Improvements in Handkerchief-boxes.
Year: 1890

page_text: Date of Application, 15th Feb., 1890
Complete Specification Left 15th Dec. 1890-Accepted. 7th Feb.. 1891
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Handkerchief-boxes.
We LEWIS RITCHIE of 28 Linenhall Street Box Maker and EDWARD GRIBBON
of 18 Bedford Street Handkerchief Manufacturer both in the City of Belfast and
County of Antrim in Ireland do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be
as follows:-
:-
In order to avoid the usual practice of tying up handkerchiefs in lots as desired
for the market we construct a box having an inner flanged frame to enclose the lot
of handkerchiefs and hold same in position in the body of the box when the lid is
lifted and thrown back. We attach the inner flanged frame to one side or end of
the body or lid of the box by means of a hinge or hinges, but a separate flanged
frame is also applicable for the purpose mentioned although less desirable.
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Dated this 14th day of February 1890:
HYNDMAN & DICKSON,
6. Waring Street, Belfast, Agents for Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Handkerchief-boxes?
We LEWIS RITCHIE of 23 Linenhall Street Boxmaker and EDWARD GRIBBON
of 18 Bedford Street Handkerchief Manufacturer both in the City of Belfast and
County of Antrim in Ireland 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 :-
Our invention relates to the making-up of handkerchiefs in suitable quantities
and attractive form for sale by retail merchants.
For this purpose instead of tying up the handkerchiefs in lots as desired for the
market and placing them in boxes of the kind now commonly employed we construct a
box having an inner flanged frame to enclose the desired lot of handkerchiefs and
hold same in position in the body of the box when the lid is lifted and thrown
back.
The external box may be of any of the usual forms and materials. Into this box
we fit an inner flat frame of card board or other ordinary material ornamented if
desired with fancy paper or the like and arranged with a flange of the same or a
similar material, at each of the four edges of the frame or at three only of such
edges, and of the same depth as the sides of the box internally.
We prefer to attach one of the edges of the inner flanged frame to the top of the
corresponding side or end of the body of the external box by means of a hinge or
hinges but the frame may be similarly attached to the lid of the external box
along the side by which it is hinged to such box. A separate frame, flanged on all
its outer edges, is also, however, applicable for the purpose mentioned, though less
desirable.
A strap or straps of ribbon may be ornamentally laid across the inner frame to
prevent the handkerchiefs rising or becoming tossed by the opening and closing of
the lid of the external box or falling out of the inner frame when it is lifted out of
or removed from the external box, as the case may be.
We attach a tag or lug to the inner flanged frame on the edge or side opposite
to the hinge or hinges to enable us to lift it out of the external box.
And in order that our said invention may be more fully understood we shall now
refer to the drawings on the sheet hereunto annexed, the same letters of reference
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page_text: being used throughout all the figures to indicate the same or corresponding parts
of the said box.
Fig. I. is a plan of a box with the lid thrown back and shewing the inner flat
frame ornamented with paper lace and a ribbon laid across it.
Fig. II. is an end elevation of the same box with the lid thrown back and
shewing a flange of the inner flat frame which is lifted up as when being filled or
emptied.
a is the box lid; b is the inner flat frame hinged to the box and ornamented with
paper lace; c is a ribbon stretched across and attached to the inner flat frame; d is the
bottom of the box; e e e are flanges on the inner flat frame, b; ƒ is the hinge by
which the inner flat frame, b, is attached to the lid, a, at its junction with the box,
andy is a tag or lug for lifting the inner flat frame, b, from the box.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed we declare that what we
claim is,
1. The use, in handkerchief boxes, of an inner flanged frame constructed and
employed substantially in the manner and for the purposes hereinbefore described and
2. The combination and arrangement of parts constituting our improved hand-
kerchief box constructed and employed substantially in the manner and for the
purposes hereinbefore described.
Dated this 13th day of December 1890
HYNDMAN & DICKSON,
6, Waring Street, Belfast, Agents for Applicants.