AN IMPROVED METHOD OF STRENGTHENING THE LIDS, OR COVERS OF METALLIC TRAVELLING TRUNKS, BOXES, BATHS, AND FLOUR BINS
Year: 1884

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DIBUITICATION.
I, ABRAHAM UTTLEY of Hebden Bridge in the County of York, Iron, and Tin
Plate Worker, do hereby declare the nature of my Invention for AN IMPROVED
METHOD OF STRENGTHENING THE LIDS, OR COVERS OF METALLIC TRAVELLING
TRUNKS, BOXES, BATHS, AND FLOUR BINS to be as follows:-
"
My invention has for its object a new means or method of strengthening lids or
covers of metallic travelling trunks, and consists in rivetting a bollow metal block
or stretcher to the underside of the lids or covers of such trunks, and in inserting
within such hollow block-or stretcher a piece of wood card board, metal, or other
suitable resisting material, so.as to strengthen the lid, and prevent its being easily
crushed in or bulged.
By this means, metallic travelling trunks will be better able to resist rough usage,
and will not be so easily damaged, as those made without the combined metal aud
wood stretcher.
TASKER & CROSSLEY,
Patent Agents, Halifax,
Agents for the Applicant.

page_text: I, ABRAHAM UTTLEY, of Hebden Bridge, in the County of York, Iron and Tin-
plate Worker, do hereby declare the nature of my invention for "AN IMPROVED
METHOD OF STRENGTHENING THE LIDS OR COVERS OF METALLIC TRAVELLING
TRUNKS, BOXES, BATHS, AND FLOUR BINS," and in what manner the same is to
be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement:
My invention has for its object a new means or method of strengthening the lids
or covers of metallic travelling trunks, boxes, baths, and flour or corn bins; and
consists in rivetting a hollow metal block or stretcher to the underside of the lids
or covers of such trunks, boxes, baths, and bins, and in inserting within such
hollow block or stretcher a piece of wood, cardboard, metal, or any other suitable
resisting material so as to strengthen the lids, make them firm and rigid, and
prevent their being easily crushed in or bulged.
In order that my invention may be fully understood I herein give reference to
the accompanying sheet of drawings wherein Fig 1 is sectional elevation of a
metallic trunk shewing the application of my improvements, where A is a wood
lath placed on the underside of the lid B, and kept in its place by a stretcher or
angular shaped trough C, which said trough is secured to the lid by rivets as shewn
on the drawings. Fig 2 is sectional elevation of a bath having on the underside
thereof the wood lath and trough as previously explained.
The lath and trough are shewn in detail Figs 3 and 4.
By this means metallic travelling trunks, boxes, baths and bins will be better able
to resist rough usage, and will not be so easily damaged as those made without this
combination stretcher or block.
Although I have shewn and described the application of my improvements to the
lids of trunks, it must be understood that the lath and trough can with equal
advantage be applied to the sides and bottom of boxes.
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,
The application of a lath A and trough C to the lids or other parts of trunks
and boxes for strengthening same in manner substantially as herein described.
Dated this 27th day of September 1884