Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 6th Apr., 1893
Complete Specification Left, 2nd Jan., 1894-Accepted, 3rd Feb., 1894
A communication by Samuel BUTTYKAY, of Szathmár, Hungary, in the Empire
of Austria, Valuer.
I, WILLIAM PHILLIPS THOMPSON, F.C.S., M.1.M.E., of the Agency for
Foreign Patent Solicitors 6, Lord Street, Liverpool, and 6, Bank Street,
Manchester, both in the County of Lancaster, and 323, High Holborn, in the
County of Middlesex, Civil Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of this
invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to an improved fastening for cases or boxes.
The fastening is effected as follows :
The case is screwed or nailed down as usual, and then a strip of hoop iron is laid
over the screw or nail heads and the end of the same sealed down. A case or box
fastened in this manner can then only be opened after the seal has been removed or
the hoop iron bent back.
The box cover is screwed to the side by means of an ordinary screw, in such a
way however that the strip of hoop iron, which is provided with holes to receive
the screw, is held between the cover or lid and the side. After the screw has been
driven down, the hoop iron is bent upwards and brought over the screw head, its
end is hammered into the recess formed in the lid for protecting the seal, and is
fastened down with the seal.
Another modification of the fastening is where a nail is employed instead of a
screw, and in this case the metal strip may be attached to the inside of the side of
the box, which may be done either by driving small nails through it, or hammering
in the end of the hoop iron which is suitably bent in for the purpose.
Dated this 5th day of April 1893.
WM. P. THOMPSON & Co.,
Of 6, Lord Street, Liverpool, Agents for the Applicant.
A communication by SAMUEL BUTTYKAY, of Szathmár, Hungary, in the Empire
of Austria, Valuer.
I, WILLIAM PHILLIPS THOMPSON, F.C.S., M.I.M.E., of the Agency for
Foreign Patent Solicitors, 6 Lord Street, Liverpool, and 6, Bank Street,
Manchester, both in the County of Lancaster, and 323, High Holborn, in the
County of Middlesex, Civil 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 relates to an improved fastening for cases or boxes.
The fastening is effected as follows :—
The case is screwed or nailed down as usual, and then a strip of hoop iron is laid
over the screw or nail heads and the end of the same sealed down. A case or
box fastened in this manner can then only be opened after the seal has been removed
or the hoop iron bent back.

page_text: In the accompanying drawings:-
Figure 1 is a sectional elevation,
Figure 2 a plan showing this improved fastener, and
Figure 3 a sectional elevation showing a modification of this invention.
The box cover or lid a is screwed to the side 6 by means of an ordinary screw c
in such a way, however that the strip of hoop iron d which is provided with holes
to receive the screw, is held between the cover or lid and the side. After the
screw c bas been driven down, the hoop iron d is bent upwards and brought over
the screw head, its end e is hammered into the recess formed in the cover or lid for.
protecting the seal fand is fastened down with the seal.
Another modification of the fastening, shown in Figure 3, is where a nail g is
employed instead of a screw, and in this case the metal strip d may be attached to
the inside of the side of the box, which may be done either by driving small
nails through it, or hammering in the end of the hoop iron which is suitably
bent in for the purpose.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, as communicated to me
by my foreign correspondent, I declare that what I claim is,
An improved fastening for boxes, chests or the like which consists of a strip of
sheet metal of any suitable kind bent over the heads of the screws or nails and
afterwards sealed down, substantially as herein before described and shown on the-
accompanying drawings.
Dated this 1st day of January 1894.
WM. P. THOMPSON & Co.,
Agents for the Applicant.