CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN CASES FOR HOLDING JEWELS, GOLD, SILVER, OR ELECTRO PLATE WARE
Year: 1879

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Thomas Heath, of Birmingham, in the County of Warwick,
"
Jewel Case Manufacturer, for the Invention of CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN
CASES FOR HOLDING JEWELS, GOLD, SILVER, OR ELECTRO PLATE WARE."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Thomas Heath at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents on the 12th December 1879.
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THOMAS HEATH, of Birmingham, in the County of Warwick, Jewel Case Manu-
facturer. CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN CASES FOR HOLDING JEWELS, GOLD, SILVER,
OR ELECTRO PLATE WARE"
Hitherto, cases for the purposes named in the title have been so constructed that
although the greater part of the lid and sometimes the bottom of the case also has
been raised by a stamp or press, the rim of both the lid and the bottom has been of
wood, and has often consisted of separate and thin layers of scale board wound
round the box or case.
It is evident therefore that much trouble and expense is necessary in the
completion of the finished cases.
The object of my Invention is to provide a case of equal strength and durability,
but at much less cost, and this I do by first providing a suitable material, such as
paper, papier machê, gutta percha, vulcanite, or such like plastic material, and then
raising or stamping the whole of the lid or the body (including the rim), or both
the lid and the body and their respective rims, so as to prevent any necessity for a
rim being separately fixed as at present.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed
by the said Thomas Heath in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 11th June
1880.
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THOMAS HEATII, of Birmingham, in the County of Warwick, Jewel Case Manu-
facturer. CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN CASES FOR HOLDING JEWELS, GOLD, SILVER,
OR ELECTRO PLATE WARE."
Hitherto, cases for the purposes named in the title have been so constructed that
although the greater part of the lid and sometimes the bottom of the case also has
been raised by a stamp or press, the rim of both the lid and the bottom has been of
wood, and has often consisted of separato and thin layers of scale board wound
round the block or mould for the rim, and fastened to the top and bottom of the
case. It is evident therefore that much trouble and expense is necessary in the
completion of the finished cases.
The object of my Invention is to provide a case of equal strength and durability,
but at much less cost, and this I do by first providing a suitable material, such as
paper, papier mâché, gutta percha, vulcanite, or such like plastic material, and then
raising or stamping the whole of the lid or the body (including the rim), or both
the lid and the body and their respective rims, so as to prevent any necessity for a
rim being separately fixed as at present.
Having now described the nature of my Invention, and the manner in which
the same is or may be carried into effect, I desire it to be understood that what
I claim as the Invention to be protected by the hereinbefore in part recited Letters
Patent is,
The manufacture or construction of a new or improved jeweller's case, in which
the whole of the lid or the body (including the riin), or both the lid and the body.
and their respective rims is raised or stamped, substantially as hereinbefore
explained and set forth.
In witness whereof, I, the said Thomas Heath, have hereunto set my hand and
seal, this Ninth day of June, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight
hundred and eighty.