised, a slide-piece is provided at the
same part of the frame, whereon the said spring is fastened. When such slide-
piece is advanced until its one extremity is above the spring, this latter cannot be
raised. Another spring pressing towards the frame can be removed by means of a
button; it is arranged in such a manner as to lay behind the slide-piece when
arresting movement of the locking spring.
When the locking-spring is to be raised in order to open the frame, the slide-
piece is pushed backwards, which can be done only when the second spring is
pressed away from the frame. The buttons, which control the parts of the locks,
are to be arranged on the outer surface of ono frame in such a manner as to cover
the slits, wherethrough they communicate with their respective inner parts forming
the locking device.

page_text: Improvements in Locks for Pocket Books, Travelling Bags, and
other Uses.
I ALFRED GEORGE BROOKES of the firm of Wm Brookes & Son of 55 & 56
Chancery Lane in the County of Middlesex Fellow of the Institute of Patent
Agents, do hereby declare the nature of my invention for IMPROVEMENTS IN LOCKS
FOR POCKET BOOKS, TRAVELLING BAGS AND OTHER USES, and in what manner the
same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement :-
The invention relates to improvements in locks, which serve, to close pocket-
books, travelling bags, and for similar purposes, and the objects of these improve-
ments are to provide means for arresting or controlling the locking device when
desired.
I attain these objects by the device illustrated in the accompanying drawing in
which Figure 1 is a side elevation of an opened pocket-book frame provided with
my improvements; Figure 2 is a side elevation of the closed frame, partly in
section; Figure 3 is a top view thereof also partly in section; Figure 4 shows on
an enlarged scale details of the locking knobs.
A hook or suitably shaped catch piece a fixed to the one part of the frame which
forms the upper part of a travelling bag, pocket-book etcetera, engages with or
behind a spring on the other part of the frame hinged to the former. This
spring b may be raised by means of a button or projection b¹ passing through the
frame. This may be the usual device for locking the two parts of the frame, which
are hinged to each other. If the spring b is to be prevented from being raised, a
slide-piece d is provided at the same part of the frame, whereon the said spring is
fastened. When such slide-piece is advanced until its one extremity is above the
spring b, this latter cannot be raised. Another spring c pressing towards the frame
can be removed by means of a pin c¹; it is arranged in such a manner as to lay
behind the slide-piece d when arresting the movement of the locking spring b.
When the locking-spring b is to be raised in order to open the frame, the slide-
piece d is pushed backwards, which can be done only when the second spring c is
pressed away from the frame. The buttons b¹, d¹ and c², which control the parts of
the locks are arranged on the outer surface of one frame in such a manner as to
cover the slits wherethrough they communicate with their respective inner parts
forming the locking device and to conceal the pin c¹ passing through the frame.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said
invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is
In locks for closing pocket-books, travelling bags and for other uses the combi-
nation of the catch piece a with the locking spring b, slide-piece d and arresting
spring c substantially as set forth.
Dated 141 .
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Dated this 11th day of October 1885.
WM BROOKES & SON,
55 & 56, Chancery Lane, London,
Agents for the said Alfred George Brookes.