IMPROVE- MENTS IN PACKING CASES
Year: 1857

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Samuel Montagu, of the firm of Samuel and Montagu
of 21, Cornhill, in the City of London, for the Invention of "IMPROVE-
MENTS IN PACKING CASES."
Sealed the 3rd July 1857, and dated the 30th January 1857..
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Samuel Montagu at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
30th January 1857.
I, SAMUEL MONTAGU, of-the-firm of Samuel and Montagu, of 21, Cornhill,
in the City of London, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention:
for "IMPROVEMENTS IN PACKING CASES," to be as follows:-
The object of this Invention is to prevent packing cases from being opened
surreptitiously, applicable more especially to boxes or packing cases in which
bullion, specie, or such other articles of value are transmitted from place to
place.
For this purpose I make to fit around the edges. of such packing cases;
pieces of sheet iron, bending the edges of such sheets of metal at an angle, of
about 45 degrees; to fit into corresponding grooves or slits in the wood made.
to receive them, and slide them on to the box or packing. case.. I likewise
punch holes for the nails through the binding, and also, if necessary, make
indents in such bindings with a punch, by which means the binding is pre-
vented from being wrenched or prized off; or the box or packing case forced
open, without so far injuring it as to ensure detection...

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Samuel Montagu in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
10th July 1857.
TO ALL. TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, SAMUEL
MONTAGU, of the firm of Samuel and Montagu, of 21, Cornhill, in the City of
London, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Thirtieth day of January, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven, in the twentieth year of Her reign,
did,. for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said
Samuel Montagu, Her special licence that I, the said Samuel Montagu, my
executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Samuel
Montagu, my executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any time agree
with, and no others, from time to time and at all times thereafter 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 "IMPROVEMENTS IN PACKING CASES,"
upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Samuel Montagu, 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 per-
formed, 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 Samuel Montagu, do hereby declare the
nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be per-
formed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement, reference being had to the Drawings hereunto annexed, and to
the letters and figures marked thereon, that is to say:
The object of this Invention is to prevent packing cases from being opened
surreptitiously, applicable more especially to boxes or packing cases in which
bullion, specie, or such other articles of value are transmitted from place to
place.
For this purpose I make to fit around the edges or corners of such packing
cases pieces of sheet iron, the edges of such sheets of metal having been pre-
viously bent in such a way as to fit into corresponding grooves or slits made in
the wood to receive them, such slits in the wood being made in the manner

page_text: following (as will be better understood by reference to the Drawings hereunto
annexed) that is to say :-
The first slit, marked c, Fig. 5, being made by means of an ordinary circular
saw, placed in an oblique direction, which works through an opening made in
a plane surface,. upon which the. box rests, and along which it is pushed by.
the hand until the length required is cut, the depth of such cut being fixed,
and regulated to correspond with the bend of the metal. The second of such
slits in the wood is made by means of a pair of cutters, the packing case being:
held tight by means of a screw, in the position shewn in Fig. 4. By turning
the handle e, that portion of the machine upon which the cutters are fixed is
brought into contact with the packing case, a part of such cutters being so
arranged as to fit into and slide along the first groove or slit previously made
by the circular saw, the part of the cutters that is turned or bent up making,
the second or smaller slit in such packing case, as seen at n, Fig. 4,, such bend
of the cutters being also made so as to produce such second or smaller slit
of such a depth or width as to correspond with the smaller bend of the:
metal..
The slits or grooves having been made in the wood, I slide on to the packing
case such pieces of metal. I then drive nails through the metal binding, and
also, if necessary, make indents, in such binding with a punch, by which means
the binding is prevented from being wrenched or prized off, or the box or
packing case forced open, without so far injuring it as to ensure detection.
DRAWINGS.
Fig. 1 is a sectional view of the metal binding, shewing the angles at which
it is bent.
Fig: 2 is a view of one of the cutters, by means of which the second
or smaller slit in the wood is made, f shewing the part which fits into the
slit or groove previously made by means of the circular saw, and g the part
which cuts the second or smaller slit. Fig. 3 is a sectional view of the same.
Fig. 4 is the machine by which the smaller slit in the wood is made. a is
the packing case; b, b, are the cutters; h is the screw which holds the
packing case in position; e is the handle to turn the fly wheel i, which
acts upon the screw d, by which the cutters b, b, are brought into contact
with the packing case a, and made to cut through the wood to form such
smaller slits n, n.
Fig. 5. a is the packing case; b, b, the cutters; c, c, the slits or grooves in.
the wood made by the circular saw.

page_text: Fig 6 is the view of a packing case as fastened up, shewing the position
of the metal binding.
Having now described the nature and object of my said Invention, and the
manner in which the same is to be performed, what I claim is, the bending of
pieces of sheet iron in the manner herein-before described, so as to fit into
corresponding grooves or slits made in the packing cases, applicable more.
especially to boxes or packing cases for containing bullion, or such other
articles in transit from place to place.
In witness whereof, I, the said Samuel Montagu, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Tenth day of July, One thousand eight hundred
and fifty-seven.
.
Witness,
EDW. TOWERS.
SAMUEL MONTAGU. (L.S.)