IMPROVEMENTS IN FASTENINGS FOR PACKING CASES
Year: 1863

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Richard Hoe, of Leadenhall Street, in the City of
London, and Henry James Cole, of New Street, Kennington Road, in
the County of Surrey, Packing Case Makers, for the Invention of
Sealed the 25th September 1863, and dated the 30th July 1863.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Richard Hoe and Henry
James Cole at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with their
Petition, on the 30th July 1863.
We, RICHARD HOE, of Leadenhall Street, in the City of London, and
HENRY JAMES COLE, of New Street, Kennington Road, in the County of
Surrey, Packing Case Makers, do hereby declaro the nature of the said
Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN FASTENINGS FOR PACKING CASES," to be as
follows:-
Our improvements apply to packing cases used for the conveyance of goods
which are liable to be pilfered or tampered with in packing cases with ordi-
nary fastenings. In the bodies of these cases we make and fasten the parts
together in such manner that they cannot be opened without showing exter-
nally the marks of violence; that is to say, we secure and bind them with
hoop iron and conduct the ends of such hoops under the lid, which wo hinge
to the body with suitable and secure hinges. As a lock or fastening to the
lid we let in from the inside of the lid a wire bolt or bolts, or they may be

page_text: placed under cross bars of the cover, which slide like ordinary bolts into
holes formed in pieces of iron fixed inside the body and rising up into the
cover; the thumb hold of the bolt can only slide when in a vertical position,
and is prevented sliding when such part is turned down in a horizontal posi-
tion, being secured in a suitable recess to prevent its movement, and in which
position the lid is secured. A recess, by preference circular, is made in the
cover or its cross bar above the bolt and its thumb piece in this recess. When
the goods are packed we place a piece of leather or other material and run in
wax above it and apply a seal; thus the bolt or bolts cannot be touched
without breaking the seal or seals, and therefore no access can be had to the
contents of the box without its subsequently showing that it had been tampered
with
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Richard Hoc and Henry James Cole in the Great Seal
Patent Office on the 30th January 1864.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, RICHARD
110B, of Leadenhall Street, in the City of London, and HENRY JAMES COLE,
of New Street, Kennington Road, in the County of Surrey, Packing Case
Makers, send greeting.
WHEREAS Iler most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
l'atent, bearing date the Thirtieth day of July, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, in the twenty-seventh year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto us,
the said Richard Hoe and Henry James Cole, Her special licence that we, the
said Richard Hoe and Henry James Cole, our executors, administrators, and
assigns, or such others as we, the said Richard Hoe and Henry James Cole,
our executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any time agree with, and no
others, from time to time and at all times thereafter during the term therein
expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend, within
the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and
Isle of Man, an Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN FASTENINGS FOR PACKING
CASES," upon the condition (amongst others) that we, the said Richard Hoe
and Henry James Cole, our executors or administrators, by an instrument
in writing under our, or their, or one of their hands and seals, should
particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the said Invention, and in
what manner the same was to be performed, and cause the same to be filed

page_text: in the Great Seal Patent Office within six calendar months next and imme-
diately after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that we, the said Richard Hoe and Henry James Cole,
do hereby declare the nature of our said Invention, and in what manner the
same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and
by the following statement, reference being had to the Sheet of Drawings
hereunto annexed, and to the letters and figures marked thereon (that is
to say):-
Our improvements apply to packing cases used for the conveyance of goods
which are liable to be pilfered or tampered with in packing cases with ordi-
nary fastenings. In the bodies of these cases we make and fasten the parts
together in such manner that they cannot be opened without showing exter-
nally the marks of violence; that is to say, we secure and bind them with
hoop iron and conduct the ends of said hoops under the lid, which wo hinge
to the body with suitable and secure hinges. As a lock or fastening to the
lid we let in from the inside of the lid a wire bolt or bolts, or they may be
placed under cross bars of the cover, which slide like ordinary bolts into
holes formed in pieces of iron fixed inside the body and rising up into the
cover; the thumb hold of the bolt can only slide when in a vertical position,
and is prevented sliding when such part is turned down in a horizontal posi-
tion, being received in a suitable recess to prevent its movement, and in which
position the lid is secured. A recess, by preference circular, is made in the
cover on its cross bar above the bolt and its thumb piece. When the goods
are packed we place in this recess a piece of leather, paper, or other material,
and run in wax above it and apply a seal; thus the bolt or bolts cannot be
touched without breaking the seal or seals, and therefore access cannot be had
to the contents of the box without it subsequently bearing evidence that it
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page_text: c and d are doubled and have holes punched in them to receive the joint
picce e before mentioned; these pieces c and d are nailed to the back and lid
of the box, the pieces c being disposed under the cross bars f,f, on the top
of the box, the nails of each being clinched on the inside, which is also the
case with the nails of the cross bars f. f. A box is thus made which it is
impossible to open without showing marks of violence; and if the fastening of
the lid be of a kind to offer equal security it is not likely to be tampered with,
and it is to the fastening of the lid that our Invention particularly refers. The
lid is hinged at one side, as described and represented in the Drawings, which
permits of the lid falling down parallel with the back when open, and so
prevents any strain on the hinges. To fasten it in front I employ one or more
bolts, as before mentioned, sunk into the thickness of the lid. The recess in
which cach bolt is sunk being shown in Fig. 5, which is a plan of the lid with
a cross bar fremoved, while Fig. 6 represents a separate view of the bolt
itself. This bolt g works in the ordinary manner of a door bolt by the thumb
knob i being shot backwards and forwards thereby and turned on its axis, so
that the piece i either stands upright or is laid down horizontally. The recess
receiving it in the lid is such that the part i can only be horizontal when the
bolt is shot and the lid fastened by the end of it passing through an iron
plate fixed inside the front of the box (shown dotted in Fig. 1), and in
transverse section at Fig. 7. The plate h, when the lid is shut, enters a slit
in the lid when the hole l in h is opposite the bolt, which it enters and so fixes
the lid down; when so fixed the piece i of the bolt arrives opposite the lateral
extension P
of the recess in the lid and it is turned down therein. The cross
bar has an opening m in it which is disposed over the part p, and is of
sufficient size to permit the necessary traverse of the thumb knob i therein to
shoot and withdraw the bolt from the plate h, and so bolt and unbolt the lid.
In order to prevent the bolt being surreptitiously opened, after bolting and
turning the part i down in the recess p, we place a circular piece of paper,
leather, or other suitable material, of the same size as the opening m, over
that part of the bolt uncovered by the cross bar f,f, and then run wax or other
material therein and make the impression of a seal upon the material, as
shown in Fig. 5, while in a plastic state; thus the bolt will be entirely enclosed
and protected, and it will be impossible to open the box without destroying the
seal and showing subsequently that it has been tampered with. I have
described the fixing as if performed with one bolt, but there are two, one
under each cross bar f, and there may be three or more if desired. Instead of
placing the bolts under cross bars and recessing them into the top of the li!.
the lid may be without cross bars and the bolts recessed or let in from the

page_text: inside, and a circular or other shaped hole m formed in the top of the lid in
the position as indicated in the cross bar f, and for the purpose described.
Having described the nature of our Invention, and the manner of performing
the same, we declare that what we claim as our Invention to be protected by
the herein-before in part recited Letters Patent is, fastening the lids or opening
parts of boxes or cases by bolts or their equivalents inserted, secured, and
protected as and for the purposes herein-before described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Richard Hoc, on behalf of myself and
the said Henry James Cole, have hereunto set my hand and seal, this
Twenty-ninth day of January, in the year of our Lord One thousand
eight hundred and sixty-four.
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