Improvements in Boxes or Cases for the Holding of Wines, Spirits, and other Merchandise.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 9th May, 1894-Accepted, 9th June, 1894
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Boxes or Cases for the Holding of Wines, Spirits,
and other Merchandise.
I, DONALD MCINTOSH MACKAY, of 13 Berkely Street, in the City of
Gloucester, Wine Merchant's Manager, do hereby declare the nature of this inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described
and ascertained in and by the following statement :-
My invention relates to a lock-up case or box for the holding of bottled wines
and spirits, and merchandise generally, and has for one of its objects, means for
preventing the contents of the said cases or boxes being tampered with, or
surreptitiously interfered with, and for another of its objects, a cheaply produced
and efficient lid or closure.
According to one part of my invention, I make the lid or top to partly lift and
partly slide, in removing the same from the body of the case, and in connecting the
lid to the case, one end of the said lid is depressed, and the other end is slid into
position, with a rabate of the one part taking under an inverted or overhanging
rabate of the other part, and when the lid is shut down, the same is then locked by
the insertion of a cross bar through the opposite sides of the case and through a
combined guide and staple on the lid, and the said locking rod is then secured
against being tampered with by an adhesive or other seal.
According to another part of my invention, the lid is jointed or hinged at its rear
end to the box, so as to be capable of turning back after being released at the fore
part.
In another part of my invention, the lid is made to entirely slide and is locked or
fastened by a laterally directed cross rod.
Figure of the accompanying drawings represents in longitudinal vertical
section, a wine case, having a lid or cover provided with improvements made
according to my invention.
Figure 2 represents a topside plan of the same, with portions of the lid broken
away in order to exhibit the means of affixing and securing at both ends of the
case.
Figure 3 represents a like section of the case as Figure 1, but with the one end
of the lid lifted from the mouth and shown in the act of being disconnected, by the
cross rabated bar upon the underside of one end of the lid being slid from out of
the range of the overhanging and rabated fixed bar carried at the corresponding
end of the case.
Figure 4 represents a side elevation of a portion of the fastening end of the case,
before the sealing of the affixing rod.
Figure 5 represents a like elevation, but with the affixing rod shown sealed.
a is the body of the case, made up of ends a', a², sides a, a, and bottom a³, and
with the interior, if necessary, fitted with divisions a, but this is immaterial. a' is
the open top, fitted with a part sliding and part lifting lid or cover b, having at the
end 6, a hanging and rabated fillet or rib c, with the step part c', presented
outwards and adapted to engage under the overhanging step e', of an inverted
rabated strip or fillet e, made fast to the inside end a², of the case a, and
immediately adjacent to the open top a', and with its top coming flush, or nearly
60, with the set-down back edge a8, which is of a depth from the extreme top
edge a, equal to the thickness of the cover, so that the top of the said cover shall
lic perfectly flush.
Directed longitudinally within the inside of the box, and with their top edges
located in the same plane as the top edges of the end a¹, a², are bearing and guide

page_text: strips, upon which the offside end of the cover is slid or drawn on removing the
same from the open top.
I might observe that the rabates e and c, at the offside end of the case and lid
respectively, form, when they come together as in Figure 1, hook-like connections,
which prevent the lid from being lifted until the same has been drawn through a
clearing distance, so that the step c¹, of the rabated strip c, is clear of the
overhanging step e', of the rabated strip e
e.
The near-side end 62, of the lid b, has made fast to its underside, a combined
staple, strip and groove g, having a channel g', through it or cut within it, through
which, and holes a, in the sides a³, a', a wire or rod i, passes and secures the lid
from being raised or opened or from being moved outwardly.
The ring end, lies within a stepped sinking a", formed within the side a³, and
is covered by a seal h, which renders the said ringed end 2, inaccessible, unless
by the breaking of the seal. The holes a³, are protected by thin sheet metal
plates a¹²
It will be seen that the top a¹³, of the front end a', is lignable with the tops of
the guide strips f, and also with the top a³.
Assuming that the box or case is uncovered, then take the loose lid or cover, as
shown in Figure 3 and then place the same into the position represented by the
dotted lines in the said figure, drop the fore end part and slide the lid home into
the position represented in Figures 1 and 2, when the offside end of the said cover
or lid will be locked to the case. Now insert the rod or wire i, through the hole a',
of the side a*, then through the hole g', of the combined staple strip and guide g,
until the extreme end, takes into the holes a, in the side a³, and the ring, lies
within the inner recess of the stepped sinking a", when the lid is prevented from
being either lifted or removed longitudinally.
To secure the contents of the case or box from being tampered with, affix the
seal h, within the outer step part of the sinking.
Instead of the rabate e, being in the form of a strip running along the inside of
the end a², the same may be made in the form of snugs upon the two opposite sides
of the said end, so likewise, two rabated snugs upon the opposite side of the lid may
be substituted for the filleted or strip rabate c.
Or instead of rabated snugs being upon the inside of the end a², they may come
upon the extreme offside ends of the sides a³, a*.
Or instead of the rabated snugs or hook shaped parts being upon the offside
and inside ends of the sides, they may come upon parts of the sides, with which
rabated snugs, on the inside of the lid, engage.
Connection between the rabated
snugs on the cover and the snugs carried by the box is made by a sliding move-
ment, and the cover is released by sliding the same forwardly, so as to make the
rabated snugs of the one part come clear of the rabated snugs of the other.
Figure 6 represents a still further form of my invention. In this arrangement,
the lug or lugs is or are dispensed with, and pegs carried by the off-side end of the
lid are made to engage with coincident holes in the inside of the opposed end of
The topside edge of this said end is not set-down as in the preceding
the case.
form.
a is the body of the case or box, with a set-down end a', and a back or off-side
end a³, pierced with holes a¹, wherein like-sized and coincident pegs c, take and
engage.
The duties of these pegs is exactly the same as the rabated fillets or snugs as
before described.
The lid is fastened by a rod i, (shown separately) the same as in the preceding
arrangement.
Figure 7 represents a box or case provided or fitted with a hinged lid or cover,
and secured by a laterally directed rod or pin as in the previous arrangements.
a is the body of the case or box, and b is the lid, with the off-side end,
hinged or jointed at 6, to a strip or fillet 6, secured and made fast to the rear
side end of the body of the case or box. The cover or lid is capable of turning

