An Improvement in or connected with the Lids or Covers of Boxes, Canisters or the like Receptacles
Year: 1898

page_text: Date of Application, 1st Apr., 1898
Complete Specification Left, 29th Dec., 1893-Accepted, 4th Feb., 1899
ORNAL DI MUITICATION.
An Improvement in or connected with the Lids or Covers of Boxes,
Canisters or the like Receptacles,
I, WILLIAM LAMBERT WHITE, of Lambert House, Hedon, near Hull, in the
County of Yorkshire, Sugar Merchant and Manufacturing Confectioner, do hereby
declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
My invention consists in making the lids or tops of boxes, canisters or the like
in such a manner that when the box or the like is empty or otherwise, the lid can
be used as a photo frame, or a stand for showing or displaying calenders, labels,
tickets, advertisements, and printed or other suitable matter.
For the purpose of my invention, I construct the lids of boxes or the like with
a recess or indentation therein which may be either inside or outside such lid,
and with or without a slot for the photo or the like to be passed through.
The part indented or deepened may be provided or not with a glass, tale or
other transparent face or front as desired, and the edges may be embossed,
coloured or otherwise ornamented, also a support or rest may be employed for
keeping it in an upright position when used as a photo frame or the like, or may
have rings or eyelets for hanging purposes.
My invention is applicable to hinged loose or other suitable kinds of lids or
covers, and also is applicable to the lids of boxes or the like made of tin, wood,
cardboard, or any other suitable metal or material, and of any desired shape, par-
ticularly those used for confectionery, fancy goods, starch, or any of the goods or
articles generally sold or displayed in fancy or plain boxes.
1000
JOHN E. WALSH,
Savile Street, Hull, and Crossley Street, Halifax,
Patent Agent for the Applicant.
An Improvement in or connected with the Lids or Covers of Boxes,
Canisters or the like Receptacles.
I, WILLIAM LAMBERT WHITE, of Lambert House, Hedon, near Hull, in the
County of Yorkshire, Sugar Merchant and Manufacturing Confectioner, 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 consists in making the lids or tops of boxes canisters or the like
in such a manner that when the box or the like is empty or otherwise, the lid can

page_text: be used as a photo frame or a stand for showing or displaying calenders, labels,
tickets, advertisements and printed or other suitable matter.
DESCRIPTION OF DRAWINGS.
Fig. 1 represents a front view of a box lid made according to my invention.
Fig. 2 is a sectional side view.
Fig. 3 is a back view.
Fig. 4 represents a back view of a lid shewing one of the ways of fixing the
loose back for keeping the photograph or the like in position, and
Fig. 5 is a view of both the box and the lid in section.
For the purpose of my invention, I construct the lids A of boxes or the like I
with a recess or indentation C therein which may be either inside or outside such
lid that is part of the lid is removed or cut away leaving an opening through
which the photograph or the like can be seen, such opening being either below
the remaining part of the lid or above it, but it may be on a line with it, depend-
ing upon the shape or design of such lid; and with or without a slot D for the
photo or the like to be passed through.
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The part C indented, deepened or pressed out as the case may be, can be pro-
vided or not with a glass, talc or other transparent face or front E as desired,
this may be held in position by a loose back F which may fit on the indented
part C when the lid is recessed, or it may fit tightly within the inturned outer
edges of the lid which fit over the box proper, or such loose back may be provided
with an articulated strip G to engage with projections formed on the inside of the
inturned edges of the lid, but any other suitable means of fixing the same may
be employed and would not avoid the scope of my invention, and the edges of the
lid or frame may be embossed, coloured or otherwise ornamented; also a support
or rest H may be employed for keeping it in an upright position when used as
a photo frame or the like, or it may have rings or eyelets J for hanging purposes.
My invention is applicable to hinged, loose or other suitable kinds of covers or
lids and also is applicable to the lids of boxes or the like made of tin, wood,
cardboard or any other suitable metal or material and of any desired shape, par-
ticularly those used for confectionery, fancy goods, starch or any of the goods or
articles generally sold or displayed in fancy or plain boxes.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this invention
and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I claim is :-
1. Constructing the lids of boxes so that they can be used as frames for hold-
ing photographs, calenders or the like, in the manner and for the purposes,
substantially as shown and described.
2. In connection with boxes, the employment of lids with an open space therein,
to allow a photograph, picture, printed matter or the like to be seen through it,
and with a loose back such as F, with or without articulated strip G, and with
support or rest H, and with or without glass face E, and hanging eyelet J, in the
manner and for the purposes, substantially as shown and described.
Dated this Twenty-eighth day of December 1898.
JOHN E. WALSH,
Savile Street, Hull, and Waterhouse Chambers, Crossley Street, Halifax,
Patent Agent for the Applicant.