Cases and Boxes and other Cases and Boxes.
Year: 1888

page_text: Date of Application, 30th May, 1888
Complete Specification Left, 16th Feb., 1889
Complete Specification Accepted, 6th Apr., 1889
Cases and Boxes and other Cases and Boxes.
I JAMES STABLEFORD of Oak Works Kent Street Leicester Manager of Works
do hereby declare the nature of this Invention to be as follows:-
My invention consists of the construction and combination herein after described
of the parts of fastenings for the lids or covers of packing cases and boxes and
other cases and boxes whereby the ordinary fixed inside strap bolts for the lid or
cover to drop upon are dispensed with and the fastening down and unfastening of
the lid or cover are effected without damage to the said lid or cover and with a
facility unattainable by the ordinary arrangements.
I will describe my invention as used with a packing case to which it is par-
ticularly applicable.
I secure to one end of and crossing the top of the case an angular fixing band
or strap of strong hoop iron the said angular band or strap projecting above the
top of the case to a distance equal to the thickness of the lid or cover so that the
end of the lid can slide or be inserted under the said fixing strap or band. The
ends of the angular strap or band are bent at right angles to the top crossing
horizontal part and the said angular strap is fixed to the outside of the case by
screws passed through the said bent or angular ends.
At the other end of the case I use a similar angular band or strap but instead of
being fixed I joint it by its bent or angular ends to the outside of the case so
that the jointed angular band or strap can be raised over and made to cross the
top of the lid or cover and case or be removed from off the lid or cover and
turned down over the end of the case. In the middle of that end of the lid or cover
to be fixed down by the jointed angular band or strap a screw box or screw nut and
a guide plate are fixed. The guide plate is let into the top of the lid and the screw
box into the underside of the lid a hole in the guide plate and a hole in the lid
coinciding with the screw box. When the jointed angular band or strap is raised
.

page_text: over the end of the lid or cover a hole in the middle of the said band or strap coincides
with the hole in the guide plate and through these coincident holes a fixing down
screw bolt is passed and screwed into the screw box for fastening the said lid or
cover to the said band or strap. The head of the fixing down screw bolt is
angular for turning it by a spanner and in the said head is a cross nick for
turning it by a screw driver so that the said screw bolt may be screwed home or
unscrewed either by the use of a spanner or screw driver.
Stops at the ends of the body of the packing case support the ends of the lid
when in its place.
In applying and fastening the lid or cover to the body of the packing case the
jointed angular band or strap is turned down and one end of the lid is inserted
under the fixed angular strap. The jointed angular strap is now raised over the
opposite end of the lid and the fixing down screw bolt passed through the hole in the
said strap and made to take into the screw box in the lid. In order to withdraw
the lid the fixing down bolt is removed and the jointed angular strap turned down from
off the end of the lid which end can now be slightly raised from the stops and its
opposite end withdrawn from under the fixed angular strap.
For greater security the lid or cover may be fastened to the fixed angular strap by
a fixing down screw bolt and screw box as described with respect to the jointed
angular strap and instead of using a fixed angular strap at one end of the packing
case and a jointed angular strap at the other end of the packing case a jointed angular
strap and the fixing down arrangement may be used at each end of the packing case
and lid or cover.

page_text: Cases and Boxes and other Cases and Boxes.
I JAMES STABLEFORD of Oak Works, Kent Street, Leicester, Manager of Works
do hereby declare the nature of my invention and in what manner the same is to
be performed to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement :-
:-
My invention consists of the construction and combination hereinafter described of
the parts of fastenings for the lids or covers of packing cases and boxes and other
cases and boxes, whereby the ordinary fixed inside strap bolts for the lid or cover to
drop upon are dispensed with and the fastening down and unfastoning of the lid or
cover are effected without damago to the said lid or cover and with a facility unattain-
able by the ordinary arrangements.
I will describe my invention as used with a packing case to which it is particularly
applicable.
1 secure to one end of and crossing the top of the case, an angular fixing band or
strap of strong hoop iron, the said angular band or strap projecting above the top of
the case to a distance equal to the thickness of the lid or cover so that the end of the
lid can slide or be inserted under the said fixing strap or band. The ends of the
angular strap or band are bent at right angles to the top crossing horizontal part and
the said angular strap is fixed to the outside of the case by screws passed through the
said bent or angular ends.
At the other end of the case I use a similar angular band or strap but instead of
being fixed i joint it by its bent or angular ends to the outside of the case so that the
jointed angular band or strap can be raised over and made to cross the top of the lid
or cover and case, or be removed from off the lid or cover and turned down over the
end of the case.
In the middle of that end of the lid or cover to be fixed down by the
jointed angular band or strap, a screw box or screw nut and a guide plate are fixed.
The guide plate is let into the top of the lid and the screw box into the underside of
the lid, a hole in the guide plate and a bole in the lid coinciding with the screw box.
When the jointed angular band or strap is raised over the end of the lid or cover, a
hole in the middle of the said band or strap coincides with the hole in the guide plate
and through these coincident holes a fixing down screw bolt is passed and screwed
into the screw box for fastening the said lid or cover to the said band or strap. The
head of the fixing down screw bolt is angular for turning it by a spanner and in the
said head is a cross nick for turning it by a screw driver so that the said screw bolt
may be screwed home or unscrewed either by the use of a spanner or screw driver.
Stops at the ends of the body of the packing case support the ends of the lid when
in its place.
Figure 1 of the accompanying Drawing represents in side elevation; Figure 2 in
plan of upper side and Figure 3 in end elevation (taken at the left hand end of

