IMPROVEMENTS IN CASES GOR PINS, NEEDLES, HOOKS AND EYES, BUTTONS
Year: 1871

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Henry Thomas Tubbs, of Noble Street, in the
City of London, Small Ware Manufacturer, for the Invention of
"IMPROVEMENTS IN CASES GOR PINS, NEEDLES, HOOKS AND EYES, BUTTONS,
Sealed the 22nd September 1871, and dated the 1st June 1871.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Henry Thomas Tubbs
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition,
on the 1st June 1871.
I, HENRY THOMAS TUBBS, of Noble Street, in the City of London
Small Ware Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of the said
Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN CASES FOR PINS, NEEDLES, HOOKS AND EYES,
BUTTONS, AND OTHER SMALL WARE ARTICLES," to be as follows:-
It is well known that pins, needles, hooks and eyes, buttons, and
other anolagous small ware articles are usually attached to paper or
cardboard, or are wrapped up in paper cases of peculiar construction.

page_text: This style of getting up the articles ready for sale is expensive in pro-
portion to the intrinsic value of the articles, and when so got up the
packets are very bulky. If paper wrappers or cases are used the articles
are liable to be spilled and lost when the wrapper or case has been
once opened.
The object of my Invention is to obviate these inconveniences, and
this I effect by packing the articles in ornamental tin or other boxes
of very cheap construction, and made in such a manner that the
articles are easily secured therein. The boxes are made of tin plate,
ornamented on the surface with any suitable device printed thereon
by the process of lithography, and then lacquered or varnished to
preserve the ornamental device. The two sides of the box are bent up
into a vertical position and are grooved at their upper edges to receive
the edges of a sliding lid. The bent-up sides form springs for holding the
lid in place in whatever position it may be. One end of the box when
bent up forms an abutment for the end of the sliding lid or cover, which
consists simply of a flat piece of metal having the sides or edges bent
down to form ledges which run in the grooves of the metal box or case.
A simple fastening at one end of the lid and a stop at the other, besides
two stops on each side, are formed by indenting the lid at those parts
so as to prevent it from accidentally moving or falling out. These
ornamental boxes will save all the trouble of attaching the pins, buttons,
hooks and eyes, or other articles to paper or cardboard, and will admit
of various articles of this class being stored in a very small space in a
ladies work box.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Henry Thomas Tubbs in the Great Seal Patent
Office on the 1st December 1871.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, HENRY
THOMAS TUBBS, of Noble Street, in the City of London, Small Ware 3
Manufacturer, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the First day of June, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-one, in the thirty-
fourth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give

page_text: and grant unto me, the said Henry Thomas Tubbs, Her special licence
that I, the said Henry Thomas Tubbs, my executors, administrators, and
assigns, or such others as I, the said Henry Thomas Tubbs, my exe-
cutors, administrators, and assigns, should at any time agree with, and
no others, from time to time and at all times thereafter 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 "IMPROVEMENTS IN
CASES FOR PINS, NEEDLES, HOOKS AND EYES, BUTTONS, AND OTHER SMALL WARE
ARTICLES," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Henry
Thomas Tubbs, my executors or administrators, by an instrument in
writing under my, or their, or one of their hands and seals, should par-
ticularly 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.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Henry Thomas Tubbs, 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 following statement, reference being had to the Drawing here-
unto annexed and to the letters and figures marked thereon (that is to.
say) :-
It is well known that pins, needles, hooks and eyes, buttons, and other
analogous small ware articles are usually attached to paper or cardboard,
or are wrapped up in paper cases of peculiar construction. This style
of getting up the articles ready for sale is expensive in proportion to the
intrinsic value of the articles, and when so got up the packets are very
bulky. If paper wrappers or cases are used the articles are liable to be
spilled and lost when the wrapper or case has been once opened.
The object of my Invention is to obviate these inconveniences, and
this I effect by packing the articles in ornamental tin or other metal
boxes of very cheap construction, and made in such a manner that the
articles are easily secured therein.
In the accompanying Drawing I have
constructions of metal boxes suitable for the
shown various forms or
purposes of my Invention.
Fig. 1 is a transverse vertical section of one form of box; Fig. 2 is a
longitudinal section of the same, and Fig. 3 is a plan view; Fig. 4 is
a longitudinal vertical section, and Fig. 5 a plan view of another form

page_text: of box; Fig. 6 is a longitudinal section, Fig. 7 a transverse section, and
Fig. 8 a plan view of a third form of box. All these boxes are by pre-
ference made of tin plate ornamented on the surface with any suitable
device printed thereon by the process of lithography, and then lacquered
or varnished to preserve the ornamental device.
In Figures 1 and 2 the two sides a, a, of the box are bent up into a
vertical position, and are grooved at their upper edges, as shewn in
Fig. 1, to receive the edges of a sliding lid b. The bent-up sides form
springs for holding the lid 6 in place in whatever position it may be.
One end c of the box when bent up forms an abutment for the end of
the sliding lid or cover b, which consists simply of a flat piece of metal
having the sides or edges bent down to form ledges which run in the
grooves of the metal box or case, as shewn in Fig. 1. A simple fastening
at one end of the lid and a stop at the other are formed by indenting the
lid at those parts, as at 1 and 2, so as to prevent it from accidentally
moving or falling out. The indentation 2 also forms a notch to receive
the finger nail, whereby the sliding lid may be pulled back to open the
box. The slighter indentation at 1 at the other end of the box forms
the fastening, and easily slips over the vertical end in either direction.
Figures 4 and 5 represent a modification of the box just described.
In this instance the stop 2 is formed by a long indentation or groove
extending across the lid of the box, and at the other end a raised ledge
is formed by bending and folding over the extreme end, as shewn at 1
in Fig. 4.
Figures 6, 7, and 8 represent a third form of box which is a
modification of that shewn at Figures 4 and 5, the only difference being
that instead of the side edges of the sliding lid being bent over to run
in the indented grooves made in the sides of the box these sides are bent
over to form inside grooves to receive the edges of the lid.
These ornamental boxes will save all the trouble of attaching the pins,
buttons, hooks and eyes, or other articles to paper or cardboard, and will
admit of various articles of this class being stored in a very small space
in a lady's work box.
Having now described my Invention, and having explained the manner
of carrying the same into effect, I claim as the Invention secured to me
by Letters Patent as aforesaid, forming cases for pins, needles, hooks
and eyes, buttons, and other small ware articles of metal, as herein set
forth, so that such articles may be more conveniently kept, and the

page_text: Cattaching such articies to paper or cardboard as
heretofore may be avoided.
In witness whereof, I, the said Henry Thomas Tubbs, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, the First day of December, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-one.
HENRY THOMAS TUBBS. (L.8.)