IMPROVED MANUFACTURE OF METALLIC BOXES AND CASES FOR SPRING MEASURING TAPES, PIN CUSHIONS, AND OTHER ARTICLES, ARRANGED FOR PLAYING TETOTUM, ROULETTE, BAGA- TELLE, AND OTHER TOY GAMES, PART OF THE SAME BEING APPLICABLE TO Advertising Purposes
Year: 1879

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Richard Whitaker, of Birmingham, in the County of
Warwick, Manufacturer, for the Invention of "IMPROVED MANUFACTURE OF
METALLIC BOXES AND CASES FOR SPRING MEASURING TAPES, PIN CUSHIONS,
AND OTHER ARTICLES, ARRANGED FOR PLAYING TETOTUM, ROULETTE, BAGA-
TELLE, AND OTHER TOY GAMES, PART OF THE SAME BEING APPLICABLE TO
Advertising Purposes."
Sealed the 12th March 1880, and dated the 7th November 1879.
"
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Richard Whitaker at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 7th November 1879.
RICHARD WHITAKER, of Birmingham, in the County of Warwick, Manufacturer.
IMPROVED MANUFACTURE OF METALLIC BOXES AND CASES FOR SPRING MEA-
SURING TAPES, PIN CUSHIONS, AND OTHER ARTICLES, ARRANGED FOR PLAYING
TETOTUM, ROULETTE, BAGATELLE, AND OTHER TOY GAMES, PART OF THE SAME BEING
APPLICABLE TO ADVERTISING PURPOSES."
This Invention relates to certain improvements in or connected with the manu-
facture of metallic boxes and cases intended for various portable, useful, and orna-
mental articles, such as spring measuring tapes, pin cushions, sun dials, or mariners'
compasses; and to the combination in one contrivance or device with such articles
of certain means of amusement mainly designed for the use of children in
playing toy games of chance, such as teetotum, bagatelle, and roulette, so as to
render cheating impossible, and which articles may also be used for advertising
purposes.
The ordinary way of manufacturing such boxes or cases consists in drawing the
two ends of a strip of metal close together, and soldering them.
According to my improved method, which I will now describe, I economise time,
labor, and metal, and produce a better and seamless article.
I take a blank or disc of metal or of any suitable alloy, and submit it to pressure
by any suitable tools, so as to raise the same to a tubular, cup, or socket form of
any desired diameter, and afterwards pierce or cut out the flat bottom formed in
thus raising the tube, cup, or socket, so as to leave a seamless rim or band, which is
then operated upon with rollers to produce a set bevil or bearing at or near its
edges, and is then finished in the ordinary way so as to constitute a body for a box
or case of the kind required for the above referred to class of articles.

