AN IMPROVED METAL SPRING Box OR CASE FOR FUSEES, CIGARS, AND OTHER PURPOSES
Year: 1866

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Colen Hewer Cheshire, Manufacturing Silversmith,
of 63 & 64, Spencer Street, Birmingham, Warwickshire, for the Inven-
tion of "AN IMPROVED METAL SPRING Box OR CASE FOR FUSEES, CIGARS,
AND OTHER PURPOSES."
Sealed the 12th March 1867, and dated the 14th September 1866.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Colen Hewer Cheshire
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
14th September 1866.
I, COLEN HEWER CHESHIRE, Manufacturing Silversmith, of 63 & 64,
Spencer Street, Birmingham, Warwickshire, do hereby declare the nature of
the said Invention for "AN IMPROVED METAL SPRING Box OR CASE FOR FUSEES,
CIGARS, AND OTHER PURPOSES," to be as follows:-
My improved metal box or case consists of two parts, one sliding in the
other, having elastic springs in the interior on each side, one end of which is
fixed to the inner case and the other to the outer one on each side; the outer
case is open at one end to receive the inner case, which slides into it and has
an opening of about one half of its length at the top, to which a lid is
attached opening by a spring, so that when the inner case is drawn out the

page_text: lid flies open and by means of the spring is locked and prevented from running
back into the outer one, and is so constructed that when the lid is pressed
down the lock spring releases the inner case and it flies back into the outer
case, being drawn by the elastic spring on each side.
I do not confine myself to any particular form or size of box or case, or to
the use of a lid as it may be made without one, and I do not confine myself
to any class of metal, but have simply described what I consider most useful;
and what I particularly claim as my Invention is, the adoption of metal for
such purposes.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Colen Hewer Cheshire in the Great Seal Patent Office on
the 12th March 1867. ..
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, COLEN
HEWER CHESHIRE, Manufacturing Silversmith, of 63 and 64, Spencer Street,
Birmingham, Warwickshire, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Fourteenth day of September, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-six, in the thirtieth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me,
the said Colen Hewer Cheshire, Her special licence that I, the said Colen
Hewer Cheshire, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others
as I, the said Colen Hewer Cheshire, my executors, administrators, and
assigns, should at any time agree with, and no others, from time to time
and at all times thereafter during the term therein expressed, should and
lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend, within the United Kingdom
of Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Inven-
tion for "AN IMPROVED METAL SPRING Box OR CASE FOR FUSEES, CIGARS, AND
OTHER PURPOSES," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Colen
Hewer Cheshire, my executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing
under ny, or their, or one of their hands and seals, should particularly
describe and ascertain the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner
the same was to be performed, and cause the same to be filed in the Great
Seal Patent Office within six calendar months next and immediately after the
date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Colen Hower Cheshire, do hereby
declare the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is

page_text: to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement :-
My improved metal box or case consists of two parts, one sliding in the
other, having elastic springs in the interior on each side, one end of which is
fixed to the inner case and the other to the outer case; on each side the
outer case is open at one end to receive the inner case, which slides into it and
has an opening of about one-half of its length at the top to which a lid is
attached opening by a spring, so that when the inner case is drawn out the
lid flies open, and by means of the spring is locked and prevented from running
back into the outer one, and is so constructed that when the lid is pressed
down the lock spring releases the inner case and it flies back into the outer
case, being drawn by the elastic springs on each side.
I will now endeavour to explain my Invention more fully by the Drawings
annexed.
Figure 1 is the inner case showing without the lid springs A on each side
and spring on top marked B; Figure 2 showing the same with the lid
attached and springs A and B'; Figure 3 showing the outer case and hooks C,
by means of which the springs of the inner case are attached to the outer one;
Figure 4 showing the box when open and spring B; Figuro 5, box when closed
and finished.
I do not confine myself to fixing the springs in this particular way, as
they would also act fixed on the bottom or other parts, neither to any
particular form or size of box or case, or to any class of metal, but have simply
described what I consider most useful; and what I particularly claim as my
Invention is the adoption of metal for such purposes.
In witness whereof, I, the said Colen Hewer Cheshire, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Eleventh day of March, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven.
COLEN HEWER CHESHIRE. (L.B.)