IMPROVEMENTS IN PILL BOXES
Year: 1885

page_text: I ARTHUR WILLIAM WATSON of 16 Ferron Road in the county of Middlesex,
Chemist's Assistant do hereby declare the nature of my said invention for
"IMPROVEMENTS IN PILL BOXES" to be as follows:-
This invention relates to the manufacture of boxes suitable for containing pills,
whereby they can be delivered singly as required in a very simple manner.
For this purpose I prefer to make the box of cardboard or other suitable material
and of a rectangular form; the interior space between the sides of the box is
sufficient to allow the pills to move freely. The edges of the boxes are preferably
rounded. On the top or upper end of the box and at the end thereof I provide an
opening of a size which will allow the pills to pass easily either into or out of the box.
A suitable slide or cover is provided for the said opening.
A box of this construction being filled with pills aud the slide or cover closed,
the pills will be securely retained in the box. When one or more pills is or are
required it is merely necessary to open the said slide or cover and a pill or pills will
by tilting the box pass out through the said opening.
G. F. REDFERN,
4, South Street, Finsbury, London,
Agent for the Applicant.
I ARTHUR WILLIAM WATSON, of 16 Ferron Road in the county of Middlesex,
Chemist's Assistant 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
25 and by the following statement :-
This invention relates to the manufacture of boxes suitable for containing pilla

page_text: For this purpose I prefer to make the box of cardboard or other suitable material
and of a rectangular form; the interior space between the sides of the box is
sufficient to allow the pills to move freely. The edges of the boxes are preferably
rounded. On the top or upper end of the box I provide an opening or hole of a
size which will allow the pills to pass easily either into or out of the box.
A suitable slide or cover is provided for the said opening.
In order to enable my invention to be fully understood I will proceed to describe
the same by reference to the accompanying drawing in which figure 1 is a plan,
figure 2 a vertical section, and figure 3 a perspective view of a pill box made
according to my invention the box being shewn closed; figure 4 is a plan and
figure 5 an elevation shewing the box open; figure 6 is a perspective view illus-
trating the manner of using the box. Similar letters in all the figures represent
similar parts.
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a, represents the body or sides of the box which is made of cardboard or other
suitable material and of a rectangular form with rounded edges or corners; b, b, in
figure 2 represent a number of pills contained in the interior space between the
sides a, of the box, the said space being sufficient to allow the pills to move freely;
c, is the top or upper end of the box and d, is the opening or bole of a size which
will allow the pills b, to pass easily either into or out of the box one at a time; the
sides a, of the box are provided with a lining e, on the shoulder formed by the
upper edge of which the top c, rests as shewn in figure 2, and the top c, can then
easily be removed when it is required to introduce a supply of pills into the box;
f, is the cover which in the drawing is shewn arranged to rotate on a rivet or
eyelet g, forming a pivot for the same, but it will be obvious that the said cover
can be arranged to slide or be otherwise operated so as to cover and uncover the
hole d.
A box of this construction being supplied with pills b, as shewn in figure 2, and
the cover (or slide) closed as shewn in figures 1, 2, and 3, the pills will be securely
retained in the box.-When one or more pills is or are required it is merely
necessary to open the said cover f (or slide) as shewn in figures 4 and 5 when the
opening or hole d, will be uncovered and a pill or pills will by tilting the box in
the manner represented in figure 6 pass out through the said opening or hole d.
The cover (or slide) being again closed the box can be conveniently carried in the
waiscoat or other pocket.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what
I claim is
The manufacture and use of the improved pill boxes constructed substantially as
herein before described and represented in the accompanying drawing.