IMPROVEMENTS IN BOXES OR CASES APPLICABLE ESPECIALLY FOR THE TRANSMISSION OF SAMPLES BY POST
Year: 1882

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Marinus Isack Verkouteren of Nos 5 and 7 Fenchurch
Street in the City of London for an invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN BOXES
OR CASES APPLICABLE ESPECIALLY FOR THE TRANSMISSION OF SAMPLES BY
POST" A communication from abroad by Royal Chapin of San Antonio Texas
in the United States of America
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Marinus Isack Verkouteren
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 8th April 1882.
MARINUS ISACK VERKOUTEREN of Nos 5 and 7 Fenchurch Street in the City of
|London. "IMPROVEMENTS IN BOXES OR CASES APPLICABLE ESPECIALLY FOR THE
TRANSMISSION OF SAMPLES BY POST." A communication from abroad by Royal
Chapin of San Antonio Texas in the United States of America
This Invention has for its object improvements in boxes or cases applicable
especially for the transmission of samples by post.
The body of the box or case I make cylindrical and closed at the bottom
preferably this portion is made from sheet metal stamped to form. A stem with a
screw thread cut upon it is fixed to the centre of the bottom and stands up centrally
in the interior of the box or case. The top of the box or case is covered with a
circular lid it may be of wood or other material. The lower part of the lid fits
within the upper part of the body of the box whilst at the upper side of the lid a
flange projects outwards all around' its circumference-this flange overlaps and
rests against the top edge of the sides of the box. At the centre of the lid is a
screw threaded hole or nut to screw on to the end of the screw stem which is
carried by the bottom of the box as before mentioned. When the lid is thus
screwed on to the screw stem the flange on its circumference will be drawn down
onto the top edge of the sides of the box or case and close it with a closely fitting
joint.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed by
the said Marinus Isack Verkouteren in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
7th October 1882.
MARINUS ISACK VERKOUTEREN of Nos 5 and 7 Fenchurch Street in the City of
London "IMPROVEMENTS IN BOXES OR CASES APPLICABLE ESPECIALLY FOR THE
TRANSMISSION OF SAMPLES BY POST A Communication from abroad by Royal
Chapin of San Antonio Texas in the United States of America
"
This Invention has for its object improvements in boxes or cases applicable
especially for the transmission of samples by post.
The body of the box or case I make cylindrical and closed at the bottom-
preferably this portion is mado from sheet metal stamped to form. A stom with a
screw thread cut upon it is fixed to the centre of the bottom and stands up centrally
in the interior of the box or case. The top of the box or case is covered with a
circular lid it may be of wood or other material. The lower part of the lid fits
within the upper part of the body of the box whilst at the upper side of the lid a
flange projects outwards all around its circumference-this flange overlaps and
rests against the top edge of the sides of the box. At the centre of the lid is a
screw threaded bolo or nut to screw on to the and of the screw stem which is
carried by the bottom of the box as before mentioned.-When the lid is thus
screwed on to the scrow stem the flange on its circumference will be drawn down
on to the top edge of the sides of the box or case and close it with a closely fitting
joint.
Or in place of the lid screwing on to the screw stem-the lid might be held
down by a nut screwing on to the screw stem or by a headed screw screwing
into it.
The drawings hereunto annexed shew examples of boxes constructed as above
described.
Figure 1 shews & box of a circular cylindrical form having a screw stem standing
up from the centro of its bottom and a lid having a screw threaded hole at its
centre to screw into the end of the screw stem.
Figures 2 and 3 shew respectively a vertical section and plan view of a similar
box in which the screw stem passes through the centre of the lid and a nut is
screwed on to the end of the screw stem and bearing upon the top of the lid holds
it down on to the top of the box.-A modification of this arrangement is shewn at
Figure 4 in this modification the stem does not project upwards through the lid
but the stem of a headed screw is passed downwards through a hole in the lid and
screwed into a screw threaded hole in the top of the stem. Figures 5 and 6 shew
a vertical section and plan view of another modification in which two screw stems
stand up from the bottom of the box and pass through holes in the lid and the lid
is held down by nuts screwing on to the ends of the screw stems. In all the boxes"
the lids at their circumference fit within the upper part of the body of the boxes
and a flange projects outwards all around the circumference of the lid to overlap
and bear upon the top edge of the sides of the boxes as shewn so that no sideway
strain comes upon the screw stems and the scrow stems serve only to hold the lids
down on to the top of the boxes.

page_text: Having thus described the invention and the manner of performing the same I
would have it understood that I claim the construction of boxes or cases substantially
in the manner herein before described.
In witness whereof I the said Marinus Isack Verkouteren have hereunto set
my hand and seal this seventh day of October in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and eighty two.
M. L. VERKOUTEREN.
(L.S.)