Improvements in Boxes, Trunks, or Cases.
Year: 1888

page_text: Date of Application, 18th Sept., 1888
Complete Specification Left, 15th June, 1889-Accepted, 27th July, 1889
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Boxes, Trunks, or Cases.
WILLIAM DE COURCY PRIDEAUX of 5 Fore Street Wellington in the County of
Somerset Ironmonger do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
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By having pieces of sheet or rod metal, or other suitable material fastened or hinged
to the upper edges of trunks, boxes, or cases, in such a manner that they can be closed
over the articles packed therein, and be fastened in that position if necessary by straps
or other device, before the lid of the trunk, box, or case is closed.
The object of these pieces of metal or other material being to prevent clothes or
other articles packed from interfereing with the perfect and easy closing of the trunk,
box, or case; or hindering the free action of the catch or lock used, or affixed
thereto.
Dated this 17th dox of Sontember 1888
WILLIAM DE COURCY PRIDEAUX.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Boxes, Trunks, or Cases.
WILLIAM DE COURCY PRIDEAUX 5 Fore Street Wellington in the county of Somerset-
shire Ironmonger 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 :-
My invention has for its object an improvement in metallic packing boxes cases and
trunks, or any other metallic receptacles which are used for the carrying or trans-
porting of personal effects or merchandise hereinafter termed for the sake of brevity
box or boxes, to denote the before named metallic packing boxes cases and trunks.
By its use it obviates the inconvenience arising whenever a box is packed by the
packed articles projecting over the top edge of the box, and being caught between the
cover and top edge of the box. This inconvenience arises more especially when
the box is packed with clothing or other textile articles. The same invention can also
be applied to covers & trays of boxes for all the purposes herein before named and
can be used for retaining articles in the covers of the boxes.
This invention is applicable to all classes of travelling boxes which are constructed
of metallic materials as tin steel sheet iron and other sheet metals.
In carrying my invention into effect I adopt various modifications, I use hinged
flaps wings or plates attached' to the top edges of the box tray or cover these
hinged flaps wings or plates hereinafter called wings may be made of metal wood
cardboard millboard or any combination of such materials which may be covered
with linen canvas or other textile material. The said wings may also be made of
wire netting or any woven metallic substance which may be made in one continuous
band of any required width or thickness provided with rings on each edge the one
row of rings to attach to the box.edge by means of a rod or other suitable attach-
ment the top row to take a lace or strap to gather the mouth so formed and close
it in somewhat the same way as the running or reeving strings to the mouth of a
bag.
The wings may be fixed at or near the top edge or edges or the inside edge or
edges of the box tray or cover by means of hinges rings hooks or any of the other
well known appliances, for making moveable joints and the wings to make them
more adaptable in covering the contents of the box may be bent or hinged in various

