Certain Improvements in Metallic Travelling Trunks and Boxes, Deed Boxes, Cash Boxes, and the like.
Year: 1897

page_text: Date of Application, 12th Mar., 1897
Complete Specification Left, 13th Dec., 1897-Accepted, 29th Jan., 1898
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Certain Improvements 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 metallic travelling trunks and boxes, deed boxes,
cash boxes and the like. At the present time in metallic travelling trunks or boxes,
deed boxes, cash boxes and the like it is customary to strengthen each of the four
corners of the body moulding under the lid by an angle shaped corner clip or mount
to cover the hole formed by the bulging out of the said moulding. These corner
clips or mounts are usually fixed by rivets and in the cheaper kinds of metallic
trunks and boxes these rivets often project and besides being unsightly they are
liable to scratch the interior of the next larger size trunk or box when the trunks
or boxes are packed together in nests for transport. According to one part of
this invention I fix the said body corner mounts or clips to the body moulding
in an improved manner as herein described by which I am enabled to dispense
with the rivets.
In carrying out this invention each of the said body corner clips or mounts
is made with a projecting piece at each end which two end projections are bent
inwardly at about right angles to the face of the clip and pass through corre-
sponding narrow slits or holes in the moulding of the body and are clenched
over on the inside flat against the inside of the moulding thus effectually securing
the corner clip or mount to the body without the aid of rivets.
My invention is similarly applicable to the corner mounts or clips of the lids
of the said metallic trunks and boxes deed boxes cash boxes and the like which
are usually fixed to the corners of the lid by rivets. I construct and fix the
corner clips or mounts to the lids in a similar manner as herein described with
reference to the said body corner clips or mounts, that is to say, I make each of
the lid corner clips or mounts with two projecting pieces which are bent inwardly
at somewhere about right angles to the faces of the clips or mounts and then pass
through narrow slots in the lid and are clenched over on the inside.
Dated this 11th day of March 1897.
Certain Improvements 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
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page_text: 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:-
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This invention has reference to metallic travelling trunks and boxes, deed
boxes, cash boxes and the like.
At the present time in metallic travelling trunks
or boxes, deed boxes, cash boxes and the like it is customary to strengthen each
of the four corners of the body moulding under the lid by an angle shaped corner
clip or mount to cover the hole formed by the bulging out of the said moulding.
These corner clips or mounts are usually fixed by rivets and in the cheaper kinds
of metallic trunks and. boxes these rivets often project and besides being unsightly 1
they are liable to scratch the interior of the next larger size trunk or box when
the trunks or boxes are packed together in nests for transport. According to one
part of this invention I fix the said body corner mounts or clips to the body
moulding in an improved manner as herein described by which I am enabled to
dispense with the rivets. My invention is similarly applicable to the corner
clips or mounts of the lids.
I will describe my invention by referring to the accompanying drawing on
which Fig. 1 shews one of the top corners of the body of a metallic travelling
trunk or box with my invention applied; Fig. 2 is a sectional plan of the same;
Fig. 3 is a separate view of my improved body corner clip or mount shewn in
Figs. 1 and 2; Figs. 4 and 5 are modified forms of my improved body corner
clips or mounts and Figs. 6, 7, and 8 shew three forms of my improved corner
clips or mounts for the lids of the said metallic travelling trunks and boxes.
The same letters of reference indicate the same or corresponding parts in all
the figures.
A is part of the body of the metallic travelling trunk or box a¹ is the body
moulding near the top of the same B is the corner clip or mount which is fixed to
the corner of the moulding a¹ so as to strengthen the same and cover the hole a²
which is formed by the bulging out of the moulding.
In carrying out my invention the body corner clip or mount B is made with a
projecting piece at each end which two projections are respectively marked b₁ ba
and they are bent inwardly at about right angles to the faces of the clip (see
Fig. 3) and pass through corresponding narrow slots or holes c¹ c² in the mould-
ing a¹ and are clinched over on the inside of the trunk or box as shewn in Figs. 1
and 2 flat against the inside of the moulding a thus effectually securing the
corner clip or mount B to the body A without the aid of rivets.
The said end projections 61 62 may be formed in various ways as for instance
they may be continuations of the ends of the clip B as in Fig. 3, or they may be
pierced out of the end parts of the faces of the clip B and bent inwardly at about
right angles as represented in Fig. 4 and in Fig. 5.
My invention is similarly applied to the corner mounts or clips of the lids of
the said metallic trunks or boxes, deed boxes cash boxes and the like which are
usually fixed to the corners of the lids by rivets. I construct and fix the corner
mounts D to the lids in a similar manner as hereinbefore described with reference
to the body corner clips or mounts B, that is to say, I make each of the corner
clips or mounts (see Figs. 6, 7 and 8) with two end projecting pieces d' d
which correspond with the two end projecting pieces 61 62 of the body corner clip
or mount B, and the end projecting pieces dd2 are similarly bent inwardly at
somewhere about right angles to the faces of the corner clips or mounts D and
then pass through narrow slits or holes in the lid and are clenched over on the
inside in the same way as above described with reference to the body corner clip
or mount B.
The said end projections d' d² may be formed in various ways as for instance
they may be continuations of the ends of the clip D as in Fig. 6 or they may be
pierced out of the end parts of the faces of the clip D and bent inwardly at about
right angles as represented in Figs. 7 and 8.

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:-
1. In metallic travelling trunks and boxes, deed boxes, cash boxes and the like,
fixing the corner clips or mounts to the body moulding by means of projections
such as 6' 62 formed on said corner clips or mounts and which pass through narrow
slits in said moulding and are clenched down on the inside, all substantially as
hereinbefore set forth.
2. In metallic travelling trunks and boxes, deed boxes cash boxes and the like,
fixing the corner clips or mounts to the lids by means of projections such as d¹ d³
formed on said corner clips or mounts and which pass through narrow slits in
said lid and are clenched down on the inside all, substantially as hereinbefore set
forth.
3. Metallic travelling trunks and boxes deed boxes cash boxes and the like
provided with corner clips or mounts B which are fixed to the body moulding by
projections such as b₁ 62 formed on said corner clips in any of the several ways
hereinbefore described and illustrated by Figs. 1 to 5 of the accompanying draw-
ing and passed through narrow slits in said moulding and are clenched down on
the inside as hereinbefore set forth.
4. Metallic travelling trunks and boxes deed boxes cash boxes and the like.in
which the lids are provided with corner clips or mounts 1) which are fixed to the
lids by projections such as formed on said corner clips in any of the several
ways hereinbefore described and illustrated by Figs. 6, 7 and 8 of the accompany-
ing drawing and passed through narrow slits in said lid and clenched down on
the inside as hereinbefore set forth.
Dated this 10th day of December 1897.
CHARLES BOSWORTH KETLEY,
Agent for the Applicant.