US374903A - Fourths to charles m - Google Patents

Description

(No Model.)

I L. MORRIS.

MAIL BAG PASTENER.

Patented Dec. 13

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IUNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ISA AC L. MORRIS, OF BALTIMORE,

MARYLAND, ASSIGNOR OF THREE- FOURTHS TO CHARLES M. MORRIS AND OSCAR IVOLFF, OF SAME PLACE.

MAIL-BAG FASTENER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 374,903, dated December 13, 1887.

Serial No. 254,919. (No model.)

To (ZZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, ISAAC L. MoRRIs, a citizen of the United States, residing at Balti more city, in the State of Maryland, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Mail-Bag Fasteners; and I do hereby declare the following tobe a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to certain improvements in mail-bags, which will be hereinafter more particularly described, and pointed out in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, Figure 1 is a side view of the top part of a mail-bag with the fasteners attached thereto. Fig. 2 rep resents the mouth of the bag spread open. Fig. 3 is the inside, view ofa lock,which is attached to one bar of the fastener. Fig. 4 is a transverse section of the lock and bolt on line :0 a: of Fig. 3. Fig. 5 represents the key. Fig. 6 is a transverse section of Fig. 1 on line 1 y. Fig. 7 is an end view of the bolt of the lock. Fig. 8 is a face view and section of label-holder.

F is a bag of usual form and'dimensions, fastened by rivets f.

A A are two metal platesextending from the middle of the bag to the line of rivets on each edge.

A A are corresponding plates on the opposite side of the bag. The plates A A are secured to the material of which the bag is made by small rivets ct.

B is a flap of leather riveted to the side of the bag that the hooks are on. In Fig. 6 is shown a section of the top of the bag where the flap B is turned over from under the plates A to the side whereon are the plates A. The flap and two sides of the bag have the slits corresponding to the staples D, which staples are attached to the plates A A and projectinto the bag, as seen in Fig. 2, and which pass through the slits in the other side and the'flap B and through the plates A, so that the fingers or projections b on the pivoted bars B B, which bars are bent, as shown in Fig. 1, and,strongly pivoted to the plates A A at c c,wi1l pass into the staples D from opposite directions. The fingers b are on the opposite edges of the pivoted bars B and turned in opposite directions,

so that as the bars are turned these fingers enter the staples from opposite sides, as seen by the arrows, Fig. 1. At the inner end of each bar is formed an eye, E. In one of these is pivoted a lock, G, (shown in detail in Figs. 3 and 4,) by a pivot, g, by which the lock is attached to a boss, I), of the bar B, and permits the lock to have such play as may be necessary in the elasticity of the bag. On the corresponding end ofthe other bar B is a catch, G, which is pivoted to the bar, as seen in Fig. 4. The two ends of the swivel-bars B are shown in Fig. 2 at E E with holes for an ordi' nary padlock, which can be used; but it is preferred to make a lock similar to the one shown in Figs. 3 and 4, to be permanently pivoted to the bars, as described. When the bag has been filled and is to be secured, the two sides are to be brought together until the staples all pass through their appropriate holes in the sides and plates, the swivel-bars B are moved into place, and the fingers b enter the staples D until the two ends E E meet, when the catch G will enter the lock G and secure the ends of the bars 13 without the use of a key, which is only used for unlocking. The ends of the swivel-bars B being secured, all the fingers are safely fastened thereby. If a padlock is used, the loop of thelock is to be passed through the two holes at E E, and thu confine the ends of the swivel-bars B.

In Fig. 8 is represented a label-holder of the ordinary construction, except at the end M, where the slit in is closed by the finger b,which is one of the series of fingers which engage the staples D. This label-holder is riveted to the plate A, so that the end M may be so situated that the slit m can be closed by one of the hooks b, as shown at M in Fig. 1.

I claim 1. In mail-bag fasteners, the centrally-pivoted bars B, having rigidly'attached fingers or projections to interlock with corresponding staples on the clamping-plates, and having at their inner ends loops E E or a lock, substantially as described, for securing. the ends together.

2. In mail-bag fasteners, the combination of 100 the plates A,havin g the centrally-pivoted bars, B, supplied with fingers or projections in opposite directions, the clamping-plates A, having staples D, to correspond with said fingers or projections, and a covering-flap with slits therein, as described. 3. In mail-bags, the label-holder secured to the clamping-plate, as described, in combina- 5 tion with the finger or projection of the pivoted bar B, for securing the removable label, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two Witnesses.

ISAAC L. MORRIS.

Witnesses:

JOHN LAUTERBURN, ORLANDO J. ROBINSON.

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