US535001A

US535001A - Mail-bag

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Publication number: US535001A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1895-03-05
Anticipated expiration: 1912-03-05

Description

(No Model.)

W. R. GORDON.

MAIL BAG.

No. 535,001. 1 r Patented Mar.' 5,1895.

MMM v NITED STATES PATEN u WILLIAM R. GORDON, OF OSOEOLA, SOUTH CAROLINA, ASSIGNOR OF ONE- I-IALF TO WALTER O. NISBET, OF WAXHAW, NORTH CAROLINA.

MAIL-BAG.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 535,001, dated March 5, 1895.

Application filed December 8,1894. Serial No. 531,358- (No model.)

.T all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM R. GORDON, a citizen of the United States, residing at Osceola, in the county of Lancaster and State of South Carolina, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Mail-Bags; and

I do declare the following to be a full, clear, and eXact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which to it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

The special object of the invention is to I5 make a mail bag with a simple, secure and efficient fastening.

Figure 1 of the drawings is a perspective view of my bag, showing the mouth open; Fig. 2, an elevation, showing the sliding tongue zo plate with its fixed guide-plate, and Fig. 3 a modification thereof. Fig. 4 is a horizontal section.

In the drawings, A represents the bag of any suitable material and provided with the slots a arranged on opposite sides of its mouth so as to register when the two sides are brought together. These slots are eyeleted with metal preferably and are vertical in position.

B is the only flap used and this has three,

3o more or less, staples on the inside and a lock staple on the outside respectively designated by the letters b and b. I preferably use in connection with the staples a riveted plate O and disks D.

5 5 J ust beneath the Hap B, I make fast to the body of the bag and fasten the transverse plate E, having, on its opposite sides, the guide-flanges e under which is moved back and forth the sliding plate F provided with apertures f, and, in those apertures, are located 4o the tongues f. Y

G is the hasp which is hinged at g to the end of the tongue plate F and fulcrumed at g on the guide-plate E, being provided near the free end with the slot g2.

When the flap B is folded over the mouth of the bag, the staples b pass through the eyeleted slots a on both sides of the mouth of the bag and through the iixed plate E and sliding plate F. As the hasp is forced down 5o so as to receive the staple h', the tongues f are drawn into the staples b, when the hasp lock is applied to staple b in the usual way.

What I claim as new, and desire to protect by Letters Patent, is-

A mailbag having the opposite slots a on the sides of its mouth, a single iap B with two or more staples on one side and a lockstaple on the other, the fixed transverse plate E with the guide-anges e, the plate F having 6o apertures fand tongues f', and the hasp G hinged to tongue-plate, fulcrumed tol guideplate and provided with a slot g2,'al1com bined and arranged substantially as shown and described.

In testimony whereof I aflx my signature in presence of two witnesses.

WILLIAM R. GORDON.

Vitnesses:

T. W. KENDRICK, J. D. STEEBLE.