An Improved Box or Holder for Containing and Automatically Delivering Circulars and other Papers.
Year: 1898

page_text: Date of Application, 18th June, 1898-Accepted, 23rd July, 1898
COME LEIE DIEVITICATION.
An Improved Box or Holder for Containing and Automatically
Delivering Circulars and other Papers.
I, EMILY LAMB ANDERSON, of "The Firs," Highwood Hill, Mill Hill, London, W.,
Married Woman, 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:—
My invention relates to an improved apparatus for containing and automatically
delivering such articles as circulars, hand-bills, railway and other companies time-
bills and excursion notices and like single sheet pamphlets and toilet-papers, the
object of my said invention being to prevent waste of such papers or pamphlets by
providing means by which they can be withdrawn from the said box or container only
one at a time.
In order that my said invention and the manner of its operation for the purposes
stated may be fully understood, I have hereunto appended a sheet of drawings, of
which,
Fig. 1 is a perspective view of my invention as it would appear when in use.
Fig. 2 is a front elevation of same when empty and with the flaps or lids thereof
standing open at right angles to the back.
Fig. 3 is a vertical section taken upon the line A B of Fig. 2 and viewed from left to
right.
Fig. 4 is an end view of same as viewed from right to left of Fig. 1.
Fig. 5 is a diagram illustrating the manner of folding the said circulars or the like
before placing them in the box, the method of folding the said circulars or the like
forming no part of my invention.
My invention consists of a preferably rectangular oblong wood or other box A, the
back of which B is extended in height above A sufficiently to provide holes such as C,
by means of which the whole may be suspended upon a wall or other vertical surface,
but if desired the same instead of being so suspended may be stood upon a shelf or
The said
other flat horizontal surface as suggested by the lines in Figs. 3 and 4.
box has a lid or lids flap or flaps or cover, which may be in one piece and hinged to the
box A, but for preference I divide this into two equal portions D and D¹, connected
to A by the means of hinges E and E¹ respectively, the free edges of which are prefer-
ably tapered in opposite directions so as to form a diagonal or oblique junction F
when closed, as shewn in Figs. 1, 3 and 4, this arrangement being desirable in order
that one spring catch, lock, or other suitable fastening G may, by securing the
portion D also secure the portion D', but if desired the free edges of I) and D₁ may
be rectangular, and each be provided with its own fastening G, but whichever of these
designs I may adopt a certain portion of the longitudinal edges of D and D¹ are cut
away to provide a slot H (Fig. 1) through which the circulars or other papers in A may
be fed outwardly.
Upon the inside of the box A I provide a rectangular or other shaped metallic or
other plate J, of suitable dimensions, which may be the same as that of the entire
length and breadth of A, but for preference I arrange this of the same width as A and
about one third the length thereof, as shewn in Fig. 2, as I find in practice that this

page_text: arrangement offers a less surface for frictional contact with the container A, and yet
provides a sufficiently large surface to effect a perfect delivery-feed of the circulars or
the like as hereinafter explained. The said plate J is arranged to slide in guides b
and 61, (Fig. 3) the outer ends of which are turned over at c and c¹ (Figs. 2 and 3) to
arrest the outward travel of the said plate, suitable grooves or recesses d and d¹
(Fig. 3) being provided in the inner surfaces of D and DI for the reception of the said
ends c and c¹, which obviates the otherwise possibility of the circulars or other papers
being delivered from becoming entangled with the said ends.
Behind the plate J I provide a suitable spiral or other spring K (Figs. 2 and 3) the
tension or tensions of which would operate to push the plate J towards the closed
lids D and D¹, as far as permitted by the ends c and c¹.
The circulars, handbills, toilet papers, pamphlets or other single sheets of paper L
to be stored in A, would each be folded midway of their length or breadth whichever
would correspond nearest to the length of the slot H, the said papers when so folded
being placed together in such a way that each one of them receives within its fold
one half or section of the papers on either side thereof, while its own two sections are
received by and retained within the folds of the said adjoining papers, and so on (as
shewn by Fig. 5) for the whole of the papers to be placed within A, the pile so folded
being then placed against the plate J, the spring or springs K being placed in a state of
compression to permit this, the folding down of the lid D¹ serving to retain the said
papers in this position while the lid D is being closed and fastened.
In practice, the outer half or section of the first paper of the series so placed in A,
would, before closing down the second lid D, be brought outwardly over the edge
of D' so that when D is shut down and fastened the said section, or rather a portion
thereof, would extend through the slot H, as at Fig. 1, in which the said section is shewn
by L', as also at Figs. 3 and 5, and when a paper is required the same may be easily
withdrawn by a pull imparted to the protruding portion thereof L', when, by reason
of the inner section of such paper being within the folds of the next paper, such
withdrawal of the first paper would pull out through the slot H the first section of the
next paper, and so on until the whole of the papers have been withdrawn one at a
time, the stock of papers being in the meantime always automatically fed up to the
slot H by the power of the spring or springs K, during which the paper nearest to
the lids would have its first section protruding through the slot H as stated and
shewn by Fig. 1.
In order that the papers L may not be ruptured by the hasty or careless removal
thereof as stated, the substance of the lids D and D' is bevelled, tapered or otherwise
sloped at the inner longitudinal sides of the slot H, as shewn by e and e¹ in Fig. 3.
may find it convenient, when large circulars or other papers L are being stored,
that, for the purposes of advertisement or otherwise, one of them be pinned or
otherwise exposed to view upon the back B, for the purposes of which I may extend
the height of B as suggested by dotted outline in Fig. 1.
I am aware that it has hitherto been proposed to fold circulars and other papers
in the manner stated so as to engage with each other in zig zag form, and I wish it
understood that I do not claim the folding of the papers in this way, and when I do
not fold them by hand I may employ the use of such a machine as that described
and shewn by the specification and drawings of the Patent No. 18068 of A.D. 1889,
therefore,
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is
1st. The box or container for circulars, handbills, toilet papers and the like folded
so as to engage with each other in zigzag form, with means for automatically feeding
the said folded papers up to the aperture through which the are discharged one at a
time, substantially as described and shown.
2nd. In a box or container for delivering one at a time circulars and other papers
folded together as at L Fig. 5, the combination of a box such as A, having an extended

page_text: back such as B, and enclosed by one or a pair of lids such as D D¹, adapted to be
locked when closed together by a catch or the like such as G, and arranged to
collectively form a slot such as H, through which the said papers may be delivered
one at a time, with means, such as a spring or springs K operating a plate J moving
in guides such as bbc and c¹, for feeding the said papers up to the said slot H.
substantially as and for the purposes herein described and shewn by the accompanying
drawings.
T
1000
GEO. THOS. HYDE,
1, Broad Street Buildings, London, E.C., Agent for the Applicant.