Improvements in Boxes.
Year: 1890

page_text: Date of Application, 12th Mar., 1890
"onplete Specification Left, 11th Apr., 1890-Accepted, 18th Oct., 1890
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Boxes.
1, MORRIS APPELBAUM of No. 25, Brushfield Street Spitalfields, London, E. Cap
Maker do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
An expansive travellers sample case or box, capable of being expanded so as to
assume either two-fold or fourfold the dimensions.
In tin, zinc or leather, with strap attached, in any size. May be used for any
travelling purposes or otherwise. It is constructed in four parts which telescope
or hinge together so that the length may be reduced and also the breadth or height
may be reduced as desired.
Dated 12th day of March 1900.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Boxes.
I MORRIS APPELBAUM of 25 Brushfield Street, Spitalfields E. London Cap Maker
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 means for expanding travellers' sample cases or boxes so as
to increase or diminish the size according to the amount of the articles to be placed
therein.
For this purpose I make such cases or boxes of zinc, tinned iron, leather, wood or
cardboard put together in two, four or six parts which telescope or close together
vertically or horizontally or both vertically and horizontally.
In the accompanying drawings I have shown a case or box made capable of being
expanded both vertically and horizontally so that when expanded in both directions it
assumes approximately a size equal to four times that which it represents closed.
Figure 1 is a view of the expansive case or box reduced to its smallest size the lid
being closed.
Figure 2 represents the same view, the lid being open.
Figure 3 is a view of the expansive case or box reduced to half its largest size the
lid being closed.
Figure 4 represents the same view the lid being open.
Figure 5 is a view of the expansive case or box expanded to its fullest size the lid
being.closed.
Figure 6 represents the same view the lid being open.
I make the case or box in four parts A B C D. The part B is made to telescope
upon the part A and the part D is made to telescope upon the part C by means of the
out-turned edges E upon B and C and the overlapping grooves F upon A and D. The
telescoping parts A and B are enclosed in the telescoping parts Cand D an out-turned
edge at the bottom preventing them from being completely withdrawn vertically by
contact with the overlapping grooves hereinbefore referred to.
If consisting of two parts, the case or box can be expanded to twice its size, if
consisting of four parts it can be made four times its original size, and if consisting
of six parts it can be made to form six times its normal size. The various parts of the
case or box are so constructed that the length may be reduced and also the breadth or
height may be reduced as: herein before indicated."
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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 :-
A case or box consisting of two, four or six parts which telescope and are so con-
structed that the length and breadth or height may either be reduced or expanded at
pleasure substantially as described.