US179113A - Improvement in trunk-corner clamps - Google Patents

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J. W. C. HASKELL.

TRUNK CORNER CLAMPS. No. 179.113. Patented June-27, 1876.

W TW'E SES 627W, By -w UNITED STATES PATENT Qrrron JOHN w. c. HASKELL, or CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

IMPROVEMENT IN TRUNK-CORNER CLAMPS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 179,113, dated June 27, 1876; application filed To all whom it may concern:

KELL, of Chicago, in the county of Cook and.

State of Illinois, have invented a new and Improved Trunk-Corner and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which Figure l is a perspective view ot'a trunk, showing the application of my improved corners. Fig. 2 is a perspective of the corner employed upon a fiat-top trunk; and Fig. 3 is a similar view of a corner constructed to fit the bottomor lower corners of the trunk.

Similar letters of reference in the accompanying drawings denote the same parts.

My invention has for its object to provide an improved metallic corner-piece for general use upon trunks of all descriptions to strengthen their corners, and protect them from injury during transportation and its attendant rough usages. To this end the invention consists, first, in constructing the corner of cast metal, with three wings, one to fit against the end, one against thesidc, and the other to fit over the top or bottom, of a trunk.

In-the accompanying drawings, A is the corner-piece, cast with two lateral wings, B B, at right angles to each other, and a third wing, C, projecting from one edge inward between the two side wings. The center of the corner-piece is made much thicker than either of the wings, and rounded upon the outside, so as to project laterally beyond the plane of the side wings, and vertically beyond the plane of the third wing, so as to form a strong protection to three sides of the trunk, as well as to the wings themselves. The corner and wings are all cast in one piece, from iron, brass, or other proper metal; but for general use I prefer to employ iron suitably tinned over for the purpose.

In Fig. 1 the central wing O is arranged at the upper edge of the corner in an inclined position, to fit upon the upper surface of a round-top trunk, as shown, the side wings B B being secured to the front and end.

In Fig. 2 the third wing is arranged at the lower edge of the corner, at right angles to the side wings, so as to fit against the bottom of a trunk, while the side wings lie i gainst the end and front, as shown also in July 2, 1875. p I

In Fig. 3 the corner is shown adapted to 2 flat-top trunk, the several wings being [hi same in-arrangement as those shown in Fig 2, with the exception of the side wings, whicl are made somewhat shorter, as shown.

The several wings are provided with t1 necessary holes for the passage of screws, by which the corners are securedv to the trunk two screws being preferably employed for th( end of each wing.

The corner-pieces, constructed as above de scribed, protect the corners of the trunk tron injury by contact with other objects, the thret wings acting as strengthening-braces to pre vent three sides of the trunk at the corner from becoming loosened or weakened, and from becoming twisted or racked by a violent blow.

I am aware that trunk-corners have heretot'ore been constructed with two side wings but they do not afford protection to the top or bottom of the trunk at the corner, nor assistin securingthetop and bottom pieces positively to the side and end pieces. On the contrary the edge lying between the two wings forms a projection which is liable to catch against other objects and tear the corner-piece from the trunk.

By my improvement these objections are overcome, because the three wings of the corner-piece are secured to the top and bottom pieces, and the side and end pieces of the trunk holding such parts firmly together, and preventing any one of them from springing away from the others, or from becoming loosened, so as to open the joints of the trunk.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim is- As an improved article of manufacture, the cast-metal trunk-corner, consisting of the corner A, thetwo side wings B B, at right angles to each other, and the intermediate wing O, at right angles, or nearly so, to the side wings, the part A being made thicker than the wings, and rounded upon its outer surface, so as to project laterally and vertically beyond the plane of the wings for the purpose of protecting them and three sides of the trunk, substantially as described.

JOHN w. o. HAsKELL.

Witnesses:

THOMAS C. MA'ILAOK, .GRANGLE MOMULLEN.

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