US1003980A

US1003980A - Car-seal.

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Publication number: US1003980A
Authority: US
Inventors: Charles Henry Bull
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 1909-03-20
Filing date: 1909-03-20
Publication date: 1911-09-26
Anticipated expiration: 1928-09-26

Description

C. H. BULL.

' GAR SEAL.

APPLIOATION FILED 11,111.20, 1900.

1,003,980. 1 Patented Sept.26,1911.

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UNITED STATES PA ENT OFFICE.

CHARLES HENRY BULL, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

CAB-SEAL.

To all whom it may concern."

Be it known that I, CHARLES HENRY BULL, a citizen of the United States, residing at Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Car-Seals, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use This invention relates to sealing devices and more particularly to' devices of this character adapted to be used for sealing doors of freight cars and the like.

One of the objects is to provide a device of this character which maybe quickly attached inposition and positively locked to prevent its being removed therefrom.

Another object is to provide a device which its construction and cheap and which will be highly to manufacture, eflicient in use.

Other objects will be in part obvious and in part pointed out hereinafter.

The invention accordingly consists in the features of construction, combinations of elements and arrangement of parts which will be exemplified in the construction hereinafter set forth, and the scope of the application of which will be indicated in the fol- .35 vice as applied to'the the device showing the looping 5 tegral with one another,

lowing claims.

In the accompanying drawings, wherein is shown one of various possible embodiments of the invention, Figure 1 represents the defastening of a door; Fig. 2 is a plan'view of the device before having a sleeve formed thereon; Fig. 3' is a sectional view taken on the line 3-3 of Fig. 2; Fig. 4 is a longitudinal sectional view of member locked within the sleeve; and Fig. 5 is a sectional view taken on the line 5'-5 of Fig. 4.

Similar reference numerals refer to similar parts throughout the several views.

5 Referring now to Fig. 2 of the drawing, 1

indicates a looping portion having one of its ends united to a sleeve portion 2, the width of the latter being at least double that of the former, whereby it may be folded upon itself to form a sleeve within which the free end of the loopingportion may be inserted in the manner hereinafter described. As shown in this figure the portions 1 and 2, which are preferably formed from sheet metal, are inbeing preferably formed froma single piece of metal, but it- Specification of Letters Patent. Application filed March 20, 1909. Serial no. 484,655.

Patented Sept. 26, 1911.

will, of course, beunderstood that they may be made separate from one another and united in any suitable manner although the integral construction possesses many advantages. The sleeve portion is provided with suit-able retaining means comprising, in

the embodiment shown tongues 3 and 4 preferably struck-up from the metal of which the portion is composed. The tongue 3 which is the more remotely positioned from the looping portion 2 is bent back to extend beneath the tongue 4 with the under side of which it is held in contact owing to the resiliency of" the metal as clearly shown in Fig. 3. Inthe preferred form,.a plurality of pairs of tongues are provided in alinement with one another and with the looping member 1 as shown in Fig. 2. Intermediate the ends of the looping member 1 are pairs of perforations 5 and (5 spaced from one another to form a locking strip 7 adapted to interlock with the locking tongues as hereinafter described. Preferably, the looping member is provided with a plurality of these strips, as shown in Fig. 2, any one of which is adapted to interlock with any one oft-he pairs of locking tongues formed in the sleeve portion.

After the parts have been formed as above described, the sleeve portion 2 is bent or folded upon itself to form a sleeve 8, with the locking tongues lying within the opening thereof, and is retained in its folded condition in' any suitable manner, as, for example, by applying solder to the free edge thereof as indicated at 9 in Fig. 5.

The method of use of the device, which should be largely obvious from the above description, is as follows :\Vhen it is desired to apply the seal, the hasp 10 which, by way of illustration, is shown mounted upon a door 11, is first placed in looking osition with its associated sta )le 12, which is shown' secured to the door rame 13, extending through the opening 14. The looping member 1 is then inserted through the staple and hasp and bent to form a loop 15 and its free end is inserted within the opening in the sleeve 8 through which it may pass freely, the strips 7 passing over the tongues to movement in this direction. The 100 )ing member is then moved in the opposite direction with respect to the sleeve, which movement will cause one of the locking strips 7 to pass beneath one of the overlapping 4 which offer no obstruction tongues 4, as indicated in Fig.4, the co-acting tongue 3, on account of its resiliency,

springing back into its normal position to effectually lock the strip in position and -prevent the removalof the looping'meinber After the parts are thus I j to the sleeve that loops of varidus sizes may be formed to accommodate staples orother similar devices of various sizes, due'i'to the fact that each locking strip is adapted to co-act with each pair of tongues. r

It will be seen. from the above description that this device may be,quickly at tached and effectually locked in its operative position, and that it will be impossible to remove the same after ithas been thus locked without destroying the seal. Hide sired, after the seal has been affixed, asshown in Fig. 1, the portion of the locking member which extends beyond theouter end of the sleeve may be cut ed as shown in said figure. hen the car has reached its destination, it is merely necessary to cut the loop in order to release the hasp to enable the door to be opened. 7

While the seal is shown and described as being applied to the latch of a door, it will, of course, be understood that it may be employed in connection with other looking or fastening devices when it is desired to prevent access by unauthorized persons.

