US363371A

US363371A - Seal-lock

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Publication number: US363371A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1887-05-24
Anticipated expiration: 1904-05-24

Description

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G. A. DEITZ.

SEAL LOOK.

Patented May 24, 1887.

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GEORGE A. DEITZ, OF CHAMBERSBURG, PENNSYLVANIA.

SEAL-LOCK.

SPECIPICATIQN forming part of Letters Patent No. 363,371, dated May 24-, .1887.

Application filed June 14, 1886.

To aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE A. DEITZ, a citizen of the United States,residing at Chambersburg, in the county of Franklin, State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Seal-Locks, of which the following is a specification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a side elevation of a portion of a car and door provided with my improved lock. Fig. 2 is a vertical section taken on the linear of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a like section showing the lock open.

Like letters referto like parts in all the figures of the drawings.

The object of my invention is to provide a receptacle for a manifest or bill of lading, and a seal which shall be punctured, ruptured, or defaced in the act of unlocking a car-door, in order to provide unmistakable evidence of unauthorized tampering with the lock.

Other objects and advantages will appear in the following description, and the novel features of my invention will be particularly pointedout'in the claims.

A represents a portion of a car-door; and,l3 the door-post, or a portion of the frame-work of the car adjacent to the door.

0 represents a casting secured upon or recessed in the edge of the door, and provided with aprojecting lug, 0, having in its upper face teeth 0 G, the front face of the former being slightly inclined and that of the latter substantially vertical. The casting G is also provided with an aperture, 0, for the wire of an ordinary lead seal.

Secured upon and set within arecess in the post 13 is the lock-case D, the upper portion of which is provided with a receptacle, D, for a bill of lading or manifest, which receptacle is closed by a cover, D adapted tov slide in grooves or flanges Diformed as a part of the receptacle. The cover D and the end wall of the receptacle are each provided with apertures D D, respectively, for the wire of an ordinary lead seal. The rear wall of the receptacle D is slotted, as at D, and over said slots I secure,by cement or in any other suitable manner, a paper, glass,or other breakable seal, E.

The lock-case D is constructed to form a main receptacle, F, for the operative parts of the I looking and seal-canceling mechanism. These comprise a pivoted or pendulous locking-bolt, G, and a similarly constructed and operating stamp-canceler, H. The locking-bolt is provided near its front edge with a seal wire aperture, G, and at its lower edge with teeth G G adapted to fit the teeth 0 O of the doorcasting. It is also provided with a finger-hold, G to facilitate disengaging the bolt from the door-casting.

A rod or bolt, G", serves as a pivotal bearing for the locking-bolt, said rod being supported in the walls of the case. The upper edge of the locking-bolt is provided with a curved recess, G in which the lower weighted end of the canceling-lever rests when the door is locked. The remaining outline of the up per edge of the bolt is such that when it is turned upwardly on its pivot the cancelinglever is oscillated on its pivot H, so as to th row its upper end, which is made in the form of two blades, Hflinto the slots D, and through any seal arranged thereover, and within the manifest-receptacle D, as clearly shown in Fig. 3, whereby said seal is mutilated or destroyed, and serves as evidence that the belt of the lock has been separated from the doorcasting.

The operation of my invention will be readil y understood from the above description, and it will be noted that all of the operative parts are securely contained within the lock case, as well as the fastening-bolts I for the same, the heads of which are covered, while the threaded ends are within the car, so that access to the operative parts or to the seal is impossible without leaving evidence thereof.

Of course it is understood that an ordinary lead seal, as J, will be employed to retain the locking-bolt in connection with the door-casting, and also the sliding cover over the manifest box or receptacle thereof.

Having described my invention and its operati on, what I claim is-- 1. In a car'door fastening, the combination, with the pendulons seal-canceling lever H, of the pivoted locking-bolt G, having the curved recess G in its upper edge, and having teeth G G in its lower edge, a ear-door casting hav- ICO ing teeth conforming to the teeth of the locking-bolt, and a manifest and seal receptacle the rear'wall of which is slotted, substantially as specified.

2. The combination of the lock-case D, formed with the manifest-receptacle D, slotted, as at D*, and provided with a cover, D having a sealwire aperture, the pendulous seal-canceler H, thelocking-bolt constructed substantially as described, and the car-door casting having the lug 0, provided with the teeth 0 G, substantially as specified.

3. The combination, with the door A, the

door-casting 0, having the aperture G and lug O, with teeth thereon, the post B, and easing I 5 D, set therein, and provided with the receptacle D, projecting downwardly into the main receptacle of the casing, and slotted, as described, the pendulous seal-canceling lever H,

having" the blades H and the locking-bolt 20 adapted to swing the lever in its unlocking movement, substantially as specified.

GEO. A. DEITZ.

' Witnesses:

H. GEHR, G. D.- McDowELL.