THE APPLICATION AND ADAPTATION OF AN OPTICAL OR STEREO- SCOPIC ARRANGEMENT IN THE MANUFACTURE OF BOXES."
Year: 1856

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to George Edward Johns, of No. 4, Falcon Street, in
the City of London, and County of Middlesex, Box Manufacturer; for the
Invention of "THE APPLICATION AND ADAPTATION OF AN OPTICAL OR STEREO-
SCOPIC ARRANGEMENT IN THE MANUFACTURE OF BOXES."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said George Edward Johns
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
23rd October 1856.
I, GEORGE EDWARD JOHNS, of No. 4, Falcon Street, in the City of
London, and County of Middlesex, Box Manufacturer, do hereby declare
the nature of the "said Invention for "THE APPLICATION AND ADAPTATION OF
AN OPTICAL OR STEREOSCOPIC ARRANGEMENT IN THE MANUFACTURE OF BOXES," to
be as follows:-
Hitherto the instrument called the stereoscope has not been combined with
the manufacture of any article of an ornamental nature to which it might be
conveniently and usefully applied. To effect this object, I now propose to
apply and adapt an optical or stereoscopic apparatus in the manufacture of
ornamental and other boxes capable of such an arrangement, whether sucht
boxes be manufactured of paper, wood, or any other material or materials.

page_text: "A, A," is a box (ornamental or otherwise). To the front of the box I fix
the stereoscopic tubes and glasses "B; B." "C," the inner back of the box,
against which, when empty, the object or photographic views are to be placed.
"D," the lid of box.
It will be seen; that all that is necessary to turn any box with this arrange-
ment into a complete stereoscope, will be to adapt the focuses of the stereo-
scopic lenses to the proper viewable distances from the views to be placed
against "C," the inner back of the box, and the tubes to the necessary width
apart, so that both eyes of a spectator may, at the same time, thro' the tubes,
see the object in the box.
I do not confine my application of this stereoscopic arrangement to
ornamental boxes only, as all boxes are capable of it, but claim my Invention
as a pleasing addition in particular to ornamental boxes, when, at the same
time, it does not interfere with their utility.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters "Patent,
filed by the said Georgo Edward Johns in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 16th February 1857.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, “ĠEORGE
EDWARD JOHNS, of No. 4, Falcon Street, in the City of London, and County
of Middlesex, Box Manufacturer, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
-Patent, bearing-date 'the Twenty-third day of October, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-six, in the twentieth year of Iler reign,

page_text: did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, 'give and grant unto me, the said
George Edward Johns, Her special licence that I, the said George Edward
Johns, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said
George Edward Johns, my executors, administrators, and assigns, should at
any time agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all times there-
after during the term therein expressed, should and lawfully might make,
use, exercise, and vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and
Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "THE
APPLICATION AND ADAPTATION OF AN OPTICAL OR STEREOSCOPIC ARRANGEMENT IN THE
MANUFACTURE OF BOXES," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said
George Edward Johns, my executors or administrators, by an instrument in
writing under my, or their, or one of their hands and seals, should particularly
describe and ascertain the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner
the same was to be performed, and cause the same to be filed in the Great
Seal Patent Office within six calendar months next and immediately after the
date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said George Edward Johns, do hereby
declare the nature of my said 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 Drawing (that is to say):-
Hitherto, the instrument called the stereoscope has not been combined with
the manufacture of any article of an ornamental nature to which it might be
conveniently and usefully applied. To effect this object, I now propose to
apply and adapt an optical or stereoscopic apparatus in the manufacture of
ornamental and other boxes, capable of such an arrangement, whether such
boxes be manufactured of paper, wood, or any other material or materials.
My arrangement of the stereoscopic apparatus will be best explained by
the accompanying Drawing.
"A, A," is a box (ornamental or otherwise). To the front of the box I fix
the stereoscopic tubes and glasses "B, B," "C," the inner back of the box,
against which, when empty, the object or photographic views are to be placed.
"D," the lid of box.
It will be seen, that all that is necessary to turn any box with this arrange-
ment into a complete stereoscope, will be to adapt the focuses of the stereo-
scopic lenses to the proper viewable distances from the views to be placed
against "C," the inner back of the box, and the tubes to the necessary width
apart, so that both eyes of a spectator may, at the same time, through the
tubes, see the object in the box.

page_text: ! I do not confine my application of this stereoscopic arrangement to orna-
mental boxes only, as all boxes are capable of it, but claim my Invention as a
pleasing addition in particular to ornamental boxes, when, at the same time, it
does not interfere with their utility.
:
The stereoscopic lenses may be applied to any part of the box to which it
may be necessary or desirable to affix the same.
In witness whereof, I, the said George Edward Johns, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Sixteenth day of February, in the year of
own Land Oira thousand sight hundred and fifty-coron