IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF TYPE CASES, WORK BOXES, COLOR BOXES, AND OTHER ARTICLES IN WHICH COMPARTMENTS ARE USED.
Year: 1868

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Richard Mason Wood, of Shakespeare Road,
Stoke Newington, in the County of Middlesex, Type-founder,
for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF TYPE
CASES, WORK BOXES, COLOR BOXES, AND OTHER ARTICLES IN WHICH
COMPARTMENTS ARE USED.'
"
Scaled the 13th April 1869, and dated the 15th October 1868.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Richard Mason Wood
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition,
on the 15th October 1868.
I, RICHARD MASON WOOD, of Shakespeare Road, Stoke Newington,
in the County of Middlesex, Type-founder, do hereby declare the
nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF
TYPE CASES, WORK BOXES, COLOR BOXES, AND OTHER ARTICLES IN WHICH
COMPARTMENTS ARE USED," to be as follows:-
יד
Hitherto in manufacturing printers' or compositors' cases or type cases
the partitions for forming the same have been made with joints and
seams, as, for instance, by sawing or cutting strips of wood and

page_text: dovetailing, morticing, or. rabbeting the same, and attaching them by
nails, glue, or otherwise, whereby the necessary compartments have
been made. These partitions start or become warped, the compartments
become destroyed, and the article in which these compartments are used
hence after a time becomes useless for its required purpose.
Now my Invention has for object to construct type cases, work boxes,
and other articles in which compartments are used in such manner as
to facilitate the manufacture, economise the cost thereof, and prevent
the inconveniences and evils above referred to.
My Invention consists in constructing type cases and other articles
by making the partitions (which form the compartments) in one piece
without joints, scams, or attachments, that is to say, I take a slab or
block of wood of the desired length and breadth, and of a thickness
suitable for obtaining the desired depth of compartments, and having
traced thereon the position, form, or outline of such compartments or
having traced the same on a pattern of paper or other material laid
thereon, I proceed by means of a fret saw or other cutting contrivance
to cut away square, cubical, or otherwise shaped portions of the block
or slab of wood corresponding with and forming the required cavities,
recesses, openings, or compartments, leaving necessary portions of the
wood to form the sides, boundaries, or partitions of the said compart-
ments. A bottom piece or foundation may be added by screws or
otherwise to form the bottom of the said compartments.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Richard Mason Wood in the Great Scal Patent
Office on the 15th April 1869.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, RICHARD
MASON WOOD, of Shakespeare Road, Stoke Newington, in the County
of Middlesex, Type-founder, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Fifteenth day of October, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight, in the
thirty-second year of Her reign, did, for Herself,. Her heirs and suc-
cessors, give and grant unto me, the said Richard Mason Wood, Her

page_text: special licenco that I, the said Richard Mason Wood, my executors,.
administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Richard
Mason Wood, 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 In-
vention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF TYPE CASES, WORK BOXES,.
COLOUR BOXES, AND OTHER ARTICLES IN WHICH COMPARTMENTS ARE USED," upon
the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Richard Mason Wood,
my executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing. under my,.
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
samic 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 Richard Mason Wood, 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 thereof, reference being had to the
accompanying Drawings, and to the letters and figures marked thereon,
that is to say-
Hitherto in manufacturing printers' or compositors' cases or type cases
the partitions for forming the same have been made with joints and
seams, as for instance, by sawing or cutting strips of wood, and
dovetailing, morticing, or rabbeting the same, and attaching them by
nails, gluc, or otherwise, whereby the necessary compartments have
been made. These partitions start or become warped, the compartments
become destroyed, and the article in which these compartments are used
hence after a time becomes useless for its required purpose..
Now my Invention has for object to construct type cases, work boxes,
and other articles in which compartments are used, in such manner
as to facilitate the manufacture, economise the cost thereof, and prevent
the inconvenience and evils above referred to.
My Invention consists in constructing type cases, work boxes, and
other articles having compartments by making the partitions which
form the compartments in one piece without joints, scams, or attach-
ments, that is to say, I take a slab or block of wood of the desired

page_text: length and breadth, and of a thickness suitable for obtaining the desired
depth of the compartments, and having traced thereon the position, form,
or outline of such compartments, or having traced the same on a pattern
of paper or other material laid thereon, I proceed by means of a fret
or other cutting contrivance to cut away square, cubical, or
otherwise shaped portions of the block or slab of wood corresponding
with and leaving the required cavities, recesses, or openings to form
the compartments, and I leave necessary portions of the wood to form
the sides, boundaries, or partitions of the said compartments. A bottom
picce or foundation may be added and attached by screws or otherwise
to form the bottom of the said compartments.

page_text: boxes, and other articles in which compartments are used, the con-
struction of the partitions which form the compartments in one piece,
substantially in the manner herein-before described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Richard Mason Wood, have here-
unto set my hand and scal, this Fourteenth day of April, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-nine.
Witness,
E. DE PASS,
68, Fleet Street,
London.
RICHARD MASON WOOD. (L.S.)