AN IMPROVED Box OR CASE CONTAINING SEVERAL COMMERCIAL ARTICLES
Year: 1873

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Louis Frederic Raimond, of Place Richelieu,
No. 9, at Bordeaux (France), Commercial Agent, for the Invention
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Louis Frederic Raimond
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition,
on the 17th March 1873.
I, LOUIS FREDERIC RAIMOND, of Place Richelieu, No. 9, at Bordeaux
(France), Commercial Agent, do hereby declare the nature of the said
Invention for "AN IMPROVED Box OR CASE CONTAINING SEVERAL COMMERCIAL
ARTICLES," to be as follows:-
This Invention consists in employing an improved system of arranging
and constructing boxes or cases intended to contain several useful
articles, general information, commercial samples and directions, products
manufactured by the state or by private industry, and all articles required
by travellers, commercial men, and manufacturers. The boxes are made

page_text: of any required shapes and dimensions, of metal, wood, cardboard, or
other suitable materials. In the body of the box there is an inner drawer
or compartment, partitioned as required, for containing matches, pens,
and other required small articles for use or commerce; and at the sides
of the box there are compartments entirely closed with the exception of
narrow slits or openings at the outsides. In each of these compartments
there is a roller which can be turned by hand by means of an external
head or button, or by a spring, and on these rollers are encircled bands or
sheets of paper, cloth, parchment, or other material of any required.
width and length, the outer ends of which are provided with draw pulls
for pulling the bands or sheets through the slits or openings. The top
and bottom of the box is provided with one or more hinged or movable
covers, under which there are several sheets or leaves of paper or other
material, placed in a zig-zag or folded position, or in any other desired
position; and for closing the box there are clasps or locks of any desired
description. On the surfaces of the bands or sheets are printed the
measure of a metre, with divisions and subdivisions, announcements and
directions of all kinds, whether relating to commerce, the arts, or any
other subject. In order to ensure as much as possible the reading of the
announcements and directions they are interlined with bon mots, charades,
sketches, music, and other instructive subjects.
Certain parts of the bands contain maps of towns, railways, or other
places, notices of arrivals and departures of trains, public conveyances,
and other useful information and requirements, and thus this system of
arrangement of box or case may with propriety be called a universal
guide and supplier of local and other requirements.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, :;
filed by the said Louis Frederic Raimond in the Great Seal Patent
Office on the 13th September 1873.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, LOUIS 3
FREDERIC RAIMOND, of Place Richelieu, No. 9, à Bordeaux (France),
Commercial Agent, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Seventeenth day of March, in the

page_text: year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-three, in
the thirty-sixth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and suc-
cessors, give and grant unto me, the said. Louis Frederic Raimond,
Her special license that I, the said Louis Frederic Raimond, my exe-
cutors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Louis
Frederic Raimond, 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 "AN IMPROVED BOX OR CASE CONTAINING SEVERAL COMMERCIAL ARTICLES,”
upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Louis Frederio
Raimond, 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 Louis Frederic Raimond, do hereby
declare the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the
same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in
and by the following statement thereof, reference being had to the
accompanying Sheet of Drawings, and to the figures and letters marked
thereon, that is to say:
This Invention consists of an improved construction and arrangement
of box or case for containing various useful articles, general information,
advertisements, commercial samples, directions, and the like. By means
of moveable covers and rolls the said box is enabled to enclose large
surfaces of paper, cloth, or other material, on which may be arranged a
great amount of useful and interesting information.
The construction of the said box or case will be readily understood
from the accompanying Drawing, in which Fig. 1 shews a perspective
view of the box with its several compartments partially opened; Fig. 2
shews a plan, Fig. 3 shows an end view of the same when closed;
and Fig. 4 shews an end view with the parts partially opened. The box
may be made of any desired shape and dimensions, and it may be of

