Improvements in Boxes for Pattern and other Cards.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 4th July, 1893-Accepted, 5th Aug., 1893
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Boxes for Pattern and other Cards.
I, CHARLES FRANCIS GEORGE RICHARD SCHWERDT, of 35 Monkwell Street,
in the City of London, Merchant, 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 :-
My invention relates to a box for holding cards such as those presenting patterns
of buttons or the like, or they might be photographs, prints or other cards, the
object which I have in view being to facilitate the charging of the box with cards,
the withdrawal of the uppermost card, and the elevation of those left so as to bring
the next to the level for withdrawal.
Fig. 1 of the accompanying drawings is a transverse section and Fig. 2 is a plan
of a box according to my invention, which is shewn by way of example as
containing a pattern button card partly broken away in Fig. 2 to shew the
elevating mechanism below.
Fig. 3 is a part section on the line ✗ of Fig. 1 and Fig. 4 is a part section on the
line Y of Fig. 2 shewing a modification.
Fig. 5 is a longitudinal section of a modified form of box, of which Fig. 6 is a
plan with part of the card broken away.
The box A and its hinged lid B may be made of wood or other suitable material.
Within it free to move up and down is a platform C supported on the ends of four
levers D, two at each end. These levers which are pivotted at d d, are strained by
springs E so as to urge the platform C upwards. They are also attached by cords
to a barrel F, which can turn in bearings in the ends of the box near its bottom
and which is connected by a cord f passing under a guide pulley to an open frame (+
which is hinged to the box at g and held down by turn buckles H H, its edges
preventing the uppermost card K from rising higher. When the card is in this
position it can be drawn out at L between the edge of the front of the box and the
edge of the frame.
To facilitate the withdrawal, a notch may be cut at M out of the front of the
box and a notch at N out of the platform C so as to admit the finger and thumb
to take hold of the edge of the card which is to be withdraw. According to the
modification shewn in Fig. 4, the frout bar g' of the frame G is removed aud an
angle bar P is hinged to the front of the box so that it can be turned down as
indicated at P₁ to admit the fingers to the edge of the card that is to be
withdrawn.
When it is desired to charge the box with cards the turnbuckles H are turned
aside as indicated at H', and the frame G is turned on its hinges to a position such
as G', pulling the cord f as at f¹ and thereby turning the barrel F so as to draw
down the levers D allowing the platform to descend to C¹. The space above C
can then be filled with superposed cards, and the uppermost being held down by
the pressure of a finger the frame G can be turned forward and down, and fixed as
before. The lid B can be folded over to the position B' and locked by a flap b
which in the position 6¹ covers the notch at M.
Referring now to Figs. 5 and 6, the platform C with the cards upon it is pressed
upwards by four springs Q, but the uppermost card is held at its sides by lips R
projecting inwards from the sides of the box. These lips are hinged to the sides of
the box by stop hinges which prevent them from rising higher, and are pressed
upwards by springs S arranged in the hinges. When it is desired to place a number
of cards in the box they are laid with their margins resting on the lips R and are
then pressed downwards these lips folding down on their hinges as indicated by the
dotted lines R'. When the cards have been pressed down beyond the edges of R',

page_text: the lips R are caused by the springs to rise to the position shewn in Fig. 5 so as to
form stops to prevent the cards from rising higher. Although I have shewn only
the two sides made with hinged lips R there might also be a lip at the back, and
in the front there might be a hinged lip or bar to fold outwards as P in Fig. 4.
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. In a box for pattern or other cards, the combination of the platform carrying
the cards, the spring levers supporting it, the hinged frame having flanges bearing
on the margins of the cards, the barrel and cords attached to the hinged frame and
the springs, arranged and operating substantially as described.
2. In a box for pattern and other cards, the combination of the platform carrying
the cards, the springs supporting it and the lips attached by stop and spring hinges
to the sides of the box, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.
Dated this 4th day of July 1893.
ABEL & IMRAY,
Agents for Applicant.