Improvements in Boxes and Stands for Protecting and Displaying Piece Goods.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 25th Jan.; 1893
Complete Specification Left, 23rd Oct., 1893-Accepted, 25th Nov., 1893
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Boxes and Stands for Protecting and Displaying
Piece Goods.
I, ALFRED BANCROFT, of Faulkner Street, Manchester, in the County of
Lancaster, Merchant, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:
This invention is designed to provide a box for holding and displaying velvets
plushes or other cloths and from which they can be unwound when reeled in a
rectangular or oblong form the area of the interior of which when closed would
practically be of the same dimensions as the exterior of the reel of cloth and is
designed to provide a combined box and stand for protecting cloth wound on blocks
and for economising space in the packing of the same.
The block or reel on which the cloth is wound is provided either with a central
spindle or with pivots at each end and the sides of the stand or box are provided
with grooves in which the ends of the spindle or the pivots slide.
The spindle is preferably divided in its length into two parts and is provided
with a spring at the centre between them so as to act on each and press it
outwards or where two short pivots are employed a spring is placed at the back of
each.
Where these springs are used to press the end of the spindle or the pivots
outwards the groove in the stand is preferably vertical and the ends of the spindle
or the pivots are forced outwards by the springs and when raised upward in the
groove pass out into a slot constructed to receive them and thus support the reel
which is free to be rotated thereon.
Where no springs are employed the groove in the stand may be curved or of
other shape whereby when the reel is lifted the ends of the pivots will be supported
at any desired height from the bottom of the box the groove being of such a shape
that the rotation of the spindle will not cause it to travel down the groove again
until desired.
Instead however of the curved or inclined groove the groove may be made
straight with pockets at intervals in one or both sides with which the ends of the
pivots or spindle may engage or into which they may be lifted or other similar
device may be employed whereby the block on being lifted up a required distance
to clear the bottom of the case may be supported so that it can be easily rotated.
Or to the groove a spring bolt catch latch or equivalent may be applied so that as
soon as the ends of the spindle or pivots are raised above it it passes back across
the groove to sustain or support the weight of the pivots.
It will be evident that the spring pivots may be on stand and grooves in side
of reel or block.
By this invention I am thus enabled to provide a box of practically the same
dimensions as the reel of cloth in which the reel although rectangular may rotate.
The lid of the box is constructed to fit down over the reel when in its original
position before being raised.
Dated this 23rd day of Jen 1902
WM. P. THOMPSON & Co.,
6, Bank Street, Manchester, Patent Agents.

page_text: pivots or spindle may engage or into which they may be lifted or other similar
device may be employed whereby the block on being lifted up a required distance
to clear the bottom and sides of the case may be supported so that it can be easily
rotated. Or to the groove a spring bolt, catch, latch or equivalent may be applied
so that as soon as the ends of the spindle or pivots are raised above it it passes back
across the groove to sustain or support the weight of the pivots.
It will be evident that the pivots may be on stand and grooves inside of reel or
block.
By this invention I am thus enabled to provide a box of practically the same
dimensions as the reel of cloth in which the reel although rectangular may rotate.
The lid of the box being constructed to fit down over the reel when in its original
position before being raised.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
:-
1. A box or stand for piece goods having a reel upon which the cloth is wound
constructed with a central spindle or pivots at both ends upon which the reel can
rotate and a box or case with grooves or slots in which the pivots slide and by
which the reel is supported when raised in the box substantially as and for the
purposes described.
2. In a box or stand for piece goods the combination with the reel upon which
the cloth is wound of the central spindle or studs at the ends thereof forming
pivots, the case in which the reel is placed of approximately the same dimensions as
the reel the ends of which are provided with slots or grooves in which the pivots
slide and are supported and the lid C substantially as described and shown.
Dated this 21st day of October 1893.
WM. P. THOMPSON & Co.,
Manchester, Liverpool, and London, Patent Agents..