US1062230A - Hasp. - Google Patents

Description

J. N. EDELIN.

-HASP.

APPLICATION znnn SEPT 25, 1012,

1,062,23Q; Patented May 20, 1913.

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UNITED s'rA'rEs PATENT OFFICE.

JAMES NOBLE EDELIN, OF LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, ASSIGNOR TO THE SAFETY HASP MANUFACTURING C0. INC., 01! LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, A CORPORA- TION. OF CALIFORNIA HASP.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May 20, 1913.

Application fled September 25,1912. Serial No. 722,829.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, JAMES NOBLE EDISLIN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Los Angeles, county of Los Angeles, State of California, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Hasps; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, andexactdescription 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 improvements in hasps, and has for its object to provide a hasp involving a staple receiving opening and a lug extending into said opening to engage the staple when the hasp is moved laterally, with a spring finger serving as a latch for the hasp, so applied as to pass through the staple receiving opening and to beheld and guided by the walls thereof, to the end that the construction of the apparatus is rendered much simpler and the parts, more particularly the spring finger, are prevented from being deranged or displaced.

In the accompanying drawing, Figure 1 is a perspective view of a hasp involving the invention shown in operative position. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal 'section thereof. Fig. 3 is a plan view of the hasp adapted toreceive a standard seal. 4

Referring to the drawings, 1 indicates the body of the hasp,which is prefer 1y formed of a flat piece of metal hav at one end the ordinary staple opening by which the hasp is secured to the door, or to the wall adjacent the door, by means of staple 2. The forward end of the hasp is provided with a generally rectangular opening 3. The opposite walls of the opening 3 are provided with reentrant lugs 5, 5, spaced apart a sufficient distance to permit the staple 6 to wass between them, one or the other of sai lugs 5 projecting through the staple 6 when the hasp is in looking position, as clearly indicated in Figs. 1 and 3. The pur pose of providing two lugs 5, 5, is to admit of the staple being employed either on left-hand or righthand doors, so that when the hasp is slipped over the locking staple, it will drop by gravity to cause the upper lug to engage the staple.

In order to hold the hasp in locking rela tion with the staple 6 and to admit of the same being quickly cast loose, there is proforward end is provided with a bent eyelike member 9 which serves as a finger piece or handle for. lifting the spring finger.

The operation of the device is as 'follows :-The hasp is engaged with the locking staple 6 by passing the staple through the opening 3 in the hasp between the lugs 5 and against-the tension of spring finger 7 until the upper lug 5 snaps into place in the staple opening at which time the spring finger moves into position below the staple and between the opposing faces of lugs 5. To release the hasp the spring finger is grasped by hand-piece 9 and lifted until it clears the upper edge of the sta 1e, after which the 7 asp is moved upwar ly to free engaging mitted to return to its normal position.

The particular advantages of the form and mode f az' plying the spring finger to the hasp are that it admits of the said springfinger being made from ordinary flat spring steel of just sufficient width to Work easily between the walls of the slot 4 and the adjacent edges of the fingers 5, that the said spring finger may be firmly secured to the under side of the hasp by means of a single rivet and is held accurately in position, without the least danger of displacement, by the walls of the slot 4, and that the normal deformation of the spring finger due to its change of direction in assing through the opening 3 in slot 4 is su cientto maintain a. uniform tension on the spring without bending or permanently deforming the same.

The hasp is admirably adapted to use in connection with an ordinar standard wire seal such as is employed on lreight cars and the like, and to this end, it may be cOnstructed as illustrated in Fig. 3 with an extra staple 1.0 secured to the upper face of the has-p, either adjacent to the slot 4 or bridging the same, said staple 1O cooperating with locking staple 6 toreceive the wire loop 11 of the standard type of seal.

It has been proposed heretofore to con hasp, and even under essary to use struct latches of this general character with a spring finger or latch which is sec'ured to the upper face of this hasp, and is provided with an offset or bent portion near its forward end to drop into the staple receiving opening adjacent to the lug or lugs which project into said opening and through the staple, but such a construction has been found to be objectionable in that the spring must be fastened by at least two rivets to the such conditions, it is liable to be easily broken or bent to such an extent as to render it inoperative. Further more, the offsetting of the portion of the iatch or spring finger to enable the sametc enter the staple receiving opening makes it necessary to form the spring latch from untempered steel and temper the same after the forming operation. According to the present construction, however, it is only nee a single rivet to secure the spring linger to the under side of the latch for the reason it cannot be displaced laterally because ofits engagement with the all times so that side walls of the slot 4 at it is-practically impossible to break or distort the finger. Furthermore, because ofjhe fact that the spring finger is flat and undeformed throughout its length, it may be made directly from tempered spring steel Without further manipulation.

What I claim is A hasp having a staple ing, a lug extending into said opening to engage the staple, and a spring finger secured at one end to the under face of the hasp and passing through said staple receiving opening adjacent the lug.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature, in presenceof two witnesses. JAMES NOBLE .EDELIN. Witnesses v ELMER I. MOODY,-

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