Year: 1885

page_text: JOHN THOMPSON of Penn Fields, Wolverhampton in the County of Stafford
Boiler-maker, and HERBERT PRICE LAVENDER of Cleveland Street Wolverhampton
aforesaid, Safe-maker do hereby declare the nature of our said invention to be as
follows:-
The object of our invention is to construct Depositories or Safes in an improved
manner rendering such safes more secure against fire, burglars, damage by fall, and
other violence.
In carrying out our invention, we form the walls or sides of the safes of corrugated
or bulged plates secured together by solid welding at all the corners or joints,
(previously dovetailed or rivetted), thus forming one homogeneous shell, imparti
uniform and greater strength to all parts, and avoiding the weakness arising from
rivetted dovetailed and other joints.
In constructing our improved safes we use similar materials and fittings to those
at present in use.

page_text: Improvements in the Construction of Fire and Burglar-proof
Safes.
JOHN THOMPSON, of Penn Fields, Wolverhampton, in the County of Stafford,
Boiler maker, and HERBERT PRICE LAVENDER, of Cleveland street, Wolverhampton
aforesaid, Safe maker, do hereby declare the nature of our said invention and in
what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and
ascertained in and by the following statement:-
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The object of our invention is to construct depositories or safes, strongrooms,
doors and analogous articles, in such a manner as to render the same more secure
against fire, burglars, and damage by falls or other violence.
Our improvements are effected by the application of corrugations, indentations
or bulges, so as to produce uneven surfaces.
The plates so treated are (when applied to safes) by preference, secured together
by solid welding at all the joints, instead of the usual methods of dovetailing and
rivetting; but, when preferred or found desirable, such corrugated plates may be
united by dovetailing and rivetting.
The corrugations are produced by heating the plates, or that or those portion
or portions of the plates to be operated upon, and pressing them into the required
shape.
We use materials and fittings of a similar kind to those usually applied to such
articles.
And in order that our said invention may be particularly described and
ascertained, reference is hereby made to the accompanying drawings.
Fig. 1 is a perspective view, shewing the application of our invention to an
ordinary iron safe; the corrugations or indentations in which, as also in the other
figures may be varied to any extent.
Fig. 2 is a section on the line a b of Fig. 1.
Fig. 3 is a front elevation shewing the application of the invention to doors, and
illustrating a few convenient designs.
Fig. 4 is a section on the line cd of Fig. 3.
Fig. 5 is a perspective view, illustrating a method of applying our invention to a
circular Jewel safe, in which h is a cylinder, forming, with its base, the outer wall
of the safe, welded into one construction, and corrugated or bulged. e is the cover or
lid, fitted with a lock and mounted on the pedestal f. This pedestal is bored and
tapped with a screw thread, a corresponding male screw being fitted to the centre
of the base. Knobs m m are fitted to the lid e, by which it may be caused to
revolve, and thereby to rise out of or descend into the safe. When screwed down
it may be secured by a lock, as usual; and it may be opened, when unlocked, by
revolving the lid e in the opposite direction. The pedestal may be fitted with a
number of shelves or trays g g for holding articles of Jewellery.
Fig. 6 is intended to illustrate a convenient form of moulds or dies for producing
the corrugations in the plates, by pressing the same between the dies k. l.

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said
invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what
we claim is
1. In the manufacture of fire and burglar-proof safes, strong rooms, doors and
analogous articles, the application and use of corrugated or bulged plates, substan-
tially as and for the purposes herein before described and shewn on the drawings.
2. The general construction of safes, strong rooms, doors and analogous articles,
forming our improvements in the construction of Fire and Burglar proof safes,
substantially as herein before described and shewn on the drawings.
GEO. DOWNING,
Agent for Applicants.