Steel Pens, Pins, Needles, and other Small Articles.
Year: 1886

page_text: Steel Pens, Pins, Needles, and other Small Articles.
I HEZEKIAH HEWITT of No. 100 Charlotte Street Birmingham in the County of
Warwick Steel Pen and Penholder Manufacturer do hereby declare the nature of
the said Invention for IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF METALLIC BOXES
FOR HOLDING STEEL PENS PINS NEEDLES AND OTHER SMALL ARTICLES
to be as
follows:-
"
My invention consists principally in making the body of a metallic box from a
single blank of thin sheet brass or other ductile sheet metal or alloy by the process
or combination of processes hereinafter described.
I prefer to give the box the general figure of a book that is having a curved back
and projecting edges but the box may be made with flush edges.
In making the body of the box I proceed as follows:-I cut out at a press preferably
from sheet brass a blank having nearly an oblong figure but each angle of the blank
is cut away thereby leaving along each side of the blank a narrow connected strip
or web from which connected strips or webs the sides of the body of the box
are made. Each of the strips or webs from which the ends of the body are made is
rounded at one end for fitting against the curved back. In converting a blank of
this kind into the body of the box the strip on one of the longer sides of the blank
is bent at right angles to the blank and a curved figure given to it by the action
of a pair of press tools so as to form the curved back of the body. The blank is
then operated upon by a second pair of tools so as to simultaneously raise the other
strips at right angles to the body of the blank and thereby form the front side and
the ends of the box the rounded ends fitting closely against the curved back of the
body. The body of the box is thus made from a single blank at two operations.
When the body of the box is required to resemble a book the front side and ends
are slightly folded inwards upon the bottom of the body so that the edges of the
bottom and the curved back project beyond the front side and the ends of the body
of the box. When a box with flush edges is required the folding inwards of the
front side and enda is dispensed with.

page_text: Before the blank hereinbefore described is operated upon by the raising tools the
outer edge of the back strip of the blank is pierced with holes for jointing the
lid to it.
I form the lid of an oblong blank of sheet brass of the same size and figure as
the bottom of the body made as hereinbefore described. On one of the longer sides
of the lid blank two or more small tongues are left and by passing these tongues
from the front through the piercings described at the edge of the rounded back of
the body and closing the said tongues on the inner face of the lid, the lid is jointed
to the body The lid is held down by means of a catch jointed to the lower edge
of the front of the body a hooklike lip on the unjointed end of the catch taking
into a slot or piercing in the front edge of the lid.
Dated this ninth day of February 1886
W. T. WHITEMAN,
Agent for the Applicant.

page_text: Improvements in the Manufacture of Metallic Boxes for Holding
Steel Pens, Pins, Needles, and other Small Articles.
I HEZEKIAH HEWITT of No. 100 Charlotte Street Birmingham in the County of
Warwick Steel Pen and Penholder Manufacturer do hereby declare the nature of
the said Invention and in what manner the same is to be performed to be parti-
cularly described and ascertained in and by the following statement:―
My invention consists principally in making the body of a metallic box from a
single blank of thin sheet brass or other ductile sheet metal or alloy by the process
or combination of processes hereinafter described.
I prefer to give the box the general figure of a book, that is, having a curved
back and projecting edges, but the box may be made with flush edges.
In making the body of the box I proceed as follows;-I cut out at a press
preferably from sheet brass a blank having nearly an oblong figure but each angle
of the blank is cut away thereby leaving along each side of the blank a narrow
connected strip or web from which connected strips or webs the sides of the body
of the box are made.
Each of the strips or webs from which the ends of the body are made is
rounded at one end for fitting against the curved back. In converting a blank of
this kind into the body of the box, the strip on one of the longer sides of the blank
is bent at right angles to the blank and a curved figure given to it by the action
of a pair of press tools so as to form the curved back of the body. The blank is
then operated upon by other pairs of tools so as to simultaneously raise the other
strips at right angles to the body of the blank and thereby form the front side and
the ends of the box, the rounded ends fitting closely against the curved back of the
body. The body of the box is thus made from a single blank. When the body
of the box is required to resemble a book the front side and ends are slightly
folded inwards upon the bottom of the body so that the edges of the bottom and
the curved back project beyond the front side and the ends of the body of the box.
When a box with flush edges is required the folding inwards of the front side and
ends is dispensed with.
Before the blank herein before described is operated upon by the raising tools the
outer edge of the back strip of the blank is pierced with holes for jointing the lid
to it or is provided with knuckles.
I form the lid of an oblong blank of sheet brass of the same size and figure as
the bottom of the body made as herein before described. On one of the longer
sides of the lid blank, two or more small tongues are left and by passing these
tongues from the front through the piercings described at the edge of the rounded
back of the body and closing the said tongues on the inner face of the lid the lid is
jointed to the body. Or knuckles on the lid may be used. The lid is held down
by means of a catch jointed to the lower edge of the front of the body, a hook like
lip on the unjointed end of the catch taking into a slot or piercing in the front edge
of the lid.