page_text: The above described improved method of forming such articles is preferable to
forming them by cutting them from lengths of tube, which would then necessarily
be of about twice the thickness of that required according to my method.
The rim prepared as above described, and which is intended to form the body of
the artiele, I utilize for advertising purposes by engraving, painting, or piercing the
same, or fitting it with tape or elastic having words or figures thereon.
A shallow cylindrical body, case, or box being thus formed of thin metal, the
centre part of its depth is or may be utilized as a pin cushion, its periphery being
suitably padded; or it may be fitted with a spring measuring tape or other useful
adjunct calculated to enhance the appearance or utility of the whole device.
Either or each end of the box is utilized for the adaptation of the means of
amusement above referred to, and for this purpose the end or ends is or are fitted
with "shells or saucer-shaped or dished parts, preferably formed of thin sheet
metal, and which shells may be either plain or recessed, or lettered, figured, or
marked as required for the games intended to be played therewith, and the shell
at each end is enclosed and kept from falling out of position by means of a front
of glass, which is spun, milled, or otherwise fitted to retain the parts in position
for use.
.
Motion is communicated to the shells or other movable parts for the purpose of
play by the pulling out or return motion of the spring measuring tape, or by a
suitable oscillating action imparted otherwise,
The above described improved method of manufacturing boxes or cases is also
applicable to the manufacture of the lids of pepper, match, pen, and pin boxes, and
tobacco-jars, and such like useful articles.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed by
the said Richard Whitaker in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 20th March
1880.
RICHARD WHITAKER, of Birmingham, in the County of Warwick, Manufacturer.
"IMPROVED MANUFACTURE OF METALLIC BOXES AND CASES FOR SPRING MEA-
SURING TAPES, PIN CUSHIONS, AND OTHER ARTICLES, ARRANGED FOR PLAYING
TEE-TO-TUM, ROULETTE, BAGATELLE, AND OTHER TOY GAMES, PART OF THE SAME
BEING APPLICABLE TO ADVERTISING PURPOSES."
This Invention relates to certain improvements in or connected with the manu-
facture of metallic boxes and cases intended for various portable, useful, and
ornamental articles, such as spring measuring tapes, pin cushions, sun dials, or
mariners' compasses; and to the combination in one contrivance or device with such
articles of certain means of amusement mainly designed for the use of children
in playing toy games of chance, such as tee-to-tun, bagatelle, roulette, and dice,
so as to render cheating impossible, and which articles may also be used for adver-
tising purposes.
The ordinary way of making such boxes or cases consists in drawing the two ends
of a strip of metal close together, and soldering them.
According to my improved method, which I will now describe, I economise time,
labor, and material, and produce a better and seamless article.
In carrying my Invention into practice I take a blank or disc 1 of metal or of
any suitable alloy, as shewn in Figure 1, and submit it to pressure by any suitable
tools and dies, so as to raise the same to a cap or shell form 2 of any desired diameter,
as shewn in Figure 2, and afterwards pierce or cut out the flat bottom 3 formed
in thus raising the cup or shell so as to leave a seamless rim or band 2, as shewn in
Fig. 3, and which is then operated upon with rollers or tools to produce a set bezel
or bearing 4 at or near each or both of its edges, and, if desired, a slot 5 for the
reception of a spring measuring tape, as shewn in Figure 4, and I afterwards finish
it in the usual way, so as to constitute a body for a box or case suitable for the
above referred to class of articles.
The above described method of forming such and similar articles is preferable to
making them from lengths of tubes, which would require twice the thickness of
metal I employ in my improved method.
The rim prepared as bereinbefore described, and which is intended or designed
for the body of a box or case, I utilize for advertising purposes by engraving,
painting, printing, or impressing the same, or fitting around or upon it tape, paper
fabrics, elastic, or other suitable substance or material having words, figures, or
ornamental patterns or devices, plain or colored, and which may be either permanent
or removable.
A shallow cylindrical body, case, or box being thus formed of thin metal, the
centre part of its depth is or may be utilized as a pin cushion, as shewn in Fig. 5,
its periphery being suitably padded or otherwise prepared for the reception of pins 6
and similar articles; or it may be fitted with a spring measuring tape 7 or other
useful adjunct calculated to enhance the ornamental appearance or utility of the
whole article.
Either or each end of the box or case is utilized for the adaptation of the means
of amusement above referred to, and for this purpose the end or ends is or are fitted
with shells or saucer shaped or dished parts 8, preferably formed of thin sheet metal,
and which shells may be either plain or recessed, or lettered, figured, or marked as
required for the games to be played therewith, as shewn in Figs. 5 to 8, and the
shell 8 at each end is enclosed and kept from falling out of position by means of a
front 9 of glass, which is spun, milled, or otherwise fitted to retain the parts in
position for use.

page_text: Motion is communicated to the shell or shells or other movable parts 8 for the
purpose of play by the pulling out or return motion of the spring measuring tape 7,
or by a suitable oscillating action imparted otherwise.
The accompanying Drawings are illustrative of only some of the very numerous
forms in which such improved boxes or cases can be made. Figure 5 represents such
a box or case adapted for the purpose of playing bagatelle and for use as a pin
cushion; Figure 6 represents a similar box or case adapted for playing the game of
roulette; Figure 7 represents a similar box or case for playing dice; and Fig. 8, a
similar box or case adapted for playing tee-to-tum, and in each of the first three of
these Figs. the end of a spring measuring tape 7 is shewn.
The above described improved method of manufacturing boxes or cases is also
applicable to the making of pepper, match, pin, tobacco, puff, watch, and round case
boxes, and other similar useful articles, such as castors, sockets, thimbles, and whip
mounts.
Having now described the nature and objects of my said Invention, together with
the manner or means of performing or carrying the same into practical effect, I
would remark in conclusion that I do not restrict myself to the precise details
herein set forth and illustrated on the accompanying Sheet of Drawings, as the same
are only intended as illustrations of some of the very numerous applications of
which the principle of my Invention is susceptible, and not as illustrations of the
only methods of carrying the same into practice or use, but what I claim as the
Invention secured to me by the hereinbefore in part recited Letters Patent is,
the improved manufacture, application, and use of metal boxes or cases of the nature
and for the purposes substantially as hereinbefore described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Richard Whitaker, have hereunto set my hand
and seal, this Tenth day of March, in the year of our Lord One thousand
eight hundred and eighty.
Witness,
JOHN KENDRICK.
RICHARD WHITAKER. (IS.)