US374255A - Mode of sealing coin-bags - Google Patents

Description

(No Model.)

O. A. JUDD.

MODE 0F SEALING COIN BAGS.

Patented Dec. 6, 1887;

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CHARLES A. JUDD, OF \VATERTONVN, VVISOONSIN.

MODE OF seAtme COIN-BAGS.

EPBCIPICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 37 L255, dated December 6, 1887.

Application filed September 26, 1887. Serial No. 250,773. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES A. JUDD, of Watertown, in the county of Jefferson and State of WVisconsin, have invented new and useful Improvements in Safety-Seals for Coin-Bags; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full and accurate description of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, wherein- Figure 1 is a perspective view of my i1n proveinent. Fig. 2 is a rear view of the same, showing also the bag and tag secured by the seal. Fig. 3 is a front view ofthe same parts as those shown in Fig. 2. Fig. 4. represents the ordinary method.

This invention relates to the sealing of bags used for the storage and transportation of coin, and particularly for the use of express companies.

Coin is usually stored and transported in bags of more or less heavy material, accord ing to the quantity contained. It is usual to close the mouth of the bag and fasten the same with a piece of stout twine wound aroundand firmly tied. A tag is then attached by passing one of the string ends through a hole in the tag and then tying them together, and, lastly, the string ends are secured by being sealed to the tag with wax bearing the imprint of an official stamp or seal, as shown in Fig. l. Other waxen seals are attached direetly to the bag to cover the tie-string. So long as this seal remains intact perfect scour ity is afforded; but the bag and string being flexible, and the neck constituting the handhold used in handling the bags, and the wax being hard and brittle, it is evident, during transportation especially, the seal will be cracked and defaced. This result is almost inevitable in the transportation of coin, and when the contents does not correspond with the marks on the bag it is impossible to determine with whom the fault is, whether with the one who put up the bag or some one of those through whose hands it has passed.

The object of my improvement is to definitely and positively trace any discrepancy between the contents of the bag and the marks and locate the responsibility for it. I therefore provide a seal case or tray of metal provided with suitable holes in the bottom for the passage of the ends of the tiestring'to the interior of the tray in a way which will admit of attachment of a direction tag by the same tie-string and the embedment of said string in the wax with which the tray is filled.

In the old method above described the knot is covered with a wax seal, which is necessarily destroyed in opening the bag, so that if any discrepancy in the contents shall be discovered no inspection of the seal can then be made. By my improvement the knot is covered by the wax in the tray, which cannot be destroyed in opening the bag, and therefore remains intact for after-inspection, if necessary, and only one wax seal is required, and the expense in wax andlabor is therefore reduced one-half. Incidentally,also injury to the bag is avoided.

A is the seal case or tray conveniently made of thin metalsuch as tin-with its edge turned upward to constitute a shallow dish. I make three holes, I) a (Z, in the bottom of said tray and depress the metal between holes b and 0, into which the knot may be drawn, notwithstanding it may be tied very tightly and close. The tie-string F is tied around the neck of the bag and tied in a hard knot. The ends are then passed through the hole 0 into thetray and out again through the hole 0. They are then put through the eye in the direction-tag G, and back through the hole cl into the tray. By drawing the string tight through the holes above mentioned the knot will be drawn into the depression between holes I) and c, and thereby into the tray, which is then filled with melted wax and the ofiicial stamp is applied. By these means the seal is preserved from injury in handling the bag by its metal tray, and the knot is within the tray and inaccessable without destroying the seal. The bag itself is not exposed to accumulation of wax, which, under the practice heretofore, has rendered the bags unfit after a short term of service.

Having described my invention, I claim 1. The herein described mode of sealing coin-bags, which consists, essentially, in passing the tie-string ends into and out of a metallic seal-case by means of holes in its walls, and then filling said case with melted wax to embed the string, whereby the seal is protected from mutilation. V

2. The herein described mode of sealing coin-bags and attaching direction-tags, which consists, essentially, first, in passing the string ends into and out of a metallic seal-case by means of holes in its wall 5 second, through the eye of the direction-tag; third, back into said eal-case, and, fourth, in filling said case with melted wax, whereby the bag-tie and the label are secured by one seal and the seal preserved from mutilation.

3. The metallic seal-case A, provided with one or more holes suitable for the passage of the tiestring ends, combined with the tiestring and the sealing-wax, whereby the tiestring is embedded'and sealed and the wax preserved from mutilation.

4'. The metallic seal-case A, provided with holes I) c in its bottom, having the metal intervening depressed, as shown and described,

combined with the tie-string and sealing'wax,

whereby the tie-string knot may be drawn into the seal-case through its bottom and en1- bedded in the watt.

5. The metallic seal-case A, provided with the holes 12 c d, the tie-string ends caused to pass in and out through said holes successively, combined with the direction-tag F and the sealing-Wax, whereby the string is embedded and the seal preserved from mutilation and the tag attached by the same seal.

CHAS. A. JUDD.

\Vitnesses:

J NO. S. BENNETT, O. S. JOHNSON.

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