Improvements in Boxes or Canisters for Sprinkling or Dredging Powders and the like.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 4th Apr., 1895
Complete Specification Left, 28th Dec., 1895-Accepted, 21st Mar., 1896.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Boxes or Canisters for Sprinkling or Dredging
Powders and the like.
JOSEPH JOHN MOORE The White House Wellington Street Slough Bucks do.
hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
A box or canister for sprinkling, dredging or distributing any powder or other
dry substance. The said box to be of tin, or any other material, having a hinged
lid, to the front of which is attached a plate, curved to a semicircle, drilled with
holes (through which the powder is distributed) the sides of the lid having
triangular plates attached, so that when the lid is shut the said plates fit inside the
box, so that when shut it is practically air-tight and so prevents the escape of
properties of the powder contained, and excludes damp. At the back of the box is
a handle for convenience in using, to the top of which is attached a stop (by a..
pivot) so that when turned it prevents the lid opening to more than 90° and when,
reversed allows the lid to open fully so as to replenish the box with powder.
Dated this 4th day of April 1895.
Improvements in Boxes or Canisters for Sprinkling or Dredging-
Powders and the like.
JOSEPH JOHN MOORE The White House Wellington Street Slough Bucks:
Gentleman 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 :-
A box or canister for sprinkling, dredging, or distributing any powder or other
dry substance. The said box or canister to be of tin or any other material ;_
having the lid hinged (A) a short distance from the back edge. To the front and
both side edges of the under side of the hinged part of the lid (H) is fixed a plate,.
rectangular (B) in the front and triangular (C) at the sides, so that when the lid is
opened to an angle of about 90% it forms a triangular recptacle for distributing the
powder or other substance, the front of the said plate (B) being drilled or stamped
with holes (B), through which the powder or other substance is distributed. To.
the back part of the lid (D), which is behind the hinges, is hinged (G) a bent
wire or bar (E), so that when turned it will only allow the lid to open to an angle
of about 90%, and will pass under a clip (F) on the top side of the hinged lid, so as to -
retain it at that angle, and when reversed allows the lid to open fully, so as to
replenish the box or canister with powder or the like. When shut, the box or
canister is practically airtight, so retaining the properties of the powder or other
substance contained.
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-
Improvements in boxes or canisters for sprinkling or dredging powders and the-

page_text: like, so that when the lid is opened to an angle of about 90% the contents is freely
distributed, and when the lid is closed it is practically airtight, so retaining the
properties of the contents.
Dated this 27th day of December 1895.
JOSEPH JOHN MOORE.