Improvements in Portable Boxes or Receptacles designed to Hold or Contain Postage Stamps.
Year: 1899

page_text: Date of Application, 20th Jan., 1899-Accepted, 25th Feb., 1899
Improvements in Portable Boxes or Receptacles designed to Hold
or Contain Postage Stamps.
I, FREDERICK DUNDAS ELDERTON, of 3, Whitehall Place, London, Gentleman,
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:
My invention relates to improvements in portable boxes or receptacles designed
to hold or contain postage stamps and refers more particularly to that class of box
designed to be suspended or carried upon a watch chain or the like, the object of
this invention being to arrange or construct the box in such a manner as to greatly
facilitate the removal of the stamps therefrom, while it allows of two different
kinds of stamps being conveniently carried.
In order that my invention may be fully understood I will now proceed to
describe same with reference to the accompanying drawings in which:-
Fig. 1 is a front view of a box constructed according to this invention.
Fig. 2 is a similar view with one of the lids open.
Fig. 3 is a side view of Fig. 2.
Fig. 4 is a longitudinal section taken through the box.
Fig. 5 is a front view of a box showing one of the lids open and of a slightly
different form, while Fig. is a side view of a further slightly modified form of
box. -
All the views are drawn to a somewhat enlarged scale; and-like letters-of
reference indicate corresponding parts throughout the figures.
Referring more particularly to Figs. 1 to 4, the box or receptacle comprises a
rectangular frame a, preferably furnished at the bottom upon each side with a
stiffening or strengthening plate b, to each of which is hinged a lid c, furnished
with a hole or perforation d of sufficient size. The lids c are secured in position
by catches of suitable kind, while a knob and ring such as f is provided to allow
of the device being conveniently suspended from a watch chain or the like.
The stamps are arranged within the box or receptacle as shown at Fig. 4 with
(for example) the penny stamps upon the left hand side, and say half-penny
stamps upon the right hand side. To remove the penny stamps, the lid upon
the left hand side of the box or receptacle is opened and the finger inserted through
the opening d formed in the lid upon the opposite side of the box and in this
manner the stamps may be raised or lifted sufficiently to allow of any number
being easily removed from the box, while in order to remove the half-penny
stamps the lid on the right hand side of the box is opened and the stamps
extracted in a similar manner.
In the modified form shown in Fig. 5, the outside strengthening pieces or
plates bare replaced by internal strengthening or stiffening plates 1 arranged one
upon each side of the box and level with or just below the edges of the rectangular
frame a, these plates being of any convenient shape and extending a sufficient
distance along the sides of the rectangular frame a, and in this case the lids e are

page_text: hinged to the bottom of the frame a and are of a sufficient size to cover the whole
of the sides of the said frame. The lids are furnished with holes or perforations d
and in all other respects the box or receptacle is similar to the one already
described.
In the modified form of box or receptacle shown at Fig. 6 the stiffening or
strengthening plates bb are arranged one at the bottom of the frame a upon one
side and the other at the top of the said frame upon the other side, the lids cc in
this case opening one from the top of the box and one from the bottom of same
as indicated in dotted lines, the holes or perforations & being in this case arranged
in any convenient part of the said lids c.
Where it is required to carry a number of stamps of one kind or value only, the box
or receptacle is furnished with but one lid, while the bottom of the box would be
provided with a suitable hole or perforation to allow of the stamps being
sufficiently raised, by inserting the finger, to enable them to be easily removed
as required.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is:-
1/. The improvements in boxes or receptacles designed to hold and contain
postage stamps, consisting of the combination with a rectangular frame such as a,
of side stiffening or strengthening plates such as b, hinged lids such as e, furnished
with holes or perforations such as d, substantially as herein described and shown
with reference to Figs. 1 to 4 of the accompanying drawings and for the purposes
specified.
2/. In a box or receptacle designed to hold or contain postage stamps, the forma
tion or arrangement of holes or perforations d in side lids such as c, substantially
as herein described and shown, and for the purpose specified.
3/. The modified forms of the box or receptacle substantially as herein described
and shown, and for the purposes specified."
Dotad this 12th dor of To 1899
F. G. CASSELL,
(Of Cassell & Co.),
22, Glasshouse Street, Regent Street, London, W.
Agent for the Applicant.