Improvements applicable to all kinds of Jewellery Cases, or other Cases or Boxes.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 1st Nov., 1894
Complete Specification Left, 15th Mar., 1895-Accepted, 11th May, 1895
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements applicable to all kinds of Jewellery Cases, or other
Cases or Boxes.
I JOSEPH CHARLES ROPER Watchmaker and Jeweller 2 Market Place
Chesterfield do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
Improvements in jewellery cases or other boxes or cases by which the lid is
made to turn backwards & completely under said cases or boxes to form stand for
dressing table or for economising space in window dressing or exhibition in any
way whatever.
Dated this 31st day of October 1894.
Improvements applicable to all kinds of Jewellery Cases, or other
Cases or Boxes.
JOSEPH CHARLES ROPER, 2 Market Place Chesterfield, Derbyshire, Watch-
maker and Jeweller, do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what
manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in
and by the following statement :-
This invention relates to improvements in jewel or other cases or boxes, and has
for its object so to construct them that they will occupy less space in shop
windows and other places than has hitherto been necessary.
For this purpose
I provide on each case one or more hinges with double joints in any suitable
position so that the lid thereof may be adjusted to any angle in relation to the
bottom, or be turned completely underneath it; or each case may be so arranged
in a shop window or other place that the bottom of another case or box can rest
on its lid and be raised to any desired angle or height best suited for exhibition
purposes.
The invention will be best understood by reference to the accompanying drawings
in which,
Fig. 1 is a section showing a case or box with the lid closed.
Fig. 2, is a similar view showing the lid completely underneath the bottom of
the box.
Fig. 3 is a similar view showing the lid and bottom extended horizontally.
Fig. 4 is another similar view showing the lid, and bottom of the box placed at
an angle to each other and
Fig. 5 is a rear end elevation showing the double hinge on the box.
Like letters indicate like parts throughout the drawings.
In carrying my invention into practice I take an ordinary box A with lid B and
bottom or body C of any suitable shape and construction and fix one or more
double jointed hinges D at the back thereof in such manner as to allow the lid B
to be moved in relation to the body or vice vers from its usual position in which it
closes the top of the body C as shown in Figs. 1 and 5 to that in which it is
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page_text: directly underneath the body as shown in Fig. 2 or to any intermediate position as
shown for example in Figs. 3 and 4.
By employing cases constructed as above described one is allowed for shop-
window dressing and otherwise displaying jewellery and other goods or articles
considerably more space than has hitherto been available for the purpose, for,
according to this invention the cases or boxes need not occupy space appreciably
larger than the articles themselves as will be best understood by reference to Fig. 2
whereas with cases as ordinarily constructed for each article displayed shelf or
equivalent displaying-surface must be allowed for the case-lid as well as for
the body.
If desired the hinge D may be formed with three or more joints instead of two
as shown in the drawings the term "multiple jointed hinge" in the claims covering
any hinge having more than one joint.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what 1
claim is;-
1. The combination with a jewel or other case or box comprising a body and
a lid of one or more multiple jointed hinges connecting the lid to the body
substantially as and for the purpose described.
2. A jewel or other case or box comprising a lid such as B and body C connected
together by a hinge in which without disconnection of said two parts the lid in
relation to the body is capable of being turned from the upper side of the body in
which position it closes the body to a position in which it is completely below the
body or to any position between these two extremes substantially as described.
3. A complete jewel or other case or box constructed substantially as described
and illustrated in the accompanying drawings.
Dated this 23rd day of April 1895.
JOSEPH CHARLES ROPER.
Boult & Wade,
Agents for the Applicant.