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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.
JAMES A. ROOSEVELT, OF HEMPSTEAD, TEXAS.
MAIL-BAG FASTENING.
SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 410,450, dated September 3, 1889.
Application filed November 28, 1888. Serial No. 292,060. (No model.)To all aezhonz, it m77ay concern:
Be it known that I, JAMES A. ROOSEVELT,
of lHempstead, in the county of Waller and
State of Texas, have invented a new and Im-
5 proved Mail-Bag Fastening, of which the fol-
lowing is a full, clear, and exact description.
The object of this invention is to provide a
fastening for mail-bags, which may be quickly
mnanilpulated to fasten or unfasten the bag.
io To this end the invention consists, essen-
tially, of a slide formed with key-hole slots
and carried by an overlapping flap, the said
slide being adapted to engage headed studs
that are secured to one side of the main por-
15 tion of the pouch and passed through aper-
tures formed in the other side of the pouch,
all as will be hereinafter more fully described,
and specifically pointed out in the claim.
Reference is to be had to the accompanying
20 drawings, forming a part of this specification,
in which similar figures of reference indicate
corresponding parts in all the views.
Figure 1 is a face view of my improved
mail-bag fastening, the parts being repre-
25 sented as they appear when in position to re-
ceive the padlock. Fig. 2 is a similar view,
the parts, however, being represented as they
appear when moved to a position to permit
of the throwing back of the closing-flap. Fig.
30 3 is a sectional view on line x x of Fig. 2, and
Fig. 4 is a cross-sectionalview on line y y of
Fig. 3.
In the drawings, 10 represents a mail sack
or pouch of ordinary form, to the back of
35 which there is secured a flap 11, formed with
a number of apertures 2, which register with
apertures 3, formed in the front of the bag, said
apertures being placed to receive headed studs
12, said studs being secured to the back of the
40o bag. To the front of the flap 11 there are
secured a series of plates 13, said plates being
apertured at 4 in line with the apertures 2 of
the flap. The plates 13 support guiding loops
or staples 14, and beneath these loops there
45 is placed a slide 15, faced with plates 16. To
the slide 15, I connect a hasp 17, which en-
gages a bow 18, made integral with the cen-
ter staples 14. In the slide 15, I form as many
key-hole slots 19 as there are studs 12.
50o When it is desired to close the bag, the en-
larged portions of the slots 19 of the slide 15
are brought in a position such that they willregister with the apertures 2 and 3, thereby
providing for the passage of the studs 12 to
the position in which they are shown in Fig. 55
2. Then if the slide be moved in the direc-
tion of the arrow shown in connection there-
with in said Fig. 2 the enlarged portions of
the slots 19 will be carried from beneath the
heads of the studs 12 and the bag will be 6o
locked and the flap will be held against dis-
placement, the parts being locked in the po-
sition above set forth by bringing the hasp
17 into engagement with the bow 18 and se-
curing the hasp by a padlock or otherwise. 65
To unlock the bag, it is only necessary to
bring the slide-slots into register with the
slots of the flap and front section of the bag,
after which the flap may be thrown up and
the front of the bag pulled out over the heads 70
of the studs 12.
By means of the construction above de-
scribed I provide a mail-bag fastening which
may be quickly manipulated, and which, when
moved to the fastening position, will act to 75
effectually close the two sections of the bag,
and by making the slide 15 flexible I materi-
ally decrease the danger of breakage.
It will of course be understood that the po-
sitions of the studs and the slide could be re- 80o
versed-i. e., that the studs could be secured
to the flap and the slide to the body of tile
pouch.
Having thus described my invention, I claim
as new and desire to secure byLetters Patent- 85
The combination, with a mail-bag provided
with headed studs and apertures adapted to
receive said studs, of a closing-flap, also aper-
tured to receive the studs, a slide provided
with key-hole slots adapted to receive the 90
studs and protected by metallic plates, sta-
ples or loops secured to the flap overlapping
the slide and serving as a guide for the same,
a hasp pivotally secured to the slide between
two adjacent staples, whereby the motion of 95
the slide is limited, and a staple or bow 18,
carried by two of the staples and adapted to
engage with the hasp 17, substantially as and
for the purpose described
JAMES A. ROOSEVELT.
Witnesses:
J. J. PARMELE,
T. S. REESE.
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Roosevelt, James A. Mail Bag Fastening., patent, September 3, 1889; [Washington D.C.]. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth172149/m1/2/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting UNT Libraries Government Documents Department.