US103181A - Improved stay for trunks - Google Patents

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" tinned saw LOUIS HILLEBRAND, or PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

Le ters Patent No. 103,181, dated May 17, 1870.

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The Schedule referred. to in these Letters Patent and making pan of the same.

To whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, LOUIS HILLEBRAND, of the city and-county of Philadelphia, and State of. Pennsylvania, have invented a new and improved Trunk- Stay; and I do hereby' declarethe following to be a full, clear, and exact description thereof, sufiicient to enable othersskilled in theart to which my invention appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the'accompanying drawings making part of this specification, inrwhich- Figures 1 and 2 represent side viewsof my invention, in open and closed states.

Figures 3 and 4 are Views of a modification thereof. S milar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the severaifigures.

My invention consists in connecting to thebody and lid of a trunk one or more pairsof braces, which are pivoted to each other, and so constructed that, when the lid is raised, they engage or lock-with each other, and thereby retain the lid in an open state, and prevent its falling or closing unless, or until, they are disengaged,. which operation is readily accomplished, as will be hereinafter more fully described.

In the drawiugs-- A represents a body of a trunk, and B the lid thereof, which parts may be of ordinary form'ofconstruction. f

To the frame-work of said body and lid I pivot, respectively, braces G D, which are of 'diiferent lengths,

and by preference of fiat pieces of metal. They are pivoted to each other at. such points that one brace 'shall be prolonged beyond the pivot. This prolongation E has formed on its face a depression, opening, or slot I and the other brace hasfa projection, G, which'I prefer to stamp or strike"up from the metal. f

The projection is designed to drop into the opening or depression. The lid being raised, the braces open,

, and, when the projection G reaches the prolongation it rises and'rides over the latter, and'forms a s rin between the two braces so that when said projection arrives fully at the opening or depression F, it springs .thcreinto, or forms what is commonly called a snap, whereby the two braces are locked, and the lid is held open. When the-lid is to be lowered, a sharp blow thereon in the direction of the body ot' the trunk will disengage the braces', the parts B G separating and the braces folding with the motion of the lid." The same result is accomplished by a blowon the braces, preferably behind the-prolongation or against the pivot of the braces.

It is evident that the projection G may be'formed tion will be the same as previously described.

oh one of the braces, so as to relieve the pivot of the brace from any strain when the trunk-lid is hurriedly raised, as well as to assist the operation of locking.

other, and therebybe locked or engaged, substant-iallyas described.

2. The two braces O D, pivoted together, leaving a prolongation, E, in connection with the locking mechanism'F G, formed on the straps, and operating scribed.

To the above I have signed my name, this 19th day of April, 1870.

- LOUIS HIIJLEBRAND. 'VVitnesses:

DANIEL Wont,

I. O. SOHUELLERMANX.

on the prolongation, and the opening or depression in the shortbrace, (see figs. 3 and 4,) but the opera- 1 If desired, an additional stop, H, may be located w The stay, as constructed, may be made to fold to together, substantially as and for the purpose de-,

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