Improvements in or additions to Match and other Boxes, and Cigar, Cigarette, and like Cases.
Year: 1898

page_text: Date of Application, 23rd Nov., 1898
Complete Specification Left, 3rd July, 1899-Accepted, 5th Aug., 1899
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or additions to Match and other Boxes, and Cigar,
Cigarette, and like Cases.
I, FREDERICK WILLIAM TOMKINS TURTON, Managing Director of Fredk. W.
Turton Limited, of Frederick Street, in the City of Birmingham, Manufacturing
Jewellers, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:--
This invention has reference principally to metallic match and other boxes and
cigars, cigarette and like cases, and consists in the application thereto of loose
enamelled panels, insertions, placques or similar ornaments or embellishments.
Heretofore such boxes or cases, have been furnished with enamelled ornaments
by sinking the parts desired to be embellished, painting the pattern with the
usual vitreous material or pigments, and fixing the same by fusion, but by my
invention, the enamelled ornamentation is produced separate from the box or
case, and is subsequently, after fixing, secured to the box in any suitable manner,
thereby obviating the firing of the box or case itself and saving cost in re-polish-
ing and otherwise treating the article.
Thus, in carrying out one form of my invention, I take a disc of suitable metal
and paint or otherwise produce upon the same, a suitable pattern or ornament in
vitreous enamel, which is then fixed by firing, the enamelled disc thus produced
is fitted within a corresponding sinking in the walls of the box or case, and there
secured, either by burnishing or turning the edges of the sinking over the edges
of the disc, or by means of a separate bezel or ring, or by soldering (in the case
of cheap articles). Or a hole may be formed through the walls of the case, in
which the enamel disc is secured either by turning over parts of the surrounding
metal, or by a ring mount or the like.
As a further form, the enamelled disc or ornament may be affixed by cutting
out ears or bits from the surface of the box and turning them over the edges of
the ornament.
Dated thin 00nd 1 SV 1000
Improvements in or additions to Match and other Boxes, and Cigar,
Cigarette, and like Cases.
I, FREDERICK WILLIAM TOMKINS TURTON, Managing Director of Fredk. W.
Turton Limited, of Frederick Street, in the City of Birmingham, Jewellers, do
hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what manner the same is to be
performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement:-
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This invention has reference principally to metallic match and other boxes and

page_text: cigar, cigarette and like cases, and consists in the application thereto of loose
enamelled panels, insertions, placques or similar ornaments or embellishments.
Heretofore such boxes or cases, have been furnished with enamelled ornaments
by sinking the parts described to be embellished, painting the pattern with the
usual vitreous material or pigments, and fixing the same by fusion, but by my
invention, the enamelled ornamentation is produced separate from the box or
case, and is subsequently, after fixing, secured to the box in any suitable manner,
thereby obviating the firing of the box or case itself and saving cost in repolishing
and otherwise breaking the article.
Figure 1 of the accompanying drawing represents an elevation and an edge
view of a separately produced ornament applicable for attachment to a match,
cigarette, cigar or like box in accordance with my invention. This view shows
the plate before it is enamelled.
Figure A is an elevation and a vertical section upon the dotted line x, of the
said enamel attachment.
Figure 3 is a front elevation of a match box, to which the said enamel attach-
ment is to be fitted.
Figure 4 is another elevation of the said box with the enamel attachment
fitted thereto.
Figure 5 is a vertical section of Figure 4, upon the dotted line ¿ª and Figure 6
is a similar view upon an enlarged scale.
The same letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the said Figures 1
to 5.
In carrying out this form of my invention, I take a piece of metal a, which
may be of the shape of a shield or of any other figure and I paint or otherwise
produce upon the same, a suitable pattern or ornament in vitreous enamel, which
is then fixed by firing the enamelled metal plate thus produced is fitted within
a corresponding inking 6', in the walls of the box or case b, and there secured
either by pegs a', upon the back of the attachment taking through holes 6, in
the edges of the sinking and then being clenched upon the inside of the box
as shown in Figure 5, or the affixing may be accomplished by burnishing or
turning the edges of the sinking over the edges of the plate, or by means of a
separate bezel or ring, or by soldering (in the case of cheap articles). Or a hole
may be formed through the walls of the case, in which the enamel disc either by
turning over parts of the surrounding metal, or by a ring mount or the like.
Or the attachment may be effected by placing the enaniel plate a, which has
bevelled edges a¹, as represented in Figure 7 within a sinking or recess in the
side of the box and then gathering or closing in the surrounding metal of the
case over the bevels and so preventing the withdrawal.
As a further form, the enamelled disc or ornament may be affected by cutting
out ears or bits from the surface of the ornament.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is:-
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In match, cigarette and like metal boxes and cases; providing the same with
an enamel ornament wherein the enamel is applied to a separate or loose plate,
which after firing, is attached to, or let into, the walls of the box, substantially
as herein described and set forth.
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FREDERICK WILLIAM TOMKINS TURTON,
By Henry Skerrett,
24, Temple Row, Birmingham, Agent for Applicant.