Improvement in Travelling Trunks and other Trunks and Boxes.
Year: 1889

page_text: Date of Application, 22nd Nov., 1889
Complete Specification Left, 20th Aug., 1890-Accepted, 25th Oct., 1890
PROVISIONAL. SPECIFICATION.
Improvement in Travelling Trunks and other Trunks and Boxes.
I, JOSEPH TONRY of the Hall Works Temple Street Wolverhampton in the County
of Stafford Tinplate Worker and Japanner do hereby declare the nature of my
invention for the IMPROVEMENT IN TRAVELLING TRUNKS AND OTHER TRUNKS AND
BOXES to be as follows:-
The object of my invention is to make a compartment or drawer with or without
covers or partitions in lid of travelling trunks and other trunks and boxes, the same
to be made to slide in on supports or rests at each side or underneath (as may be
determined) at front, ends or back of boxes and by so doing use up space previously
wasted in interior of lid, and same compartment or drawer shall be fixed in such a
manner as to allow of getting at small articles in drawer or compartment without
having to open the whole of the box or trunk. The lid shall be jointed at front end
or back of trunk or box as may be preferred in such a manner as to allow it to be
opened up or down as may be determined hereafter and to allow of pulling drawer or
compartment out when in use. The same to be fastened by lock or hasp as may be
required. The invention also includes folding compartment for hats etc., which is
rivotted or hinged to the bottom sides or ends of trunks or boxes as may be desired,
and when not in use to be folded together flat so as to allow all the space of the
interior of trunk or box to be used. Further two stamped mouldings or more if
desired of various patterns may be made in the bottom of box or trunk and clipped
or covered with strip or fluted iron if preferred to give greater strength and resistance
to same.
Dated this the Twenty-first day of November One thousand eight hundred and
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvement in Travelling Trunks and other Trunks and Boxes.
I, JOSEPH TONRY, Tinplate Worker and Japanner of the Hall Works Temple Street
Wolverhampton in the County of Stafford 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 consists in the improvement in travelling trunks and other trunks
and boxes as hereinafter described. The chief object of my invention is to make a
compartment or drawer with or without partitions or cover, in the lid of travelling
trunks and other trunks or boxes, the same to be made to slide in on supports or
rests at each side or underneath (as may be determined) at the front ends or back of
trunk or box and by so doing shall use up the space previously wasted in the interior
of lid of trunk or box and shall be fixed in such a manner as to allow of getting at
small articles in drawer or compartment without having to open the whole of trunk.
The lid of trunk or box shall be jointed either at the front, ends or back (as may
be preferred) in such a manner as to allow it to be opened up or down as may be
The same to be
determined hereafter to allow of pulling out drawer when in use.
fastened with lock or hasp as may be desired. The drawer may be made in two parts
if desired and lid made so that drawers can be pulled out at each end of trunk. The
drawer if desired may be fixed in any part of trunk or box in similar manner to the
one fixed in lid with Hap or cover B B and hinged similar to C. C. Fig. 1 or further
it may be made-if desired-with drawer both in lid and body of trunk or box.
Fig. 1. (one) of the accompanying drawing represents the drawer fitted into lid of

page_text: trunk or box. A. A. A. is the drawer fitted with divisions and of which any number may
be put in as may be desired; B. B. is front or flap of lid of the trunk or box jointed
or hinged at CC which is made to open to allow of drawer being pulled out and close,
and when closed to be fastened by means of lock or locks, hasp or any other kind of
fastening.
Fig. 2. (two) shews trunk with lid open shewing supports D. D. D. on which the
drawer slides or rests as the case may be. These supports may be fixed in any
required direction and any number may be put in to give additional strength to box.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my invention
and the manner in which the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim as my invention is
The improvement in the interior of travelling trunks and other trunks or boxes as
described with reference to the drawings on sheet Figs. 1 (one) 2 (two).
Dated this the Nineteenth day of August 1890.
JOSEPH TONRY.