Improvements in the Construction of Ornamental Stands for Dessert Boxes, Biscuit Boxes, Cigar Boxes, and similar Receptacles.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 4th Nov., 1891
Complete Specification Left, 3rd Aug., 1892-Accepted, 17th Sept., 1892
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Construction of Ornamental Stands for Dessert
Boxes, Biscuit Boxes, Cigar Boxes, and similar Receptacles.
I, WILLIAM STANIFORTH of South Moor Works, Earl Street Sheffield, in the
County of York, Silverplate Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of this
invention to be as follows:-
My invention relates to improvements in the construction of ornamental stands
for dessert boxes, biscuit boxes, cigar boxes, and similar receptacles which are
composed of two or more compartments such compartments being usually, but not
necessarily, equal and uniform sections of the whole. prefer to make them in
silver or electro-plate. My improved stands are so constructed that the various
sections or compartments of the boxes, which are pivoted to the stands, may be
simultaneously closed together or opened out. When closed together the various
sections or compartments occupy vertical positions in the stands, when opened out
each one moves from the vertical to a horizontal position its contents being thus
displayed and rendered easy of access. Stands, different in construction but having
a like purpose, have long been made and adapted to two-compartment boxes only
(as for example my Patent No. 4244, dated Oct. 20th, 1879,) but my improved
stand, while being simpler in construction and freer in its action when adapted to
two-compartment boxes, is also applicable to boxes having three or more compart-
ments, or sections. The various sections or compartments are hinged together, or
to a common centre-plate, in a convenient manner and each one is provided with a
pair of sockets for the reception of corresponding pins, or pivots, which connect it
with like corresponding arms, or brackets, that are hinged to the supports of the
stands in such a manner that they admit of, and control the uniform and
simultaneous opening and closing of all the compartments or sections in the manner
before described.
These hinged arms, or brackets, and my particular adaptation of the same,
constitute the novel and essential feature of my invention.
Dated this Fourth day of November 1891
WILLIAM STANIFORTH.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Construction of Ornamental Stands for Dessert
Boxes, Biscuit Boxes, Cigar Boxes, and similar Receptacles.
I, WILLIAM STANIFORTH of South Moor Works, Earl Street Sheffield, in the
County of York, Silverplate Manufacturer 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 improvements in the construction of ornamental stands
for dessert boxes, biscuit boxes, cigar boxes and other similar receptacles which are
composed of two or more compartments, such compartments being usually, but not
necessarily equal & uniform sections of the whole. I prefer to make them in silver
or electro-plate. My improved stands are so constructed that the various sections
or compartments of the boxes which are pivoted to the stands may be simultaneously
closed together or opened out. When closed together the various sections or
compartments occupy vertical positions in the stand. When opened out each one
moves from the vertical to a horizontal position its contents being thus displayed

page_text: and rendered easy of access.
Stands different in construction but having a like
purpose, have long been made & adapted to two-compartment boxes only (as for
example my Patent No. +244 dated Oct. 20th 1879) but my improved stand while
being simpler in construction and freer in its action when adapted to two-compart-
ment boxes is also applicable to boxes having three or more compartments or
sections. The various sections or compartments are hinged together or to a common
centre-plate in a convenient manner and each one is provided with a pair of sockets
for the reception of corresponding pins or pivots which connect it with like
corresponding arms, or brackets, that are hinged to the supports of the stand in
such a manner that they admit of and control the uniform and simultaneous
opening and closing of all the compartments or sections in the manner before
described.
These hinged arms or brackets and my particular adaptation of the same
constitute the novel and essential feature of my invention.
Reference to the accompanying sheet of drawings in which like letters represent
like parts will fully explain the nature of my invention.
Fig. 1 shows a three compartment box open
Fig. 2 shows the same closed.
Fig. 3 shows the three shell-shaped compartments A, A', A", separate from the
stand and the manner in which they are hinged to the centre-plate B.
Figs. 4 & 5 show (on an enlarged scale) one of the supports of a stand and the
manner in which the arms or brackets C, C are hinged to it at D, D'. Fig. 4
shows them in the position occupied when the box is either fully opened or closed;
Fig. 5 showing the same when it is partially opened; this figure also shows the
manner in which the arms act when the box is being either opened or closed.
Fig. 8 is a section of the support across the dotted line G G and shows the angle
at which the arms are fixed for a three-compartment box. In the stands for the
two-compartment boxes these are fixed not at an angle but in a right line one with
the other.
Fig. 6 (also on an enlarged scale) is a side view of one of the shell-shaped
compartments. One of the sockets by which it is connected to the stand is shown
at S and the hinge by which it is hinged to the centre-plate is shown at H.
Fig. 7 is an end view of the same on the same scale the pair of sockets being
shown at S, S¹, & the hinge at H, H, H, H.
Fig. 9 shows one of the pins or pivots by which the box is connected to the
stand.
The stands for three-compartment boxes are composed of three of the supports
as shown in Figure 4 fixed to the angles of an equilateral triangle of a size suitable
to receive the boxes and connected together by bars at the top which terminate in
a handle. This is well shown in Figure 2.
When the boxes are made and hinged together as described and shown and are
put within the stands it is seen that the sockets S S¹ coincide with the arms C C¹
of the stand in such a manner that a pin P Fig. 9 may be slipped through the loop
or hole at the bottom of each arm and screwed into a corresponding socket S on
one of the compartments of the box as shown at P P Fig. 5.
When this is done the boxes are held within and connected to the stands by
means of these pins only and the pins being so constructed that they may be
screwed into the sockets without gripping the arms the action is easy and the whole
of the compartments open or close simultaneously.
For two compartment boxes only two supports are required and the two halves
of the boxes are hinged together instead of being hinged to a plate. Also one arm
only on each support is hinged, the other being made fast, the hinged arm on one
support being fixed opposite to the hinged arm on the other, the fast arms, also
being opposite to each other, the pins which pass through them into the sockets
form fixed centres and keep the boxes quite steady when being opened or closed,
the pair of hinged arms allowing quite sufficient expansion to accomplish the
movement as in the three compartment boxes.

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is
1st. The construction of stands for dessert boxes, biscuit boxes cigar boxes and
5 similar receptacles consisting of supports provided with hinged or piroted arms
made and applied in the manner and for the purpose as herein substantially set
forth and described.
Dated this 3rd day of August 1892.
WILLIAM STANIFORTH.