Improvements in Puzzle Match or Snuff Boxes and the like.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 19th Oct., 1895
Complete Specification Left, 27th Nov., 1895-Accepted, 8th Feb., 1896
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Puzzle Match or Snuff Boxes and the like.
I; Jean Antoine Malan of back of 33 Graham Stroot St. Pauls, in the City
of Birmingham, Engraver, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as.
follows:-
This invention relates to match and like boxes for holding small articles and has.
for its object, a puzzle box.
In carrying out a puzzle box, according to my improvements I tako a rectangular
or other shaped frame, closed at the bottom and open at top, and in one side or one.
end of the same a hole is cut, in which a piece of metal thickened on its top edge is
exactly fitted so as to be invisible. The lid of the box is jointed near the after
end of the open-topped frame, so that when tho parts of the lid rear of the joint
is pressed downwards from the outside, the part forward of the joint is elevated or
tilted and the box opened.
The thickened edge of motal push piece, which is pivoted flap-wise about its
middle, is for the purpose when pushed home of supporting or forming a stop.
shoulder for preventing the lid, rearward of the joint, being pressed down.
About a quarter of an inch from the back end of the said frame a cross directed
metal picco is soldered and forms the support to the joint and a carrier on which.
the lid works.
The lid fits flush within a rebate around the inside of the open top of the frame-
so that when the said lid is fully closed and the turning push piece made flush with.
the end or side, the box becomes secretly looked.
To unlock the box, press the lower part of the push picco inwards, when the
upper and thickened edge part turus outwards and comes outside the range of the
back end of the lid, which, when prossed inwards, raises the other end and thus.
opens the box.
Dated this 18th day of October 1895.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Puzzle Match or Snuff Boxes and the like.
I, JEAN ANTOINE MALAN of back of 33 Graham Street, St. Pauls, in the City
of Birmingham, Engraver, 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 relates to match and like boxes for holding small articles and has
for its object, a puzzle box,
In carrying out a puzzle match box, according to my improvements I take a
rectangular or other shaped frame, closed at the bottom and open at top, and in
one side or one end of the same a hole is out, in which a piece of metal thickened
on its top edge is exactly fitted so as to be invisible. The lid of the box is jointed

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near the after end of the open-topped frame, so that when the part of the lid rear
of the joint is pressed downwards from the outside, the part forward of the joint is
elevated or tilted and the box opened.
The thickened edge of the metal push piece, which is pivoted flap-wise about ite
middle, is for the purpose when pushed home of supporting or forming a stop
shoulder for preventing the lid, roarward of the joint being pressed down.
About a quarter of an inch from the back end of the said frame a cross directed
metal piece is soldered and forms the support to the joint and a carrior on which
the lid works.
The lid fits flush within a rebate around the inside of the open top of the frame,
so that when the said lid is fully closed and the turning push piece made flush with
the end or side, the box becomes secretly looked.
To unlock the box, press the lower part of the push piece inwards, when the
upper and thickened edge part turns outwards and comos outside the range of the
back end of the lid, which, when pressed inwards, raises the other end and thus
opens the box.
Figure 1 of the accompanying drawing represents an end view of a match box
with the lid open, and Figure 2 is a top-side plan of the same.
Figure 3 is a vertical section of the open box and Figure 4 an end elevation
thereof.
Figure 5 is a vertical section of the box with the lid closed and locked by the
turning inwards of the push piece.
Figure 6 is a topside plan of Figure 5 and Figure 7 is an end elevation
of the box, showing how the joint is concealed by the ribbed match-striking
Burface.
Figure 8 represents my invention applied to a money box.
In Figures 1 to 7, a is the body of the box, open at the top a', and fitted with a
flush lid b, turning at 6', upon a set-down joint carried by a cross support a³, and
having a tail piece, which is supported and locked, when the lid is closed, by a
concealed fastener and push piece c, fitting exactly within piercing a, in the end of
the box and turning upon a joint c', lying between the heel part &, and the top
locking rest. When the push piece is closed as in Figure 5, the pushing of the
heel part in the direction of the arrow removes the end c³, from under the tail
pieco b, of the lid and by pressing tho said tail piece downwards by the finger, the
fid is opened.
In order to perfectly conceal the joint of the push piece, the said piece is made
to fit so tight that the angles of the same slightly deflect the metal of the box and
outwards.
In the money box Figure 8, a is the money box, & the lid, and c the concealed
fastener and push piece.
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 :-
First. In a match or other box, fastening the same by a concealed locking and
jointed push piece c, adapted to come under the tail oud of a jointed lid when in its
closed positiou, substantially as described and set forth.
Secondly. The improvements in the construction, arrangement and combination
of the parts of boxes and tho means of fastening the same when closed, substantially
ne and for the purpose described and set forth.
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JEAN ANTOINE MALAN, .
By Henry Skerrett,
24 Temple Row, Birmingham, Agent for Applicant.