IMPROVEMENTS IN METALLIC BOXES
Year: 1884

page_text: WILLIAM HIGHFIELD JONES and BENJAMIN JONES, Manufacturers Ablow Street
Wolverhampton trading as Jones Brothers & Company Wolverhampton do hereby
declare the nature of our invention for IMPROVEMENTS IN METALLIC BOXES to be
as follows:-
The lids of the said Metallic Boxes are rounded at the sides and have a band
sunk in the lids from end to end of about to inch deep, upon the sunk band the
handle is fixed, to prevent the handle rising above the lid; also rows of Bell top
rivets are fixed on the lid of the boxes running from end to end of the lid.
The lids of the Boxes are secured by a lock running the whole length of the box
which throws out three bolts one in the centre and one near each end, so as to
prevent the ends of the boxes being forced up.
Dated this Trantinth Januar
WILLIAM
HIGHFIELD JONES,
& BENJAMIN JONES,
Trading as Jones Brothers and Company,
Ablow Street, Wolverhampton.

page_text: WILLIAM HIGHFIELD JONES and BENJAMIN JONES Manufacturers, Ablow Street
Wolverhampton trading as Jones Brothers and Company Wolverhampton do
hereby declare the nature of their invention for METALLIC BOXES and in what
manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in
and by the following statement :—
The lid of the said Metallic Boxes are rounded at the sides and have a fillet
sunk in the lid from end to end of about to inch deep, upon the sunk fillet the
handle is fixed to prevent the handle rising above the lid when folded down also
two or more Rows of Bell top rivets are fixed on the lid of the Box running from
end to end of the lid.
The lid of the Boxes are secured by a Lock running the whole length or nearly
the whole length of the body of the Box which throws out three bolts one in the
centre and one near each end so as to prevent the ends of the box being forced
open.
Referring to the accompanying drawing Fig. 1, represents in end elevation a box
made with our Improvements. The lid is rounded off at the sides as shewn at A.
The fillet B, is sunk in the lid from end to end about half an inch deep. The
handle C, is fastened on the fillet B, to prevent it rising above the lid when folded
down. The two Rows of Bell Top rivets D, are fixed on the lid running from end
to end of it, as shewn on Fig. 3, at D. The lock E, runs the whole length or nearly
'the whole length of the body of the box, and throws out three bolts as shewn on
Fig. 2. at F, one in the centre and one near each end so as to prevent the ends of
the box being forced open.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said
Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed we declare that what
we claim is
1st The sunk fillet in the lid on which the handle is fixed (for the purposes
herein before described).
2nd The two or more Rows of Bell top rivets fixed on the lid of the Box running
from end to end of lid.
3rd The lids of the Boxes secured by a lock running the whole length or nearly
the whole length of the body of the box which throws out three bolts one in the
centre and one near each end so as to prevent the ends of the box being forced
open.
Dated this 26th day of November 1884.
WILLIAM HIGHFIELD JONES.
BENJAMIN JONES.