Improvements in Letter Boxes.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 7th Feb., 1894
Complete Specification Left, 7th Nov., 1894-Accepted, 8th Dec., 1894
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Letter Boxes.
JAMES ALFRED CRANE 43 Villa Road Handsworth in the County of
Staffordshire Modeller JOHN QUARTON 364 Cooksey Road Birmingham in the
County of Warwick Modeller do hereby declare the nature of this invention to
be as follows:-
The aim of our invention is to construct a letter box which can be affixed to
doors which do not afford sufficient ingress or egress when an ordinary letter box
is used.
To accomplish this object we make the letter box with loose joints at the corners
so that in an ordinary way it may lie flat against the door.
In order to expand it so as to receive the letters when pushed through the
apperture in the door we so fix a lever or levers against, or to, the flap of the letter
plate, that the action of raising it also raises and extends the framework of the
letter box ;-which after receiving the letters falls again with the flap..
We purpose to construct the letter box of wire, perforated zinc or of any other
suitable material.
JAS. A. CRANE.
JOHN QUARTON.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Letter Boxes.
JAMES ALFRED CRANE of 43 Villa Road, Handsworth in the County of
Staffordshire, Modeller, and JOHN QUARTON 364 Cooksey Road, Birmingham in
the County of Warwick, Modeller 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:-
The aim of our invention is to construct a letter box which can be affixed to
doors which do not afford sufficient ingress or egress when an ordinary letter box
is used.
To accomplish this object we make the letter box with loose joints at the corners
so that in an ordinary way it may lie flat against the door.
In order to expand it so as to receive the letters when pushed through the
apperture in the door, we so fix a lever or levers against, or to, the flap of the letter
plate that the action of raising it also raises and extends the framework of the
letter box; which after receiving the letters falls again with the flap.
We purpose to construct the letter box of wire, perforated zinc or of any other
suitable material.
We will now proceed to describe the accompanying drawings.
We have selected for illustration a letter box of medium class as shewn in
Fig. 1 and 2, having chain sides (a. a) with top and bottom (6 b) of tin, and the
front (c) of wire to enable the letters to be seen, and also fitted with a door (d)
and lock (e) the loops (ffff) of the wire frame are for the purpose of attachment,
but we may change or omit any of these features to suit the various classes
required.

page_text: Fig. 1 is a representation in perspective of the letter box when in a collapsed
state.
Fig. 2 represents the letter box when extended to receive the letters.
Fig. 3. represents in section the letter box in a collapsed state and shewing the
position of the lever (a) to the hanging flap (6) the section of the letter box is
shewn by (c. c. c.) and the section of door by (d d).
Fig. 4 represents in section the changed positions of the lever and letter box
when acted upon by the flap when pushed up, to admit letters; the same lettering
applies as in Fig. 3.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed we declare that what we
claim is:-
I. A collapseable letter box extended to receive letters by means of levers or
arms sliding against or attached to the flap of letter plate.
II. An improved collapseable letter box as drawn and described.
Dated this the 6th day of November 1894.
JAMES ALFRED CRANE.
JOHN QUARTON.