An Improvement in the Construction of Metallic Trunks and Boxes.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 20th Dec., 1894
Complete Specification Left, 18th Sept., 1895-Accepted, 26th Oct., 1895
An Improvement in the Construction of Metallic Trunks and Boxes.
I, THOMAS ARBLASTER COOKE, of Prospect Road, Moseley, in the County of
Worcester, Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
This invention consists of the hereindescribed improvement in the construction
of metallic travelling trunks and boxes my object being to render them much
stronger than heretofore without adding much to the weight or cost of manufacture
of the same.
the same.
According to this invention I strengthen the metallic travelling trunk or box by
angle section bars which are arranged all along outside the angles where the sides
meet together and where the sides meet the bottom of the trunk or box these
angle bars being rivetted to the trunk or box and thus considerably strengthening
It is to be understood that the sides and bottom of the trunk or box
are fixed together in the usual way before the angle section bars are applied thereto.
At the bottom corners of the trunk or box where the three angle section bars meet
together one of the webs of one of the bars is cut away so as to admit the end of
the other bar and against these two bars the end of the third bar abuts and thus
a completely smooth junction of the three bars is formed.
Dated this 19th day of December 1894.
CHARLES BOSWORTH KETLEY,
Agent for the Applicant.
An Improvement in the Construction of Metallic Trunks and Boxes.
1, THOMAS ARBLASTER COOKE, of Prospect Road, Moseley, in the County of
Worcester, Manufacturer, 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 consists of the hereindescribed improvement in the construction
of metallic travelling trunks and boxes my object being to render them much
stronger than heretofore without adding much to the weight or cost of manufacture
of the same.
According to this invention I strengthen the metallic travelling trunk or box by
angle section bars which are arranged all along outside the angles where the sides
meet together, and where the sides meet the bottom of the trunk or box, these
angle bars being rivetted to the trunk or box and thus considerably strengthening
the same.
On the accompanying drawing Fig. 1 is a general view of a metallic trunk or
box constructed according to this invention; Fig. 2 is a sectional plan of the same;
Fig. 3 is an inverted plan of the bottom of the same and Fig. 4 is a cross section
of one of the lower angles of the same.
The same letters of reference indicate the same parts in all the figures.

page_text: By an examination of the drawing it will be seen that the vertical angles of the
trunk or box where the sides meet together are strengthened by the four outside
angle section bars marked respectively A' A2 A3 A4 which are rivetted to the sides.
The bottom angles where the sides meet the bottom of the trunk or box are also
similarly strengthened by outside angle section bars marked respectively B' B2 B3 B
which are rivetted to the sides and bottom respectively, thus considerably
strengthening the same. Where the bottom angle section bars meet the vertical
section bars at the bottom corners of the trunk or box the vertical webs b₁ of the
two angle section bars say B2 B are or may be cut away at a short distance from
each end so as to fit in the ends of the upright bars A' A' A³ A' and against these
bars the ends of the outer bars say B₁ B³ abut and thus a completely smooth
junction of the three bars at each corner is formed. Or the meeting ends of the
bars may be mitred or otherwise shaped in any of the ways well known where angle
section bars are fixed inside the angles of tanks.
When the lid of the trunk or box is made flat at the top with sharp angles and
corners as in the trunk shewn by Fig. 1, the lid is similarly strengthened by
outside angle section bars which in this case are marked respectively C¹ C² C³ C¹
rivetted to the outside of the angles of the lid.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is :-
The hereindescribed improvement in the construction of metallic travelling
trunks and boxes, consisting in strengthening the vertical and horizontal angles of
the same by means of angle section bars fitted and rivetted to the outside of the
said angles substantially as herein before described and illustrated by the
accompanying drawings.
Dated this 16th day of September 1895.
CHARLES BOSWORTH KETLEY,
Agent for the Applicant.