Improvements in or connected with Boxes for Exhibiting Figures, Pictures, and other Objects.
Year: 1894

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or connected with Boxes for Exhibiting Figures,
Pictures, and other Objects.
I, MAX VOLLMER, of 95 and 96 Kastanien Allee, Berlin, in the Empire of
Germany, Manufacturer of Articles in Paste-board, 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 :-
This invention relates to improvements in or connected with boxes in which
figures, landscapes, plants, or other objects, in paper or other suitable material, are
so set up behind one another, or side by side, on the cover, or inside the box, that
they produce the impression of being solid objects. This is effected. by connecting
the objects, such as a landscape, figures, and such like, with one another, and with
the lid, or with a side or partition of the box, by means of one or more bands or
tapes in such manner that these bands raise the objects upright automatically when
the box is opened, and restore them to their original positions when the box is
closed.
And in order that the invention may be fully understood, I will now proceed to
describe the same by the aid of the accompanying sheet of drawings in which
Figure 1 is a longitudinal section of a box which is opened by drawing one párt
of the box out of the other.
Figure 2 is a longitudinal section of a
the cover.
Figure 3 is a longitudinal section of a
a side of the box.
box in which the objects are arranged on
box in which these objects are applied to
Figure 4 is a perspective view of a box in which the objects are arranged book-
wise, and
Figure 5 is a vertical section of a box in which these objects are fixed direct to
the parts of the box, the connecting bands or tapes being dispensed with.
In the arrangement shown in Figure 1, the objects g, which are intended by their
grouping to produce the desired effect, are connected with the part a of the box by
means of bands or tapes p which pass through slits b in the part c of the box,
whereby the objects are raised upright when the part a of the box is drawn out
of the part c, and are turned down when the part a is pushed into the part c.
In the box shown in Figure 2, the bands or tapes p, by means of which the
raising and lowering of the objects 9 are effected, are fixed to the inside of the
cover f, so that when the said covor is opened the objects are raised upright as
shown, and when it is closed they are folded down again.
In the arrangement shown in Figure 3, one side of the box falls down when
the lid is opened, and as the objects.9, which are connected together by the
bands p, are fixed to the side k, the said objects stand upright when the said side
falls down, and they fold together again when the side k is closed up.
A further modification of this invention consists in arranging the objects g
bookwise behind one another, so that when the box is opened the bands p connected
therewith turn over each leaf as in a book, see Figure 4.
It is obvious that instead of fastening the objects-g by bands p, they may be
fastened direct to the parts of the box as shown in Figure 5.
The invention lends itself to a number of similar combinations. The objects g
may comprise figures of human beings, animals, flowers, landscapes, and so forth.

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed,
claim is
declare that what I
First. The improved box with pictures, figures, or other objects g, 80 connected
together and to the box, by means of bands or tapes p, that the said pictures,
figures, or other objects, stand upright beside or behind one another when the box
is opened and turn back into their original positions when the box is closed,
substantially as described.
Second. The improved box with pictures, figures, or other objects g, fixed in
suitable positions directly, to the said box without the bands or tapes.plso that the
said pictures, figures, or other objects stand upright beside or behind one another
when the box is opened, and turn back into their original positions when the box is
closed substantially as described.
CLONUL1002.
MAX VOLLMER,
Per W. H. Beck,
115, Cannon Street, London, Agent.