Improvements in Boxes or Receptacles for Pulverulent and Granular Materials.
Year: 1897

page_text: Date of Application, 12th Oct., 1897-Accepted, 13th Nov., 1897
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Boxes or Receptacles for Pulverulent and Granular
Materials.
I, JAMES YATE JOHNSON, of 47 Lincoln's Inn Fields in the County of London
Gentleman, do hereby declare the nature of this Invention (which has been com-
municated to me from abroad by Ralph Walsh, of Washington, District of
Columbia, United States of America, Doctor of Medicine), and in what manner
the same is to be performed to be particularly described and ascertained in and
by the following statement:-
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The object of this Invention is to provide a box with simple and ellicient means
by which a portion of its contents can be separated from the remainder and held
in the upper part of the box in a position where it is readily accessible.
According to this invention a shelf, tray or diaphragm is provided at the upper
part of the interior of the box which shelf tray or diaphragm fits closely three
sides of the box, a slot or opening intervening between its remaining edge and the
fourth side of the box.
The shelf tray or diaphragm, when the box is used to hold tooth powder for
example is preferably shaped so as to conform to the general shape of the bristle
face of the tooth brush for example it is bowed lengthwise with the convex side
presented upwards as a toothbrush is usually concave lengthwise.
The box has a cover of any suitable kind which can be removed or turned aside.
It is preferred to use a hinged cover, the hinge being on the side of the box against
which the longer side of the shelf tray, or diaphragm fits; and the hinge is pro
vided with a guard, or shield, by which the powder is kept from the joint; which
affords also a path for the powder from the cover to the shelf, or vice versa, when
the box is open, and which when the box is closed, forms a shield which prevents
powder from escaping from the box through the hinge joint.
In the accompanying drawing, to which I refer for a more complete under-
standing of this invention Figure 1 is a perspective view of a box embodying this
invention in its preferred form the cover of the box being shewn turned back-
Figures 2, 3 and 4 are cross sections of the box illustrating the manner in which
it is manipulated in order to bring a portion of its contents on to the shelf tray or
diaphragm.
The box A may be of any suitable size, shape and material. It is illustrated as
being rectangular in cross section.
It is closed by a lid or cover B. which may be hinged as shewn, or can be other
wise applied so as to be removable or capable of being turned back.
Within the box, and a short distance below its top, is the shelf tray or dia-
phragm C. which fits closely three sides of the box, but is of such dimensions as to
leave between its fourth side and the adjacent side of the box a longitudinal slot,
or opening, a for the passage of the pulverulent, or granular, contents of the box.
The shelf tray or diaphragm can be either fixed, or removeable, and may be of
any suitable description and material. It is illustrated as being a simple, plain
strip of metal soldered to three sides of the box.

page_text: It is preferred when the box is used for holding tooth powder, to how the shelf
tray or diaphragm lengthwise and fit it in the box with the convex side presented
upwards, as this enables the user to conveniently take up, with a tooth brush, the
powder which is supported upon the said shelf tray, or diaphragm.
When the cover is hinged it is preferred to provide a shield, or guard, which is
shewn as consisting of a plate attached at one edge to the cover, and curved so
as to extend over, and partially, around the hinge, for the purposes hereinbefore
mentioned.
The manner of manipulating this box will be readily understood by reference
to Figures 2, 3 and 4.
The box in its usual position is shewn in Figure 2. When it is desired to
deposit a portion of its contents upon the shelf tray or diaphragm C the box is
turmal over, the movement being in the direction of the arrow in Figure 2. When
it is turned far enough over to be bottom side up, as in Figure 3, some of the con-
dents will have passed through the slot, or opening, a so as to enter the space
between the shelf tray or diaphragm and the box fill. Then as the movement is
continued in the direction of the arrow Figure 3 until the box is again top upper-
most, as in Figure 4, all of the material will pass back into the box below the shelf
tray or diaphragm save such as is caught, and held by the said shelf, tray or dia-
phragm as indicated in Figure 4. By then lifting the cover B access ean he had
without difficulty to the portion of material thus held.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed. I declare that what I
claim is:
1. A box, or receptacle, provided with a lid, or cover, and containing, near its
top, a shelf tray or diaphragm, distinct, and separate from the lid, or cover, fitting
closely three sides of the box and bounded along its fourth edge by a slot, or open-
ing, a substantially as, and for the purpose hereinbefore described.
2. A Box or receptacle, provided with a lid, or cover, and containing, near its
top, a shelf, try or diaphragm, distinct and separate from the lid or cover, and
bowed in the direction of its length, with the convex side uppermost and closely
litting three sides of the box, and bounded along its fourth edge by a slot, or open-
ing, a substantially as, and for the purpose hereinbefore described.
3. A Box, or receptacle provided with a lid, or cover, and containing near its
top a shelf tray or diaphragm, distinct and separate from the lid or cover, the said
shelf, tray, or diaphragm, fitting closely three sides of the box, and being bounded
along its fourth edge by a slot, or opening, a, the lid or cover being hinged to that.
side of the box opposite to the side on which the slot is situated, and being pro-
vided with a hinge guard, or shield b, attached to, and moving with, the lid or
cover, substantially as, and for the purpose herein before described.
Dated this 12th day of October 1897
JOHNSONS & WILLCOX.
47, Lincoln's Inn Fields, London, W.C., Agents.