Improvements in or connected with Show-cards, Boxes, or Holders for Padlocks.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 16th Feb., 1894
Complete Specification Left, 16th N v., 1394-Accepted, 22nd Dec.. 1894
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or connected with Show-cards, Boxes, or Holders
for Padlocks.
We, DAVID WAINE, and ISAAC WAINE, trading together as John Waine
and Sons, of Britannia Works, Willenhall, Staffordshire Lock Manufacturers,
do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
:-
This invention consists of the hereindescribed improvements in or connected
with show-cards boxes or bolders for padlocks. At the present time it is
customary to fix padlocks in dozens or in other numbers on cards by means of
string which passes through the card from the back and is looped round the
padlocks at one or more parts of each padlock the string being fastened at the
end but one objection to this is that when the piece of string securing one row of
padlocks is cut for the removal of one of the padlocks the others in this row are
liable to come off the card. Moreover this fixing of the padlocks on the card by
string is comparatively slow and tedious. Now according to this invention we so
put up the padlocks on show cards or in boxes as herein described that any one or
more of the padlocks can be removed without in any way disturbing or affecting
the fixing of the others.
According to one arrangement of carrying out this invention we provide a
shallow cardboard or other cheap kind of box made with cross partitions at right
angles dividing the box into say twelve separate compartments each compartment
of a size to contain one padlock, and in order to prevent the padlocks from falling
out of the box, when the box is placed upright so as to show the padlocks, we
provide one or more ledges or cross strips on the partitions (some of which
partitions will now be vertical and the others horizontal) these ledges or cross
strips being of such a size as to prevent the padlocks falling forward out of the
box when the box is tilted forward slightly. Or instead of or in addition to the
ledges on the said partitions each padlock may be secured in its compartment by
a wire staple which embraces the upper part of the bow of the padlock and is
inserted through the back of the box and clenched over thus keeping the padlock
in place. Or the staple may be inserted from the back of the padlock and the
ends of the staple clenched over the bow. When these wire staples are used as
stated above the horizontal partitions may be dispensed with the vertical partitions
only being used to keep the padlocks in vertical rows and prevent their moving
about sideways.
We may also use a thin wire or wires arranged to run horizontally across the
box through the partitions and clamped or otherwise made firm to the sides of the
box at the proper distance to receive the bows or shackles of each padlock by
sliding under the wires and thus holding the locks in place and at the same time
adding strength to the box.
It will be evident that our invention above described can be similarly applied
to fixing padlocks on show cards by merely dispensing with the lid and sides of
the box when the back of the box will form the said show-card constructed for the
attachment of the padlocks in any of the ways above described.
Dated this 14th day of February 1894.

page_text: Improvements in or connected with Show-cards, Boxes, or Holders
for Padlocks.
.
We, DAVID WAINE, and ISAAC WAINE, trading together as John Waine
& Sons, of Britannia Works, Willenhall, Staffordshire, Lock Manufacturers,
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 :-
This invention consists of the hereindescribed improvements in or connected
with show-cards boxes or holders for padlocks. At the present time it is customary
to fix padlocks in dozens or in other numbers on cards by means of string which
passes through the card from the back and is looped round the padlocks at one or
more parts of each padlock the string being fastened at the end but one objection
to this is that when the piece of string securing one row of padlocks is cut for
the removal of one of the padlocks the others in this row are liable to come off
the card. Moreover this fixing of the padlocks on the card by string is
comparatively slow and tedious. Now according to this invention we so put up
the padlocks on show cards or in boxes as hereindescribed that any one or more of
the padlocks can be removed without in any way disturbing or affecting the fixing
of the others.
We will describe this invention by referring to the accompanying drawings on
which :-
Fig. 1 is a front view of a box or holder constructed according to this invention
for padlocks; Fig. 2 is a cross sectional elevation of the same; and Fig. 3 shews
a slight modification of the same;
Fig. 4 is a front elevation and Fig. 5 is a sectional end view of a portion of
another form of box with a padlock fixed therein by wire staples in accordance
with this invention and
Figs. 6 and 7 illustrate a slightly modified arrangement of the wire staples, and
Fig. 8 shews separately one of the ordinary wire staples which we use ;
Fig. 9 is a front view of a box or holder for padlocks and illustrates a further
modification of our invention.
According to one arrangement of carrying out this invention we provide a
shallow cheap cardboard or other kind of box A, made with cross partitions
arranged vertically and horizontally and marked respectively a and b, dividing
the box into say twelve separate compartments as shewn in Figs. 1, 3 and 9, each
compartment being of a size to contain one padlock, and in order to prevent the
padlocks from falling out of the box A when the box is placed upright so as to
show the padlocks, we provide one or more ledges or cross strips c fixed to or
passing through the partitions some of which partitions (namely those marked a)
will now be vertical and the others (marked b) will be horizontal; these ledges or
cross strips c being of such a size as to prevent the padlocks falling forward out
of the box A when the box is tilted forward. The said ledges or cross strips may
be made of cardboard, tape, string, wire, wood or other suitable substance and fixed
at the front near the top as shewn in Fig. 3 and the said strips may, as shewn
at c¹ Figs. 1 and 2 project above the bottom of each compartment, or the said
cross strips c may pass through the partitions and the sides of the box as shewn
by Fig. 9 to cross the front of the padlocks and prevent their falling out but
allowing of the padlocks being slided under the cross strips when the padlock is
being removed from or replaced in the box.
Or instead of or in addition to the ledges or cross strips c each padlock may be

page_text: b
secured in its compartment by a wire staple such as D which embraces the upper
part of the bow E of the padlock and is inserted through the back a' of the box
and clenched over as shewn by Fig. 5, thus keeping the padlock in place; or the
staple D may as shewn by Figs 6 and 7 be inserted from the back a² of the box
and the end of the staple clenched over the bow as shewd. When these wire
staples are used as stated above the horizontal partitions 6 may be dispensed with,
as shewn in Figs. 4, 5, and 6 and 7, the vertical partitions a only being used to
keep the padlocks in vertical rows and preventing their moving about sideways.
When the cross strips c are made of wire, tape or string or the like they run
across the box through the partitions either horizontally as shewn by Fig. 9 or
vertically or in an inclined direction and they are clamped or otherwise made
firm to the sides a³ of the box so as to strengthen the same and at the proper
distance from the back to receive the bows or shackles of each padlock, which when
the latter are placed in the box they are slided under the wires, tapes or strings c
so as thereby to be held in place.
It will be evident that our invention above described can be similarly applied to
fixing padlocks on show cards. In this case the box lid (not shewn upon the
drawings) and the sides a³ of the box are dispensed with so that the back of the
box provided with the partitions and any of the, padlock fixing means as stated
above will form the show card for the padlocks.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what we
claim is :
(1.) A show-card box or holder for padlocks divided into compartments by
means of partitions and provided with cross strips of cardboard, tape, wire, cord or
other substance passing across the compartments and arranged in any of the
several ways substantially as set forth to prevent the padlocks falling out when the
show-card box or holder is tilted forward.
(2.) A show-card box or holder for padlocks divided into compartments for the
padlocks by means of partitions and provided with wire staples which secure
the padlocks by their bows to the show-card or to the back of the box or holder,
in either of the ways substantially as hereinbefore described and shewn by Figs. 4,
5, 6 and 7 of the accompanying drawings.
Dated the 15th day of November 1894.
CHARLES BOSWORTH KETLEY,
Agent for the Applicants.