Improvements in Hinges.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 2nd Feb., 1892
Comblete Specification Left, 31st Oct., 1892--Accepted, 3rd Dec., 1892
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Hinges.
I RICHARD MASON ESPLIN of the Warwick Saw Mills. Co. of 96 Henry Street,
Ancoats, Manchester, in the County of Lancaster, Box Maker & Timber Merchant,
do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows
My said invention relates to improvements in hinges for application chiefly to
boxes but capable of being used for other purposes. My improved hinges are made
upon the ball and socket principle and from flat strips or pieces of thin sheet metal.
To form a hinge I take two strips of metal and round off one of the ends of each.
I then stamp or press a convex bulge in the said rounded ends so that when the two
strips are placed together the two bulges form the ball portion of the joint. To form
the socket portion I take two similar strips and press or stamp circular depressions
in the ends which serve as sockets to receive the stamped or bulged ends of the
other half of the hinge.
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When applied to a wooden box I make saw cuts in the lid and back of the box
and insert the metal strips into the said saw cuts and by preference turn down and
rivet or lap over the edges of the strips. whereby the strips are held securely in
position and the halves of the hinge prevented from coming asunder. The improved
hinges may be applied either to wooden boxes or to boxes of metal paper or of
other material, or the improved hinges might be used for purposes other than for
box hinges. The hinge when applied is of a neat and taking appearance and lies
flush with the material of the box or object to which it is applied.
Dated this 1st day of February 1892.
DUTTON & FULTON,
1. St. James Square, Manchester, Agents.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Hinges.
I RICHARD MASON ESPLIN of the Warwick Saw Mills Co. of 96 Henry Street,.
Ancoats, Manchester, in the County of Lancaster, Box Maker and Timber
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 and accompanying drawings
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My said invention relates to improvements in hinges for application to boxes and
for other uses.
The accompanying sheet of drawings fully illustrates my invention. In making a
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hinge I punch a flat piece a of sheet metal to the shape shown at Fig. 1.
fold down the sides a¹ as shown at Fig. 2 and finally double the piece together as
at Fig. 3. In punching the piece I also form two protrusions bb at the ends of the
blank so that when the blank is folded together as at Fig. 3 the projections 6 6 lie
in line. This completes the male half of the hinge. To make the female half I punch
a blank c of the shape shown at Fig. 4, bend down the sides c' as at Fig. 5 and
double it together as in Fig. 6. In forming this blank I stamp two hemispherical
recesses d d to fit the protrusions b b in the other half a.
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When applying the hinge to a wooden box I make a saw-cut in the lid e and also.
in the side or back f of the box as appears in Fig. 7. I then insert or drive the
hinge half a into the slit in fand the half c into the slit in e having first or during
the operation inserted or sprung the projections bb into the recesses d d. The
driving home of the hinge halves closes them one upon the other so that the

page_text: projections 66 play like pivots or hinge pins within the recesses d d and cannot
leave them. To prevent the hinges from being withdrawn I countersink the turned
over side flaps a¹ and c¹ with a punch so as to give them a grip on the lid and back
of the box. Instead of hinging the halves together by projections and recesses
pressed out of the metal as described I might punch the halves and hinge them
together by pins or rivets or I might connect the hinge halves by a link g as shown
in Fig. 9. Two or any greater number of hinges may be applied to the box. The
boxes might be of material other than wood and the improved hinges might be used
for purposes other than for box hinges.
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. The improved box or other hinges constructed and applied substantially as
herein before described and shown.
2. A box or other hinge stamped or otherwise formed from sheet metal and bent
and inserted into saw cuts or slits as described, projections formed in one hinge half
engaging with recesses formed in the other hinge half, or the two hinge halves
being connected by a pin or rivet or by a link substantially as herein set forth and
as illustrated.
Dated this 29th day of October 1892.
E. K. DUTTON & Co.,
5, John Dalton Street, Manchester, Agents.