US385242A

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Publication number: US385242A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1888-06-26
Anticipated expiration: 1905-06-26

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G. OROUQH. COMBINED TRUNK LIFT AND STRAP FASTENING.

No. 385,242. Patented June 26,, 1888.

lhviTnn STATES PATENT Trice.

GEORGE CROUCH, OF NEXV YORK, N. Y.

COMBINED TRUNK -LIFT AND STR'AP=FASTENING.

SPECIFICATION forming; part of Letters Patent No. 385,242, dated June 26, 1888.

Application filed May 1?, 1888. Serial No. 274.250. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE CROUCH,Of the city, county, and State ofNew York, have in vented an ImprovementinaCombined Trunk- Lift and Strap-Fastening, of which the following is a specification.

Heretofore the long straps employed around trunksnto assist in holding the lid and lower portion together have generally passed through metal or leather bridgepieces, and it often happens while the trunk is in transit from one point to another that these straps are removed from the trunk and stolen.

The object of my invention is to prevent thefts of this kind.

My improvement consists in a combined trunk-lift and strapfastening, which is made as a bridgepieee passing over the strap, the ends of which are securely riveted to the trunk, and through the center of which and also through the strap there passes a rivet or bolt, by which the strap or straps of the trunk are securely held in place and cannot be removed withont breaking the fastening or cutting and destroying the strap.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view of the trunk, showing the straps and fastenings in place upon the same. Fig. 2 is an elevation, full size, of my improved lift and fastening and a portion of the strap. Fig. 3 is a sectional plan of the same. Fig. 4 isa vertical section of the same.

The trunk in Fig. 1 is shown composed of the usual base, a, and lid Z), and has two straps, c c, passing around the same. I may, however, prefer to employ but one strap placed centrally around the trunk. The trunk-lift and strap-fastening d is made of any desired metal, and preferably of the shape shown in Fig. 2, the same forming, as it were, a bridgepiece that passes over the strap, and there are ears or ends,1 2, which are perforated for rivets, which pass through said ears and through the shell of the trunk, fastening the part (7. securely to the body of the trunk. The lift or fastening d is made at its central portion, (1, with an overhanging edge, beneath which the fingers can be placed in lifting the lid of the trunk to open the same for use, and said cen tral portion, d, is slotted across the back of a depth corresponding to the thickness of the straps c c, and said central portion is perfo rated for a rivet orbolt, 3, which passes through the metal and through a slot made in the strap and through the body or shell of the trunk. upon the inside of which said rivet Sis headed and provided with the usual washer.

The straps c 0 are slotted where the rivet or bolt 3 passes through them, said slot being of any desired length in order to provide for the stretching and drawing-up action of the strap when the same is pulled tightly around the trunk and buckled. Any number of these lifts or fastenings (I may be provided upon the outside of the trunk over the straps c c. I have shown in Fig. 1 four of such lifts and fastenings, the same securing the opposite ends of each of the straps c c, this number being all that is deemed necessary to en1ploy,it being only necessary upon the back of the trunk to use simple bridge-pieces passing over the straps to prevent the straps moving from their proper position. One strap may be em ployed, passing centrally around the trunk, in which case only two of the fastenings (I will be used upon the strap.

It is obvious that a sorew-bolt may be employed in the place of the rivet 3 said bolt passing through the lift and fastening d and through the slot of the strap and the body of the trunk, and having upon its inner threaded end a nut for clamping the same securely in place.

I claim as my invention' 1. The combination, in a trunk, with the strap or straps passing around the same, of the combined trunk-lift and strap-fastenings d, slotted for and passing over the straps and secured to the body of the trunk by rivets, and each provided with a rivet or bolt, 3, pass ing through said lift and fastening, through a slot in the strap,and through the body or shell of the trunk to secure the strap in place, substantially as specified.

2. The combination, in a trunk, with the strap or straps passing around the same, of the combined trunk-lift and strap-iastenings d, slotted for and passing over the straps and having at their central portion an overhanga fastening upon the inner side to secure the ing edge, d, beneath which the fingers are strap.in place, substantially as specified. adapted to pass in lifting the trunk-lid, the Signed by me this 14th day of May, 1888. same being secured to the body of the trunk by rivets, and provided with a rivet or bolt, CROUCH 3, passing through said lift and fastening, Witnesses:

through a .slot in the strap, and through the GEO. T. PINOKNEY,

body or shell of the trunk, and provided with HAROLD SERRELL.