Improvements in Metallic Travelling Trunks.
Year: 1892

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Metallic Travelling Trunks.
I, THOMAS UTTLEY of the Bank View Works Hyde Road Manchester in
the County of Lancaster, Metallic Trunk Manufacturer, 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 metallic travelling trunks which it is the object of this
invention to strengthen and preserve from injury, and to secure lightness with
greater rigidity.
According to these improvements, I secure strips of timber in longitudinal beads
or recesses formed in the plates from which the body and lid of the trunk are made.
The recesses or beads are preferably formed so that their concavities will be within
the trunk, and the timber is arranged therein about flush with the inside walls or
surfaces. The beads or recesses containing the strips of timber may be limited to
the sides of the trunk, to the sides and lid, to the sides bottom and lid, or they may
be arranged on the sides bottom lid and ends or any of them, and their concavities
may be external or internal.
I will more particularly describe my said invention with reference to the accom-
panying drawings, in which
Figure 1 is a perspective view of a trunk comprising these improvements with
one end removed; and
Figure 2 is a section through the plate from which the body of the trunk is
formed and in which the grooves or recesses have already been produced.
AA are the beads or recesses which may be of any convenient and suitable
form but which are preferred to be rectangular in cross section as shewn. These
beads or recesses are filled with the strips of timber B B which should be flush
with the surface of the trunk. The strips may be of ash teak oak pine or other
suitable timber and they may be secured in position by cement screws nails or
other convenient means. I prefer however to secure them by means of light wire
nails or upholsterer's pins which may be driven through the edges of the beads or
recesses into the timber as indicated at the points CC which denote the heads of
the pins.
In the drawing, the timber filled beads or recesses are shewn as having been
formed in the sides and lid of the trunk, the bottom of the trunk being strengthened
with strips D of channel iron in the usual manner.
I desire it to be understood
however that I do not limit myself to any particular number form or position for
the timber filled beads or recesses, and that the timber strips may be on the outside
instead of the inside as shewn in the drawings in which case the concavities of the
beads or recesses would of course also be outside the trunk.
The ends of the beads or recesses may be strengthened and protected by means
of the angle plates E.
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 :-
1. In metallic travelling trunks, longitudinal beads or recesses having their
concavities filled with strips of suitable timber; substantially as hereinbefore
described and as illustrated by the accompanying drawings.

page_text: 2. A travelling trunk, having one or more longitudinal timber filled beads or
recesses, substantially as and for the purpose hereinbefore described and as illus-
trated by the accompanying drawings.
Dated this 16th day of February A.D. 1892.
WILLIAM E. HEYS,
Agent for the Applicant.