Boxes Made of Sheet Metal.
Year: 1887

page_text: Date of Application, 8th Feb., 1887
Complete Left, 25th Oct., 1887
Complete Accepted, 25th Nov., 1887
Boxes Made of Sheet Metal.
I WILLIAM BLIZARD WILLIAMSON of the Firm of W. B. Williamson and Sous
of Providence Works in the City of Worcester Manufacturers do hereby declare the
nature of this Invention to be as follows:-
My invention has for its object to strengthen the said trunks and boxes and to
prevent the indentation of and injury to the said trunks and boxes to which they are
liable as ordinarily constructed. And my invention consists in protecting and
strengthening the top bottom sides and ends of the said trunks and boxes by affixing
thereto layers or panels of wood the boxes being so constructed that the said layers or
panels of wood are flush with the parts of the trunks or boxes to which they are
affixed and produce no material change in the shape or appearance of the trunk
or box.
I will describe my invention with reference to the top or lid of a travelling trunk.
In the outside of the lid of the trunk I make a shallow recess of a depth equal to
the thickness of the layer or panel of wood with which the lid is to be strengthened
the area of the said recess nearly equalling the area of the lid. The layer or panel of
wood when inserted in this recess is flush or nearly so with the metallic parts of the
lid surrounding the recess the layer or panel of wood being as it were set in a narrow
metallic framing. The layer or panel of wood may be fixed in the said recess in
various ways.
For example it may be secured in its place by screws or rivets.
Instead of placing the layer or panel of wood outside the lid it may be placed inside.
In this case it may either be fixed by screws or rivets or it may be fixed by strips of
hoop iron or other metallic strips arranged longitudinally or crosswise the said strips
being fixed at their ends to the vertical sides of the lid and connected to the layer or
panel of wood by screws or rivets.
Instead of inserting the layer or panel of wood in a recess in the lid in the way
described the recess may be open at one end and the layer or panel of wood may be
put in its place by a sliding motion. In this case the ends of the recess may over-
hang the ends of the layer or panel or the longer sides of the recess as well as the

page_text: ends may overhang the layer or panel of wood. The open end at which the layer or
panel was introduced is closed by a metallic strip secured in its place by screws or
rivets.
When the layer or panel of wood is applied in the manner last described it
is not necessary that it should be riveted or screwed to the bottom of the metallic
recess. For greater strength and security the screwing or riveting of the layer or
panel of wood to the bottom of the metallic recess may however be resorted to.
When the lid or other part of the travelling or other trunk or box is provided with
a layer or panel of wood as described a blow which would permanently indent and
disfigure the unprotected lid has no effect on the lid the rigidity and elasticity of the
wood effectually protecting the lid from injury from the blow.
The application of my invention to the bottoms sides and ends of travelling trunks
and to the lids bottoms sides and ends of other truuks and boxes and differs in no
essential respect from its application to the lid of a travelling trunk as herein before
explained.

page_text: Improvements in Travelling Trunks and other Trunks and
Boxes Made of Sheet Metal.
I WILLIAM BLIZARD WILLIAMSON of the firm of W. B. Williamson and Sons of
Providence Works in the City of Worcester, Manufacturers do hereby declare the
nature of my 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 has for its object to strengthen the said trunks and boxes and to
prevent the indentation of and injury to the said trunks and boxes to which they are
liable as ordinarily constructed." And my invention consists in protecting and
strengthening the top, bottom, sides and ends of the said trunks and boxes by
affixing thereto layers or panels of wood the boxes being so constructed that the
said layers or panels of wood are flush with the parts of the trunks or boxes to which
they are affixed and produce no material change in the shape or appearance of the
trunk or box.
I will describe my invention with reference to the top or lid of a travelling trunk.
In the outside of the lid of the trunk I make a shallow recess of a depili equal to
the thickness of the layer or panel of wood with which the lid is to be strengthened,
the area of the said recess nearly equalling the area of the lid. The layer or panel of
wood when inserted in this recess is flush or nearly so with the metallic parts of the
lid surrounding the recess the layer or panel of wood being as it were set in a narrow
metallic framing. The layer or panel of wood may be fixed in the said recess in
various ways. For example, it may be secured in its place by screws or rivets.
Instead of placing the layer or panel of wood outside the lid it may be placed
inside. In this case it may either be fixed by screws or rivets or it may be fixed by
strips of hoop iron or other metallic strips arranged longitudinally or crosswise, the
said strips being fixed at their ends to the vertical sides of the lid and connected to
the layer or panel of wood by screws or rivets.
Instead of inserting the layer or panel of wood in a recess in the lid in the way
described the recess may be open at one end and the layer or panel of wood may be
put in its place by a sliding motion. In this case the ends of the recess may over-
hang the ends of the layer or panel; or the longer sides of the recess as well as the
ends may overhang the layer or panel of wood."
The open end at which the layer or panel was introduced is closed by a metallic
strip secured in its place by screws or rivets. When the layer or panel of wood is
applied in the manner last described it is not necessary that it should be riveted or
screwed to the bottom of the metallic recess.
For greater strength and security the screwing or riveting of the layer or panel of
wood to the bottom of the metallic recess may however be resorted to.
Figure 1 of the accompanying Drawing represents in cross section and Figure 2 in
plan of upperside the lid of a metal travelling trunk constructed according to the first
described arrangement of my invention. The section Figure 1 is taken through one of
the hoop iron fastening strips.
a is the lid of the trunk and b a portion of the body of the trunk; c is the shallow
rectangular recess made in the outside of the lid a; d is the layer or panel of wood