page_text: metal, wood, cardboard, leather, or other material. It has a compart-
ment a for containing matches, pens, pins, needles, pastilles, and other
small articles of commerce, and it has other compartments which are
entirely closed with the exception of one or more narrow openings or
slits 6 (Fig. 1), arranged longitudinally or transversely at the outside.
In these compartments are rollers that can be rotated by hand by external
buttons c, c, upon which rollers are coiled bands or sheets d, d, of paper,
cloth, parchment, or other material, of which the ends are provided with
draw pulls for drawing them out through the before mentioned slits 6,
and springs of any suitable description may be connected to the rollers
whereby these are made to roll up the bands or sheets automatically.
The box has one or more hinged covers f, f, g, g, beneath which are
sheets or bands h, h, i, i, folded in a zig-zig direction, and small cases or
leaves folded in any desired manner; suitable clasps k are provided for
closing the covers f, f, 9, 9. On the surfaces of these bands, sheets,
cases, or leaves are printed the measure of a metre, or any other measure,
with subdivisions, also advertisements, directions, and information of all
kinds, whether relating to agriculture, commerce, manufactures, naviga-
tion, the arts, finances, literature, or any other subject. In order to
ensure as much as possible the reading of these advertisements and
directions they are interlined or surrounded with bon mots, charades,
riddles, puns, amusing and other sketches, poems, romances, songs, tales,
useful receipts, scientific and other instructive or amusing information.
Certain portions of the sheets, cases, or leaves have on them maps
of towns, countries, or railways, an almanack, time tables of railways,
public conveyances, or steamers, postal and other tarifs, and generally
every local information required by the public.
The buttons c for unrolling and rolling up the sheets d can be made
with openings and contain microscopic views. The covers f, g, may, if
desired, contain cases of cigarette paper, or other useful or amusing
articles. The external or internal surfaces of the box independently of
the bands, cases, or leaves, may be utilised for advertisements or direc-
tions, or may contain pictures, which may even be placed one over the
other in open frames.

page_text: Various modifications in the arrangement of the box may be made,
such as, firstly, the arrangement of the rollers at the end or ends instead
of the sides of the box; secondly, substituting for the drawer a a simple
hinged lid; thirdly, constructing the box without either drawer or lid
and substituting a hollow space for receiving small match boxes;
fourthly, the employment of an elastic band for keeping the box closed.
These modifications are shown in Figs. 5 to 9 of the Drawing.
Fig. 5 shews a box with a single roller a¹ at the end of the same; the
drawer is replaced by a simple hinged lid 6', similar to those of ordinary
match boxes; the two covers c³, c³, hinged at opposite sides of the box,
are of concave form, whereby they are enabled to enclose two sheets or
bands of paper instead of only one; the one d¹ is fixed on the box itself,
and the other f¹ is pasted on the bottom of the cover c¹..
Fig. 6 shews an arrangement of the box with two rollers a³, a³, one at
each end thereof; between the rollers is formed a space which can be
closed by a hinged cover 6³, or which can be left open for receiving the
ordinary small match boxes. The two rollers may each have a separate
band of paper, or one single band may pass across the box from the one
roller to the other, as shewn in Figs. 8 and 9, so as to be unrolled from
the one roller and rolled up on the other.
Fig. 7 shows a front view of a box A with elastic band 9 for closing
the same; such band being fixed to the sides of the box and hooked on
to the hooks of the covers c, c, thereof. The covers are in this case
both hinged at the same side of the box, that is, the reverse of the
arrangement shewn at Figs. 5 and 6.
Having thus described the nature of my Invention, and in what
manner the same is to be performed, I claim the before described
improved box or case, the characteristic features of which are,-
Firstly. The peculiar arrangement of the several compartments.
Secondly. The arrangement of the rollers with bands or sheets,
which may be unrolled or rolled up at will, and which may either be
separate from each other or be made to unroll from the one roller on to
the other.

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Thirdly. The arrangement of covers or lids containing bands or leaves
paper or cloth.
In witness whereof, I, the said Louis Frederic Raimond, have
hereunto set my hand and seal, this Tenth day of September,
in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-
three.
L. F. RAIMOND. (L.S.)
Witness,
ALBERT CAHEN,
Civil Engineer,
of No. 32, Boulevard Magenta,
at Paris.