page_text: parts by one or more hinges so as to render them more flexible and adapted for
folding in various directions so that they may follow the shape of the box or suit
themselves to the contents as the quantity and size of the articles packed in the
box may requiro or the wings may be composed of wooden or metal laths fastened
together by leather straps or flexible bands of any suitable material the laths being
placed parallel to each other or any other direction relative to the sides of the box
or to each other and the leather straps crossing them at right angles or any other
suitable angles & being fastened to the laths by rivets screws or any other well
known method of fastening.
In the case of square or oblong boxes there may be two or any greater number
of wings but by preference four wings are used which may or may not meet when
closed by preference they do not meet.
When the wings are closed after the box is packed they are kept fastened down
together by one or more straps laces springs buckles or their equivalent & could
also be made so that the wings could overlap each other and the last one or two over-
lapping be secured and thus secure all the overlapped wings.
In the case of circular boxes or boxes having semicircular or curved ends
or sides the wings are formed so as to be sectors or portions of sectors of
circles or otherwise shaped to meet the curves of the sides or ends of the boxes and
the same principle of having the wings made symetrical with the sides of the box
& closing towards the centre is adopted in all shapes of boxes.
In order that the varied requirements of users may be met with reference to the
different materials they may require the wings to be made of the wings may be
attached to the boxes by means of removeable hinge pins so that the wings of the
boxes can be made more or less interchangeable that is to say a brass wing way
be fitted into a box from which a wing of a different material has been taken by
withdrawing the removeable hinge pin of the hinge of the wing that is already fitted in
the box & taking out this wing and replacing it with a brass wing and putting the
hinge pin again in its place it will thus be seen that by this method the brass wing is
fitted into the place previously occupied by a wing of a different material which the
brass wing has replaced.
It will be readily understood that one half of the hinge of the wing is permanently
attached to the box and the other half is part of the wing and when these two come
together and are joined by means of the hinge pin a complete hinge is formed which
constitutes the moveable wing, the usual method of attaching one part of the wing to
the box by means of solder screws or rivets is adopted..
Another modification of my invention is that the wings can overlap or over-ride
each other so that they may be extended or contracted by increasing or diminishing
the overlapping parts or the wings may in their manufacture be stamped rolled or
fashioned in ridges or corrugations rendering them capable of being shortened or
Jengthened by rising or depressing their corrugations.
In order that the carrying out of my invention in practice may be fully understood
1 have illustrated on the accompanying sheet of explanatory drawings and have
marked the same with letters of reference corresponding with this in the following
description ;-
Figure 1 on Sheet 1 is a plan of the top of the box tray or cover with the flaps
shown in position a is the wing which is attached to the side of the box by a hinge d.
There is also a hinge in each wing, C so that the wing can bend either inwards or out-
wards by means of the hinge C. b is a strap connecting the wings together in order
to keep them closed or compress them upon the contents of the box.
In Figure 2 a, is a wing and C is a hinge & d'is a hinge which attaches the wing
to the box. Figure 2, shows the box fitted with two wings only.
Figure 3 shows a circular box' in which the wings have no hinge except that
attaching them to the side of the box. E is a space which may be filled in between
the hinge and the side of the box or may be left open as may be preferred. In
Figure 3 the wings may overlap each other so that upon the last of the overlapping
series being fastened it will fasten all the preceeding overlapped wings.

page_text: Figure 4 is a plan of an arrangement where there is a flexible or metallic netting
attached to the sides of the box G the netting is brought towards the centre by a
reeving or running strap 6 and fastened by any buckle lace or equivalent fastening at H
upon the fastener being unloosed the flexible netting can be pushed back towards
the sides of the box when it is not required for use. K loops attaching netting to
sides of box.
Figure 5 shows an alternative method of applying the wings in which A are bars
of wood or metal or other suitable material fastened by the straps 6 which may be
made of leather or any other flexible. material. These laths of wood or metal or
other suitable material can be drawn together and fastened by means of the straps b
and fastener H.
Figures 6 & 7 are enlarged views of the interchangeable hinge arrangement in
which F is the removeable pin upon which the wings move and which upon being
drawn out the two parts of the wing may be separated, that is upon the pin F
being withdrawn the flap a is detached from the other part of the hinge J which
is fixed to the side of the box tray or cover G.
Figures 8 & 9 show another arrangement of the flaps. Figure 8 is the plan and
Fig. 9 is the sectional elevation of the box with wings attached thereto.. In
Figure 8. a. a. shows two of the wings on opposite sides closed and a' a' shows
the other two side wings overlapping the wings a. a. d. are the hinges b. is the
strap H. the fastener which keeps the two wings together and closed.
Figure 9. is a sectional elevation of the box to which wings are fixed 'a. a. are
the wings d the hinges for the wings and N the cover of the box shown open.
Lis the lock of the box G. the sides of the box and M the bottom of the box.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what 1
claim is :-
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First. The use of hinged flaps wings or plates attached to the top of the inside of
a box or the tray of a box or inside the cover of a box substantially as and for
the purposes herein before shown and described.
Second. The method in which these flaps can be made interchangeable and fixed in
the manner and method hereinbefore described.
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1000
W. M. LLEWELLIN, C.E.,
15, King Square, Bristol, Agent for the Applicant.