IMPROVEMENTS IN FITTINGS TO BE EMPLOYED IN: DESPATCH, WRITING, AND OTHER CASES, BOXES, DRAWERS, OR RECEPTACLES, WHICH FITTINGS CAN ALSO BE MADE TO BE USED SEPARATELY
Year: 1869

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Fabian James Knewstub, of the Firm of Jenner
and Knewstub, of Saint James' Street, in the City of Westminster,.
for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN FITTINGS TO BE EMPLOYED IN:
DESPATCH, WRITING, AND OTHER CASES, BOXES, DRAWERS, OR RECEPTACLES,
WHICH FITTINGS CAN ALSO BE MADE TO BE USED SEPARATELY.”
Sealed the 1st June 1869, and dated the 18th February 1869..
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION filed by the said Fabian James Knewstub
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition
and Declaration, on the 18th February 1869, pursuant to the 9th
Section of the Patent Law Amendment Act, 1852.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, FABIAN
JAMES KNEWSTUB, of the Firm of Jenner and Knewstub, of Saint James.
Street, in the City of Westminster, send greeting.
WHEREAS I am in possession of an Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS
IN FITTINGS TO BE EMPLOYED IN DESPATCH, WRITING, AND OTHER CASES, BOXES,
DRAWERS, OR RECEPTACLES, WHICH FITTINGS CAN ALSO BE MADE TO BE USED
SEPARATELY,
," and have petitioned Her Majesty to grant unto me, my

page_text: exccutors, administrators, and assigns, Her Royal Letters Patent for the
same, and have made solemn Declaration that I am the first and true
Inventor thereof.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Fabian James Knewstub, do hereby
declare that the following Complete Specification, under my hand and
scal, fully describes and ascertains the nature of the said Invention,
and in what manner the same is to be performed in and by the following
statement, that is to say:-
In a Provisional Specification lodged by me in the Office of the
Commissioners of Patents on the 21st day of August in the year 1868,
and on which a final Specification (as ordered by the provisions of the
Letters Patents granted therefor) is due, and must be filed on or before
the 20th February instant, I described under the second head my
Invention as consisting in providing despatch boxes in a space under-
neath the sliding tray or trays or other compartments at the top of the
box with leaves or compartments arranged alphabetically, or numerically
for the purpose of allowing instant reference to papers or other articles
placed in such leaves or compartments; these leaves may either be
fixtures in an inner frame or tied in through eyelet holes so as to be
moved at pleasure. The inside frame carrying the leaves may be taken
out when desired. In that Provisional Specification the leaves or com-
partments and inner case in which they are enclosed or partly enclosed
were described as being fitted in a despatch box.
Now, according to my present Invention, I construct the leaves or
partitions separately and distinctly from a despatch box, and I apply
them or the case containing them to cases, boxes, drawers, or receptacles
of any description. The leaves or the case with the leaves may be made
in such a manner that they may be used in an upright position
separately, or may be made so as to lie flat (as it were) upon a table, with
or without the alphabet, numerals, symbols, or devices impressed,
printed, or fitted thereon so as to be observable from above; and in
order to facilitate the leaves being moved I arrange them upon wires
or bars fitted inside the case or in a frame or tray. By this arrangement
I am enabled to form one large compartment to hold a quantity of
papers in order that the leaves or partitions not in use can be pushed up
together to one side or end or made to lie flat, or I can move any of
the leaves along the wires to form a number of compartments. When
I make a case in which the leaves are not free to be moved, as before

page_text: stated, I slide them into grooves formed in the sides of the case or
frame, which frame may be fixed or movable. The leaves can be made
to slide in under bars or slips or on the bottom or a false bottom of the
case. The leaves may have gussets at their ends or sides or edges, or
they may have pockets formed or otherwise made in them.
And having now described the nature of my said Invention, and
in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that I claim,-
First. Constructing leaves or partitions with or without the alphabet,
numerals, symbols, or devices, impressed, printed, or fixed thereon,
separately and distinctly from a despatch box in the manner and for the
purposes herein-before described.
And, second. I claim fitting and arranging the leaves or partitions in
a case, frame, or tray, in such manner that they may be moved in the
manner and for the purpose herein-before described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Fabian James Knewstub, have
hereunto set my hand and seal, this Sixteenth day of February
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-nine.