An Improved Box for Holding Tools and Materials for Cleaning Articles of Dress and the like.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 27th May, 1891
Complete Specification Left, 15th Feb., 1892-Accepted, 19th Mar., 1892
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Box for Holding Tools and Materials for Cleaning
Articles of Dress and the like.
I, TRAUGOTT RUDOLF FLECHSENBERGER of Kaltennordheim, Saxe-Weimar,
in the Empire of Germany, Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of this
invention to be as follows:-
The object of this invention is a box for holding tools and materials serving for
cleaning and polishing articles of dress and uniform, said box being so arranged
that the tools and materials are kept separate and clean.
The improved box, which may be divided into several superposed compartments
or storeys, the lower of which are preferably made as slides or drawers, is so
provided with a number of notches, that intermediate boards or plates adapted to be
loosely inserted into these notches divide each compartment into cells or divisions.
The intermediate plates may also have notches for the insertion of cross plates for
the subdivision of the single cells.
The divisions and subdivisions of the whole box are so arranged and sized as
to give appropriate room for each tool or article.
The notches may be worked into the sides of the box and intermediate plates,
or each notch may be formed by two bars or by a suitably bent strip of sheet metal
fixed to the sides or plates.
D 07th day of May 1801
HUELSER & Co.,
Agents for Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Box for Holding Tools and Materials for Cleaning
Articles of Dress and the like.
I, TRAUGOTT RUDOLF FLECHISENBERGER of Kaltennordheim, Saxe-Weimar,
in the Empire of Germany, 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 a box for holding tools and materials serving for cleaning
and polishing articles of dress and uniform.
With the keeping of the abovenamed objects, especially in the army, where the
space is relatively small, generally all these things lie in a box or chest immediately
beside each other or upon each other, so that soiled tools or objects soil other
materials which are to be kept clean. The present invention serves to obviate
the said drawback, Figs. 1 and 2 of the accompanying drawing illustrating my
invention.
In a box, which may be divided in its height into stories or compartments, the
lower of which are preferably provided with drawers, notches n are so arranged,
that intermediate boards or plates = shifted thereinto divide each of the superposed
compartments into separate cells or divisions. Also the boards z may have notches
for inserting cross boards z'. Thereby the cleaning tools and materials can be
kept apart, so that any soiling of clean materials is excluded.
The improved box may for instance be used in the army as follows:
At the inside of the lid tooth brush and comb are put into pockets t t¹ open at
one end or at both ends, or screws or nails s with projecting heads may be used
therefor. Division I may hold tins with tallow clay etc. and between them rubbing

page_text: cloths, division 6 clothes brush, division 7 a tin chest with soap and washing cloth,
division 8 shoe brushes and division 9 boxes with fat and blacking.
The notches in the sides and boards, instead of being sunk as n Fig. 2 may be
formed by bars n² or bent metal strips n³. The lid, instead of being hinged, may
embrace the sides of the box; preferably however the inside of the lid is at a
certain distance from the upper rim of the box, so that the height of the upper
compartment is less than that of the articles kept therein and the latter can be
more easily taken out.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
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In a box for keeping tools and materials for cleaning and rubbing articles of
dress and uniform, the arrangement of notches m for the insertion of exchangeable
intermediate boards z with or without cross boards for the purpose of allowing
soiled tools or articles to be kept separate from clean ones, substantially as
described.
TRAUGOTT RUDOLF FLECHSENBERGER.
By Huelser & Co.,
His Agents.