US559451A

US559451A - John hollinger

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Publication number: US559451A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1896-05-05
Anticipated expiration: 1913-05-05

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J. HOLLINGBR.

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33m/en fon Patented May 5, 1896.

AN DREW BGRAHAM. PMUTO-UTNUWASNINGTOKD C NITED STATES A 'ATENT OFFICE.

JOHN l-IOLLINGER, OF CLEVELAND, OHIO.

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 559,451, ydated May 5, 1896. Appiiaiioii ined April 27,1895. seriaiNo. 547,417. cromati.)

To all whom t may concern.-

Be it known that I, JOHN HOLLINGER, of Cleveland, in the county of Cuyahoga and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Boxes; and I do here by declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it pertains to make and use the same.

My invention relates to improvements in that variety of boxes wherein the box proper lis capable of being slid endwise of a shuck or cover that embraces the box at the top, bottom, and sides, the object being, first, to provide means whereby `the box cannot autom atically slide from within its shuck or cover; and, :referring to matches and similarly# shaped articles, for which my improved box is more especially designed, l would remark that another object of my invention consists in the construction of a box from which more than one or two matches cannot, without inconvenience, be removed at one time.

iVith these objects in view my invention consists in certain features of construction and `combinations of parts hereinafter described, and pointed out in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure lis a view inl Vperspective of a box embodying my invention, showing the same lled with matches M and showing, in a measure, the manner of removing a match from the box. Fig. 2 is a central longitudinal section of the box. Fig. 3 is a central longitudinal section of the box with the slide or false bottom O removed.

Referring to the drawings, A designates the box, and B the shuck or cover for the box.

The means employed for preventing the box from sliding endwise out, or partially out, of the shuck or cover are as follows: The ends of the box are somewhat higher than the sides of the box, and the sides of the box are somewhat lower than the internal height of the shuck or cover, thereby accommodating the lifting of the box within the shuck or cover and the introduction of a slide or false bottom C between the bottom of the box and the bottom of the cover. The height of the ends of the box is such, relative to the height of the cover, that when the box is lifted within the cover by the introduction of the aforesaid false bottom or slide the ends of the box shall overlap the edges of the top of the cover, as shown at a, Fig. 2, and thereby secure the box against accidental endwise displacement within the cover. false bottom C the box will descend upon the bottom of the cover, and the ends of the box will drop below the edges of the top of the cover, as shown in Fig. 3, thereby accommodating the replenishing of the box or the removal from the box of an unusually large portion of its contents.

The top of the cover at its central portion is provided with acomparatively narrow longitudinally-arranged opening B', that affords access to the interior of the box, and hence if the box is used for matches, as in the case illustrated, it will readily be observed that the comparatively narrow opening centrally of the cover will greatly decrease the convenience of removing more than one or two matches at a time, and hence it will be observed that my improved box will to a great extent prevent the extravagant use of the matches. To render it still more inconvenient, however, to remove more than one or two matches at one time from the box through opening B in the cover, I divide the box into three compartments a a2 d3 by means of a piece D, of cardboard or other suitable pliable or flexible material, said piece of pliable or iiexible `material being so placed within the box that it shall extend from end to end of the bottom of the box, incline upwardly from one end of said bottom to the central portion of the box, and thence decline toward the opposite end of the box, said piece D constituting the dividing-wall between the compartments. The central portion of piece D engages, or approximately engages, the under side of the top of the cover in the elevated position of the box and is preferably provided with a comparatively small opening d, for the purpose hereinafter made apparent.

The compartment as below the dividing wall or piece D will be found serviceable as a storage-compartment, ankd said piece D forms the inclining bottom of compartments a' a2, from which a match when needed is taken.

By the construction hereinbefore described it is obvious that an attempt to remove more than one or two matches from the box at one By removing the slide orv IOO time would be attended by such inconvenienee that it is not likely that any attempt of the kind would be made. Consequently the employment of my improved box will practically prevent the extravagant use of the matches or similarly-shaped articles-such, for instance, as toothpicks-placed therein.

My improved construction, however, it will be observed, readily admits of the removal of one or two matches at a time, and the manner of removingamatch from one of the compartments above the dividing-wall in the box is, in a measure, illustrated in Fig. l, wherein, we will suppose, m designates the match to be removed` The person desiring to remove the same inclines the box so as to cause said match to roll or move toward the upper end of the inclining bottom of the compartment containing it, where the person can take hold of it conveniently, and then turn the same at the opening d on the highest or central portion of piece D, as shown in dotted lines, Fig. 1, until he has brought the match into, or approximately into, line with the opening in the cover, when he can readily remove the same, opening d in piece D faeilitating the operation of the thumb and finger employed in the removal of the match and member D yielding sufficiently in the turning of the match preparatory to the removal of the latter. It will of course be observed that access is had to storage compartment a3, when compartments a c2 become empty, by removing yielding partition D.

lVhat I claim isl. In a box, the combination with the box proper and a cover embracing the box proper at the top, bottom and sides, of a removable slide or false bottom interposed between the bottom of the box proper and cover, the sides of the box proper being sufficiently lower than the internal height of the cover to accommodate the application of the aforesaid slide or false bottom, and the ends of the box proper being sufficiently higher than the sides of the box proper as to overlap the edges of the top of the cover in the elevated position of the box proper, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

2. In a box, the combination with the box proper and a cover embracing the box proper between the top, bottom and sides, of the flat slide D interposed between the lower surface of the bottom of the box proper and upper surface of the bottom of the cover, the sides of the box proper being sufficiently lower than the internal height of the cover to accommodate the introduction of the aforesaid slide, and the ends of the box proper being sufficiently higher than the sides of the box proper to render them, the ends, capable of overlapping the edges of the top of the cover in the elevated position of the box proper, substantially as set forth.

3. In a box, the combination with the box proper, and a cover embracing the box proper at the top, bottom and sides, and provided with a comparatively narrow opening arranged lengthwise of the cover, of a piece D of pliable or flexible material, said piece D extending from one end of the bottom of the box proper upwardly toward the central portion of the box, and thence extending downwardly toward the other end of the bottom of the box proper, thereby dividing the box proper into three compartments a', d2, a3, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

4:. In a box, the combination with the box proper, and a cover embracing the box proper at the top, bottom and sides, and provided with a comparatively narrow opening ar- 'ranged lengthwise of the cover, of a piece D of pliable or flexible material, said piece D extending from one end of the bottom of the box proper upwardly toward the central portion of the box, and thence extending downwardly toward the other end of the bottom of the box proper, thereby dividing the box proper' into three compartments d', c2, d3, said pliable or flexible piece, at its central portion, being provided with a hole d, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

In testimony whereof I sign this specification, in the presence of two witnesses, this 26th day of January, 1895.

JOHN IIOLLINGER.

Witnesses:

C. H. Donna, L. WARD HOOVER.