Improvements in Boxes, More Especially Intended for Holding Vestas or other Small Articles.
Year: 1890

page_text: Date of Application, 9th Aug., 1890
Complete Specification Left, 11th May, 1891-Accepted, 13th June, 1891
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Boxes, More Especially Intended for Holding
Vestas or other Small Articles.
I JOHN DARLING of 64 Albert Road Crosshill Glasgow North Britain Engineer
do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
My invention has for its object to provide a simple and convenient box more
especially intended for holding vestas or other small articles the lid of which can
be opened with great readiness and when released automatically closes. According
to my invention the lid is made of a simple flap or piece hinged at one end to the
body of the box and having a rib or lip on the side of the hinge opposite that on
which the lid is situated. The end of the body of the box next to the said hinge
is made capable of sliding swinging or yielding so that when it is pressed inwards
a part of it attached to it bears on the rib or lip on the lid and presses the lid open.
A spring which may be of any suitable description such as for instance the spring
of the metal of the end itself or an elastic band attached at one end to the lid and
at the other end to some suitable relatively fixed point is distended when the lid is
opened as aforesaid and when the pressure on the end of the box is discontinued the
said spring automatically returns the lid to its closed position.
it
Although I have referred to the hinge and yielding part as being at the end yet
may be at one of the sides if preferred.
Dated this 9th day of August 1890.
J. H. JOHNSON & Co.,
47, Lincoln's Inn Fields, London, W.C., Agents.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION (AMENDED).
Improvements in Boxes, More Especially Intended for Holding
Vestas or other Small Articles.
I JOHN DARLING of 64 Albert Road, Crosshill, Glasgow, North Britain,
Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what manner the
same is to be performed to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement :-
This invention has for its object to provide a simple and convenient box made of
cardboard as hereinafter described and more especially intended for holding vestas or
other small articles the lid of which can be opened with great readiness and when
released automatically closes. According to this invention the lid is made of u
simple-flap or piece hinged to or made capable of turning as a hinge on the body of
the box and in some cases having a projection rib or lip on the inside neted on by a
movable end of the box so us to open and close the lid. The end of the body of the
box next to the said hinge is made capable of sliding swinging or yielding and may
be attached to or caused to net on the lid so that when the yielding end is pressed
inwards it presses the lid open. A spring which may be of any suitable description.
such as for instance the spring of the metal of the end itself or an elastic band

page_text: attached-at-one end to the lid and at the other end to some suitable relatively fixed
point is distended when the lid is-opened as aforesaid and when the pressure on the
end of the box is discontinued the said spring untomutically returns the lid to its
elosed position. Although we have referred to the hinge-and yielding part-as-being
at the end yet it may be at one of the sides if preferred.
And in in order that my invention may be well understood I will describe with
reference to the accompanying drawing a box made according thereto.
Figures 1 and 2 are sections at right angles to each other of a cardboard box
constructed according to my invention and shewing the lid of the box closed.
Figures 3 and 4 are corresponding views shewing the lid open and
Figure 5 shews a blank of which the box is formed.
Figures and illustrate n metal-box in its open-and-elosed positions.
Referring to Figures 1-to-A is the body of the box and B is the lid thereof
the cardboard being scored at c c² so as to constitute a hinge to permit of the lid
opening and closing. The end a of the body A at the back of the hinge c is made
capable of yielding on pressure being applied to it and when it is pressed inwards it
forces the lid into its open position shewn in Figures 3 and 4. A spring d (in this
case shewn as being an india rubber one) is attached at the end to the lid and
at the other end to the body A and is distended when the lid is opened. When
pressure upon the end a is discontinued the said spring returns the lid B to its
closed position.
The box is made from a single piece or blank shewn in Figure 5 the said blank
being scored at the required parts to permit of it being bent to form the angles of
the box, and the hinge for the lid-and when thus scored the ends 1 and 2 of the
blank are fastened together by paste or otherwise, and the sides 3, 4 bent up and
secured to the parts 5, 6 and to end 7 by the wings 8 & 9 after which the scoring
at 2 is cut through so as to form the lid B. If-the-box be made of metal us shewn
in Figures 6 and 7 the lid B is hinged at c-to-the body A and the end-a-which-is
pressed inwards-may be itself the spring which causes the lid to close: The-end-a
is connected by a link e to n lng or projection on the inside of the lid B so that
when the end-a-is-pressed in; the link forces the lid open and when the pressure-is
removed the return of the end a to its normal position will cause the link e to close
the lid.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is.
First A box having a hinged or equivalently arranged lid-a spring and u vielding
side-or-end-combined-and-operating substantially us hereinbefore described.
Second The box constructed as hereinbefore described and shewn in Figures 1
to 4 und Figures and of the accompanying drawings form a blank as shewn in
Figure 5.
J. H. JOHNSON & Co.,
Agents.