page_text: upon a hinged joint and of being fastened by a laterally directed rod i, passing
through a staple fillet, as in the preceding forms of my invention, and made secure
by a seal.
Figure 8 represents a still further form of box or case provided with improve-
ments according to my invention, and Figure 9 represents a cross section of the
same.
In this arrangement, the cover or lid is made to slide within overhanging
rabates secured upon the edges of the two opposite sides of the case, and with the
rear end of the lid fitting snug up to a straight back, whilst the lid is prevented
from being withdrawn by a locking rod, transversely directed through a staple
fillet on the lid, and through holes in the side of the case as in the preceding
arrangements.
Thus, a is the body of the case or box, a', a², are the ends, and b is a sliding
lid, with inclined edges 6' and a straight back edge 6, which said edges b³, are
adapted to take under overhanging and V-shaped rabates or edges a¹, made out
of the top edges of the sides a³, a', or from attached strips a¹³, having rest
strips f
The lid is slid outwardly for gaining access to the box, and is slid inwardly up
to the inside back a², for closing the same, and when in this last-named position, a
rod i, is passed through the component parts, the same sealed and access to the
contents is prevented.
Figure 10 represents a still further form of box or case with the lid shown lifted
from the open top of the body.
a is the box or case, b the lid, and g are the staple fillets situated upon the
underside of the two opposite ends of the lid, and with their outer edges coming
at distances apart equal to the inside length of the box, and through the holes g¹,
in the said fillets and holes a', in the sides of the box, affixing rods i, pass, as in
the previous arrangements. The dotted lines in the open top of the case show the
positions which the lid takes.
Figure 11 represent a still further form of my invention.
a is the box, b the lid, g is a staple fillet on the middle of the underside of the
latter, and with a hole ¹ through it, wherethrough an affixing rod, which passes
through the holes a' in the sides of the case, passes in securing the lid to the box
or case. The lid has block stops g², near its ends, for the purpose of passing the
lid into its proper position.
It will be understood that the pegs in Figure 6, instead of being carried by
the lid, may be carried by the case and the holes may be formed in the end of
the lid.
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 :-
First. Securing the lids of boxes or cases to the bodies by rabated or equivalent
parts of the one engaging with rabated or equivalent parts of the other,
substantially as and for the purpose as described and set forth.
Secondly. Securing the lids of boxes or cases to the bodies by a rabated fillet
upon one end of the underside of the lid engaging with an opposed rabated fillet
or strip made fast to the inside of an end of the body, substantially as and for the
purpose as described and set forth in Figures 1 to 5.
Thirdly. Securing the lids of boxes or cases to the body parts, by rabated parts
carried by lid and body of box respectively engaging one under the other or one
with the other, and the fore or other part of the lid secured to the body of the
box by a transversely-directed wire or rod, passing through a side or sides of the
said body and through a staple-fillet carried by the lid, substantially as described
and set forth in Figures 1 to 5.
Fourthly. Securing the lids of boxes or cases to the bodies, by pegs or studs
carried by the one part, taking into, or engaging with, coincident and like-shaped

page_text: holes within the other part, and with the lid locked to the body by a transversely
directed rod passing through the sides of the box and a staple fillet carried by the
lid, substantially as described and set forth in Figure 6.
Fifthly. In boxes or cases, the combination with a hinged or jointed lid b, of a
transversely directed locking rod i, passing collectively through the sides of the
box and a staple fillet on the lid, substantially as and for the purpose as described
and set forth in Figure 7.
Sixthly. In boxes or cases, the combination with a sliding lid b, running with
grooves or rabates formed in or carried upon the tops of the sides of the body of
the box, of a locking rod i, passing transversely and collectively through the sides
of the box and a staple fillet in the lid, substantially as and for the purpose as
described and set forth in Figures 8 and 9.
Seventhly. The means of securing lids or covers to boxes or cases, as described
and set forth in Figures 10 and 11.
Dated this 8th day of May 1894
DONALD MCINTOSH MACKAY,
By Henry Skerrett,
6, Livery Street, Birmingham, Agent for Applicant.