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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.
JOHN H. BALDWIN, OF BEAUMONT, TEXAS.
NUT-LOCK.Specificatiion of Letters Patent.
Patented Feb. 19, 1907.
Application filed June 6, 1905. Renewed August 15, 1906. Serial No. 330,739.
To all whom it ~may concern:
Be it krown that I, JOHN H. BALDWIN, a
citizen of the United States, resi ding at Beau-
mor.t, in the county of Jefferson and State of
5 Texas, have invented new and useful Im-
provements in Nut-Locks, of which the fol-
lowing is a specification.
My invention relates to nut-locks; and its
primary object is to provide a novel acid
ro highly useful device of this character which,
although especially adapted for securi-.g
against accidental displacement a nut upon
a bolt used in connection with rail-joints, is
also equally well adapted to lock a nut upon
15 a bolt used in connection with any other con-
struction.
The invention consists in the construction,
combination, and arrangement of parts more
fully hereinafter described, claimed, and ill s-
20 trated in the accompanying drawings, which
disclose the preferred form of my invention,
and in which-
Figure 1 is a detail perspective view of my
nut-lock; and Fig. 2 is a view in side eleva-
25 tion, illustrating the application of the nut-
lock.
Referring to the drawings by reference-
numerals, the nut-lock comprises a plate 6,
struck up from any suitable material and
30 provided with a central orifice 7, by mear.s of
which said plate may be mounted upon the
bolt between the nut and the portion agair.st
which it is. secured. The plate 6 is provided
with two acute-annular incisions 7a, provid-
35 ing said plate with a nut-engaging member 8,
which when the plate is in applied position
upon the bolt is adapted to be bent to bring
the acute-angular' edges thereof into engage-
ment with two sides of the nut to secure thenut in applied position against accidental 40
displacement.
As disclosed in Figs. 1 and 2, the invention
resides in providing the plate 6 with prongs
11. These prongs are formed integral with
the plate 6 and are adapted to be bent into 45
horizontal position, as disclosed in the view
shown. This provision of the plate 6 with
the prongs 11 adapts the same for applica-
tion to constructions other than that of rail-
joints-as, for instance, where the bolt is 50
used in connection with wooden cor.struc-
tiors the pro-ngs 11 are adapted to be driven
therein, and thus hold the plate in a position
upon the bolt against turning.
After the plate has been inserted upon the 55
bolt between the nut and the member
through which the bolt projects a tool is in-
serted I ehivd the curved corner of the nut-
engaging member 8 and the same is bent so
as to bring its acute-angular edges into en- 6o
gageme.t with two sides of the nut, as illus-
trated in Fig. 2 of the drawings.
Having thus fully described the invention,
what is claimed as r.ew is-
In a nut-lock, the combination of a rec- 65
tangular plate slitted to provide an acute-an-
gular member in its upper portion, and cut
away in its lower portion to provide two
pointed members, said pointed members
adapted to be bent at right angles to the 70
plate and serve as securing means thereto.
In testimony whereof I affix my signature
in presence of two witnesses.
JOHN H. BALDWIN.
Witnesses:
G. R. HARDER,
R. A. McREYNOLDS.No. 844,993.
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Baldwin, John H. Nut-Lock., patent, February 19, 1907; [Washington D.C.]. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth512653/m1/2/: accessed June 22, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting UNT Libraries Government Documents Department.