Year: 1886

page_text: Date of Application, 9th Apr., 1886
Complete Left, 10th Jan., 1887.
Complete Accepted, 11th Feb., 1887.
I WILLIAM RAYNER of 53 Adolphus Street, Douglas Street, Deptford, Kent,
Builder, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:
The object of this invention is to construct letter boxes for fixing to doors of
dwelling houses, offices, warehouses and other places in such a manner that abstrac-
tion of letters or packets from the interior by any appliance from the outside is
rendered impossible.
For the purpose of my invention I make the exterior of the ordinary form and fit
preferably glass partitions at angles alternately from the back and front of the casing
or from the sides and connect to, or close to, the edges either rigidly or pivotted a
comb or fork like metallic projections over which letters or packets will pass from one
partition to the other and thence into the bottom receptacle said comb teeth resisting
any back movement of the letters or packets should a wire or other appliance be
inserted with a view of abstracting such letters or packets.
H. GARDNER,
166, Fleet Street, London,
Agent for the said W. Rayner.

page_text: I WILLIAM RAYNER, of 53, Adolphus Street, Douglas Street, Deptford, Kent,
Builder do hereby declare the nature of my said 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 this. invention is, to construct Letter Boxes for fixing to doors of
dwelling houses, offices, warehouses and other places in such a manner that abstraction
of letters or packets from the interior by an appliance from the outside is rendered
impossible.
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For the purpose of my invention I make the exterior of the ordinary form and fit
preferably glass partitions at angles alternately from the back and front of the casing
or from the sides and connect to, or close to the edges either rigidly or pivotted
comb or fork like metallic projections over which letters or packets will pass from one
partition to the other and thence into the bottom receptacle, said comb teeth resisting
any back movement of the letters or packets should a wire or other appliance be
inserted with a view of abstracting such letters or packets.
Figure 1 is a part section and Figure 2 an elevation of a Letter Box a having two
flat partitions or slides b, of glass or other material at angles, to the edges of which I
connect a comb or fork like metallic projections c, c', which may be slightly curved as
ate or hinged as e, in which case I provide a pin d at each side of the case to prevent
the comb c being raised too much.
b
Figure 3 shows a modified arrangement in which two partitions are fixed on the
sides of the box «, a toothed partition & forming a slide for receiving the letters or
parcels.
Having now particularly described the nature of my said invention and in what
manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I claim is
The particular construction of Letter Box shown on the annexed drawings provided
with fixed deflecting partitions for making abstraction of contents from the outside
impossible, as set forth.
H. GARDNER,
166, Fleet Street, London,
Agent for the said W. Rayner.