CERTAIN IMPROVE- MENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF IRON SAPES AND OTHER STRONG BOXES
Year: 1866

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Reuben Noake, of Wolverhampton, in the County
of Stafford, Manager of Works, for the Invention of "CERTAIN IMPROVE-
MENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF IRON SAPES AND OTHER STRONG BOXES."
Scaled the 27th July 1866, and dated the 29th March 1866.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Reuben Noake at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
29th March 1866.
I, REUBEN NOAKE, of Wolverhampton, in the County of Stafford, Manager
of Works, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "CERTAIN
IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF IRON SAFES AND OTHER STRONG BOXES,"
to be as follows:-
The object of this Invention is by the means herein-after explained to
strengthen and secure the bodies or outer frames of iron safes or other strong
Loxes and so to render them practically burglar-proof.
The Invention consists of the following method or methods of uniting the
plates of safes.
The first part of my Invention relates to a method of protecting the outer
edges of plates in manner following:-I propose to unite the adjacent

page_text: edges of any two plates at right angles to each other by a wrought-iron angle
piece, the section of which may be described as a square bar having two
grooves or channels formed in it, one groove in each of the adjacent sides of
the bar, in which are recessed the said plates, to form the outer walls of the
safe. Upon the inner angle of the bar, and rolled in one piece with it, are
two flanges at right angles to each other, to which the plates may be also
rivetted, the exterior face of each flange forming a continuation of one side
of the groove or channel before described. The said flanges viewed from the
interior of the safe would have the appearance of ordinary angle irons, and
externally the square portions only of the angle pieces will be seen; these
may have their corners rounded to improve their appearance. The bar will be
rolled with the flanges upon it, as already explained, but the grooves may be
afterwards planed out of the metal. The bars are mitred together at each
corner of the safe, and if desired may be assisted by an internal angular cover
plate, secured by rivets or screws. The side plates in addition to being
rivetted to the flanges of the angle pieces may also be assisted by tie bars if
necessary.
The second part of my Invention relates to a method of securing (internally)
the several corners of the safe, and so materially strengthening their bodies
or outer frames. I propose to unite the edges of any two adjacent plates at
right angles to each other by planing a dovetail groove in each plate near to
and parallel to its edge. The said grooves will be inside the safe, and a piece
of angle iron which is to unite every two adjacent plates will have a dovetailed
projection formed upon the outside face of each of its flanges, corresponding
to and being for the purpose of entering into the said dovetail grooves in the
plates. The said plates may themselves be mitred at their edges, and the
angle irons may, if necessary, be united at their points of junction by internal
angular cover plates secured by screws or rivets.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Reuben Noake in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 3
14th August 1866.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, REUBEN
NOAKE, of Wolverhampton, in the County of Stafford, Manager of Works,
send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-ninth day of March, in the year of our Lord

page_text: One thousand eight hundred and sixty-six, in, the twenty-ninth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me,
the said Reuben Noake, Her special licence that I, the said Reuben Noake, my
executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Reuben
Noake, my executors, administrators, or assigns, should at any time agree with,
and no others, from time to time and at all times thereafter during the term
therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend,
within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel Islands,
and Isle of Man, an Invention for "CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE
OF IRON SAFES AND OTHER STRONG BOXES," upon the condition (amongst others)
that I, the said Reuben Noake, my executors or administrators, by an
instrument in writing under my, or their, or one of their hands and seals,
should particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the said Invention,
and in what manner the same was to be performed, and cause the same
to be filed in the Great Seal Patent Office within six calendar months next
and immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent:
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Reuben Noake, do hereby declaro
the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be
performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement (that is to say):
The object of this Invention is by the means herein-after explained to
strengthen and secure the bodies or outer framos of iron safes or other strong
boxes and so to render them practically burglar-proof.
The Invention consists of the following method or methods of uniting the
plates of safes.
The first part of my Invention relates to a method of protecting the outer
edges of the plates in manner following:-I propose to unite the adjacent
edges of any two plates at right angles to each other by a wrought-iron angle
piece, the section of which may be described as a square bar having 'two
grooves or channels formed in it, one groove in each of the adjacent sides of
the bar, in which are recessed the said plates to form the outer walls, of the
safe. Upon the inner angle of the bar and rolled in one piece with it are two
flanges, at right angles to each other, to which the plates may be also rivetted,
the exterior face of each flange forming a continuation of one side of the
groove or channel before described. The said flanges viewed from the interior
of the safe would have the appearance of ordinary angle irons, and externally
the square portions only of the angle pieces will be seen; these may have
their corners rounded to improve their appearance. The bar will be rolled
with the flanges upon it, as already explained, but the grooves may be after-

