Improvements relating to the Boxing of Folded Papers or Circulars and the like for Distribution.
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 23rd June, 1896-Accepted, 25th July, 1896
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements relating to the Boxing of Folded Papers or Circulars
and the like for Distribution.
"
I, ALFRED ERNEST GOSNELL, of Woodlands, Forest Drive East, Leytonstone,
in the County of Essex, 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 :-
The object of my invention is to provide a more convenient size of and more
efficient box for distributing folded papers, circulars or the like than hitherto.
According to my invention I construct the box in such a way that the papers
may be delivered either from the top or the front side as may be desirel insteal
of from the centre or front edge of the bottom of the box as formerly.
To effect this I construct the lid of the box in two parts with an aperture of any
required size between them from which the folded papers can be withdrawn and I
provide a spring or springs by which a pile of folded papers contained in the box
is pressed towards the two parts of the lid, being always ready for withdrawal
irrespective of the position or depth of the box containing them.
The two parts
of the lid may be made either to slide into grooves or be fixed upon hinges and
secured by suitable catches. I may also attach two rollers one to each part of the
lid so as to facilitate the withdrawal of the papers.
A box made as described can be used with the aperture through which the
papers are to be withdrawn either at the top or at the front side, preferably in
the latter position owing to the box then projecting out less from the wall or
fixture to which it is secured and also the papers can be inserted by means of and
withdrawn from the same panel.
To reduce the size of the box I form two folds in each paper-two opposite
edges of the paper being turned inwards one towards the other, or I fold the paper
in other appropriate manner as hereinafter shown.
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS.
Figure 1 is a front elevation and Figure 2 a transverse section of a box made in
accordance with this invention. .
The lid of the box is made in two parts A, B, with an aperture C between them
from which the paper D can be withdrawn.
The two parts A, B, of the lid slide in grooves E, F.
The pile of papers G are pressed against the lid by a spring H acting on a
plate K. The papers are folded in any of the five ways shown in the diagramatic
views Figures 3, 4, 5, 6, 7.
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 :-
1. A box for the distribution of papers, having a spring or springs to press the
pile of papers against the lid or panel from which they are withdrawn substan-
tially as described.
2. A box for the distribution of papers with a lid divided into two parts having
an aperture between them from which the papers can be withdrawn substantially
as described.

page_text: 3. A box for the distribution of papers constructed substantially as described
so that the papers can be inserted by means of and withdrawn from the same
panel.
4. A box for the distribution of papers having an aperture midway in one side
or the top from which the papers can be withdrawn substantially as described.
5. A box for the distribution of papers substantially as described and shown in
the drawings.
6. The methods of folding papers and piling them as shown in Figures 3, 4, 5, 6
and 7.
Dated this 22nd day of June 1896.
ALFRED E. GOSNELL.