Improvements in Securing Metal and other Boxes.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 10th May, 1893-Accepted, 10th June, 1893
COMPLETE DI ECIFICATION.
Improvements in Securing Metal and other Boxes.
I THOMAS GALLAHER of 20 York Street Belfast Tobacco Manufacturer 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 my invention relates to improvements in securing metal and other boxes,
and my invention consists of a simple device which is intended to be used upon
receptacles intended for containing articles such as tobacco or the like, the object
of the invention being to afford greater security to the contents and prevent the
surreptitious abstraction or substitution of the contents by a similar article of an
inferior quality, and my invention is specially adapted for use with those receptacles
which have the distinguishing label or feature by which the article is identified,
printed upon or affixed to the body of the tin or other receptacle.
To this end my invention consists in a band or ribbon of paper or other suitable
material which is affixed around the body of the tin in such a way that the tin or
other receptacle, can not be opened or the lid or cover removed, without the
rupture or breakage of the said band or ribbon, and for this purpose I pierce or
stamp in the body of the tin or in the lid, one or more slits or apertures through
which the said band is passed. The ends of the said band being then passed around
the body of the tin and united together by gum or other convenient manner.
In the accompanying drawings I have illustrated my invention applied to rect-
angular tins suitable for containing tobacco, although I wish it to be understood
that the invention is applicable to a tin or receptacle of any shape or pattern.
Figure 1 shows a tin having a hinged lid thereto, and
Figure 2 shows a tin having a detachable cover.
Like letters indicate similar parts in both of the figures.
In Figure 1, A is the body of the tin, B being the lid which is in this case,
hinged to the said body and through the said lid is formed a slot b. C is the band
or ribbon of paper or other material which encircles the box passing through the
slit 6 in the lid before referred to, thus it will be seen that the opening of the box
is impossible without first destroying the band C.
In Figure 2 the lid is secured by two bands which pass through the slots b in the
lid, and I wish it to be understood that the band may pass through one, two or
more slits in either the body. or lid of the box or through both body and lid, at the
option of the person using the device.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
:-
1. The method of securing metal boxes or other receptacles for goods, by
encircling them with a band or ribbon passing through a slot in the lid, the free
ends being secured together, the whole substantially as described and illustrated in
Figure 1 in the accompanying drawings.
2. The method of securing metal boxes or other receptacles for goods by
encircling them with one or more bands or ribbons passing through a slit or slits
in either the lid or body or both, the free ends of said band or bands being secured

page_text: together the whole substantially as described and illustrated in the accompanying
drawings.
Todo ICM 1000
THOMAS GALLAHER,
By his Agent,
Wm. Wilson Horn.