Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 29th Jan., 1891-Accepted, 7th Mar., 1891
and ends instead of mails.
To each of the two side pieces of the case are attached, at right angles to the
same, the end pieces or stays a a and c c', which strengthen the end of the case.
The stays a are provided with projecting pins which engage with corre-
sponding orifices in the opposite stays ce when the case is to be taken apart
and packed up. The pins are protected against being knocked off, when they
are not in their corresponding orifices, i.e. when the case is fixed up ready to be
packed, by means of protecting pieces as shown in Fig. 1.
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The sides are provided with nails or screws d d arranged on their top and
bottom edges, whilst the ends have these screws or nails arranged all round their
edges (Fig. 4). The sides are further provided with orifices arranged to engage
over the screws or nails of the ends, and of the shape shown in Fig. 3.
The top
and bottom pieces are also provided with similar orifices arranged round their edges
(Fig. 2) and have at one end a recess e.
The parts are fixed together in the following manner: The sides and ends are
first attached as shown in Fig. 1. by passing the nails d d through the orifices d' d¹
and then slightly shifting the pieces so that the shaft of the nail lies in the slit or
clongation of the orifice. The top and bottom are then attached in a similar
manner.
The case is closed by means of a bolt as shown in Fig. 4. Two grippers i and
are placed in the recesses e at the top and bottom of the case and pass through the
hooks kk, their ends then meet and may be attached in any convenient manner and
sealed. The recesses ee are simply formed, to allow the grippers to lie close
against the ends of the case.
Fig. 7 shows a modification in which one gripper or securing bolt i is employed.
The same passes upward through the hooks, having its lower end enlarged so
that it rests against the lowest hook; its upper end passes under a batten parranged
on the cover of the box. This bolt may be sealed to a projecting piece o arranged
on the end of the box. When thus the bolt is in place, the cover of the case cannot
be shifted so that the shafts of the nails or screws are held in the slits of the orifices
thus preventing the removal of the cover.

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engage.
are then
The case is taken apart and packed up in the following manner :-
are laid together as shown in Fig. 5 when the pins and orifices
The extra ends or covers as shown in Fig. 6, provided with hooks
placed over the nails or screws d d of the sides, and form the cover and bottom.
All other parts except the top & bottom may be packed inside this small case.
The cover and bottom may be secured in any convenient manner.
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In the modification shown in Figs. 8-10 hooks are substituted for the nails or
screws dd. Fig. 8 shows a plan of a case fixed together, Fig. 9 the elevation of
one of the sides and Fig. 10 an end elevation. Instead of the stups or battens a '
cel, rectangular pieces m nm n are arranged on the sides in the manner shown in
Fig. 8 the piece n serves to stay the ends of the case, whilst m contains hook
shaped recesses into which the hooks engage. The hooks and recesses are
arranged on the sides and ends, tops and bottom in the same manner as the nails
and screws previously described.
It is obvious that I can construct cases having combined hooks and nails instead
of merely substituting the one for the other, without in any way departing from
the nature of my invention.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion, and the manner in which the same is to be performed, declare that I
claim is :-
1) In detachable cases, fixing the various parts of the same together, by means
of nails, screws, pins or hooks or similar devices adapted to engage in recesses or
orifices or with other pins or hooks arranged either directly in the case sides, end
or covers, or indirectly on the same by means of intermediate battens in the manner
substantially as hereinbefore described and shown.
2) The construction of folding or detachable cases, and the modifications of the
same substantially as hereinbefore described and illustrated in the accompanying
drawings.
Dated this 29th day of January 1891
RAYNER & CASSELL,
37, Chancery Lane, London, W.C., Agents for the Applicant.