IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR FIXING, WHEN CLOSED, THE LIDS OF HOLDERS FOR LIQUIDS AND OTHER SUBSTANCES."
Year: 1878

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to James Casey Mason, of 4, Wetherby Terrace, Earl's Court
"
Road, Kensington, in the County of Middlesex, Stationer, for the Invention of
IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR FIXING, WHEN CLOSED, THE LIDS OF
HOLDERS FOR LIQUIDS AND OTHER SUBSTANCES."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said James Casey Mason at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 10th May 1878.
JAMES CASEY MASON, of 4, Wetherby Terrace, Earl's Court Road, Kensington, in
the County of Middlesex, Stationer. "IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR FIXING,
WHEN CLOSED, THE LIDS OF HOLDERS FOR LIQUIDS AND OTHER SUBSTANCES."
My improvements consists of a slide or band encircling the box, or holder, or top
of flask, or lid or cover of any other article, which, when moved into position by
sliding securely holds or fixes the lid, cover, or top in such a position that the con-
tents cannot escape on being carried or overturned, or by accident. The lid, cover, or
top, is connected with the box, or holder, or flask, or other article, by a metal
hinge.
The box, or holder, or top of flask, or other article, with its slide or band, can be
made of metal, or wood, or any other substances, or any combination of metals or
wood, or other substances, and can be made round, oval, octagonal, or any other form
or shape, or any size convenient for the purposed contents.
The Drawings represent a holder for matches or ink bottle embodying my
Invention.
Fig. 1 represents the holder with the lid closed and the slide or band raised into
position, securely holding or fixing the lid.
The part of the Drawing tinted yellow represents the slide or band.
Fig. 2 respresents the holder with the lid closed and the slide or band lowered,
leaving the lid or cover free to be opened; c, points to the metal hinge.
Fig. 3 represents the holder open.

page_text: A, A, represents the top of lid or cover and the bottom of box or holder projecting
sufficiently to prevent the slide or band escaping or coming off. The bottom pro-
jection would not be used in cover or top of liquor flask.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed by
the said James Casey Mason in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 9th
November 1878.
JAMES CASEY MASON, of 4, Wetherby Terrace, Earl's Court Road, Kensington, in
the County of Middlesex, Stationer. "IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR FIXING,
WHEN CLOSED, THE LIDS OF HOLDERS FOR LIQUIDS AND OTHER SUBSTANCES."
The object of my Invention is a simple contrivance to secure, fasten, or fix the 1
lid, cover, or top, when closed, of an ink holder, match holder, liquor flask, or box
or holder for any liquid or substance, or any article for which such box or holder
shall be convenient, and securely hold its contents.
My improvement consists of a slide or band encircling the box, or holder, or top
of liquor flask, or other article, which when moved into position by sliding securely 1
holds or fixes the lid, cover, or top in such a position that the contents cannot
escape by the box, or holder, or other article, being moved, or carried, or over-
turned, or by accident. The lid, cover, or top is connected to the box, or holder,
or other article, by a metal binge.
The box, or holder, or top of flask, or other article, with its slide or band, can be 2
made of metal, wood, or other substance, or any combination of metals, wood,
leather, or other substances, and can be made round, oval, or any other form or
shape, and any size convenient for the purposed contents.
The Drawing represents an ink holder embodying my Invention.
Fig. 1 represents the holder with the slide closed, the slide raised into position 2
securing or fixing the lid or cover,
The part tinted represents the slide.
Fig. 2 represents the holder closed with the slide lowered, setting the lid or cover
free to be opened.
Fig. 3 represents the holder open.
A, A, represents the top and bottom of the box or holder projecting sufficiently
to prevent the slide or band escaping or coming off.
For liquids, the inside of the lid or cover is furnished with a disc of rubber,
cork, or other substance, which, when the lid is closed, meets the neck of glass or
other bottle contained in the box or holder, and acts as stopper; being perfectly 3
fitted, excludes all air.
It will be seen that by the simple act of moving the slide or band upwards into
position after closing the lid or cover of the box or holder, the same is rendered
portable without danger of the contents escaping, whether containing ink, oil, or
any liquid or substance.
"

page_text: At the same time will be observed the entire absence of any kind of catch,
spring, lock, or complicated or perishable fastening beyond the slide or band.
I claim as the Invention secured to me by these Letters Patent, the slide
arrangement, without any other kind of fastening, to secure or fix the lid or cover
when closed of a box or holder for any liquid or substance, such lid or covor being
connected to the body of the box or holder by a metal hinge.
In witness whereof, I, the said James Casey Mason, hereunto set my hand
and seal, this Seventh day of November, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and seventy-eight.
JAMES CASEY MASON. (L.S.)