US961931A

US961931A - Cording-seal.

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Publication number: US961931A
Authority: US
Inventors: Edward J Brooks
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 1910-05-06
Filing date: 1910-05-06
Publication date: 1910-06-21
Anticipated expiration: 1927-06-21

Description

E. J'. BROGKS.

CORDING SEAL. APPLIUATION FILED Mus, 1910.

WTNESSES I 6 1 Anm@ AHM C0, PNmaLITNDGRAP EDWARD J. BROOKS, OF EAST ORANGE, NEV JERSEY.

CORDINGr-SEAL.

Application filed May 6, 1910.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, EDWARD J. BROOKS, a citizen of the United States of America, and a resident of East Or'ange, in the State of New Jersey, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Oording-Seals, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to seal-press fastened or press fastenable cording seals for securing packing cases and the like containing goods in bond, and other receptacles, against being opened without detection, and thus to prevent the abstraction of the contents of such receptacles.

The present invention is additional to the improvements in such seals set forth in my 'previous specifications forming part of United States Letters Patent No. 676,415, dated J une 18, 1901, Nos. 7 96,107 and 796,108, dated August l, 1905, and No. 836,560, dated November 20, 1906. A feature common to the seals set forth in said previous specifications and those of the present invention is the construction of the seal part without any threading holes and with an open fronted recess which receives a bight of both cord ends and preliminarily attaches the seal part thereto so as to facilitate applying the seal part.

The present invention consists in a seal part for such seals embodying any or all of certain novel features of construction hereinafter particularly described and claimed, and in the combination of the same with a soft and flexible sealing cord which may be of any suitable kind as hereinafter more particularly indicated.

The leading object of this invention is to adapt the improved seal part to be made in one piece of nearly rigid sheet metal, and with fastening lips bendable only by means of suitable tools, and which cannot be opened to release either end of the sealing cord Without such defacement as to insure detection.

Other objects will be set forth in the general description which follows.

A sheet of drawings accompanies this specification as part thereof.

Figures 1 and 2 are front views of a cupshaped seal part having an open front, as it appears before and after the last stage of its manufacture as a distinct part; Fig. c

is a back view thereof; Figs. L1 and 5 are side views projected from Figs. 1 and 2 respectively; Fig. 6 is another side view of the Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented J une 21, 1910.

Serial No. 559,672.

line A-B', Fig. 7, and the line O-D, Fig

8, respectively; Fig. 12 is a side view of the press-fastened seal on the same scale as Fig. 11; Fig. 13 represents a section through the seal part of the press fastened seal on the line E-F, Fig. 11; and Figs. 14: and 15 are respectively front and side views of another seal part illustrating modifications.

Like reference characters refer to like parts in all the figures.

rEhe improved seal part, t or a2, is preferably and conveniently cup-shaped, and made in one piece of suitable sheet metal, hereinafter referred to as substantially rigid, which is preferably a sufliciently heavy grade of tin (tin plate) say XX or XXX. Made from this metal it is practically impossible to unfasten the seal part after it is press fastened in the manner hereinafter described.

The sealing cord, o or b2, is cut of the required length from suitable soft and flexible twine or cord of sufficient strength Yand durability. For additional security the cord7 may be made with a knitted strand,

as set forth in my specification forming part of Patent No. 208,953 dated October 15, 1878, or with a strand of wire as set forth in that of J. Howlett and myself forming part of Patent No. 249,357 dated November 8, 1881; but, for the purposes of the present invention, may be of any suitable known or improved kind, and must be soft and flexible as aforesaid.

Two species of the seal part are shown respectively at a in Figs. 1 to 13 inclusive, and at a2, Figs. 14 and 15. In both species the seal part is hollow and has an open front and is constructed with deep

flaring notches

1, 2, 3 and 4, and with substantially parallel prongs or

lips

5 and 6, at opposite sides of its open front, and with another pair of such prongs or lips, 7 and 8, substantially at right angles to the pair first named; and both pairs of the lips as they are hereinafter termed, are constructed with inturned front extremities, 9, and with inclined edges, 10 (Fig. 10). These inclined edges are formed by said notches, 1, 2, 3 and 4, which also admit the ends, 1 and 2, of the cord, b or b2, between the fastening lips in preliminarily attaching the seal part to the cord, as illustrated by Figs. 7 and 10. When the seal part is thus Vpreliininarily attached, `the or interior of the seal part, as best shown in Fig. 11, and the cord is securely held against separat-ion from the pressed seal part by the interaction therewith of the edges of said

notches

1, 2, 3 and 4, as well as the inner surfaces and edges of the fastening lips as shown in Fig. 13.