page_text: Figures 1 and 2) a packing case to which fastenings constructed according to my
invention are applied; Figure 4 is a cross section of the same taken on the line A A
Figure 2 and Figure 5 is a longitudinal section of the same taken on the line B B
Figure 2. The same letters of reference indicate the same parts in the several
Figures of the Drawing.
the
c is the body of the packing case and d is the lid or cover of the same; c² c
and care stops at the ends of the body c for supporting the ends of the lid d
when in its place, cross bars d and d³ on the ends of the said lid bearing against
the said stops (see Figure 5); e is the fixed angular band or strap of strong hoop
iron (see Figure 3) at one end of the packing case the angular ends of the said band e
being screwed at ee to the sides of the case; is the jointed angular band or
strap of strong hoop iron (see Figure 4) at the other end of the packing case,
angular ends of the said jointed band or strap being jointed by the screws at ff' to
the sides of the case. The jointed angular band or strap can be raised over and
nade to cross the top of the lid or cover d and case c for fastening down the lid, or
can be drawn from off the said lid or cover and turned over the end of tho said caso
as indicated in dotted lines in Figure L. At that end of the packing case lid
where the jointed angular band or strap is made to cross it, is a guide plate g let into
the upper side and a screw box or screw nut h let into the underside of the lid and
a hole is also made in the lid, the holes in the said guide plate, screw box and lid
being coincident (see Figures 4 and 5); i is a fixing down screw holt passed through
the holes in the guide plate and lid and screwed into the screw box h.
The head of the fixing down screw bolt i may be provided with a cross nick for
turning it by a screw driver when a spanner is not available. In the middle of the
cross bar of the lid d is a depression d' and a similar shaped depression is also
made in the middle of the jointed band so that when the said jointed band is raised
over the end of the lid the depressed middle part of the said band seats itself in the
said depression-d-as-seen-in Figures 4 and 5. By this arrangement the head of the
screw bolt when it is driven home is flush with the top of the cross bar of
the lid.
In applying and fastening the lid or cover d to the body c of the packing case,
the jointed angular band is turned down as indicated in dotted lines in Figure 1
-and-one end-of-the-lid is inserted under the fixed angular banda and made to bear
against the stops c², c² and the other end of the lid is lowered and made to bear
against the stops c³, c. The jointed angular band is now raised over the last
named end of the lid and the fixing down screw bolt i passed through the guide hole
or plate g and screwed into the screw box in the lid as represented in the Drawing.
The lid is thereby securely fastened in its place. In order to unfasten and with-
draw the lid the fixing down bolt i is removed and the jointed angular strap f turned
down from off the end of the lid which end can now be slightly raised from the
stops, and its opposite end withdrawn from under the fixed angular strap e as
indicated in dotted lines in Figure 1. For greater security the lid or cover d
may be fastened to the fixed angular strap e by a fixing down screw bolt and the
appliances described with respect to the jointed angular strap f; and instead of
using a fixed angular strap e at one end and a jointed angular strap fat the other
end of the packing case, a jointed angular strap and the fixing down arrangement
described and represented in connection with it may be used at each end of the
packing case and lid or cover.
I do not limit myself to the arrangement represented for fixing down the angular bands
or straps as other equivalent arrangements may be used such for example as a screw
bolt and nut and a pin and cotter but I prefer to use the arrangement represented in
the Drawing which arrangement I have found to answer well in practice.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my inven-
tion and the manner in which the same is to be performed I declare that what
I claim as my invention is :-
.. Fastenings for the lids or covers of packing cases and boxes and other cases and

page_text: boxes consisting essentially of a fixed angular band or strap at one end of the case or
box and a jointed angular band or strap at the other end of the case or box, the latter
band or strap being capable of being raised over and made to cross the end of the lid
or cover and case or box or turned from off the said lid or cover over the end of the
case or box, the middle of the jointed band or fixed and jointed bands being
fixed to the lid or cover substantially as hereinbefore described and illustrated in
the accompanying Drawing; also the use of a jointed angular band or strap and
a fixing down arrangement at each end of the packing case or box or other case
or box and lid or cover substantially as hereinbefore described.
Dated this Fourteenth day of February 1889.
JAMES STABLEFORD.