Improvements in Fastenings for Millinery Boxes and other Boxes.
Year: 1890

page_text: Date of Application, 18th Apr., 1890
Complete Specification
Loft 10th lan
9th Jan, 1801
Accented 21st Feb. 1891
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Fastenings for Millinery Boxes and other Boxes.
I, JOHN PATRICK KELLY of 49 Lever Street, Manchester, Plain and Fancy
Box Maker, do hereby declare the nature of my said invention to be as follows:-
The object of this invention is to provide a simple and efficient fastener for
securing the lid of this class of box in the closed position upon the box and consists
of a textile or other suitable band secured at one side of the box in the usual
manner. The other end of this band is provided with a metallic or other ring or
with a loop to be passed over a button headed stud affixed to the opposite side of
the box the band being carried across and over the top of the lid. This stud is
secured to the box by its shank being formed hollow or tubular and which being
inserted through a hole formed in the box and furnished with a washer on the
inside is then rivetted or eyeletted over.
Instead of a stud it will be obvious that a button might be substituted.
JOHN G. WILSON,
Agent for the Applicant
COMPLETE
SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Fastenings for Millinery Boxes and other Boxes.
I, JOHN PATRICK KELLY of 49 Lever Street Manchester, Plain and Fancy
Box Maker, 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:-
The object of this invention is to provide a simple and efficient means of
securing the lid of millinery and other similar boxes when in the closed position
upon the box.
On the accompanying drawing
Fig. 1 is a perspective view of an ordinary cardboard box having my improve-
ments shewn applied thereto.
Fig. 2 is a transverse sectional view shewing the method of securing the button
leaded stud in the side of the box and
Fig. 3 is a detail or front view of one form of loop employed to connect the band
with the stud.
In performing my invention I employ a textile elastic or other suitable band a one
end of which is secured to one side of the box 6 in the ordinary manner whilst the
other end of the said band I provide with a suitable loop or connecting piece c (seen
more clearly in Fig. 3) and carry the same over the lid to the opposite side of the
box and there pass the said loop or connecting piece cover the button headed stud d
affixed in the side of the box and thus I form an effective means of securing the lid
of this class of box in the closed position.
The button headed stud d may be secured in position in any convenient manner
say by forming the same of a hollow or tubular shape in cross section and which
being inserted through a hole e formed in the box and on the inside furnished with
a washer fmay be riveted or eyeletted over as illustrated more clearly in Fig. 2.
Fig. 4 illustrates a modification of my invention in which the ring g takes the
place of the loop shewn in Figs. 1. 2 & 3.
Although I have only shewn two ways of connecting the band to the stud a hook
or hole formed at the end of the band might be emploved and instead of a stud a
button might be used.

page_text: Having thus particularly described and ascertained the nature of this my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what
I claim is :-
1st. The improved means of securing the lids of millinery and other similar
boxes substantially as hereinbefore described and illustrated on the accompanying
drawing.
2nd. For securing the lid of a millinery or other similar box the employment of
á textile or other similar band affixed in position and capable of fastening onto a
stud or its equivalent at the opposite side of the box substantially as hereinbefore
described and illustrated on the accompanying drawing.
3rd. In securing the band of millinery and other similar boxes the employment
of a loop or metallic ring in conjunction with a button headed stud substantially as
hereinbefore described and illustrated on the accompanying drawing.
JOHN G. WILSON,
Patent Office, 55, Market Street, Manchester, Agent for the Applicant.