IMPROVEMENT IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF PORTMANTEAUS, DESKS, DRESSING CASES, DESPATCH BOXES, AND OTHER LIKE ARTICLES
Year: 1858

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Ebenezer Viney, of the firm of John Viney and Son,
of Cornhill, in the City of London, Portmanteau Manufacturers, for the
Invention of AN IMPROVEMENT IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF PORTMANTEAUS,
DESKS, DRESSING CASES, DESPATCH BOXES, AND OTHER LIKE ARTICLES,"
Sealed the 31st May 1859, and dated the 1st December 1858.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Ebenezer Viney at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 1st
December 1858.
I, EBENEZER VINEY, of the firm of John Viney and Son, of Cornhill, in the
City of London, Portmanteau Manufacturers, do hereby declare the nature
of the said Invention for "AN IMPROVEMENT IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF PORT-
MANTEAUS, DESKS, DRESSING CASES, DESPATCH BOXES. AND OTHER LIKE ARTICLES,"
to be as follows:-
My improvement consists in constructing portmanteaus, desks, dressing
cases, despatch boxes, and other like articles each with an envelope, case, or
cover, flexible throughout or flexible in part only, which envelope, case, or cover
slides ingrooves at the sides or ends of the article, and either whollyor partially
encloses the contents thereof. One end or side of the flexible envelope, case,
or cover may be attached to a drawer or sliding compartment, the withdrawal
of which opens the portmanteau or other article in two places. The form of
Paine d

page_text: the portmanteau or other article may be modified in any way consistently with
the sliding action of the envelope, case, or cover, and the whole may be
manufactured of any suitable material or materials,
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
:
by the said Ebenezer Viney in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 1st
June 1859.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, EBENEZER
VINEY, of the firm of John Viney and Son, of Cornhill, in the City of London,
Portmanteau Manufacturers, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the First day of December, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-eight, in the twenty-second year of
Her reign,, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto
me, the said Ebenezer Viney, Her special licence that I, the said Ebenezer
Viney, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the
said Ebenezer Viney, my executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any
time agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all times there-
after 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 IM-
PROVEMENT. IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF PORTMANTEAUS, DESKS, DRESSING CASES
DESPATCH BOXES, AND OTHER LIKE ARTICLES," upon the condition (amongst
others) that I, the said Ebenezer Viney, 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.
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NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Ebenezer Viney, do hereby declare
the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner. the same is to be
performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the follow-
ing statement thereof, reference being had to the Drawings hereunto annexed,
that is to say :-
My improvement consists in constructing portmanteaus, desks, dressing
cases, despatch boxes, and other like articles each with an envelope, case, or
cover, flexible throughout or flexible in part only, which envelope, case, or

page_text: cover, slides in grooves at the sides or ends of the article, and either wholly
or partially encloses the contents thereof. One end or side of the flexible
envelope, case, or cover may be attached to a drawer or sliding compartment,
the withdrawal of which opens the portmanteau or other article in two places.
The form of the portmanteau or other article may be modified in any way
consistently with the sliding action of the envelope, case, or cover, and the
whole may be manufactured of any suitable material or materials.
Figure 1 is a perspective view of one of my portmanteaus or trunks closed;
and Figure 2,a similar view shewing it open. A, A, is a flexible cover or case,
one end of which is connected to the drawer or sliding compartment B, while
the other end is free to slide along the top of the trunk under the rims or
flanges C, C. A partition D separates the upper from the lower part of the
trunk, and forms a bottom to the upper part E. To open the trunk, draw
out the sliding compartment, which will necessarily draw back the cover from
the upper part E, and consequently both compartments will be open.
drawing back the cover, the drawer will necessarily be drawn in, and thus at
one operation both compartments will be closed.
On
Figure 3 is a view of a dressing case or box shewn open and with a cover,
constructed in a similar manner to that already described.
Figure 4 is a view of a despatch box with a cover, but with extra flaps F, G,
which must be folded down before the drawer B is pushed inwards to close
the two compartments of the box.
And having now described the nature of my said Invention, and in what
manner the same is to be performed, I declare that I claim, constructing
portmanteaus, desks, dressing cases, despatch boxes, and other like articles.
with a flexible cover, substantially in the manner herein-before described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Ebenezer Viney, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this First day of June, One thousand eight hundred
and fifty-nine.
EBEN. VINEY. (L.S.).