Year: 1887

page_text: Date of Application, 24th Aug., 1887
Complete Left, 24th Nov., 1887
Complete Accepted, 27th Dec., 1887
We GEORGE WILLIAM PALMER of the firm of Huntley and Palmers, of Reading
in the County of Berks Biscuit Manufacturers and WILLIAM JAMES STOCK of the Tin
Works, Reading aforesaid, Storekeeper do hereby declare the nature of this Invention
to be as follows:
The object of our Invention is to provide a simple and efficient fastening readily
and securely fastenable and readily unfastened when desired.
According to our Invention on the box we fix a stud or button or projection and
on the lid we hinge a flap with an eye or opening to take over the button or the like.
On this flap is capable of turning or sliding a piece which has a slot or edge which
when moved into one position engages behind the head of the button and secures the
fastening and when moved into the other position allows the flap to be raised from the
button and the lid to be raised. The said piece is preferably at the back of the flap.
It will of course be evident that the button or the like may be on the lid and the flap
and hinged or sliding piece be on the body of the box.
D
J. H. JOHNSON & Co.,
47, Lincoln's Inn Fields, London, W.C.,
Agents for the said George William Palmer and
William James Stock.

page_text: Improvements in Fastenings for Boxes and the like.
We GEORGE WILLIAM PALMER of the firm of Huntley & Palmers of Reading in
the County of Berks Biscuit Manufacturers and WILLIAM JAMES STOCK of the Tin
Works Reading aforesaid Store Keeper 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 :-
The object of our Invention is to provide a simple and efficient fastening capable
of being readily and securely fastened and of being readily unfastened when
desired.
According to our Invention on the box we fix a stud or button or projection and
on the lid we hinge a flap with an eye or opening to take over the button or the like.
On this flap is capable of turning or sliding a piece which has a slot or edge which
when moved into one position engages behind the head of the button and secures the
fastening and when moved into the other position allows the flap to be raised from the
button and the lid to be raised. The said piece is preferably at the back of the flap.
It will of course be evident that the button or the like may be on the lid and the flap
and hinged sliding piece on the body of the box.
The accompanying drawings illustrate manners in which this Invention may be
carried out. Figures 1 and 2 are front views respectively showing the fastening
secured and unfastened ready for raising the flap. Figure 3 shows the lid raised and
the flap turned back to exhibit the underside thereof-and Figure 4 is a section with
the fastening secured. Figure 5 is a view at right angles to Figure 3. Figure 6 is
a front view and Figure 7 is a section of an arrangement wherein the fastening is
Figures 8 and 9 are similar views
effected by a sliding movement downwards.
showing the fastening effected by a sliding movement sideways and Figure 10 is a
front view shewing a modification of the arrangement Figures 6 and 7.
C
an
Referring to Figures 1 to 5 A is a button or stud fixed to the box and having a
head and a neck or undercut part at a. B is a flap hinged at b to the lid and having
C is a piece
eye therein sufficiently large to pass over the head of the button A.
centred to the flap B at and having in it a cutaway part or slot of less width thar
the head of the button A but capable of moving over the neck or undercut part
of the button A. When the fastening of the box is to be secured the piece C being
in the position shewn in Figure 2 the flap B is passed over the head of the button A
and then the piece C is moved upon its centre c so that it embraces the neck o
undercut part a of the button A as shewn in Figures 1 and 4 and the lid is secured
To undo the fastening the piece C is moved back upon its centre c so that its slot
is clear of the neck or undercut part a of the button A and then the flap B can b
raised. c³ is a turned over portion of the piece C for the ready manipulatio
In Figures 6 and 7 the fastening is secured by the piece
thereof.
which slides verticall

page_text: in guides at the back of the flap B. In Figures 8 and 9 the piece C² slides
horizontally in guides 63 at the back of the flap whilst in Figure 10 the part C² slides
vertically as in Figures 6 and 7 but the guides are formed by bent over portions c* of
the part (which slide upon the edges of the flap B. In all the figures the pieces c³
projecting from C and C form the means by which C and C³ can be manipulated to
secure and undo the fastening. In the sliding arrangements the part C has an
opening large enough to pass over the head of the button A and a continuation of
that opening not large enough to pass over the head but capable of embracing the
neck of the button or of being housed behind the said head by a sliding movement of
the part C. As before stated if desired the button A may be on the lid and the flap
and attachments be hinged to the box.
Having now described and particularly ascertained the nature of this Inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed we declare that what we
claim is
First: A fastening for a box or the like consisting of a stud button or projection
on the one part and a flap on the other part capable of being passed over the head of
the button or the like and provided with a centered sliding or moveable piece
for engaging behind the said head substantially as herein before described and
illustrated.
Second-The several arrangements or combination of parts constituting
fastenings for boxes and the like as hereinbefore described and respectively illustrated
in Figures 1 to 5 Figures 6 and 7; Figures 8 and 9 and Figure 10 of the
accompanying drawings.
Dated this 16th day of November 1887