page_text: wards planed out of the metal. The bars are mitred together at each corner
of the safe, and if desired may be assisted by an internal angular cover plate,
secured by rivets or screws. The side plates in addition to being rivetted to
the flanges of the angle pieces may be assisted by tie bars if necessary.
The second part of my Invention relates to a method of securing (internally)
the several corners of the safe, and so materially strengthening their bodies,
or outer frames. I propose to unite the edges of any two adjacent plates at
right angles to each other by planing a dovetail groove in each plate, near to
and parallel to its edge. The said grooves will be inside the safe, and a piece
of angle iron which is to unite every two adjacent plates will have a dovetailed
projection formed upon the outside face of each of its flanges, corresponding
to and being for the purpose of entering into the said dovetail grooves in the
plates. The said plates may themselves be mitred at their edges, and the
angle irons may if necessary be united at their points of junction by internal
angular cover plates secured by screws or rivets.
That my Invention may be fully understood I have annexed Drawings
'thereof, which I now proceed to describe.
Figs. 1, 2, 3, 5, and 8 shew the method of making safes with my improved
angle pieces. Figs. 2 and 5 are drawn full size, the other Figs. to a smaller
scale. a is the body or bar of the angle piece, having grooves b, b, either
rolled or planed in two adjacent sides of the bar; and c, c, are the flanges
rolled in one piece with the bar; d, d, are the plates of the safe, which may
be rivetted to the flanges c, c. In Fig. 8 the tie bars e, e, are shewn placed
horizontally and vertically, and rivetted to the flanges of the angle pieces;
ff, are the angular cover plates, also rivetted to the said flanges.
Fig. 4 shews, full size, the shape of which the bars may be made which form
the framing at the front of the safe. is the groove for the side plate of the
safe, and g is a rebate or recess into which the front plate of the door may
shut; but I do not claim this as new, or as forming an essential part of this
Invention.
Fig. 6 (full size) and Fig. 7 (to a smaller scale) shew my method of
securing (internally) the several corners of the safe. h, h, are the two plates
mitred at their junction i; k, k, are two dovetailed grooves planed, one in
each plate parallel and near to its edge i. An angle iron 7, having dove-
tailed projections m, m, formed upon its external faces, is driven endways
into the said grooves k, k; thereby firmly uniting and securing the two plates.
An angular cover plate o is shewn in Fig. 7 for the purpose of uniting still
more securely the corners of the angle irons 7, 1.
Fig. 9 shews a full-sized section of another method which may be used for

page_text: securing the plates without rivets. The section of the angle piece is similar
to that before described and shewn in Figs. 1, 2, 3, and 5, but there are
provided, in addition, two projecting fillets p, p, which are made to enter into
corresponding grooves planed in the plates d, d, thereby preventing the
withdrawal of the plates from the grooves b, b, in the direction of the arrows;
but this addition of the projecting fillets I do not claim as being new, nor as
forming an essential part of this Invention.
Having now described the nature of my Invention, and the manner in which
the same is or may be performed, I desire it to be understood that without
limiting myself to the precise details herein-before described (as these inay be
to some extent varied or modified without departing from the nature of my
said Invention), I desire to claim as the Invention to be protected by the
herein-before in part recited Letters Patent the several improvements (except
as herein-before disclaimed) in the manufacture of iron safes and other strong
boxes, substantially as herein-before set forth and described and shewn in the
Drawings hereunto annexed.
In witness whercof, I, the said Reuben Noake, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Ninth day of August, in the year of our. Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-six.
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Witness,
G. R. HOLLAND,
Patent Office,
Birmingham.
REUBEN NOAKE. (L.B.)