US1324155A

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Publication number: US1324155A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1919-12-09
Anticipated expiration: 1936-12-09

Description

B. F. HUBB-ELL. BAG FASTENER.

APPLICATION FILED DEC- 10, "I8.

Patented Dec. 9, 1919.

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Application filed December 10, 1918.

My invention relates to sliding bolt mechanism of the kind generally used on bags, suit cases and like articles for fastening swinging frame sections together, and its object is to provide a durable and economical sliding bolt mechanism of this general type which can be made principally out of sheet metal without detracting from its strength or appearance. Another object of my invention is to provide sliding bolt mechanism which can be made up from a minimum number of parts and in which the tendency for the parts to become loose and rattle will be reduced to a minimum.

I attain these and other objects of my invention in the device set forth in the following description and accompanying drawings in which like reference characters refer to cor esponding parts.

In the drawings:

Figure 1 is a perspective View of my device before it is attached to the tion of a traveling bag;

Fig. 2, a longitudinal sectional view;

Fig. 3, a bottom plan view, and

Fig. 4, a transverse sectional view taken on line 6U.,23 in Fig. 3.

My device generally comprises a boXlike base member or casing 2 having a top face portion or wall 3,

side walls

4, 4 and

end walls

5, 5. The

end walls

5, 5 are provided with projecting

lugs

6, 6 which serve to clench the casing to the top plate of one of the bag frame members. The top wall 3 of the casing is provided with an elongated,

frame secrectangular-shaped opening 7 The under side of the top wall'3 of the casing is pro vided with two pair of alined recesses 8, '8 and 8, 8, the recesses of each pair extending away from the side edges of the slot 7. Sliding longitudinally upon the top wall of the casing 2 is the slide proper or finger piece 9, the same comprising a rectangular box-like casing substantially of the general configuration of the lower or base casing 2 but slightly smaller than the latter. The upper casing 9 is provided with end walls BAG-FASTENER.

Patented Dec. 9, 1919.

Serial No. 266,153.

10, 10 each of which has bent inwardly from its lower edge a pair of projecting

lugs

11, 11. Resting on these lugs a flat spring plate 12 of a surface area SllfflClGllt to substantially close the under side of the upper casing 9 and having its body portion provided with a plurality of apertures 13, the

purpose of which will presently appear. Dcpendlng from the under slde of this plate is a locking post formed out of a single p iecc of sheet metal folded midway of its extremities and brought together so as to form the post proper 14:, the upper extremities of the metal being separated to form the

side walls

15, 15 having spaced

lugs

16, 16 projecting from their upper edges respectively. These

lugs

16, 16 pass through the apertures 13, 13 on each side of the center of the spring plate 12 and are bent outwardly against the top side of the spring plate and form brackets or supports for holding up the locking post. The end edges of each of the

side walls

15, 15 are slit and bent to form the outwardly projecting

lugs

17, 17 which project at right angles from the

walls

15, 15 adjacent to each end thereof but slightly below the top edges of these walls.

The parts are assembled in the following manner. The lugs 16 on the top edges of the locking post are passed through the apertures 13 in the spring plate and bent outwardly at right angles. The spring plate is then inserted into the upper casing 9 so that its end edges rest on the

lugs

11, 11 projecting from the bottom edges of each end of the casing. The uppericasing 9 is then placed over the opening 7 in the top wall 3 of the lower or base casing 2 so that the locking post extends downwardly therethrough. The lugs 17 17 at each end of the locking post, which up to this time have not been bent out of the plane of the

side walls

15, 15, are then turned outwardly at rightangles to the walls, the spring plate 12 having been pulled downwardly by the lugs 16 a sufiicient distance to enable the top edges per casing 9 is given an endwise movement on the top of the lower casing 2 the upper edges of the lugs 17 at one end of the post slide out of these

recesses

8, 8, and at the end of the sliding movement of the upper casing, snap into the

adjacent recesses

8, 8. The

recesses

8, 8 and 8, 8 serve to hold the casing at each end of its sliding movement. By utilizing a spring plate to support the locking post it is possible to make allowances for variations in the thickness of the metal forming the casing and to draw the parts together in their assembled relation even though the same are not formed to exact dimension. Since the spring plate is seated on lugs in the casing and the lugs at the top of the post are seated against the top of the spring plate it is possible to assemble the device by hand, thereby dispensing with the riveting and other machinery usually employed for assembling purposes. The feature of having the top of the locking post made box shape so that its top Walls are spaced apart Where it joins the spring plate serves to prevent the post from tilting and breakingoff as is sometimes the case wvhen the pest is made of a single thickness of metal. The feature also of forming the post out of a folded piece of metal enables a light gage of metal to be used at the same time preserving the strength of the post proper. While I have shown laterally bent lugs for guidingthe post along the top Wall of the base it is obvious that I may utilize any other guides when desirable. It should be noticed that the sliding casing presents a flush surface on all. sides since in the construction of my device it is not necessary to pierce the walls of the casing when fastening the parts together. The seating of the spring Within the sliding casing enables me to substantially conceal the same and also to eliminate the inner shell member usually employed for attaching the post to the casing.

ent is:

1. In a fastening device for bag frames and the like a base adapted to be secured upon one of the bag frame sections,;a casing slid-ably arranged upon said base, a spring plate mounted Within said casingand a de pending post connected with said spring plate.

In a sliding bolt .u'iechanism for bag fas toners and the like a base adapt-ed to be secured to one of the bag frame sections and having an opening therein, a member slidably arranged upon said base ovcrsaid opening and a depending post carried by said member and exteding downwardly through said opening, the said post beingformed out of a single piece of metal folded upon itself and having its extremities terminating at the uppe end of said post.

.3. In a slidingbolt mechanism for bag fasteners and the like the con'ibination with a base adapted to be secured to one of the bag frame sections and having. an evening therein, a member slidably mounted. upon said base over said opening" and a depending post carried by said memberand extend ing downwardly through said opening, the said post being formed out of a single piece of sheet metal doubled upon itself and brought together to form the post proper but separated atits upper extremity at its junction with said sliding member.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand this 5th day of December 1918.

BENJAMIN F. HUBBELL.

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