Improvements in or appertaining to Bonnet and other similar Boxes.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 22nd Jan., 1892
Complete Specification Left, 24th Oct., 1892-Accepted, 26th Nov., 1892
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or appertaining to Bonnet and other similar
Boxes.
I, JAMES JOWETT, of Chester Street, Horton Lane, Bradford in the County
of York, Box Maker, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
This invention relates to improvements in or appertaining to bonnet and other
similar boxes of straw board or the like and its object is to provide a simple fastener
and handle adapted to facilitate closing and carrying such boxes.
For this purpose I mount a spring hook preferably on the front side of the box
close to the top below the lid and I secure a looped string, band or strap to the
back or opposite side of the box. This string, band or strap is sufficiently long to
pass over the closed lid and be secured by a loop or its equivalent at the extremity
to said spring hook thus forming a convenient handle as well as preventing the lid
from being opened. And the spring form of hook prevents the said loop from
dropping out or being accidentally disengaged therefrom.
.
Said spring hook may be secured in position by a hollow rivet or by a claw
or claws formed thereon and clenched through the box or in any convenient
manner.
As a modification a string, band or strap may be secured to opposite sides of the
box and be connected together by a spring hook.
Dated this 21st day of January 1892.
DRACUP & NOWELL,
Bradford, Agents.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or appertaining to Bonnet and other similar
Boxes.
I, JAMES JOWETT, of Chester Street, Horton Lane, Bradford, in the County
of York, Box Maker, 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 :-
This invention relates to improvements in or appertaining to bonnet and other
similar boxes of straw board or the like and its object is to provide a simple fastener
and handle adapted to facilitate closing and carrying such boxes.
For this purpose 1 mount a spring hook preferably on the front side of the
box close to the top below the lid and I secure a looped string, band or strap, to
the back or opposite side of the box.. This string, band or strap is sufficiently long
to pass over the closed lid and be secured by a, loop or its equivalent at the
extremity to said spring hook thus forming a convenient handle as well as pre-
venting the lid from being opened. And the spring form of hook prevents the said
loop from dropping out or being accidentally disengaged therefrom.
Said spring hook may be secured in position by a hollow rivet, or by a claw
or claws formed thereon and clenched through the box or in any convenient
manner.
As a modification a string or band may be secured to opposite sides of the box
and be connected together by a suitable hook.

page_text: Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings forming a part of this
Specification in which similar letters refer to similar parts in each of the figures.
Figure 1, is a front view of a bonnet box with my improvements applied thereto
the string handle or carrier A is shown in the position it occupies when the box is
held or suspended thereby. Figure 2, is a side view of the same. Figure 3, is a
separate front view on a larger scale of the said spring hook and Figure 4, is a
side view of the same with the side of the box shown in section.
Figure 5, is a side view of a box with the modification above referred to applied
thereto. Figure 6, is a plan view of the same.
The double string handle or carrier A in Figures 1 and 2 is secured at the back.
in a metal eyelet fixed in the back B of the box and at the front the looped end of
the double string is hooked upon the spring hook C secured to the front side. D of
the box by the hollow or eyelet rivet E. The spring form of hook prevents the
string accidentally falling out but enables it to be readily removed to allow the
lid of the box to be opened.
In the modification shown in Figures 5 and 6 a shorter double string A' is secured
(in a similar manner to A) to both the back and front of the box or to opposite
sides and a hook Cis provided secured to the end of one double string and adapted
to engage the end of the other double string. It is not essential for the hook to
be a spring hook as there is not that tendency for the string to become unhooked
when it is left slack.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, 1 declare that what I
claim is :
1. In a bonnet or other similar box, the use of a spring hook fixed to the box
adapted to engage a handle or carrier, substantially as herein shown and described
and illustrated in the accompanying drawings.
2. In a bonnet or other similar box, the use of a hook attached by a portion of
the handle or carrier to the box and adapted to engage the other portion of the
handle or carrier, substantially as herein shown and described and illustrated in the
accompanying drawings.
Dated this 21st day of October 1892.
DRACUP & NOWELL,
Bradford, Agents.