IMPROVEMENTS IN BULLION BOXES, AND IN BOXES USED FOR CARRYING OTHER VALUABLE COMMODITIES
Year: 1857

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Richard Hoe, of 44, Leadenhall Street, in the City
of London, Packing Case Maker, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS
IN BULLION BOXES, AND IN BOXES USED FOR CARRYING OTHER VALUABLE
COMMODITIES."
Sealed the 10th November 1857, and dated the 17th August 1857.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Richard Hoe at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
17th August 1857.
I, RICHARD HOE, of 44, Leadenhall Street, in the City of London, Packing
Case Maker, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVE-
MENTS IN BULLION BOXES, AND IN BOXES USED FOR CARRYING OTHER VALUABLE
COMMODITIES," to be as follows:-
My Invention of improvements in bullion and other boxes relates to the iron
binding, for the more effectual securing of such packages. Iron bound boxes
of this description are usually secured by pieces of hoop iron crossed and
passed round the outside of such packages, to which they are nailed, but which
are liable to be ripped off with rough usage.
My improvement consists in cutting pieces of sheet iron somewhat in
the form of a cross, which are placed on the ends or other parts of the box,
and the four ends or parts of the cross folded down on and nailed to the two

page_text: sides and to the top and bottom of the box. The solid part of the cross-piece
of sheet iron may cover more or less of the ends of the box, while the folded
parts extend to nearly the width of the sides, &c. A band of hoop iron may
encircle the body of the box as usual, in addition to the plates described. In
securing these plates to the boxes, I fix them and clinch the nails inside
to the bottom and sides before packing the box.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Richard Hoe in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
16th February 1858.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, RICHARD
HOE, of 44, Leadenhall Street, in the City of London, Packing Case Maker,
send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Seventeenth day of August, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven, in the twenty-first year of
Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto
me, the said Richard Hoe, Her special licence that I, the said Richard
Hoe, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the
said Richard Hoe, 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 "IM-
PROVEMENTS IN BULLION BOXES, AND IN BOXES USED FOR CARRYING OTHER VALUABLE
COMMODITIES," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Richard
Hoe, 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 Richard Hoe, 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 Sheet of Drawings hereunto annexed,
and to the letters and figures marked thereon (that is to say):-

page_text: Fig. 1 represents in perspective a view of a bullion box iron bound
according to my Invention, and Fig. 2 one of the pieces of iron detached and
in the flat. The box a, a, is of the ordinary kind, but in order that the iron
binding b, b, shall better secure the parts together, I make it of one piece of
sheet iron cut out of the form required. The forms of these pieces of iron are
necessarily according to the shape of the box, and the position and the position
in which they are applied to it. In Fig. 1 the plates are represented applied
to the ends of the box, which I prefer as it gives all necessary security to the
box, and requires less iron for the binding. It will be observed that the centre
part of the plate bis nailed to the end, and that the four ends are bent over
and nailed securely to the sides and to the top and bottom of the box. By
this means great strength is obtained by the application of thin sheet iron,
which lies very flat to the surface of the box, and there being no overlapping
or crossings of the iron bands they do not project, and have little chance of
being torn off or of being otherwise damaged.
Fig. 3 represents a view of a like box similarly iron bound, but in which
the pieces b, b, are nailed on the sides of the box. Fig. 4 represents a detached
view of the iron binding in the flat.
The shape of my improved iron binding is necessarily according to the form
of the box. For instance, it may be a hexagonal box, in which case the iron
plates or binding would be applied at the ends; instead of being in the form of
a cross, each piece should have six ends or parts radiating from a central

page_text: piece, one end to be bent over and nailed down on each of the six sides of the
box. Fig. 5 represents a piece of iron of the shape required.
Having described the nature of my Invention and the manner of performing
the same, I declare that what I claim as the Invention to be secured by the
herein-before in part recited Letters Patent, is the application of iron binding
to bullion and other boxes, as herein-before described with reference to the
Drawings annexed.
In witness whereof, I, the said Richard Hoe, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Sixteenth day of February, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-eight.
Witness,
W. FROSDYCKE,
Lansdowne Cottage,
Hackney.
RICHARD HOE. (L.S.)