Improvements connected with Boxes for Storage of Papers and for other purposes.
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 27th May, 1896
Complete Specification Left, 26th Feb., 1897-Accepted, 3rd Apr., 1897
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements connected with Boxes for Storage of Papers and for
other purposes.
I, WILHELM WILLIG of 15 Friesenstrasse Hannover in the Empire of
Germany Bookbinder do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
This invention relates to boxes used for storage purposes for instance for
holding papers, dry goods and other articles and suitable for general use in offices,
warehouses and the like more especially for stationers, drapers, milliners, haber-
dashers and other similar trades, and in insurance and other offices.
The advantages of the improvements lie principally in the ease with which the
boxes may be opened and closed without removing them or any other boxes or
articles above them.
One of the sides or ends of the boxes, which may be called the front of the
box is made in two parts, the lower part hinged along the bottom of the box,
the upper part along the top of the box. The other three sides with the top
and bottom of the box are preferably undivided and permanently fixed together.
The two parts of the front and fitted so as to be practically dust proof when
closed and the lower edge of the upper part is intended to slightly overlap the
upper edge of the lower part when closed. At each end of the upper part are
attached rings or fasteners for elastic bands or springs which are attached also
to other rings or fasteners so placed on the sides of the box that the springs
or bands tend to hold the upper part either closed when it has been folded
down, or open when it has been folded up.
Dated this 27th day of May 1896.
HERBERT HADDAN & Co.,
Agents to Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements connected with Boxes for Storage of Papers and for
other purposes.
I, WILHELM WILLIG, of 15 Friesenstrasse, Hanover in the Empire of
Germany, Bookbinder, 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 boxes used for storage purposes for instance for
holding papers, dry goods and other articles and suitable for general use in
offices, warehouses and the like more especially for stationers, drapers, milliners,
haberdashers and other similar trades and in insurance and other offices.
The advantages of the improvements lie principally in the ease with which
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page_text: the boxes may be opened and closed without removing them or any other boxes
or articles above them.
The annexed drawing shows a box of this description Fig. 1 being a side
elevation of the box closed, Fig. 2 a similar view of the box with end opened
and Fig. 3 a front end view of the box closed.
One of the sides or ends of the box, which may be called the front of the
box is made in two parts, the lower part A hinged along the bottom C of the
box, the upper part B along the top D' of the box. The other three sides E F G
with the top D and the bottom C of the box are preferably undivided and
permanently fixed together. The two parts A B of the front are fitted so as
to be practically dust proof when closed, and the lower edge of the upper
part B is intended to overlap the upper edge of the lower part A when closed.
At each end of the upper part are attached rings or fasteners H for elastic
bands or springs J which are attached also to other rings or fasteners K so
placed on the sides of the box that the springs or bands J tend to hold the
upper part B either closed when it has been folded down or open when it has
been folded up. L is a loose plate for covering the papers or goods in the box,
M is a loop of tape or the like serving as a handle to the plate L. N are pieces
of tape or the like either forming or covering the hinges.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is :-
A box having two flaps A & B hinged respectively to the bottom and top of
the box, of which the one flap is intended to overlap the other flap, the outer
flap having rings or other fasteners for attachment of elastic bands or other
springs attached also to the sides of the box in such position that they tend to
keep the outer flap either in its closed or in its open position substantially as
-set forth.
Dated this ech
HERBERT HADDAN & Co.,
18 Buckingham Street, Strand, London, Agents to Applicant.