IMPROVEMENTS IN ARREFOLDED TO OILED CASES AND BOYS DRESSING CASES, APPLICAN ARRYCARE O MED CASES AND BOXES
Year: 1862

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to George Betjemann, George William Betjemann, and
John Betjemann, of Pentonville, in the County of Middlesex, Desk and
Dressing Case Manufacturers, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN
ARREFOLDED TO OILED CASES AND BOYS
DRESSING CASES, APPLICAN
ARRYCARE O MED CASES AND BOXES
Sealed.the 4th July 1862, and dated the 6th January 1862.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said George Betjemann, George
William Betjemann, and John Betjemann at the Office of the Commis-
sioners of Patents, with their Petition, on the 6th January 1862.
We, GEORGE BETJEMANN, GEORGE WILLIAM BETJEMANN, and JOHN BETJE-
MANN, of Pentonville, in the County of Middlesex, Desk and Dressing Case
Manufacturers, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "IM-
PROVEMENTS IN DRESSING CASES, APPLICABLE TO. OTHER CASES AND BOXES," to
be as follows:-
Our Invention consists in an arrangement of quadrants, levers, and con-
necting rods, as hereafter explained, for the purpose of opening or letting down
a front flap, and of opening out one side tray at one or both sides of the
dressing case upon the raising of the top or lid. thereof. The action may be
applied to both flap and side tray or side trays, or to either separately.
We will suppose our Invention applied to a dressing case fitted with a front
flap to let down, and with two small trays hinged one at each side to the upper
part and sides of the dressing case, then at each side the following is the

page_text: arrangement which we adopt :--To the lid we connect a quadrant, carry out
an arm from the lower part thereof, and by means of a bar connect it to a
double crank or 1 lever centered on a stud fixed in the side of the case; the
upper arm of this lever enters an eye projecting from a metal plate fixed on
the side and near the back of the tray. The lower arm of the double crank
lever is connected by another connecting rod to one arm of another lever
centered on a stud fixed in the side of the case, the opposite end of which
lever is united by a link to the upper end of a quadrant, the lower end of
which is fixed to the side of the front flap near the bottom thereof. If one
or both side trays only be required to be moved outwards, the connecting rod
and other parts of the flap are dispensed with; and in like manner if the flap
only is to be let down, then those parts for working the side tray or trays are
dispensed with. The parts are so connected that upon raising the lid the flap
is let down, and the side tray or trays is or are simultaneously opened out,
while on the closing of the lid the flap is folded up, and the side tray or trays
is or are also folded inwards, and the whole dressing case thus shut.
Although we have described our Invention as carried into effect by an
arrangement of quadrants, levers, and connecting rods, yet in some cases we
perform it by means of teeth on the quadrant racks and toothed wheels,
though we prefer the lever and connecting rod arrangement first described.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said George Betjemann, George William Betjemann, and John
Betjemann in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 5th July 1862.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, GEORGE
BETJEMANN, GEORGE WILLIAM BETJEMANN, and JOHN BETJEMANN, of Penton-
ville, in the County of Middlesex, Desk and Dressing Case Manufacturers,
send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Sixth day of January, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-two, in the twenty-fifth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto us,
the said George Betjemann, George William Betjemann, and John Betje-
mann, Her special licence that we, the said George Betjemann, George
William Betjemann, and John Betjemann, our executors, administrators, and
assigns, or such others as we, the said George Betjemann, George William

page_text: Betjemann, and John Betjemann, our 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 Invention for "IM-
PROVEMENTS IN DRESSING CASES, APPLICABLE TO OTHER CASES AND BOXES," upon
the condition (amongst others) that we, the said George Betjemann, George
William Betjemann, and John Betjemann, or one of us, our executors or
administrators, by an instrument in writing under our, or their, or one of our
or 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 we, the said George Betjemann, George William
Betjemann, and John Betjemann, do hereby declare the nature of our said
Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly
described and ascertained in and by the following statement thereof, reference
being had to the Drawings hereunto annexed, that is to say:-
Our Invention consists in an arrangement of quadrants, levers, and con-
necting rods, as hereafter explained, for the purpose of opening or letting down
a front flap, and of opening out one side tray at one or both sides of the
dressing case upon the raising of the top or lid thereof. The action may be
applied to both flap and side tray or side trays, or to either separately.
We will suppose our Invention applied to a dressing case fitted with a front
flat to let down, and with two small trays hinged one at each side to the
upper part and sides of the dressing case, then at each side the arrangement
shewn at Figure 1 of the accompanying Drawings is that which we adopt.
To the lid a we connect a quadrant b, carry out an arm c from the lower part
thereof, and by means of a bar d connect it to a double crank or 1 lever e
centred on a stud f fixed in the side of the case; the upper arm of this lever
enters an eye g projecting from a metal plate fixed to or inserted in the under
side of the tray h, or on the side and near the back thereof. The lower arm
of the double crank lever e is connected by another connecting rod i to one
arm of another lever k centred on a stud fixed in the side of the case, the
opposite end of which lever is united by a link m to the upper end of a
quadrant n, the lower end of which is fixed to the side of the front flap o near
the bottom thereof. If one or both side trays only be required to be moved
towards the connecting rod, and other parts of the flap are dispensed with, and

page_text: in like manner if the flap only is to be let down, then those parts for working
the side tray or trays are dispensed with. The parts are so connected that
upon raising the lid the flap is let down, and the side tray or trays is or are
simultaneously opened out into the position shewn by Figure 2, which is a
plan view of the case, while on the closing of the lid the flap is folded up and
the side tray or trays is or are also folded inwards, and the whole dressing case
thus shut, when the levers, quadrants, and other parts assume the position
shown in Figure 3.
Instead of the levers being connected to the side of the case directly as
herein-before mentioned, they may be attached to a metal plate or plates fixed
on the sides of the case.
And having now described the nature of our said Invention and in what
manner the same is to be performed, we declare that we claim as our
improvements in dressing cases, applicable to other cases and boxes, the
arrangement of quadrants, levers, and connecting rods, substantially in manner
and for the purposes herein-before described and illustrated in the accom-
panying Drawings.
In witness whereof, I, the said George Betjemann, for myself and on
behalf of the said George William Betjemann and John Betjemann,
have hereunto set my hand and seal, this Fourth day of July One
thousand eight hundred and sixty-two.