US487082A - Box-fastener - Google Patents

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CHARLES D. SUFFRINS, OF PICKWICK, MINNESOTA.

BOX-FASTEN ER.

SPECIFICATION forming' part of Letters Patent No. 487,082, dated November 29, 1892.

Application filed .Tune 17, 1892. erial No. 437,094. (No model.)

T a/ZZ whom it may concern:

Be it. known that I, CHARLES D. SUFFRiNs, a citizen of the United States of America, re-

siding at Pickwick, Winona county, Minne-l sota, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Box-Fasteners, of which the following is a specification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawings.

The object of this improvement is to provide a fastening for boxes, cases, &c.,that will be strong, cheaply made, readily operated, and not likely to get out of order; and the invention consists in the peculiar construction, arrangement, and combinations of parts hereinafter more particularly described, and then definitely claimed.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a plan of a box having a pair of my fastenings rather differently arranged at the oppo- Fig. 2 is a central Vertical longitudinal section of the same. Fig. 3 is a vertical cross-section of a box with my fastenings with part broken away. Fig. 4 shows a plan of a box with two of my fastenings attached on the outside. Fig. 5 is a central longitudinal Vertical section of the same. Fig. 6 is a horizontal section of another form of my invention. Fig. 7 is a plan, and Fig. 8 is a Vertical section, of another mode of employing my fastening. Fig. 9 shows a modified form of my fastening.

Referring now to the details of the drawings and more particularly to Figs. 1, 2, and 8, A represents the box proper, having' a top B, which is preferably chamfered off at one or both ends, over which is placed a metallic strip C, (hoop-iron, preferably.) At each end is a fastening consisting of a small metallic rod D,bent at right angles, as shown at cl, and having a head d' at its lower end. For most purposes I use an ordinary Wire nail, bent as shown; but it maybe made of ordinary Wire, if preferred, with the lower end turned outward, as shown in Fig. 9, to serve in lieu of the head as a retaining means. The rod is preferably flattened on one side, and on this iiattened place bears a spring E, nailed or screwed to the inside of the box, and over this is secured a cleat F, grooved to cover the spring. Where I leave the cover of the same thickness at the ends, as shown at the righthand end of Fig. 2, I fasten a cleat J over the top, which serves the twofold purpose of strengthenin g said top and preventing the fastening from being accidentally turned. I sometimes dispense with the cleat and make recesses in the ends or sides of the box to receive the fastening, as shown in Fig. 6, in which G is a Vertical recess to receive the fastenings D, and H is a horizontal recess not quite so deep, in which is set the spring E.

In that form of my invention shown in Figs. 4 and 5 the cover is long enough to run over the ends of the box proper and the fastenings are on the outside, being either fastened there by a cleat F, as shown on the left-hand end of the box, or by means of a metal clip K, (which I consider as the equivalent of the cleat in this connection,) as shown at the righthand end. This clip may be so proportioned and formed as to act as a spring to keep the fastening in position. The right-hand end of the cover is cut away, as in the left-hand end of Fig. 2; but the left-hand end is entirely cut away in the center and a piece of sheet metal nailed all across the end of the box.

In Figs. 7 and 8 I show another way of using my fastener. Inthis case the fastener is set inside the box and projects up through a slot L, set in the cover, and is then turned outward, as shown. The fastening may be secured in any way desired to the inside of the box; but I have shown a clip like that illustrated in Fig. 4 and 5.

cut-away portion with hoop-iron, which not only makes a more durable surface for the fastening to work on, but serves, also, to strengthen the cover. It will be seen that the spring E is so arranged that it performs the double purpose of aspring to hold the fastening in a locked position and as a means for securing said fastening and box together, and that it has both of these functions, whether the said spring` E is covered by a cleat, as shown in Figs. 1, 2, and 3, or left uncovered, as shown in the other figures. Should the cleat shown in Figs. 1, 2, and 3 be accidentally knocked off, or even if the maker should forget to nail it on, the spring-plate E would hold the fastening securely in place. It is also obvious that some of these modes of securing the fastening may be changed one for the For instance, the modes shown in Fig.

other.

I prefer to cut away, the end of the top of the box and cover said IOC 6 and at the right-hand end of Fig. 5 may be applied either inside or outside .of the box.

Although I have shown this fastening attaohed to a box, as it is for this use that I prinoipally desire it, I do not wish to limit myself to its use on boxes or cases, as it may be readily applied to other purposes, as for fastening oloset'doors, in which case the fastening would be set in the casing, and when the door Was shut the fastening could be turned ovei` it like an ordinary turn-button.

I have shown a few of the ways in which my fastening may be employed; but it is ob-' vious that it may be used in manyothers.

What I claim as new is- May, 1892.

CHARLES D. SUFFRINS. Witnesses:

A. H. SNOW, MAE RYDER.

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