Improvements in Travelling Trunks and Boxes.
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 30th Apr., 1896
Complete Specification Left, 29th Jan., 1897-Accepted, 6th Mar., 1897
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Travelling Trunks and Boxes.
We, JETHRO FOOT and ROBERT JETHRO FOOT, of 62, New Bond Street, in
the County of London, Manufacturers, do hereby declare the nature of this invention
to be as follows:-
This invention relates to improvements in travelling trunks and boxes, and has for
object to so construct such trunks and boxes, that when required to open them to get
at their contents it will not be necessary as hitherto when they are placed against a
wall to lift them away from the wall to allow of the lid being opened.
In carrying out our invention in the case of ordinary travelling trunks, instead of
the lid forming the top of the trunk and being hinged to the back of the trunk as
hitherto, we make the front part of the trunk serve as the lid and hinge it to the front
of the top of the trunk; and we provide the trunk with a number of sliding trays or
drawers which when the front is opened can be drawn out whereby the contents of any
particular drawer can be got at without disturbing the contents of the other parts of
the trunk; under the lowermost drawer we advantageously provide a well. The
interior of the lid of the trunk is provided with a hinged tray with a suitable
hinged cover.
In the case of metal box trunks we find it advantageous to hinge the lid
on the top at such a distance from the back as will allow of the lid being opened
and to keep open without it being necessary to lift the box away from the wall.
Dated this 30th day of April 1896
G. F. REDFERN & Co.,
4, South Street, Finsbury, London, Agents for the Applicants.
Improvements in Travelling Trunks and Boxes.
We, JETHRO FOOT and ROBERT JETHRO FOOT, of 62, New Bond Street, in the
County of London, 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 :-
This invention relates to improvements in travelling trunks and boxes, and has for
object to so construct such trunks and boxes, that when required to open them to get
at their contents it will not be necessary as hitherto when they are placed against a
wall to lift them away from the wall to allow of the lid being opened.
In carrying out our invention in the case of ordinary travelling trunks, instead of
the lid forming the top of the trunk and being hinged to the back of the trunk as
hitherto, we make the front part of the trunk serve as the lid and hinge it to the front
of the top of the trunk; and we provide the trunk with a number of sliding trays or
drawers which, when the front is opened, can be drawn out whereby the contents of
any particular drawer can be got at without disturbing the contents of the other parts
of the trunk; under the lowermost drawer we advantageously provide a well. The
interior of the lid of the trunk is provided with a hinged tray with a suitably hinged
cover.

page_text: We sometimes form the well under the lowermost tray to slide out similarly
to the drawers and we provide it with means whereby it can be secured in its
closed position.
To enable our invention to be fully understood we will describe the same by
reference to the accompanying drawings, in which :-
Figure 1 is a view in isometrical projection of a travelling trunk constructed
according to our invention the lid being shewn closed:
Figure 2 is a similar view shewing the lid open :
Figure 3 is a similar view of the bottom portion of a trunk in which the well is
made to slide out.
a is the body of the trunk and 6 the front of the same. The said trunk b is
hinged at c, c to the front of the top of the trunk a so that it forms the lid of
the same, as clearly shewn in the figures, and can be secured to the bottom d of
the front of the trunk by a lock 6' and straps 62, 62 of ordinary construction.
e, e are the sliding trays or drawers which can be pulled out, as shewn in Figure 2,
when the front or lid 6 is opened so that access can be had to the contents of any
particular drawer without disturbing the contents of the drawers above it.
is the tray arranged in the interior of the lid 6 of the trunk the said tray f
being hinged at to the lid b as shewn in Figure 2 and provided with bolts/³, 13
by which it can be secured in the said lid b. By unfastening the bolts the
tray can be dropped and rested upon one of the drawers e which is pulled
out for that purpose. As above described this tray is provided with a suitably
hinged cover.
In the above described arrangement of travelling trunk a space is left at the bottom
of the same which forms the well g. Access can be had to this well by removing the
drawer or drawers placed immediately above it.
In the arrangement shewn in Figure 3, which represents the bottom portion of a
trunk similar to that above described, the well g is converted into a sliding drawer
and to effect this the bottom d of the front of the trunk instead of being rigidly
secured to the body a of the trunk is locked thereto, when the well or drawer g
is pushed back into its normal position by bolts g', g' which enter holes g³ in the
body a of the trunk.
It will be obvious that the bottom d of the front can with this form of trunk be
hinged to the body a instead of being rigidly secured to the bottom drawer which then
has a separate front portion.
One or more of the drawers or trays may be advantageously provided with
partitions e dividing them into compartments.
As above described to open our trunk when it is resting against a wall it will not be
necessary to first remove it from the wall to allow of the lid being raised as is the case
with trunks as hitherto made.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what we
claim is :-
1. In a travelling trunk or box hingeing the front to the front of the top of the
trunk and providing the said trunk with a number of drawers or trays, substantially
as, and for the purpose, herein before described and as illustrated.
2. The manufacture and use of the improved travelling trunks or boxes herein-
before described and illustrated respectively in Figures 1 and 2 and 3 of the
accompanying drawings.
Dated this 29th day of January 1897.
G. F. REDFERN & Co.,
4, South Street, Finsbury, London, Agents for the Applicants.