and Marmalade Dishes and other similar Articles.
Year: 1886

page_text: and Marmalade Dishes, and other similar Articles.
We ERNEST THOMAS WOOLLEY & HOWARD FRANK WOOLLEY (trading as Thomas
Woolley) of 18 Caroline St. Birmingham in the County of Warwick Electro Plate
Manufacturers do hereby declare the nature of our invention for IMPROVEMENT IN
RAISING THE COVERS OF BISCUIT BOXES, BUTTER & MARMALADE DISHES & OTHER
SIMILAR ARTICLES to be as follows:-
We take a Biscuit Box or other article with hinged cover & jointed swing handle
over the top, the handle being jointed at each side of the article so as to swing
backwards. We then by means of a metal scroll with loose joint at each end,
connect the top of the handle with the front of the cover, so that upon moving the
handle backwards, it raises the cover, the cover being again lowered by moving the
handle forward to its former position.
ERNEST THOMAS WOOLLEY.
HOWARD FRANK WOOLLEY.

page_text: and Marmalade Dishes, and other similar Articles.
We, ERNEST THOMAS WOOLLEY and HOWARD FRANK WOOLLEY (trading as
Thomas Woolley) of 18, Caroline Street, Birmingham, in the County of Warwick,
Electro Plate Manufacturers, 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:―
We take a biscuit box or other article with hinged cover and jointed swing
handle over the top, the handle being jointed at each side of the article so as to
swing backwards. We then by means of a metal scroll with loose joint at each
end, connect the top of the handle with the front of the cover so that upon moving
the bandle backwards it raises the cover, the cover being again lowered by moving
the handle forward to its former position.
On the accompanying drawing Fig. 1 represents a biscuit box to which our
improvement for raising the cover is applied, the cover being closed; Fig. 2
represents the same box with the lid open and Fig. 8 is a front elevation of the
scroll and parts of the cover and handle.
a is the biscuit box having a cover b hinged thereto at c and a swing handle d
jointed at each side of the box at e. The swing handle d and the cover bare
connected together by the scroll or link of which is jointed at one end f' to the
handle and at the other end f³ to the cover so that upon moving the handle back-
wards it raises the cover (see Fig. 2) which is closed by moving the handle forward
to its former position (see Fig. 1).
Our Invention can be applied to butter and marmalade dishes and other similar
articles having swing handles and hinged covers similarly as above described with
reference to a biscuit box.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said
Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what
we claim is:
The improvement in the raising of lids of biscuit boxes, butter and marmalade
dishes, and other similar articles, hereinbefore described and illustrated in the
accompanying drawing, that is to say, connecting the swing handle of such an
article to its hinged cover by a scroll or link for the purposes and substantially as
described and illustrated.