US288641A - Addison jones - Google Patents

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SEAL HOLDING ATTACHMENT FOR HASP LOOKS. No. 288,641. Patnted Nov. 20, 1883.

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UNITED STATES.

PATENT OFFICE.

ADDISON JONES, OF: OMAHA, NEBRASKA.

SEAL-HOLDING ATTACHMENT FOR HASP-LOCKS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 288,641, dated November 20, 1883.

Application filed January 15, 1883.

T at; whom it; may concern.-

Be it known that I, ADDISON J ONES, a citizen of the United States, residing at Omaha, in the county of Douglas and State of Nobraska, have invented a new and useful device to be applied to freight-car locks for protecting the same, as well as the tag and check thereof; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, making a part of the same, in which 7 Figure l is a perspective view of the cap or device attached to a freight-car-lock. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal section of the same. Fig. 3 is a perspective view of the lock-cap. Fig. 4 is a front view of one form of a car-lock to which my deviceis to be applied. Fig. 5 represents the same with my'device applied thereto. Fig. 6 is a plan view of the device. Fig. 7 is an end view of the same. Fig. 8 represents the lock-cap turned vertically upon its hinge. Fig. 9 is a plan view of the barbed lock-bolt. Fig. 10 is aplan view of the glass plate used with my device.

Similar letters refer to similar parts throughout the several views. 7

My invention relates to improvements in seal-locks, in which a small plate of glass is used to seal and protect the key-hole and tag placed against it; and the object of my improvements is to provide a cap or shield adapted to be attached by peculiar means to ordinary car-locks of that class known as hasplocks, and completely cover the front and sides of said lock 5 and also to provide said cap with a tag and glass seal secured thereto in a peculiar manner, as hereinafter described, and specifically pointed out in the claims. I attain these objects by the construction illustrated in the accompanying drawings,

in which I j A represents the frame of an ordinary carlock. It is provided with openings CL and a at the ends to receive bolts, whereby it is secured to a car-door or to the jamb thereof At one end of the lock-frame a chamber A,

is formed to receive the tumblers a", and the spring-jaws a used to engage with the barbs b b of the bolt 13, the latter passing through Model) and being guided into the look by staples A projecting from the frame A. Within the front wall, A of the lock-chamber is formed the key-hole a.

To protect the keyhole and lock from being tampered with, I place over the front and around the side walls of the lock-chamber a cap, 0, of brass or any other suitable metal, in the form of a rectangular box, having a top, a, two pendent sides, 0, and a pendent end, 0 Thelatter is provided with a slot, 0, to receive,

- in the usual manner, one end of the bolt B,

and be locked thereby. This cap is pivoted at c to lugs or flanges c projecting from the end piece, 0. This end piece projects at c slightly beyond the top 0 of the cap, to prevent rain entering the cap at that point, and also prevent straining the pivots 0 when the cap is opened. The lower end of the end 0 is provided with a flange, 0 substantially at right angles to the end 0, and having a hole, 0, to receive either a rivet, cl, to unite it to the lock-frame, or a bolt to secure it, as well as the lock-frame, to a car-door, said bolt having either a' nut or riveted head upon the inside of said door or of the door-jamb. An opening, (1 is made in the top 0 of the cap, and a frame, (1", is soldered to or formed with the top a, so as to project over the edge of the opening d and retain a rectangular piece of glass, (1*, made to fit the opening d. This glass is inserted from the under side, being retained connected with the top plate, 0, before the cap is closed, by a projecting shelf, (1 soldered to the under side of the plate 0. On the under side of the glass is pasted a paper, d, on which is written what may be necessary to properly check or tag the car. By means of the cap not only the tag and key-hole, but the whole lock-case is protected from rain, snow, and dust. The lower end 0 of the cap, and consequently the whole cap, is locked in position by the bolt B, passing through the slot 0", and in said position the car is effectually checked, tagged, and sealed, and the car cannot be unlocked without destroying the lock or breaking the glass and tag.

To prevent the bolt from being removed from the look by pounding it out, as is frequently done, and thus rendering the seal ineffectual, I have made the barbed point 6 of the bolt of cast-steel, thus adding to its strength, and formed shoulders 1) upon that end of the bolt to abut against the-lock-case. The lower or outer end of the bolt is made crooked or bent out of line and made light and thin or weakened at b as heretofore, so that a heavy blow would break it off at that point.

I am aware that seal-locks have been provided with a cover hinged permanently to the frame thereof, and that said cover overlaps a portion of the sides of said frame, while my invention relates to an independent shield adapted to be attached to any ordinary hasplock.

Having now fully I claim,

1. The combination of a car-lock frame with the cap-plate 0, having side plates, 0, covering the entire sides of the projecting portion described my invention,

of said lock frame, and end piece, 0, having the perforated flange 0 substantially at right angle to said end piece, and side lugs, 0 substantially as and for the purpose described.

2. The combination of a car-lock frame with end piece, 0 having the perforated flange c" lock-frame, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

Witness my hand this llth day of December, A. D. 1882, at Omaha, Nebraska.

ADDISON J ONES..

In presence of J. S. SHRoPsHIRE, O. V. GALLAGHER.

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