page_text: I will now proceed to describe with reference to the accompanying Drawings
the manufacture of a metallic box having the general figure of a book with a
curved back and projecting edges.
Figure 1 represents the oblong blank of sheet metal from which the body of the
box is to be made, the said blank being cut out at a press. The said blank has
such a figure that each of its sides is formed with a narrow connected strip or web
from which strips or webs the sides and back of the body of the box are made.
That is to say, from the connected strip a the curved back of the box is made;
from the strip b the front side is made and from the shorter strips c, c the shorter
sides or ends of the box are made. On the strip a from which the back is made
are knuckle pieces d, d from which the eyes or knuckle joints are made to which
the lid is jointed. The ends of the strips c, c are curved for fitting against the
curved back of the box and near the curved ends of the strip c, c semi-circular
depressions e, e are made for receiving the joint pin by which the lid is jointed to
the body of the box.
In making the blank Figure 1 into the body of the box the said blank is
operated upon by press tools worked in a press in the following manner.
The blank is first operated upon so as to raise the side band ends c, c out of the
plane of the part f which forms the bottom in the finished box and give a curved figure
to the back strip a; the knuckle strips d, d are also bent into the eyes or knuckles
for the lid joint. The blank after the last described treatment is represented in
plan, elevations at right angles to one another, and cross section in Figure 2 the
eyes or knuckles on the curved back of the partly made box being marked d², d³.
By a further operation, the side b and ends c, c of the partly made box are raised
nearly at right angles to the bottom f of the box as illustrated in plan, elevations
and cross section in Figure 3, the said side and ends joining the bottom f of the
box by a nearly semi circular fold.
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By a further operation the side b and ends c, c are raised at right angles to the
bottom the ends of the said parts b and c, c abutting against one another. By
the same operation, the side and ends b, c, c are slightly folded inwards upon the
bottom so that the edges of the said bottom project beyond the front side band
and ends c, c of the box. The partly made box after the last described operations
is represented in plan, side elevation and end elevation in Figure 4, where the
projecting edges of the bottom of the box are marked g, g.
To the projecting edge g at the front of the box, a catch h is jointed for fastening
down the lid of the box.
By a further operation the curved back a of the partly made box is raised
against the curved parts of the ends c, c the said curved ends fitting closely against
the curved a as illustrated in plan and end elevation in Figure 5. The body of
the box is thus made in one piece from a single blank. The lid is made from an
oblong blank and jointed to the knuckles d', d³, on the upper edge of the curved
back a by means of a joint pin passed through the knuckles on the said back and
other knuckles on the lid. A finished box thus made is represented in plan and
end elevation with the lid closed in Figure 6, and front elevation and end elevation
with the lid raised in Figure 7, the said lid being marked i. When the lid i is
shut down its edges project beyond the side b and ends c, c of the box so as to give
the box a book form. The jointed lid i of the box is held down by the hook like
lip of the jointed catch taking into a slot or opening or engaging with a projec-
tion at the front of the said lid.
In large boxes, the abutting ends of the side b and ends c, c of the body may be
bound or fastened together by teeth or projections on one part being passed through
piercings on the other part and clinched.
In this case the blank has the shape given to it represented in Figure 8, that is
to say, at the end of the front side or strip b of the blank, teeth or projections k, k
are left and in the ends c, c piercings at 1, 1 are made for the teeth k, k to
pass through. Teeth or projections m, m are also left at the curved parts of the

page_text: ends c, c and piercings n, n are made in the ends of the back a for the said
teeth m, m to pass through.
Figure 9 represents in plan and Figure 10 in end elevation the body of a box
made from the blank represented in Figure 8, the ends c, c of the box being
bound or fastened to the front b by the teeth k, k being passed through the
piercings, and clinched and the curved parts of the ends c, c being bound or
fastened to the curved back a by the pointed teeth m, m being passed through the
piercings n, n in the said curved back and clinched as best seen in Figure 9.
When the edges of the box are not required to project from the bottom of the
body, the side b and ends c, c are not folded inwards as described with respect to
Figure 4.
As the press tools which I employ in carrying my invention into effect do not
differ in any essential respect from those commonly used for cutting, raising and
fashioning sheet metal for other purposes I do not think it necessary to describe
or represent the said tools.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my inven-
tion and the manner in which the same is to be performed I declare that I claim
as my invention of "Improvements in the manufacture of metallic boxes for holding
steel pens pins needles and other small articles
"
Making the bodies of metallic boxes from sheet metal blanks of the kind
represented in Figure 1 or of the kind represented in Figure 8 of the accompanying
Drawings, and forming the said blanks into the bodies of the boxes by the process
or combination of processes substantially as herein before described and illustrated
in the accompanying drawings.
Dated this Eighteenth day of October 1886