-As' many changes could be made in the 'above construction and many apparently Widely different embodiments of this invention could be made Without departing from the scope-thereof, it is intended that all matter contained in the above description or shown in the accompanying drawings shall be interpreted as illustrative and not in a limit-ing sense. Itris also to be understood that the 'langnage used in the following .claims is" intended to cover all of the generic an'd specific features of the invention herein describ d and all statements of the scope of the invention, which, as a matter of langua'ge, might be said tov fall therebetween.

Having described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

1. In a device of the class combination, a sleeve, a looping member integrally united. thereto and adapted to be bent into a loop and inserted within said. sleeve, said sleeve having means forretainmg said member therein in any one of a described, in

plurality of positions whereby loops of ditferent sizes may be formed thereby.

In a device of the class described, in combination, a sleeve provided with a plurality of retaining means, and alooping member integrally united to said sleeve and adapted to be bent into a loop and inserted within said sleeve, said member being provided with means adapted to engage an one of said retaining means to retain said member in any one of a plurality of positions.

3. In a device of the class described, in combination, a sleeve provided with a plurality of retaining means, and a looping member united to said sleeve andadapted to be bent into a loop and inserted within within said sleeve, said member being pro vided with a plurality of means any one ot Whichis adapted to engage any one of said retaining means to retain said member in,

any one of a plurality of positions.

4. A seal comprising in a single piece of sheet metal, a sleeve open at both ends; a'

plurality of pairs of oppositely disposed coacting tongues struck up from the metal of the seal within the sleeve, the free end of one of said tongues overlapping the free end of the other; and a looping member adapted to be bent into a loop and passed through said sleeve, said looping member being providedwith locking members adapted to pass between the ends of any one of said pairs of overlapping tongues to retain the looping member against further movement in the sleeve. i

5. In a device of the class described, the combination of a sleeve open at both ends and provided with a pair of retaining members struck up from the material of which the sleeve is composed, one of said members I beingbent back into engagement with the other of said members; and a looping member united to said sleeve and adapted to be bent into a loop and inserted through the sleeve, said member being provided with a series of latching perforations whereby it is adapted to engage the retaining members in adjust-able relation.

6. A seal comprising in a single piece of sheet 1netal,-a sleeve; a plurality of pairs of oppositely disposed-coacting tongues formed within the sleeve, said pairs of tongues bein alined longitudinally with respect to said sleeve, the .free end of one of said tongues overlapping the free end of the other; and a looping member adapted tobe bent into a loop and passed through said sleeve; said looping member being. provided with a locking member adapted. to pass between the overlapping ends "of any one of said pairs of tonguesto interlock therewith to retain said looping member in position.

- 7. In a device of the classdescribed, in combination, a sleeve provided with a plubeing rality of pairs of oppositely disposed eoacting tongues, said pairs of tongues being alinedlongitudinally with respect to said sleeve, the free end of one of said tongues overlapping the free end of the other, and a loopmg member united to said sleeve and adapted to be bent into aloop and inserted within said sleeve, said looping member provided with a plurality of alined locklng strips any one of which is adapted to pass between the overlapping ends of any one of said pairs of tongues to interlock therewith, to retain said member in position.

8. A seal comprising in a single piece of sheet metal, a relatively narrow looping portion having a series of latching perforations; an enlarged portion at one extremity of the 100 mg portion, said enlarged portion being olded about itself to form'a sleeve closed at the sides and open at the ends to permit passage of the looping portion; and

a pair of oppositely disposed overlapping tongues struck up from the metal of the seal Within the sleeve and concealed by the at the sides and open at the ends to permit the passage of the looping portion; and a plurality of pairs of'overlapping tongues struck up from the metal of the seal within the sleeve, the tongues of each pair projecting toward each other and each pair of tongues being adapted individually to enter perforations 1n the looping ortion.

" In testimony whereo I a x my signature, in the presence of two witnesses.

CHARLES HENRY BULL. Witnesses WM. G. WARREN, A. W. WOODRUFF.

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