Improvement in Travelling Boxes and Trunks.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 12th Oct., 1895
Complete Specification Left, 8th July, 1896-Accepted, 22nd Aug., 1896
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvement in Travelling Boxes and Trunks.
AMY MANDER FENWICK Widow, Ivy Cottage Boxmoor Herts do hereby
declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention is intended to obviate the damage occurring to articles of dress
when packed for travelling arising from their being crushed or squeezed by others
placed above them or by the box or trunk being inverted during transit. To
attain this object a suitably shaped guide or guides are fitted into the box or trunk
serving to guide flat partitions or shelves which by means of suitable clamping
nrrangements acting on the guide or guides can be fastened at any desired position
so as to prevent the weight of articles placed on the partition or shelf being
transmitted to other articles below or above the same.
The guide or guides can be arranged to form part of the framework of the box
or trunk.
Dated this 2nd day of November 1805
Improvement in Travelling Boxes and Trunks.
I, AMY MANDER FENWICK, of 66 Victoria Street, Westminster, in the County
of Middlesex, formerly of Ivy Cottage, Boxmoor, in the County of Hertford,
Widow, 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 :-
The object of this invention is to provide means whereby travelling boxes and
trunks can be quickly fitted with horizontal partitions, shelves, or trays which can
be adjusted in height as and when required so that the apparel or other articles
packed in the boxes or trunks will be securely held therein and prevented from
shifting about and becoming crushed or squeezed during transit.
The invention comprises a number of partitions, trays or shelves and a number
of uprights or standards which are secured in any suitable manner to the interior
of the box or trunk either to the sides or ends thereof or to sides and ends. These
uprights are each provided with a number of pegholes arranged in line one above
the other and each upright is fitted with one or more pegs fitting the holes and
which when placed therein form rests for the partitions, shelves or trays.
For an ordinary sized travelling trunk, I find four uprights, two fitted to each
side, each having four pegs, and two partitions, shelves or trays, to be a convenient
fitting. In Fig. 1 of the accompanying drawings, I have shewn in perspective a
travelling trunk fitted in this way; Fig. 2 shews a transverse vertical section
of same.
The uprights or standards A are screwed or otherwise suitably secured to the
interior of the trunk B and in corresponding positions on opposite sides thereof as
shewn. The bottom of the trunk is packed to the desired height, then the four
lower pegs a are fitted into pegholes of corresponding height in the four uprights A

page_text: and the lower shelf C is placed thereon. The upper pegs bare then fitted into the
next pegholes and the shelf C is thus held in position and prevented from moving
up or down. The upper shelf D is similarly adjusted at the height desired.
In place of the pegs and pegholes any other suitable arrangement may be
provided for adjustaldy holding the shelves in position. The uprights or
standards A may also if desired form part of the framework of the box or trunk.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is;-
A travelling trunk or box furnished with uprights or standards and shelves,
trays or partitions adjustably secured on or to said uprights or standards substan-
tially as described and illustrated in the accompanying drawing and for the
purpose stated.
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F. W. GOLBY,
36 Chancery Lane, London, W.C., Patent Agent for the Applicant.