Improvements in Means for Securing Lids of Boxes and the like.
Year: 1896

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Means for Securing Lids of Boxes and the like.
I ALFRED WILLIAMSON of Waterloo House Redruth, in the County of Cornwall,
Draper do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
My invention has for its object to provide means whereby the lids of boxes and
the like can be secured so that they will not accidentally become unfastened. I will
refer to the article to which my invention is applied as a box. To, or in, the side of
the box is secured a screw-nut, in which a screw. works, the said screw being provided
with a bead, or other means for turning it, and being also provided with a button, or
cross-piece, which can turn thereon beneath the head. The upper part of the screw
and the button, or cross-piece, pass through an opening, or slot, in the lid of the box
when the lid is closed. The lid is secured by turning the button, or cross-piece, so
that it crosses, or does not coincide with, the said opening or slot there being
preferably formed in the outer side of the lid a groove, or recess, which is at an angle
with the opening, or slot, through the lid, and receives the button when it is turned.
into its fastening position. The screw is then screwed into the screw-nut and the
button, or cross-piece, cannot become accidentally unfastened. To unfasten the lid
the screw is unscrewed when the button, or cross-piece, can be turned so as to
coincide with the opening, or slot, in the lid, and the lid can then be raised. The
box may be provided with a projecting piece which enters the opening, or slot, in the
lid, and supports the button, or cross-piece to prevent its dropping too low to be
readily grasped for turning. The serew has preferably a flange, or projection, to
prevent its being wholly removed and detached from the box. The opening, or slot,
and groove in the lid and the part on which the button rests, and turns, may be
provided with metal surfaces if necessary.
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JOHNSONS & WILLCOX,
47 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London, W.C., Agents.
I, Alfred WILLIAMSON of Waterloo House, Redruth, in the County of Cornwall,
Draper, 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 has for its object to provide means whereby the lids of boxes and the
like can be secured so that they will not accidentally become unfastened. I will refer
to the article to which my invention is applied as a box. To, or in, the side of the
box is secured a screw-nut, in which a screw works, the said screw being provided
with a head, or other means for turning it, and being also provided with a button, or
cross-piece, which can turn thereon beneath the head. The upper part of the screw

page_text: and the button, or cross-piece, pass through an opening, or slot, in the lid of the box
when the lid is closed. The lid is secured by turning the button, or cross-piece, so
that it crosses, or does not coincide with, the said opening or slot, there being
preferably formed in the outer side of the lid a groove, or recess, which is at an
angle with the opening, or slot, through the lid, and receives the button when it is
turned into its fastening position. The screw is then screwed into the nut and the
button, or cross-piece, cannot become accidentally unfastened. To unfasten the lid
the screw is unscrewed when the button, or cross-piece, qan be turned so as to
coincide with the opening, or slot in the lid, and the lid can then be raised. The box
may be provided with a projecting piece which enters the opening, or slot, in the lid,
and supports the button, or cross-piece, to prevent its dropping too low to be readily
grasped for turning. The screw has preferably a flange, or projection, to prevent its
being wholly removed and detached from the box. The opening, or slot, and groove
in the lid and the part on which the button rests and turns, may be provided with
metal surfaces if necessary.
And in order that my said invention may be fully understood I shall now proceed
more particularly to describe the same and for that purpose shall refer to the several
figures on the annexed sheet of drawings the same letters of reference indicating
corresponding parts in all the figures.
Figure 1 is a vertical section of a box fastener constructed according to my
invention the parts being shewn in their unfastened position,
Figure 2 is a similar view shewing the parts in their fastened position.
Figures 3 and 4 are plans corresponding respectively to Figures 1 and 2.
Figure 5 is an elevation of a modified construction of fastener and Figure 6, a plan
of the same, in which latter figure the full lines shew the parts in the unfastened
position and the dotted lines shew them in the fastened position.
Referring to Figures 1 to 4 A is a metal nut which may be morticed in the front or
side a of the box and secured by screws b. Fitted to work in the nut A is a screw B.
having a head c by which the said screw can be turned and beneath the head c is a
button C capable of turning on the upper part of the screw and prevented from
sliding longitudinally on the screw by a collar or flauge a². In the box lid, or
cover d is a slot or opening D through which when the said lid or cover is being
closed, the screw head c and the button C can pass. When the lid is closed the button
will project above the outer surface of the lid and can be turned into the position
shewn in Figures 2 and 4 that is so as to cross the slot or opening D in the lid after
which by turning the screw B in the nut A the button C can be forced into tight
contact with the lid, in the outer surface of which there is preferably provided a
recess e into which the button can be forced and thereby prevent its accidental
displacement. The slot or opening D and the surface on which the button C presses
are preferably protected from wear by a plate f screwed to the lid or cover d and
having the slot D and recess e formed therein. To prevent the screw from being
detached from the nut A the lower end of the screw may be provided with a shoulder g,
or its equivalent which will not pass through the nut.
Instead of providing in the side or end of the box a nut as herein before described
for the screw B to work in, the said screw may be screwed into the side. or end of the
box. as shewn in Figure 5, and the button C be provided with an internal screw-thread
so that by turning it on the screw the button may be caused to press tightly against
the lid to hold it in position. The button C in this case is preferably made with
tapered or inclined ends as shewn in Figures 5 and 6 and a plate f having a slot or
opening D therein as shewn in Figure 6 is preferably provided on the lid to receive
the pressure of the button. To unfasten the lid or cover in the arrangement illustrated
in Figures 1 to 4, it is simply necessary to turn the screw B until the button C can be
raised from the recess e so that it can be turned into position to correspond to the slot
or opening D in the lid to admit of the said lid being raised. In the arrangement
illustrated by Figures 5 and 6 it is simply necessary to impart to the button a motion
of partial rotation on the screw so that it will correspond to the slot or opening D in
the lid to permit of the lid being raised.

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this invention
and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
1. In means for securing lids of boxes and the like the combination of a screw
screwing into the side of the box or the like or into a nut fixed to the box or the like,.
a button carried by and capable of turning on the screw, a slot or opening in the lid
of the box or the like through which slot or opening the button can pass and be then:
turned so as to cross the slot or opening and be fixed in this position, substantially as.
hereinbefore described.
2. In means for securing lids of boxes and the like the combination of a screw
screwing into the side of the box or the like or into a nut fixed to the box or the like.
a button capable of turning on the screw, a slot or opening in the lid of the box or the
like through which the button can pass and then be turned so as to cross the slot or
opening, a recess in the outer surface of the lid into which the button can enter and
be prevented by the screw from being displaced, substantially as and for the purpose-
hereinbefore described.
3. In means for securing lids of boxes and the like the combination of a screw
screwing into the side of the box or the like or into a nut fixed thereto, a button.
having a screw thread corresponding to, and carried by the screw, a slot or opening
in the lid of the box or the like through which the button can pass when the lid is
being closed and then be turned so as to cross the slot or opening and so retain the-
lid in its closed position substantially as hereinbefore described.
4. The combination and arrangement of parts constituting the means for preventing
the accidental opening of the lids of boxes and the like, substantially as hereinbefore.
described with reference to Figures 1 to 4 of the accompanying drawings.
5. The combination and arrangement of parts constituting the means for securing
the lids of boxes and the like, substantially as herein before described and illustrated
by Figures 5 and 6 of the accompanying drawings.
Dated this 5th day of Me 1897
JOHNSONS & WILLCOX,
47 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London, W.C., Agents...