In the species represented by Figs. 1 to 13, inclusive, the seal part a is first stamped or drawn into the form of a deep round cup and provided with the

notches

1, 2, 3 and 4, as represented by Figs. 1 and 4, and is finished by providing the prongs or lips 5 6 and 7-.8 with their inturned extremities 9, as represented in Figs. 2, 5, 6, 7, and 10; and the back, 11, of the seal part is or may be provided with any desired lettering or other permanent distinguishing marks, as represented by W. X. (Fig. The several lips are coiled into the shapes and locations represented in Figs. 8, 9, 11, 12 and 13, at the press fastening operation. rlhe two pairs of lips 5 6 and 7-8 are preferably and conveniently made of different shapes and proportions as shown; the more rigid wide lips 5-,-G being primarily designed for use as the fastening lips, and the pointed lips 7-.-8 with their more slanting inclined edges 10 as supporting lips, as in Figs. 7 8, 10, 11, 12 and 13. The narrower lips 7--8 may, however, .be used as fastening means, if desired, especially for securing thinner cord, b2, as illustrated by Fig. 9. The space 12, Figs. 10 and 11, between the bottom or back 11 of the seal part and the

notches

1, 2, 3 and 4, serves to admit the movable die of the seal press, and to accommodate the coiled lips of the fastened seal.

The modifications represented by Figs. 14 and 15 consist in making the Acup-shaped seal part (a2) square in plan view instead of round, illustrating changes of shape, and in making the

lips

5, 6, 7 and 8 of one and the same size and shape.

O therlike modifications will suggest themselves to those skilled in the art.

senesi Having thus described said improvement, I claim as my invention and desire to patent under this specification:

1. A seal part, for press-fastenable cording seals, made of nearly rigid sheet metal, and constructed with substantially parallel lips arranged at opposite sides of an open front and having inturned front extremities, and a second pair of lips substantially at right angles to those rst named and constructed with inclined edges adapted to interact with said inturned extremities of the opposing lips in temporarily attaching the seal part to the ends of a cord preparatory to the press fastening operation.

2. A seall part, for press-fastenable cording seals, made of nearly rigid sheet metal, and constructed with substantially parallel llips arranged at opposite sides of an open front, and a second pair of lips substantially at right angles to those first named; both pairs of lips being constructed with inturned front extremities and inclined edges, and adapted to be coiled into the interior of the seal part at the press fastening operation.

3. A cup-shaped seal part, for pressfastenable cording seals, made in one piece of lnearly, rigid sheet metal and constructed with deep notches in its front edge forming substantially parallel lips at opposite sides of the open front of the seal part, such lips having inturned front extremities and being adapted to be coiled around the-respective ends of a sealing cord by the action of a seal press.

4. A cup-shaped seal part, for pressfastenable cording seals, made in one piece of nearly rigid sheet metal, and constructed with deep notches in its front edge forming substantially parallel lips at opposite sides of the open front of the seal part and a second pair of lips substantially at right angles to those first named; both pairs of lips having inturned front extremities and inclined edges, and adapted to be coiled into the interior of the seal part at the press fastening operation. f

5. In combination with a soft and flexible sealing cord, a hollow seal part made of nearly rigid sheet metal and constructed with substantially parallel lips at opposite sides of an open front, and with a back adapted to carry distinguishingV marks; said lips having inturned front extremities, and being adapted to be coiled around the respective ends of said cord by the action of a seal press, substantially as hereinbefore specied.

EDWARD J. BROOKS.

Witnesses:

ELLEN J. BRooKs, ELiNoR Brooks.

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