PRUVIDIONAL DE Improvements in Boxes.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 5th Feb., 1895
Complete Specification Left, 23rd Feb., 1895-Accepted, 23rd Mar., 1895
PRUVIDIONAL DE
Improvements in Boxes.
I, WILLIAM STRAIN, of the Firm of Wm. Strain & Sons, of Great Victoria
Street, Belfast, Ireland, General Printers, do hereby declare the nature of this
invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to improvements in boxes and has for object to so
construct a box that the act of opening the lid or lids will raise a false bottom or
movable tray and consequently any goods which are in the box.
In carrying out the invention the lid is advantageously made in halves
hinged respectively to the sides or ends of the box. Each half of the lid is
connected by tapes or their equivalents to a false bottom or tray in such a manner
that when the box is closed the tray rests on the bottom of the box, but when the
lids are opened the tray is drawn up by the tapes to the top of the box so as to
expose to full view the contents thereof and allow of their being easily removed.
Dated the 5th day of February 1895.
G. F. REDFERN & Co.,
4, South Street, Finsbury, London, Agents for the Applicant.
Improvements in DVAVD.
I, WILLIAM STRAIN, of the Firm of Wm. Strain & Sons, of Great Victoria
Street, Belfast, Ireland, General Printers, 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 boxes and has for object to so construct
a box that the act of opening the lid or lids will raise a false bottom or movable
tray and consequently any goods which are in the box.
In carrying out the invention the lid is advantageously made in halves hinged
respectively to the sides or ends of the box. Each half of the lid is connected by
tapes or their equivalents to a false bottom or tray.
To enable my invention to be fully understood I will describe how it can be
carried into practice by reference to the accompanying drawing, in which :-
Figure 1 is a longitudinal section of a box constructed according to my invention
the lids being closed:
Figure 2 is a transverse section on the line 2-2, Figure 1; and,
Figure 3 is a similar view to Figure 1 but shewing the lids open.
a, a are the two halves of the lid of the box hinged at b, b to the ends thereof
(or they may be hinged to the sides); c is my false bottom or tray and d, d are the
tapes connecting the same to the halves a of the lid.
By this construction when the box is closed the false bottom or tray c is at the
bottom of the box as shewn in Figures 1 and 2, but when the two halves a of the
lid are opened the tray c is drawn up by the tapes d to the top of the box as shewn
in Figure 3 so as to expose to full view the contents thereof and allow of them
being easily removed.

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is-
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1. A box having a false bottom or movable tray and so arranged that the act of
opening the lid or lids will raise the said false bottom and any goods which may be
in the box, substantially as herein before described.
2. A box having its lid made in halves hinged respectively to the sides or ends
of the box, each half of the said lid being connected by tapes or their equivalents
to a false bottom or tray, substantially in the manner and for the purpose set forth.
3. The manufacture and use of the improved box hereinbefore described and
illustrated in the accompanying drawing.
Dated the 23rd day of February 1895.
G. F. REDFERN & Co.,
4, South Street, Finsbury, London, Agents for the Applicant.