Improvements in Boxes, Trunks, and the like.
Year: 1897

page_text: PROVIDIONAL OF EVITICATION,
Improvements in Boxes, Trunks, and the like.
I, SYDNEY CLARKE WELLS, of 21, Vineyard Gardens, Farringdon Road, in the
City and County of London, Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of this
invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to an improvement in that type of box or trunk adapted
to carry ladies hats and bonnets and having pads or cushions on its inner walls
to which the hats or bonnets are to be pinned, and it consists in so constructing
the said pads and attaching them to the inner walls of the box or trunk that they
can readily be detached when not required for use and when so detached can be
packed one within the other to reduce the space occupied by them when not in
use or when it is desired to use the box or trunk for other purposes.
The pads are made of metallic gauze or other suitable material in the shape of
truncated cones.
A convenient method of attaching the pads to the inner walls of the box or trunk
is to form on the rim at the base of the come two projecting pins adapted to engage
either with sockets on the inner walls of the box or trunk, or with spring clips or
equivalent devices thereon.
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ROBERT E. PHILLIPS, Assoc. M. Inst. C.E., M.I. Mech. E.,
Consulting Engineer and Patent Agent,
70, Chancery Lane, London, W.C., Agent for the Applicant.
Improvements in Boxes, Trunks, and the like.
I, SYDNEY CLARKE WELLS, of 21, Vineyard Gardens, Farringdon Road, in the
City and County of London, 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:-
This invention relates to an improvement in that type of box or trunk adapted
to carry ladies hats and bonnets and having pads or cushions on its inner walls
to which the hats or bonnets are to be pinned, and it consists in so constructing
the said pads and attaching them to the inner walls of the box or trunk that they
can readily be detached when not required for use, and when so detached can be
packed one within the other to reduce the space occupied by them when not in
use or when it is desired to use the box or trunk for other purposes.
In the accompanying drawing which illustrates this invention:-

page_text: Figure 1 is a view in plan of a pad or cushion showing one method of attachment.
Figure 2 is a view in section of the clip attachment, and
Figures 3 and 4 are views in plan and side elevation showing an alternative
construction of clip.
Throughout the views similar parts are marked with like letters of reference.
The pads X which are made of metallic gauze or other suitable material in the
shape of truncated cones are attached to the inner walls of the box or trunk by
means of pins A, A, or their equivalents, projecting from the base of the pads and
adapted to engage with spring clips B, B, or equivalent devices fixed to the interior
of the box or trunk.
These clips may conveniently be constructed either out of one piece of metal as
shown in Figures 1 and 2, the tongue piece b being stamped and pressed up out of
the blank, or they may be made of two pieces as shown in Figures 3 and 4 the
tongue piece b being formed of a separate piece of metal.
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 method of mounting hat and bonnet pads in boxes, trunks,
and the like, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.
(2) The combination with a box trunk or the like, of pads, cushions, or the like
adapted to receive hats bonnets or the like, and detachably mounted on the inner
sides of the box trunk or the like so that they can be readily removed when the
trunk is required for other purposes, as set forth.
Doted his 10th day of December 1897
This 10th day of December 1897
ROBERT E. PHILLIPS, Assoc. M. Inst. C.E., M.I. Mech. E.,
Consulting Engineer and Patent Agent,
70, Chancery Lane, London, W.C., Agent for the Applicant.