US683557A

US683557A - Traveling-bag fastener.

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Publication number: US683557A
Authority: US
Inventors: Benjamin F Du Bois
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 1901-06-01
Filing date: 1901-06-01
Publication date: 1901-10-01
Anticipated expiration: 1918-10-01

Description

No. 683,557. Patented Oct. I, 190i. "B. F. DU BOIS.

TRAVELING BAG FASTENER.

(Application filed-Tune 1, 1901.)

(No Model.)

INVENTOR WITNESSES:

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE;

BENJAMIN F. DU BOIS, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

TRAVELING-BAG FASTEN ER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 683,557, dated October 1, 1901.

Application filed June 1, 1901. Serial No. 62,721. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, BENJAMIN F. DU BoIs,

a citizen of the United States, residing at No. 705 East One Hundred and Thirty-fifth street, New York city, in the county of NewYork and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Traveling- Bag Fasteners; and I do hereby 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 it appertains to make and use the same. 7 This invention relates to an improvement in traveling-bag fasteners and is embodied in the construction and arrangement of parts presently to be described and afterward defined in the claim.

Theinvention, more generally speaking, relates to the improvement ofthat type of fastener shown and described in United States Letters Patent No. 658,945, issued to myself on the 2d of October, 1900.

The device shown in the above-mentioned patent comprehends a locking-bar movable toward and from the top of the frame, neces sitating suitable springs which serve as carriers for the bar and the surrounding case.

My present invention is designed to simplify the construction and provide ameans for locking the traveling-bag, which may be so arranged as to occupy but little space and which in many respects will be simpler and more durable in structure.

Figure 1 is a perspective View of a frame, showing the invention applied thereto, the bag being shown in dotted lines. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal section showing parts in elevation, the section being taken through the locking-bar and clip members of the frame at a point directly above the locking-bar; and Fig. 3 is a detail section of the look.

In the drawings the bag is shown in dotted lines, Fig. l, the same being attached to the frame-pieces B and B. These frame-pieces are of the conventional style or type, the member B fitting within the member B when the same are closed together, the two members being united by suitable pivots at their lower ends. In this type of frame angle-iron is largely and usually employed, the outer bar.

member carrying the handle and the locking device.

0 designates a locking-bar of narrow elongated formation, having its ends reduced, as at c, and passing through fixed eyes D on the vertical walls of the member B. The length of the locking-bar is such as to extend substantially from end to end of or entirely across the frame-piece, and its exposed face is provided with a series of hooks 0, having inclined or slanting outer ends. The distance between the reduced portions of the lockingbar is less than the distance between the supporting-eyes, so that the bar is permitted a longitudinal movement in a well-known manner, and to normally carry the bar to the left aspiral spring E is sleeved around the extension or reduced portion, the same being held against a pin or collar 6, fixed on the extreme end of the reduced portion of the The tendency of this spring is to expand and carry the bar to the left, while by applying suitable pressure to the bar in'the opposite direction the bar may be moved to the right. As shown in Figs. 1 and 2, a convenient means for permitting the application of pressure to the bar is by extending from the bar an arm F, which is projected through a slot b in the frame-piece, the arm being provided with a suitable knob at its exposed end. Rigid on the frame-piece is a fixed knob 1), serving as a rest or fulcrum against which the thumb or finger may be placed when the locking-bar is to be drawn back.

Fixedly secured on the member B of the frame are two clips G and G, the same being rigidly attached in any convenient manner thereby prevent the movement of the locking-bar. To release the pawl, a cam H is employed, which may be conveniently operated bya key or other convenient device from the outside.

In operation it will be observed that by pressing the frame-piece B toward the framepiece 13 the hooks or their inclined portions will be forced into the openings in the clips, and this pressure will tend to force the locking-bar to the right until the hooks enter the apertures in the clipsand pass beyond the clips, the spring immediately drawing the hooks under the walls of the clips, thus securely fastening the frame together. In this position they may be looked, as will be obvious. It is to be noticed that in effecting the fastening a single member is employed-- namely, the locking-barand that the bar is extended substantially the length of the frame, so that the bag-frame is held closed or coupled practically throughout its length, thus avoiding the objections to that type of bag-frame which is locked at the center only and requires independen t fasteners at the different ends.

I do not wish to be understood as claiming, broadly, a fastener consisting of a sliding bar spring pressed irrespective of its associations; but I believe that I am the first to ever invent a device or frame for a traveling-bag which would permit the complete closure of the bag and lock the same against opening at the center, as well as at the ends, by a sliding bar located on the frame. It is therefore to be understood that various changes which would constitute equivalents can be made and substituted for those shown and described.

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed as new, and desired to be secured by Letters Patent, is-

In a traveling-bag the combination with the frames B, B, pivoted at their opposite lower ends and adapted to fit the one Within the other when in closed position; separated clips on the interior of one ofthe frames; a locking-bar on the interior of the opposite frame having portions adapted to engage the clips; guides for the locking-bar; a coiled spring wound upon the locking-bar adjacent one end thereof and arranged to abut at one end against one of the guides; an abutment at the end of the locking-bar for the opposite end of the spring, said spring tending normally to force the bar in one direction; and an operating finger-piece extending to the outside through one of the frames for forcing the bar in an opposite direction against the tension of the spring, substantially as described.

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

BENJAMIN F. DU BO'IS.

Witnesses:

PIERRE A. GEIS, MARIA DU B015.