IMPROVEMENTS IN SAFES, STRONG-ROOMS. IRON DOORS, AND THEIR LOCKS.
Year: 1866

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Elihu Price and Cyrus Price, both of Wolver-
hampton, in the County of Stafford, Manufacturers, for the Invention
of "IMPROVEMENTS IN SAFES, STRONG-ROOMS. IRON DOORS, AND THEIR LOCKS.'
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Elihu Price and Cyrus
Price at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with their Petition,
on the 16th May 1866.
We, ELIHU PRICE and CYRUS PRICE, both of Wolverhampton, in the County
of Stafford, Manufacturers, do hereby declare the nature of the said Inven-
tion for "IMPROVEMENTS IN SAFES, STRONG-ROOMS, IRON DOORS, AND THEIR LOCKS,"
to be as follows:-
Our Invention has reference principally to preventing those parts of the
safe which are round the door from being sprung from the door by crowbars,
wedging, or leverage, and also in the arrangement of the fireproof compȧrt-
ment in that part.
In constructing a safe according to our Invention the outer case is made as
usual, except that we drill or punch holes in those parts where the safe or
door frame may require extra strength, which is principally on the side strips;
if this extra strength is only required round the door or doors, as is generally
the case, the fireproof lining is next placed in its position, and to this lining

page_text: a door or doors is or are hinged, which said door or doors has or have on the
inner side the fireproof chamber. This door or doors is set back a sufficient
distance to allow space for bars and an outer door or doors; the fireproof
lining being adjusted hooks or eyes are riveted or screwed into the holes
which were left for the purpose, and moveable tension or stretcher bars are
adjusted to the said eyes or hooks, so that should the sides, top, or bottom be
strained outward the tension or strain will be on one or more of the, said bars;
these bars may be made to lock, mortice, or dovetail together, or may be left
plain, and they may be horizontal, perpendicular, or both, or in any suitable
position; the inner door or doors may have a lock or locks. The outer door
or doors is or are next fitted, to which door or doors is added a lock (and lock
case), but by preference no fireproof case. The lock on the outer door may
be made to lock or fasten to the moveable tension bars); if the safe is required
to be strengthened in other parts the eyes or books may be fixed in any con-
venient part, and the bars fitted and removed at will, so that the strength of
the safe can be increased to almost an unlimited extent simply by the addition
of moveable tension bars, which may be added as occasion requires. These
moveable bars may be applied to safes, iron doors, or strong-rooms in the
manner before described; the fastening or connecting parts of the moveable
tension bars may be of any convenient and known description.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Elihu Price and Cyrus Price in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 16th November 1866.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, ELIHU
PRICE and CYRUS PRICE, both of Wolverhampton, in the County of Stafford,
Manufacturers, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Sixteenth day of May, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-six, in the twenty-ninth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto us,
the said Elihu Price and Cyrus Price, Her special licence that we, the said
Elihu Price and Cyrus Price, our executors, administrators, and assigns,
or such others as we, the said Elihu Price and Cyrus Price, 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

page_text: the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel Islands,
and Isle of Man, an Invention for. "IMPROVEMENTS IN SAFES, STRONG-BOOMS,
IKON DOORS, AND THEIR LOCKS," upon the condition (amongst others) that we,
the said Elihu Price and Cyrus Price, 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 in the Great Seal Patent Office within six calendar months next and
immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that we, the said Elihu Price and Cyrus Price, 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 accompanying
Drawings, and to the letters marked thereon, that is to say:―
Our Invention has reference principally to preventing those parts of the
safe round the door from being sprung from the door by crowbars, wedging,
or leverage, and also in the arrangement of the fireproof compartment in that
part.
In constructing a safe according to our Invention the outer case is made as
usual, except that we drill or punch holes in those parts where the safe or
door frame may require extra strength, which is principally on the side strips;
if this extra strength is only required round the door or doors, as is generally
the case, the fireproof lining is next placed in its position, and to this lining
a door or doors is or are hinged, which said door or doors has or have on the
inner side the fireproof chamber. This door or doors is set back a sufficient
distance to allow space for bars and an outer door or doors; the fireproof
lining being adjusted hooks or eyes are rivetted or screwed into the holes
which were left for the purpose, and moveable tension or stretcher bars are
adjusted to the said eyes or hooks, so that should the sides, top, or bottom be
strained outward the tension or strain will be on one or more of the said bars;
these bars may be made to lock, mortice, or dovetail together or be left plain,
and may be horizontal, perpendicular, or both, or in any suitable position; the
inner door or doors may have a lock or locks. The outer door or doors is or
are next fitted, to which is a lock and lock case, but by preference no fireproof
case. The lock on the outer door may be made to lock or fasten to the
moveable tension bars; if the safe is required to be strengthened in other
parts the eyes or hooks may be fixed in any convenient part and the bars fitted
and removed at will, so that the strength of the safe can be increased to
almost an unlimited extent simply by the addition of moveable tension bars,

page_text: which may be added as occasion requires. These moveable bars may be
applied to safes, iron doors, or strong-rooms in the manner before described;
the fastening or connecting parts of the moveable tension bars may be of any
convenient and known description.
Having now explained the nature of our Invention; and the manner of
carrying it into effect, we next proceed to to describe the same with reference to
the accompanying Drawings, and to the letters marked thereon.
Figure 1 represents a safe made according to our Invention, and having
the outer door thrown back. a is the lock of an inner door; 6 is the inner
door, which we prefer to contain the fireproof preparation; c, c, shews the
moveable bars which we fix by the ends being of the form of T, and eyes or
holes to match; d is the outer door; and e the outside bands.
Figure 2 is a section through one of the moveable bars c¹; bis the fireproof
compartment.
Figure 3 shews the safe with both doors removed; and Figure 4 represents
a moveable bar removed from the safe.
We claim to use moveable bars of any convenient form, and also to connect
the ends thereof to the frames or casing by any suitable dovetail hook or eye
or other fastening.
We also claim the application of the fireproof materials to the inner door;
we use the moveable bars to any kind of safe.
In witness whereof, we, the said Elihu Price and Cyrus Price, have
hereunto set our hands and seals, this Fourteenth day of November,
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-six.
Witness,
ЈОБЕРН СООКЕ,
Lawley St.,
Birmingham..
ELIHU PRICE. (L.S.)
CYRUS PRICE. (L.B.)