Improvements in or Pertaining to Boxes.
Year: 1889

page_text: Date of Application, 22nd Oct., 1889-Accepted, 28th Dec, 1889
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or Pertaining to Boxes.
I LISSIE ANN EVANOVITCH trading as James Holland & Co. of 25 Hart Street
Bloomsbury in the county of Middlesex Patent Medicine Manufacturer 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:-
The object of this my invention is so to fit and construct boxes that each box
contains and comprises two compartments or separate receptacles with separate lids or
other closing appliances at opposite ends of the box. My improved boxes therefore
are extremely and especially useful for and applicable with medicinal preparations
when two of such preparations are proposed to be sold together or ought to be used
together or otherwise are complementary of each other and for this purpose they have
been designed but it is sufficiently obvious that they are not limited thereto for any
materials can similarly be placed in these boxes.
To carry out this my aforesaid object I construct a box preferably of sheet metal
and of a cylindrical shape which box may be of any desired dimensions and proportions
and the outside thereof may be ornamented or otherwise treated in any manner as
may be preferred. Inside and to this box I fit a transverse partition or diaphragm
by which the same is divided in its length into two compartments or separate
receptacles and this diaphragm so fitted in and secured to the box and in such
position therein that these two compartments either may be of an equal size or the
one compartment may be so much larger than the other compartment as may be
convenient or desirable or necessary in each particular case having regard to the
materials and the proportional quantities thereof that it is intended to place therein.
To the two ends of this box which are open and may be of the same transverse area
as the box or may be contracted as much as may be desired thereby forming shoulders
and necks and contracted mouths thereon and therein are fitted any suitable lids or
other closing appliances which may be entirely separate and removable from the box
or may be hinged or jointed thereto or may be otherwise fitted thereto in any usual or
convenient manner.
Thus in this box there are two entirely separate receptacles wherein two different
materials can be placed and either of these receptacles may be opened to remove some
or all of the material thereout and then be closed as is desired.
In the accompanying drawing I have shewn one of the most simple but at the same
time a very convenient style of this my box. Figure 1 is a longitudinal section of the
box and Figure 2 is a plan of one of the ends thereof.
The box A is of a cylindrical shape and the transverse partition or diaphragm B is
so fitted therein as to divide the same into the two compartments C and D of unequal
sizes and to the open ends of the box A are fitted the separate and removable lids E.
As is hereinbefore stated I preferably make this box of sheet metal but I do not
limit myself thereto for I may make the same of wood or other suitable material in a
similar manner.
As is also hereinbefore stated I preferably make this box of a cylindrical shape as is
shewn in the drawing but neither do I limit myself thereto for I may make the same
of a cylindroidal shape or of an hexahedral or an hexahedroidal shape or of an
octahedral or an octahedroidal shape or of a decahedral or a decahedroidal or other
polyhedral shape as may be desired in a similar manner in all cases the lids or other
closing appliances being at or on the opposite ends of the box as is hereinbefore
escribed.

page_text: 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
The improvements in or pertaining to boxes substantially as hereinbefore described
and set forth.
HART & Co.