IMPROVEMENTS IN LOCKS AND FASTENERS FOR TRAVELLING BAGS, PORTMANTEAUS, AND OTHER SIMILAR ARTICLES
Year: 1877

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Moritz Wolfsky, of Water Lane, Blackfriars, in the City
of London, Merchant, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN LOCKS AND
FASTENERS FOR TRAVELLING BAGS, PORTMANTEAUS, AND OTHER SIMILAR
ARTICLES."
Sealed the 29th December 1877, and dated the 2nd November 1877.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Moritz Wolfsky at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 2nd November 1877.
; MORITZ WOLFSKY, of Water Lane, Blackfriars, in the City of London, Merchant.
"IMPROVEMENTS IN LOCKS AND FASTENERS FOR TRAVELLING BAGS, PORTMANTEAUS,
AND OTHER SIMILAR ARTICLES."
This Invention consists of improvements in the construction of locks and fasteners
for travelling bags, portmanteaus, and other similar articles, whereby a lock and
fastener is so constructed that it not only secures a perfect locking and fastening,
but combines great simplicity, neatness, and security.
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The principal part of the lock or fastening is mounted on the inside of the main
part of the frame, the top being of the shape of a half barrel in which the actuating
mechanism is contained. Inside this top is a loose cylindrical piece, having a portion
of its cylindrical surface cut away, so as to leave a slot to admit, in the first place,
a lug piece carrying a stud on which the barrel of the key for locking the bag
turns; and, secondly, to admit a projection on one end of a crank lever pivoted to
a fixed plate, the other end of the bell-crank lever being in touching contact with a
stud fixed in a bottom movable plate, which plate is slotted so as to receive and
retain the catch in the other half of the frame of the bag.
.
There is a spring to actuate the bottom movable plate in the usual manner; that
is to say, on closing the bag the catch comes in contact with a properly constructed
projection in the bottom movable plate, and has sufficient power to drive that plate
back against the force of the spring actuating the bottom movable plate.
When the bag is completely closed the catch has advanced' far enough for the

page_text: afore-described projection to come opposite the slot in the catch, at which time the
spring actuating the bottom movable plate returns the plate to its normal position,
and the projection enters the slot in the catch and secures the bag.
When the bag is held by the catch (not locked), it is unfastened by simply
pressing in the projecting end of the before-described loose cylindrical piece, which
operation drives on the projecting piece on one end of the bell-crank lever, and the
motion is, through the other end of the bell-crank lever, in contact with the stud in
bottom movable plate, communicated to that plate, and the plate is moved sufficiently
to release the catch from the projecting piece of the bottom movable plate holding
the same.
The locking is performed in the following manner:- -After the bag has been
closed and the catch secured as before described, the bottom movable plate can be
locked in that position by a sliding bolt, which by means of an ordinary key can
be moved until a projection on the same is brought in such position that the
projection or bell-crank lever cannot be drawn in by pressing on the loose cylindrical
picce.
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SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed by
the said Moritz Wolfsky in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 2nd May
1878.
MORITZ WOLFSKY, of Water Lane, Blackfriars, in the City of London, Merchant.
"IMPROVEMENTS IN LOCKS AND FASTENERS FOR TRAVELLING BAGS, PORTMANTEAUS,
AND OTHER SIMILAR PURPOSES."
This Invention consists of improvements in the construction of locks and fasteners
for travelling bags, portmanteaus, and other similar articles, whereby a lock and
fastener is so constructed that it not only secures a perfect locking and fastening,
but combines great simplicity, neatness, and security.
The principal part of the lock or fastening is mounted on the outside of the main
part of the frame, the top a being of the shape of a barrel in which the actuating
mechanism is contained.
And in order that my said Invention may be properly understood and readily
carried into effect, I will proceed to describe the same with reference to the annexed
Drawings, wherein Fig. 1 represents front elevation of lock; Fig. 2, plan of the
same; Fig. 3, plan of the under side; Fig. 4, sectional elevation; Fig. 5, plan of
plate e, with top a removed; Fig. 6, elevation of plate e, shewing the plate g locked;
and Fig. 7, view of cylindrical piece a¹; the same letters of reference indicate similar
parts in all the Figures.
Inside the top is a loose cylindrical piece a¹, having a portion of its cylindrical
surface cut away, so as to leave a slot to admit in the first place, a lug piece b
carrying a stud c, on which the barrel of the key for locking the bag turns; and,
secondly, to admit a projection d on one end of a crank lever d¹, pivoted to a
fixed plate e, the other end of the bell-crank lever being in touching contact with
a stud f fixed in a bottom moveable plate g, which plate is slotted, so as to receive
and retain the catch in the other half of the frame of the bag.
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page_text: There is a spring h to actuate the bottom movable plate in the usual
manner; that is to say, on closing the bag the catch comes in contact with a
properly constructed projection g in the bottom moveable plate, and has sufficient
power to draw that plate back against the force of the spring actuating the
bottom moveable plate.
When the bag is completely closed, the catch has advanced far enough for the
afore-described projection to come opposite the slot in the catch, at which time
the spring actuating the bottom movable plate returns the plate to its normal
position, and the projection enters the slot in the catch and secures the bag.
When the bag is held by the catch (not locked) it is unfastened by simply
pressing in the projecting end of the before-described loose cylindrical piece a¹,
which operation drives in the projecting piece d on one end of the bell-crank
lever d', and the motion is through the other end of the bell-crank lever d¹ in
contact with the stud f in bottom moveable plate g communicated to that plate,
and the plate is moved sufficiently to release the catch from the projecting
piece g of the bottom moveable plate g holding the same.
The locking is performed in the following manner:-After the bag has been
closed and the catch secured as before described, the bottom moveable plate g can
be locked in that position by a sliding bolt i, which by means of an ordinary key
can be moved until a projection 2 on the same is brought in such position
that the projection d on bell-crank lever d' cannot be driven in by pressing in
the loose cylindrical piece a².
Having thus described the nature of my said Invention, and the manner in which
the same is or may be carried into effect, I declare that what I claim and desire to
be secured to me by the herein-before in part recited Letters Patent is, the peculiar
arrangement and combination of parts, together forming the improvements in the
construction and manufacture of locks and fasteners for travelling bags, port-
manteaus, and other similar purposes, substantially as herein-before described,
and as particularly shewn by the several Figures on the annexed Drawings, or
any mere modification thereof.
In witness whereof, I, the said Moritz Wolfsky, have hereunto set my hand
and seal, this First day of May, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight
hundred and seventy-eight.
MORITZ WOLFSKY. (L.S.)