Improvements in Boxes, Trunks, Portmanteaus, and the like Used for Travelling or for the Purposes of Transport.
Year: 1889

page_text: Date of Application, 7th Feb., 1889
Complete Specification Left, 4th May, 1889-Accepted, 29th June, 1889
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Boxes, Trunks, Portmanteaus, and the like Used for
Travelling or for the Purposes of Transport.
I, FRANK BARROW, (Major, in the Bengal Staff Corps) of 4 Lyall Street Eaton
Place in the county of Middlesex do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be
as follows:
The principal objects of this invention are (1) to design a box, trunk or the like
used for travelling or other purposes of transport, of which the packed contents can
be secured against displacement, although the said contents be not sufficient to
completely fill the box: (2) to keep apart articles of different kinds. At present it
is necessary with ordinary packing cases and the like to fill them up completely so
that in transport the contents should not become displaced & perhaps injured.
Now, in my invention no box or other receptacle need be completely filled: but
may be packed to any required height & the contents will still be secure against
displacement. This is effected by means of a moveable frame, screen or the like, of
the same dimensions as to length & breadth as the interior of the trunk, the said
frame is then placed within the box and is secured firmly over the packed contents
by means of straps & buckles or other fastenings placed within & along the sides
and ends of the said box.
It will be readily understood that I do not bind myself to the use of only one such
interior frame or screen as a division. It may be desirable in some cases to have two
or more : so that articles of different kinds may not only be kept apart from
each other but each set of such articles can by my invention be secured against
displacement & packed to any required height.
Dated this Fifth day of February 1889.
FRANK
DARKOW,
Major, Bengal Staff Corps.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Boxes, Trunks, Portmanteaus, and the like Used for
Travelling or for the Purposes of Transport.
I FRANK BARROW of 4 Lyall Street, Eaton Place, in the County of Middlesex,
Major, 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 improvements in travelling and other trunks, boxes,
packing cases, or similar receptacles; and it has for its object to prevent displacement
of the contents in transport when the box or trunk is only partially filled, and to keep
certain of the contents apart from others.
With ordinary trunks and boxes, it is necessary in order to prevent displacement
and perhaps injury of the contents in transport to completely fill up the receptacle,
but, by my improvement, the contents of the receptacle whatever part of the space
therein they may occupy, will be as effectually secured against displacement as
though the receptacle were completely filled.
The means by which this is effected is illustrated in the accompanying drawing
forming part of this specification, and will be described with reference thereto.
Figure 1 is a longitudinal section, figure 2 a cross-section, and figure 3 a plan, of a
box (closed in figures 1, 2, and open in figure 3) provided with means of holding its
contents tightly packed. Figure 4 is a part longitudinal section, figure 5 a part

page_text: cross-section, and figure 6 a part horizontal section, of a box similarly fitted, bolts
being substituted for straps.
My Invention consists essentially in the employment of one or more internal
division frames or pressing plates a fitting easily within the receptacle and capable of
being securely held at various heights therein and so as when pressed down tightly
upon the packed contents to hold them securely in place and separate them, if desired,
from the other contents of the hox. In figures 1, 2, 3, the division a is secured by
straps & fastened to the opposite sides or ends of the box near the bottom and passing
upwards between the confouls and the said sides and over the division frame or plate,
the straps from opposite sides being connected across the division a by buckles or
equivalent fastenings. One such loose divisional frame or plate is shewn, but two or
moro may be used at different heights in the receptacle for separating different
articles and securely holding each set of contents against displacement, separato
straps being provided for each such division frame. In figures 4, 5, 6, straps are
not used and in lien thereof series of holes c are made in the sides of the box at
suitable heights and bolts are fitted on the division frame a in position to engage
in said holes and so retain the division frame securely in position. In this case also,
Soveral such divisional frames similarly fixed may be used for the above described
purpose.
I would have it understood that I do not limit my invention to travelling cases or
trunks. It is applicable with equal advantage to any case or hox used for the trans-
port, of articles and in which it inny he desired to keep the articles which the box or
case contains from displacement or from becoming mixed. For instance, the invention
would be of great advantage for cartridge boxes; It may also be applied to card-
board and wicker-work cases or hampers for the transport of fruit or flowers, game
or other articles which are liable to be readily damaged. The division plates or
frames may be plain wooden boards, or they may he of wicker-work or of other
material of suitable strength or rigidity, according to circumstances,
Ilaving now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is
The employment in a trunk, box, or other packing receptacle, of one or more loose
internal horizontal divisional frames or pressing plates in combination with means
for holding them in position and preventing displacement of the packed contents of
the receptacle, substantially as specified.
Dated this 4th day of May 1889
Dated this 4th day of May 1889
F. BARROW.
By A. M. & Wm. Clark, Patent Agents.