IMPROVEMENTS IN BOXES FOR HOLDING VARIOUS, ARTICLES
Year: 1869

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Stephen Perry, Joseph John Perry, and Lewis
Henry Perry, all of Red Lion Square, in the County of Middlesex,.
for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN BOXES FOR HOLDING VARIOUS,
ARTICLES."
Sealed the 20th May 1870, and dated the 27th November 1869..
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Stephen Perry,.
Joseph John Perry, and Lewis Henry Perry at the Office of the
Commissioners of Patents, with their Petition, on the 27th November
1869
We, STEPHEN PERRY, JOSEPH JOHN PERRY, and LEWIS HENRY
PERRY, all of Red Lion Square, in the County of Middlesex, do hereby
declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN BOXES FOR.
HOLDING VARIOUS ARTICLES," to be as follows:-.
The Invention has for its object improvements in boxes for holding
pens and various other articles, whereby a cheap and firm box is
obtained, which also provides facility for exhibiting a sample of the
contents. For this purpose we employ that description of box in
which the contents are held in an inner box or tray which is capable of

page_text: sliding into and out of the outer case, which we form of card, or scale-
board, or other suitable material covered or lined with thin hard metal
or alloy so as to afford a considerable amount of strength without
materially increasing the weight. This metal covering or lining may
be embossed or otherwise ornamented. One end of the cover is left
entirely open so that the inner box may be readily drawn out, whilst the
other end is provided with a stop around the edges thereof, but leaving
an opening therein sufficiently large to exhibit a sample of the
contents which is fastened on the end of the inner box. In order that
the sample may not extend beyond the surface of the outer box we make
the inner box a little shorter than the outer one. If desired, the sample
may be fixed to the other end of the inner box.
For some descriptions of boxes we only apply the metal covering or
lining to a short distance from each end of the box, and we employ an
ornamental wrapper to the box to come partially or entirely over the
metal. A suitable fastening is employed to prevent the inner box
accidentally falling out from its case and to prevent fraud. If desired,
one angle of the box may be bevelled off so as to allow the sample to be
attached to the outside thereof, without projecting beyond the general
form of the box.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Stephen Perry, Joseph John Perry, and Lewis
Henry Perry in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 27th May
1870.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, STEPHEN
PERRY, JOSEPH JOHN PERRY, and LEWIS HENRY PERRY, all of Red
Lion Square, in the County of Middlesex, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Twenty-seventh day of November, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-nine, in the
thirty-third year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto us, the said Stephen Perry, Joseph John Perry, and
Lewis Henry Perry, Her special licence that we, the said Stephen Perry,
Joseph John Perry, and Lewis Henry. Perry, our executors, adminis-
trators, and assigns, or such others as we, the said Stephen Perry,

page_text: Joseph John Perry, and Lewis Henry Perry, our executors, adminis-
trators, 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, excrcise, and vend,
within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel
Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN BOXES FOR
HOLDING VARIOUS ARTICLES," upon the condition (amongst others) that we,
the said Stephen Perry, Joseph John Perry, and Lewis Henry Perry, our
executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing under our, 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
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 Stephen Perry, Joseph John Perry,
and Lewis Henry Perry, do hereby declare the nature of the 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, that is to say :-
The Invention has for its object improvements in boxes for holding
pens and various other articles, whereby a cheap and firm box is obtained
which also provides facility for exhibiting a sample of the contents.
For this purpose we employ that description of box in which the
contents are held in an inner box or tray which is capable of sliding
into and out of the outer case, which we form of card or scaleboard or
other suitable material covered or lined with thin hard metal or alloy, so
as to afford a considerable amount of strength without materially'
increasing the weight. This metal covering or lining may be embossed"
or otherwise ornamented. One end of the cover is left entirely open
so that the inner box may be readily drawn out, whilst the other end is'
provided with a stop around the edges thereof, but leaving an opening
therein sufficiently large to exhibit a sample of the contents which is
fastened on the end of the inner box. In order that the sample may
not extend beyond the surface of the outer box we make the inner box
a little shorter than the outer one. If desired the sample may be fixed
to the other end of the inner box.
For some descriptions of boxes we only apply the metal covering or
lining to a short distance from each end of the box, and we apply an

page_text: bent at right angles to hold the bottom in position, whilst the
parts 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, Figure 5, are turned up at right angles to the
bottom; and the parts 1', ', at right angles to the parts l', ', so that
the parts,, may be held by the parts m, m, Figure 4, which are
turned over on to them, and the top, bottom, and sides held firmly
together by the pieces n, n, Figure 6, being passed through the holes
formed in the parts j, j, , and , l, the part o, Figure 4, and o¹,
Figure 5, being turned over flat on the top and bottom of the box. In
some cases the paper or pasteboard box and tray are first made and the
metal afterwards folded on to them. Or the cardboard or pasteboard
or other light material may be dispensed with by making the metal of a
sufficient thickness. In some cases instead of covering the entire
surface of the boxes and lids or covers with metal as described, only a
small portion at each end is so covered, when by cementing a paper
cover or label a short distance over the metal at each end the strength
and appearance of a metal box are obtained with the employment of a
smaller quantity of metal.
Figure 7 shows an end view of a box having one angle thereof
bevilled off so as to allow the sample to be attached to the outside
thereof, and yet not prevent the boxes being closely packed together.
A label or other means may be employed to prevent the box or tray
from falling out of the cover, and to prevent fraud. The boxes instead
of being covered with metal may have a metal lining applied thereto,
and the metal covering or lining may be embossed or otherwise
ornamented as is well understood.
In witness whereof, wc, the said Stephen Perry, Joseph John
Perry, and Lewis Henry Perry, have hereunto set our hands
and seals, this Twenty-third day of May, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy.