IMPROVEMENTS IN SAFES
Year: 1866

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Edward Peyton, of Birmingham in the County of
Warwick, Manufacturer, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN SAFES,"
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Edward Peyton at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
22nd June 1866.
I, EDWARD PEYTON, of Birmingham, in the County of Warwick, Manu-
facturer, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVE-
MENTS IN SAFES," to be as follows (that is to say) :-
My Invention refers to an improved mode of preventing the forcing of safe
doors by the insertion of wedges between the door and the safe, and it consists
in applying to the safe in any suitable part, but by preference in the door, a
second circular door, either smooth or serrated on its edge, and fitting with
the greatest accuracy an opening large enough to admit a man's arm, or larger
if required. The edge of this circular door is bevilled, so that the door
assumes the form of a short frustum of a cone, and its seating, into which. it
may be ground to fit with the nicest accuracy, is also bevilled.. The outside
angle of the edge of the door has a slight fillet or bead. extending over both
the edge of the door and the corresponding edge of the plate into which it
fits, and the hinge is made double jointed, and is fixed inside the door plate,
so that when closed the opening edges are barely perceptible. A lock is fitted.

page_text: in this circular door, and I prefer that it should be constructed to throw its
bolts radially into the door plate by a key in the centre of the door.
The object of the Invention is this, to conceal the mode in which the ordinary
large safe door is to be opened, and by providing means for getting the hand,
or if necessary the whole arm, inside the door to render it possible to use
bolts or bars for securing the door of such strength, and arranged in such a
manner as to preclude the possibility of forcing it open with crowbars, even if
the points should be forced between the door and the plate. And by banging
the large door with double jointed hinges from the inside, and making the
edges to fit accurately, its security may be ensured by any convenient method
of inside bolting. I also propose to employ a circular door made as above
described, and without any second door, if preferred.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Edward Peyton in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 21st
December 1866.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, EDWARD
PEYTON, of Birmingham, in the County of Warwick, Manufacturer, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Iler Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-second day of June, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and sixty-six, in the thirtieth year of Her reign,
did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said
Edward Peyton, Her special license that I, the said Edward Peyton, my
executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Edward.
Peyton, my executors, 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
SAFES," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Edward Peyton,
by an instrument in writing under my hand and seal, should particularly
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 Edward Peyton, do hereby declare

page_text: 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 (that is to say) :-
My Invention refers to an improved mode of preventing the forcing of safe
doors by the insertion of wedges between the door and the safe, and it consists
in applying to the safe in any suitable part, but by preference in the door, a
second circular door, cither smooth or serrated on its edge, and fitting with
the greatest accuracy an opening large enough to admit a man's arm, or larger
if required. The edge of this circular door is bevilled, so that the door
assumes the form of a short frustum of a cone, and its seating, into which it
may be ground to fit with the nicest accuracy, is also bevilled. The outside
angle of the edge of the door has a slight fillet or bead extending over both
the edge of the door and the corresponding edge of the plate into which it
fits, and the hinge is made double jointed, and is fixed inside the door plate,
so that when closed the open edges are barely perceptible. A lock is fitted in
this circular door, and I prefer that it should be constructed to throw its bolts
radially into the door plate by a key in the centre of the door.
The object of the Invention is this, to conceal the mode in which the
ordinary large safe door is to be opened, and by providing means for getting
the hand, or if necessary the whole arm, inside the door to render it possible
to use bolts or bars for securing the door of such strength and arranged in
such a manner as to preclude the possibility of forcing it open with crowbars,
even if the points should be forced between the door and the plate, and by
hanging the large door also with double jointed binges from the inside, their
action being thus concealed from the outside, and making the edges to fit
accurately, further security may be ensured. I also propose to employ a cir-
cular door made as above described, and without any second door, i preferred.
Having thus described the nature of my said Invention, and the manner
in which the same may be carried into effect, I claim, without limiting
myself to these precise details, the improvements in the construction of safes,
as herein described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Edward Peyton, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Nineteenth day of December, in the year of our
EDWARD PEYTON. (L.S.)