US280749A - Box-fastener - Google Patents

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(Nb Model.) 2 Sheets-Sheet 1.

P. KLEY.

- 7 BOX FASTENER. No. 280,749. Patented July 3,- 1883.

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P. KLEY.

BOX FASTENBR. No. 280,749. I Patented July 3, 1883..

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE;

FREnERIoK KLEY, OF FORT WAYNE, INDIANA.

BOX- FASTENER.

SPECIFICATION formingpart of Letters Patent No. 280,749, dated July 3, 1883.

Application filed May 17, 1883.

To all whom it may concern/.-

Be it known that I, FREDERICK KLEY, a citizen of the United States, residing at Fort Wayne, in the county of Allen and-State of Indiana, have invented new and useful Improvements in Fasteners for Boxes for Transporting Bottles, of whichthe following is a specification.

My invention relates to that class of packing-boxes in which bottles and bottled goods are shipped, and which areadapted to be securely closed to prevent accidental displacement or falling out or tampering with the contents of said boxes; and my improvements consist in a novel construction and arrangement of the locking devices of the box and lid, so that the latter may be automatically locked upon the former, and yet adapted to be easily unlocked by those understanding its construction, but not by meddlers, all as particularly hereinafter described.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l is an elevation of the box with the lid removed. Fig. 2 is atransverse vertical section of the same; Fig. 3, details.

A is the front of the box. B is the back, which projects above the front and ends to a distance equal to the thickness of the cover, and O the removable top or cover. The latter is provided with two or more pins or dowels, D D, secured to the under side of the same, and adapted to project into corresponding holes, E E, in the back itself, or in metal plates F F, secured to said back.

G is a staple on the under side of the cover, near the front.

H is a spring-catch which is secured to the inner face of the box, and bent toward its top away from the front of the box, at its upper end facing the back of the box.

dis a screw-threaded depression or socket made in said catch, and 70 a hole through the front of the box, which is on a line with said hole 2'.

a L is a key, which is simply a screw or pin having a screw-thread at one end adapted for the screw-threaded hole in the latch. This key may have any appropriate handle.

To put the lid or cover upon the box in its proper position, insert the dowels in their corresponding holes; drop or press down the lid (No model.)

sothat the staple G will ride over the incline of the latch-hook until it is caught by said hook. It is now locked, and it cannot be unlocked by the mode hitherto used of pushing back the catch by the insertion of a pin through the hole in the front of the box. My construction involves an entirely new principle.

No instrument can be used for unfastening the device for pushing the latch. The more it is pushed the tighter it will hold. It can be unlocked only by pulling away the latch-hook, and this cannot be done by any ordinary pin, stick, or nail, but only by such a key as Ihavc described, adapted to fit the threaded socket of the catch, and by which it may be pulled forward and released.

The screw-threaded part for the reception of the key may be cut entirely through the catch; but I prefer to make it, as above described, not cut entirely through, because it would prevent any person from unfastening the catch by means of a hook or similar device. As the hook portion of the catch turns inward, the inner face of the front of the box does not need to be cut away and weakened to receive the hook, as has been formerly the case when the hook turned outward.

The lid, when on, rests directly on the top edges of the front and ends of the box and my hand in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

FREDERICK KLEY.

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against the back, the lid being flush with the

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