Improvement in Metallic Travelling Trunks and Boxes, Deed Boxes, Cash Boxes and the like.
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 5th Sept., 1896.
Complete Specification Left, 27th May, 1897-Accepted, 3rd July, 1897.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION
An Improvement in Metallic Travelling Trunks and Boxes, Deed
Boxes, Cash Boxes and the like.
I, THOMAS ARBLASTER COOKE, trading as Henry Blunn & Co. of Brereton
Works, 88, Shadwell Street, in the City of Birmingham, Manufacturer, do hereby
declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This Invention has reference to metaliic travelling trunks and boxes, dee
boxes, cash boxes and the like. Heretofore the drop handles of the said metallic
trunks and boxes when fixed to the sides or to the top of the same have protruded
for some little distance and are therefore in the way when the said trunks or
boxes are packed one within the other, and when the handles are on the top,
they prevent the said trunks or boxes standing level on the top of one another
and they are objectionable and uncomfortable to a person who is sitting on one
of the trunks or boxes. The object of this Invention is to remove these objections
by so arranging the said drop handles that they will not protrude beyond the
surface of the metallic trunk or box.
In carrying out this invention I form for each handle an oval or other shaped
recess in the top or in the ends of the metallic travelling trunk or box of about the
proper size to admit the drop handle and allow of the same turning in either
direction, and preferably of the proper depth that the handle will not project
beyond the surface of the metallic trunk or box. This said recess can be forned
by stamping the same in the lid or in the ends of the metallic trunk or box, or
there may be a hole pierced in the lid or in each of the ends of the trunk or box
of about the size of the said recess the metal round the said hole being bent
inwardly and soldered or otherwise fixed to a plate forming the bottom or back
of the said recess, and to which plate the handle is fixed. Or another method of
forming the recess is to cut a hole in the lid or in the ends of the trunk or box
of about the size of the required recess and then to make the recessed part as a
separate recessed plate with a flange standing up all round which flange is
rivetted soldered or otherwise secured to the inside of the lid or to the ends of the
metallic trunk or box. In addition to the said recesses preventing the handles
from projecting beyond the surface of the trunk or box, the said recesses have the
effect of strengthening the lid or ends of the trunk or box.
Dated this 4th day of September 1896
CHARLES BOSWORTH KETLEY,
Agent for the Applicant.

page_text: An Improvement in Metallic Travelling Trunks and Boxes, Deed
Boxes, Cash Boxes and the like.
I, THOMAS ARBLASTER COOKE, trading as Henry Blunn & Co., of Brereton
Works, 88, Shadwell Street, in the City of Birmingham, Manufacturer, 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, has reference to metallic travelling trunks and boxes, deed
boxes, cash boxes and the like. Heretofore the drop handles of the said metallic
trunks and boxes when fixed to the sides or to the top of the same have protruded
for some little distance and are therefore in the way when the said trunks or
boxes are packed one within the other, and when the handles are on the top,
they prevent the said trunks or boxes standing level on the top of one another
and they are objectionable and uncomfortable to a person who is sitting on one
of the trunks or boxes. The object of this Invention is to remove these objection's
by so arranging the said drop handles that they will not protrude beyond the
surface of the metallic trunk or box.
I will describe my Invention by referring to the acompanying drawing on
which Fig. 1 is a cross section of a part of the lid and handle of a metal trunk
or box constructed and arranged in accordance with this invention; Fig. 2 is a
plan of the same; Fig. 3 is a cross section of a part of the lid and handle of a
metallic travelling trunk or box illustrating a modification of my Invention and
Fig. 4 shews parts of the arrangement Fig. 3 separately; Fig. 5 is a cross section
of a part of the lid of a metallic travelling trunk or box and handle illustrating, a
further modification of my Invention and Fig. 6 is a cross section of parts of
the arrangement shewn by Fig. 5 separately.
The same letters of reference indicate the same or corresponding parts in all
the Figures of the drawing.
In carrying out this Invention I form, for the handle, an oval or other shaped
recess in the sheet metal top A of the metallic travelling trunk or box, this
recess a being of the proper size to admit the drop handle B and allow of the same
turning and lying flat within the same and of a proper depth so that the handle B
and the ordinary loop C or other loop by which the handle is fixed to the lid
will not project beyond the upper surface of the metallic trunk or box. I form
this recess a in several ways, that is to say, the recess a¹ may as shewn in Figs. 1
and 2 be stamped in the lid; or as shewn in Figs. 3 and 4 there may be a hole a
pierced in the lid A at the bottom of the recess a' this hole being closed by the
plate soldered rivetted or otherwise fixed to the lid A and forming the bottom
of the recess a¹ and to which the handle B is fixed; or as shewn by Figs. 5 and 6,
another method of forming the recess a¹ is to cut a hole as in the lid A of about the
size of the required recess a¹ and then to make the recess part a¹ as a separate
recessed plate a provided with a flange at which is rivetted soldered or otherwise
secured to the inside of the lid A round the hole a².
My Invention is applied to the ends and end handles of a metallic travelling
trunk or box similarly as above described with reference to the lids and lid
handles of the same.

page_text: In addition to the said recess a¹ preventing the handles from projecting beyond
the surface of the trunk or box, the said recess a¹ has the effect of strengthening
the lid or the ends of the trunk or box in which the recess a¹ is formed.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said Iaven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is:-
A metallic travelling trunk or other metallic box having its lid or its ends or
its lid and ends recessed as at a¹ and a drop handle fixed in said recess or in each
of the said recesses which recess or recesses is or are formed in any of the several
ways substantially as hereinbefore described and illustrated by the accompanying
drawing.