page_text: placed and fitting closely in the said recess c in the lid. a for protecting and
strengthening the said lid.
It will be seen by an examination of Figure 1 that the layer or panel of wood d rests
on the bottom of the recess c and that the upper face of the said layer or panel of
wood d is flush or nearly flush with the parts of the lid, surrounding the said recess.
The said wood panel d is represented as being fixed in the recess c by cross strips e
of hoop iron rivetted to the lid a and to the wood panel and .bottom of the recess but
the panel of wood d may be fixed in the recess in the lid in various ways which I do
not think it necessary to describe.
Figure 3 represents in cross section Figure 4 in plan of upper side and Figure 5
in longitudinal section the lid of a nicial travelling trunk protected and strengthened
according to the second described arrangement of my invention... In this case the
recess c in the top of the lid projects outwards and the layer or panel of wood dis
placed inside the recess and is concealed. The wood panel is supported in the recess c
at its ends (or ends and sides) by angle pieces rivetted to the lid a and to the wood
panel and recess as best seen in the longitudinal section Figure 5. Or the wood panel
may be fixed in the recess in the lid by cross or longitudinal strips of hoop iron
passing under the wood panel rivetted to the sides of the lid and to the wood pane!
and recess in which the said wood panel is inserted.
Figure 6 represents in longitudinal section; Figure 7 in plan of upper side and
Figure 8 in end elevation the lid of a metal travelling trunk in which the layer or
panel of wood is inserted in the recess in the lid by a sliding motion, one or both
ends of the recess being left open for that purpose.
In this modification the recess c in the lid a las open ends at c² 2 and end horizontal
bottom supports on which the wood panel d rests. After the wood panel d has been
inserted in the recess c from one end by a sliding motion as indicated in dotted lines,
the open end or both ends is or are closed by the angle pieces h, which are rivetted
to the lid, wood panel and recess in the manner represented in the drawing. Or the
wood panel in the last described arrangement need not be rivetted to the recess and
the open end or ends of the recess may be closed in any other convenient manner.
In Figure 8 the end angle covering plate is represented removed.
When the lid (or other part) of the travelling or other trunk or box is provided
with a layer or panel of wood as described and represented a blow which would
permanently indent and disfigure the unprotected lid has no effect on the lid the
rigidity and elasticity of the wood effectually protecting the lid from injury from
the blow.
The application of my invention to the bottoms sides and ends of travelling and
other metal trunks and boxes differs in no essential respect from its application to
the lids of travelling trunks as herein before explained and illustrated in the
accompanying Drawings.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my invention and
the manner in which the same is to be performed I declare that I claim as my
invention of "Improvements in travelling trunks and other trunks and boxes made
of sheet metal":
Protecting and strengthening the tops bottoms, sides and ends of the said trunks
and boxes by means of layers or panels of wood applied to and fixed in recesses
in the said tops, bottoms, sides and ends of the trunks and boxes substantially in
the manner herein before described and illustrated in the accompanying Drawings.
Dated this Twenty second day of October 1887.
WILLIAM BLIZARD WILLIAMSON.