IMPROVEMENTS IN PACKING CASES OR BOXES
Year: 1869

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Charles Lindsey Page, of the Firm of Page and
Sandeman, of Pall Mall, in the City of Westminster, Wine Mer-
chants, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN PACKING CASES OR BOXES
Scaled the 5th April 1870, and dated the 14th October 1869.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Charles Lindsey Page
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on
the 14th October 1869.
I, CHARLES LINDSEY PAGE, of the Firm of Page and Sandeman, of
Pall Mall, in the City of Westminster, Wine Merchants, do hereby
declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN PACKING
CASES OR BOXES POR CONTAINING BOTTLES OR OTHER ARTICLES," to be as
follows:-
Heretofore packing cases of ordinary construction can be casily
opened for the felonious abstraction of the contents without fear of
detection.
Now the object of my Invention is to construct packing cases in such
manner as to remedy this evil and prevent cases from being surrep-

page_text: titiously opened without the opening being detected; and it has
also for object to strengthen the case and to keep the bottles or other
articles steady when packed, to prevent the same from shifting.
My Invention consists in the following arrangement:-Across the
bottom of the box and on the inside surface thereof I fix a bar or stay
extending completely across the interior of the case or box. One way
of fixing it is by means of nails or similar fastenings driven in from the
inside and clamped or riveted on the outside. Having secured the bar
in place I drive in or otherwise apply nails or fasteners endwise of the
bar, that is to say, I pass them through the sides of the case into the
ends of the bar or stay. On the lid or cover of the case on the inner
side or surface thereof I fix in like manner a similar and similarly
disposed bar or stay using end fastenings in the same manner.
When the Invention is applied to cases for packing bottles the bars
are so placed that they lie across the necks of the bottles in the case.
If an effort were made to prize open the lid or bottom of the case in
order to extract bottles or articles feloniously therefrom the above
arrangement would occasion the splitting and destruction of the lid or
bottom of the case, and thus lead to ultimate detection; moreover the
bars resist and to some extent prevent by the mode in which they
are fixed the withdrawing of the contents surreptitiously. The bars
also strengthen the case and tend to prevent the contents from
shifting.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Charles Lindsey Page in the Great Seal Patent 2
Office on the 14th April 1870.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, CHARLES
LINDSEY PAGE, of the Firm of Page and Sandeman, of Pall Mall, in the
City of Westminster, Wine Merchants, send grecting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her 3
Letters Patent, bearing date the Fourteenth day of October, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-nine, in the thirty-
third year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give
and grant unto me, the said Charles Lindsey Page, Her special licence
that I, the said Charles Lindsey Page, my executors, administrators, and 3

page_text: assigns, or such others as I, the said Charles Lindsey Page, my 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
PACKING CASES OR BOXES POR CONTAINING BOTTLES OR OTHER ARTICLES," upon
the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Charles Lindsey Page,
my executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing under my,
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 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 I, the said Charles Lindsey Page, do hereby
declare the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same
is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and
by the following statement thereof, reference being had to the accom-
panying Drawings and to the letters and figures marked thereon, that is
to say:―
Heretofore packing cases of ordinary construction could have been
casily opened for the felonious abstraction of the contents without fear of
detection.
Now the object of my Invention is to construct packing cases or boxes
in such manner as to remedy this evil and prevent such cases or boxes
from being surreptitiously opened without the opening being detected;
and it has also for object to strengthen the case and to keep the
bottles or other articles steady (when packed), to prevent the same from
shifting.
My Invention consists in the following arrangement:-Across the
bottom of the box or case on the inside surface thereof I fix a bar or
stay extending completely across the interior of the case or box. One
way of fixing it is by means of nails or similar fastenings driven in from
the inside and clamped or riveted on the outside. Having secured the
bar or stay in place I drive in or otherwise apply nails or fasteners
endwise of the bar or stay, that is to say, I pass them through the sides
of the case into the ends of the bar or stay. On the lid or cover of the
case, on the inner side or surface thereof, I fix in like manner a bar or

page_text: stay in a similar and similarly disposed bar or stay, using end
fastenings in the same manner.
When the Invention is applied to cases for packing bottles the bars
are so placed that they lie across the necks of the bottles in the case.
If an effort were made to prize open the lid or the bottom of the case
in order to extract bottles or articles feloniously therefrom the above
arrangement would occasion the splitting and destruction of the lid or
bottom of the case, and thus lead to ultimate detection; moreover the
bars resist and to some extent prevent by the mode in which they are
fixed the withdrawing of the contents surreptitiously. The bars also
strengthen the case and tend to prevent the contents from shifting.
The accompanying Drawings exemplify the mode in which the Inven-
tion is best carried into effect.
Figure 1 is a transverse vertical section of a packing casc con-
structed according to this Invention; Figure 2 is a plan of the lid or 1
cover, that is to say, of the under or inner surface thereof; Figure 3
is a longitudinal vertical section of the box or case; Fig. 4, top plau
of cover.
A is the box or case, and A* the lid, cover, or top; B is a bar or stay of
wood which I fix across the inner surface of the bottom of the case by 2
nails a driven in from the inside and clamped on the outside. b, b, are
other nails driven through the sides of the case into the ends of the
bar B. B is a similar bar or stay which is fixed in like manner across
the inner or under surface of the upper side or lid A* by nails a* which
fix it in place, being driven in from the inside and clamped and riveted 2
from the outside. 6*, 6*, are nails driven in through the edges of the
cover or lid A* into the ends of the bar B*.
When the Invention is applied to cases for holding bottles, the bottles
are so placed in the case that their necks lie across or transversely to
the bars B, B*. By the arrangement and disposition of the bars B, B*, 3
and employment of end nails b*, b*, b, b, it follows that if any effort
were made to break the case open surreptitiously by prizing or trying to
force up the upper or under sides A, A", in order to abstract the contents
the said sides would at once split or break, and this would immediately
lead to detection.
Having now described the nature of the said Invention, and the
manner in which the same may be performed, I declare that I claim as
my improvements in packing cases or boxes, the employment of bars
3

page_text: or stays arranged and disposed as described, and having nails or other
fasteners driven into the ends, in the manner and for the purpose herein-
before described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Charles Lindsey Page, have hereunto
set my hand and scal, this Fifth day of April, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy.
Witness,
E. DE PASS,
68, Fleet Street,
London.
CHARLES LINDSEY PAGE. (L.S.)