US1147142A - Box fastener and seal. - Google Patents

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WINFRED MUDGE BROOKS, or EAST oaniven, NEW JERSEY, ASSIGNORTO E. J. BROOKS & 00., on NEW YORK, N. Y., A CORPORATION on NEW YORK.

BOX FASTENER AND SEAL.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented July 20, 1915.

Application filed February 17, 1915 Serial N 0. 8,799.

To all whom it may concern: a

Be it known that I, WINFRED MUDGE BRooKs, a citizen of the United States of America, and a resident of East Orange, in the State of New Jersey, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Box Fasteners and Seals, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to metallic fasteners and seals for boxes and chests adapted to secure each plank thereof against pilfering without detection, and for other analogous purposes as for securely attaching identification marks so as to prevent tampering therewith.

The present invention consists in a novel combination of an improved box fastener with a self-locking seal and reference is made to my pending application Serial No. 877,981 for another application of the seal feature here involved.

The leading object of this invention is the production of a secure box fastener and seal from wire. 7

Other objects will be set forth in the general description which follows.

Two sheets of drawings accompany this specification as part thereof, in which like reference characters refer to like parts in all the figures. V

Figure 1 is a perspective view of the corner of a box showing two of the improved v fasteners and seals B, B, in the fastening and sealing operation and a third A, partly driven home and awaiting the second and final step in the fastening and sealing operation; Fig. 2 represents a cross section of a corner of a box and side view of an improved fastener and seal in the same position relative to the box as A in Fig. 1; Fig. 3 represents a cross section of a portion of a box showing a side view of the fastener and seal after the fastening and sealing operations are complete as in B, Fig. 1; Fig. 1 is a sectional view of the seal looking down on the line 44L Fig. 2; Figs. 5, 9, 10 and 11 are cross sections of some of the various wires from which the improved fastener and seal can be made asdesired; Figs. 6, 7 and 8 are perspective views of the fastener and seal made from wires of different cross sections as follows: Fig. 6 shows device made from flat wire a cross section of which on line 99 is shown in Fig. 9; Fig. 7 shows device made from square wire a cross section of which on line 10-10 is shown in Fig. 10; Fig. 8 shows device made of triangular wire a cross section of which on line 11l1 is shown in Fig. 11. The fasteners and seals shown in Figs. 1, 2 and 3 are made from round wire a cross section of which taken on line 55 Fig. 2 is shown in Fig. 5. Fig. 12 shows perspective of end of a box representing fastened seals and fasteners used in conjunction with a metal box strap O and a mode of crossing and fastening the ends D of such a strap. Fig. 13 shows a cross section of a portion of a box and a side view of the fastener and seal in the first operation of sealing in conjunction with a box strap. Fig. 14: is a back view showing the inner notched side of the seal part and the notch a, Fig. 15 shows a perspective of a modified form of the fastener and seal in which the relative lengths of the seal portions have been modified to adapt it to use with box straps. Other like modifications will readily suggest themselves to those skilled in the art. Figs. 16, 17and 18are enlarged diagrammatic views of the seal part; Fig. 16 being a side view and Figs. 17 and 18 being cross sections on the lines 17 17 and 1818 respectively of Fig. 16. These indicate the soft core and outer hard shell of the seal part, which may be produced by chilling or any suitable process and how by'notching. the wire the outer hard shell m is removed at that point exposing the soft 'core awiththe effects hereinafter more-fully described.

The improved box fastener and seal as it leaves the factory ready for use is a one piece metal staple of special construction. The two nail prongs 1 and 1 are pointed at their extremities b. The head or seal comprises two portions 2, 2 flattened and embossed with suitable designations as desired and a connecting portion 3. The nail prong 1 is bent at right angles to its adjacent flattened and embossed portion 2 while the nail prong 1 is bent in the same plane and atan angle slightly more than 90 to its adjacent flattened and embossed portion 2. The two head portions 2, 2 are bent slightly relative to each other and in the same plane as the prongs at the neck 3 which is nicked at this point on its inner side by a transverse notch or which cuts the outer hard shell of the wire m and exposes the inner soft core n. (See Figs. 17 and 18.)

a The angles of the nail prongs l, 1 with re spect to the adjacent head portions 2, 2 are such as are adapted to produce in operation a new and effective fastening and tightening effect. The prong 1 being at right angles to its adjacent head portion is readily driven home in a line perpendicular-to the plank, while the point Z) of prong 1 by reason of the angle slightly more than 90 which said prong bears to its adjacent head part enters the plank at a distance from' the notch a slightly more than the length of the head portion 2, which latter is drawn upon driving the prong 1 obliquely into the box and the entire head part pressed snugly over the corner of the box under slight longitudinal tension. The hard outer shell m having been cut by the notch a, any attempt to raise either prong tending to bend the wire of the seal part 3 away from the notch a would result in fracturing the seal at that point and the longitudinal tension before mentioned would draw the severed portions apart thus readily disclosing the attempt to tamper with the fastener. i

Having thus described said improvement, I claim as my invention and desire to patent under this specification 1. An improved boX fastener and seal of wire having in combination two suitably inclined nail prongs and a head part said head part'having a relatively soft core and hard outer shell and a transverse notch cut through said outershell on its inner side.

2. .An iniprovedbox fastener and seal of wire having in combination two suitably inclined nail prongs, a head part consisting of two flattened and embossed portions separated by a neck or seal part, said seal part adapted to being bent toward the notch in the sealing operation.

3. An improved box-fastener and seal of wire having in combination two suitably inclined nail prongs, a head part consisting of two flattened and embossed portions separated by a neck with a relatively soft core and hard outer shell and bent slightly at said neck in the same plane as the nail prongs, there being a notch cut transversely through the outer shell on the inner side of said neck at saidbend.

l. An improved boX fastener and seal of wire having in combination a head or seal part having a relatively soft core and hard outer shell and out transversely through said outer shell on one side, a nail prong bent toward the notched side and at right angles to the head part and a second nail' prong bent toward the notchedside at an angle slightly more than 90 with the head part. a

5. In an improved box fastener and seal of wire the combination .of a head or seal part having a soft core and hard outer shell, said outer shell being cut transversely on one side, two flattened and embossed portions adjacent to and on either side of said notched part and bent slightly relatively toward eachother at the notch, a nail prong continuation of one of said flattened por tions bent at right angles thereto and toward the notched part and a second'nail prong in continuation of the other flattened part, bent at an angle slightly more than 90 thereto and toward the notched part and in the same plane with the said notched partand first nail prong,"all substantially as hereinbefore specified. a i I \VINFRED MUDGE BROOKS. WVitnesses:

MORRIS MIoHnLsoN,

RossLEYN JAMonNn'AN.

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