IMPROVE- MENTS IN AND ADDITIONS TO BOXES FOR CONTAINING METALLIC PENS AND, OTHER SMALL ARTICLES
Year: 1867

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Friedrich Leonardt at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 9th February
1867.
I, FRIEDRICH LEONARDT, of Birmingham, in the County of Warwick,
Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVE-
MENTS IN AND ADDITIONS TO BOXES FOR CONTAINING METALLIC PENS AND, OTHER
SMALL ARTICLES," to be as follows:-
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"My Invention has for its object to provide boxes for containing metallic pens
and other small articles, with the means for holding and readily obtaining
access to a pattern or sample of the pens or articles .contained in the box, so
as to avoid the necessity for opening the lid of the box itself.
My said Invention consists of the improvements in and additions to boxes
herein-after described, whereby the pattern or sample pen or article is either
contained within the box itself, or is fixed on the outside of the box.
I will describe my Invention as applied to boxes for holding metallic pens.
When the pattern or sample pen is to be contained within the box, I fix or
make across one end of the box and at the bottom thereof a small chamber of
a size proper to receive the pattern pen. This chamber may either be made
of a rectangular tube or of a partition or diaphragm glued or otherwise fixed to
the box. The said small chamber is open at the side of the box, through which
open end the pattern pen may be introduced or withdrawn for examination,
The open end of the chamber is closed so as to retain the pattern pen in the
chamber either by a flexible or hinged flap, or by a slide working in the side
of the box; or instead of placing the pattern pen loose in the chamber of the

page_text: box it may be fixed to a metal plate nearly of the breadth of the chamber.
The said plate is provided with clips by which the pattern pen is secured to
the plate, and one of its ends is turned up at right angles to the other part.
The turned up end described closes the open end of the chamber and forms
the thumb plate, by grasping which the pattern pen can be withdrawn from
the chamber of the box. The plate carrying the pattern pen may be attached
by an india-rubber band to the inside of the chamber, so that on loosing the
pattern pen after examination it is returned by the elasticity of the said band
to its place in the chamber; or the chamber described may contain a drawer
capable of sliding into and out of the chamber, in which drawer the pattern
pen is placed. When the pattern or sample pen is to be fixed outside the box I
employ a clip constructed and fastened to the box in the following manner :-
The said clip consists of a plate of metal at the back of which is an eye or
loop; the free ends of the plate are bent nearly into a plane parallel with the
plate, and constitute clips in which the pen is held. The clip is fastened to
the box by passing the loop or eye at the back through an opening in the box
to the inside thereof, a pin is then put into the loop or eye so as to fasten the
clip securely to the outside of the box; instead of one of the said clips two or
more may be fixed on each box.
My Invention may be applied to metallic boxes as well as to boxes made of
paper and other material.