IMPROVEMENTS IN MANUFACTURING BOXES OR CASES, AND IN THE MACHINERY OR APPARATUS EMPLOYED THEREIN."
Year: 1862

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to William Bryer Nation, Analytical Chemist, of
Bagley Works, Battersea, in the County of Surrey, for the Invention
of "IMPROVEMENTS IN MANUFACTURING BOXES OR CASES, AND IN THE
MACHINERY OR APPARATUS EMPLOYED THEREIN."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said William Bryer Nation
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
28th March 1862.
I, WILLIAM BRYER NATION, Analytical Chemist, of Bagley Works, Battersea,
in the County of Surrey, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention
for "IMPROVEMENTS IN MANUFACTURING BOXES OR CASES, AND IN THE MACHINERY OR
APPARATUS EMPLOYED THEREIN," to be as follows:-
This Invention relates to improved modes of manufacturing boxes or cases
by hand or power. I employ a block or maundril of wood, having its transverse
section of the same shape as the external casing of the boxes or cases required
to be made. The said block or maundril is covered with one or more layers.
of paper, strengthened by means of gelatine, mixed in about equal pro-
portions with carbonate or salts of lime, aluminous or silicious substances;
or I use silicates of potash, or other alkalis, without the aid of gelatine, which
substances are colored in any desired manner. The covered blooks are now

page_text: passed through a drying chamber by means of endless bands or chains, and
when the material is sufficiently dried it is removed from the wood and cut
into the proper lengths by a circular saw, which operation completes the
exterior of the box or case. For forming the interior of the box or case I
employ another block or maundril, and cover it with one or more layers of
paper, strengthened as before described. The said block or maundril is of
such dimensions that when the material is divided longitudinally into two
parts, each of the parts may pass in the inside of the external casing, and
when the said internal part has end pieces fixed to it, the box or case is
complete, with the exception of ornamentation, which may be applied in any
desired manner.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said William Bryer Nation in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 25th September 1862.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, WILLIAM
BRYER NATION, Analytical Chemist, of Bagley Works, Battersea, in the
County of Surrey, send greeting..
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-eighth day of March, 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 me, the said
William Bryer Nation, Her special licence that I, the said William Bryer
Nation, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the
said William Bryer Nation, 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 Invention for "IMPROVE-
MENTS IN MANUFACTURING BOXES OR CASES, AND IN THE MACHINERY OR APPARATUS
EMPLOYED THEREIN," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said
William Bryer Nation, my executors' or administrators, by an instrument in
writing under my, or their, or one of their hands and seals, should 'par-
ticularly 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.

page_text: NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said William Bryer Nation, do hereby
declare the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is
to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement (that is to say):
This Invention relates to improved modes of manufacturing boxes or cases
by hand or power. I employ a block or maundril of wood, having its transverse
section of the same shape as the external casing of the boxes or cases required
to be made. The said block or maundril is covered with one or more layers
of paper, strengthened by means of gelatine, mixed in about equal proportions
with carbonate or salts of lime, aluminous or silicious substances; or I use
silicates of potash or other alkalis without the aid of gelatine, which sub-
stances are colored in any desired manner. The covered blocks are now
passed through a drying chamber by means of endless bands or chains, and
when the material is sufficiently dried it is removed from the wood and cut
into the proper lengths by a circular saw, which operation completes the
exterior of the box or case. For forming the interior of the box or case I
employ another block or maundril, and cover it with one or more layers of
paper, strengthened as before described. The said block or maundril is
of such dimensions that when the material is divided longitudinally into two
parts, each of the parts may pass in the inside of the external casing, and
when the said internal part has end pieces fixed to it, the box or case is
complete, with the exception of ornamentation, which may be applied in any
desired manner.
Having now described the nature and particulars of my said Invention, I
claim, the improvements in manufacturing boxes or cases, as herein described
in the accompanying Specification.
In witness whereof, I, the said William Bryer Nation, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Twenty-second day of September, One
thousand eight hundred and sixty-two.
Witness,
E. T. HUGHES, Patent Agent,
123, Chancery Lane, London.
W. B. NATION. (L.S.)