Improvements in and in connection with Show Cards.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 5th Dec., 1893
Complete Specification Left, 5th Sept., 1894-Accepted, 13th Oct., 1894
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in and in connection with Show Cards.
1 PARKIN SLADe Langley, of Liddell Street, Hull in the County of York,
Drysalter, do hereby declare the nature of this invention, to be as follows:-
The object of my invention is to construct a simple device for hanging to walls,
or for placing in any suitable position, such device being a combined show card and
box for holding any kind of small articles too numerous to mention.
I construct my invention as follows:-
I employ a card upon which may be printed advertisements or any suitable
matter, to this card I attach a square, oblong or other shaped box, by glueing,
stitching or other suitable means, the lid of the box being self closing by having
pieces of elastic fixed inside it, or by a weight or weights being attached to the
upper or underside of the lid, so that in cardboard or the like boxes, where the lid
is not heavy, the weights or elastic hold the lid down.
This simple contrivance can be hung or otherwise attached to walls or any
suitable parts of buildings or the like, and will be of great utility for holding a
large variety of small articles and keeping the same dry and free from dust, the
card being preferably used for advertisements.
This contrivance can be made in any suitable metal or material as found
convenient.
Dated this Second day of December 1893.
JOHN E. WALSH,
Saville Street, Hull, and Crossley Street, Halifax,
Agent for the Applicant.

page_text: or weights E (see Fig. 3) being attached to the upper or underside of the lid, so
that in cardboard or the like boxes where the lid is not heavy the weights or
elastic hold the lid down. This elastic is fixed preferably at or near one or both
ends, (see Fig. 1,) or at an angle, as at Fig. 4. and is fastened to the lid and
bottom or in any convenient position by glueing or attaching in any suitable
manner.
The lids of cardboard boxes may be separate from the box, and be fastened to
the card by a strip of canvas F or the like gummed to the top or underside of
the lid and to the card, thus forming a hinge, or the lid may be a sliding one if
desired.
In place of making the box separate and thus having to gum or fasten it to
the card, such card may be made deep enough to allow of it being bent to form the
bottom and front of the box (see Fig. 4) the front being cut wide enough to
allow of its ends being turned over to form the sides, thus making the box in one
piece with card, and allowing it to stand upright.
If the contrivance is made of metal or any heavy material, the box has a hinge
formed upon it and the lid will drop on account of its own weight, no elastic or
extra weights being required.
Having now particularly described and, ascertained the nature of 'this inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, 1 declare that what I
claim is :-
In combination with show cards, labels or tickets A, the construction or
formation of boxes B or similar receptacles upon their outer surfaces, in the manner
and for the purposes, substantially as shown and described.
Dated this Fourth day of September 1894
JOHN E. WALSH,
Crossley Street, Halifax, and Saville Street, Hull,
Patent Agent for the Applicant.