Improvements in the Construction of Packing Boxes, and in the Method of Securing the Lids of same.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 2nd June. 1893
Complete Specification Left, 2nd Mar., 1894-Accepted, 7th Apr., 1894
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Construction of Packing Boxes, and in the
Method of Securing the Lids of same.
I, WALTER STORER of 2 Lordsmill Street, Chesterfield in the County of
Derby, Manager, do hereby declare the nature of my invention to be as
follows:-
This invention relates to improvements in the construction of packing cases and
refers more particularly to the method and means for securing the lids of same,
with the object of avoiding the use of uails, and thus preventing the damage to
both lids and boxes which occurs through the careless nailing, and the force
employed to withdraw the nails, or wrench off the lids when made on the old plan,
and nailed down.
To avoid the great destruction and loss due to the above described cause,
I propose to construct the box as follows:
The end boards are made lower than the sides of the box, to an extent equal to
the thickness of the lid, and the sides are carried beyond the end boards to an
extent equal to the thickness of a batten.
At one end of the box two battens (or upright boards) of the same height as the
end board, are placed against the projecting ends of the sides and nailed or screwed
to both the ends and sides, and at the other end of the box two similar battens are
used and fixed but of such a length that their upper ends project above the end
board and are level with the top of the sides, passing completely or partially
ound the box I secure two strips of hoop iron, their position being preferably
that of the end boards and in all cases so that a length of hoop iron stretches
across from side to side over the end boards or thereabouts leaving a space between
to receive the lid of the box.
It will now be understood that a plain lid can be pushed between the hoop irou
and the end with the short battens, passing between the sides until its front end
will rest upon the opposite end-board, and abutt against the projecting ends of the
longer battens which stop its further progress.
To give more central support to the lid, I propose to secure it transversely upon
two battens with overhanging ends which will rest upon the top edges of the sides,
and to place this lid in position, it is necessary to insert one end of the lid under the
hoop iron from the inside, and then draw it back under the other, against the
battens.
The lid may then be finally secured by means of a screw passed through the side
of the box into its edge, or by equivalent means.
Dated the 31st day of May 1893.
ROBT. F. DRURY, C.P.A.,
Bank Buildings, George Street, Sheffield, Agent for Applicant.
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COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Construction of Packing Boxes, and in the
Method of Securing the Lids of same.
I, WALTER STORER of 2 Lordsmill Street, Chesterfield in the County of
Derby, Manager, 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 improvements in the construction of packing cases and

page_text: refers more particularly to the method of and means for securing the lids of same,
with the object of avoiding the use of nails, and thus preventing the damage to
both lids and boxes which occurs through the careless nailing, and the force
employed to withdraw the nails, or wrench off the lids when made on the old plan,
and nailed down.
The annexed sheet of drawings illustrates my invention―
Fig. 1, is the end elevation of a box made according to my invention.
Fig. 2, side elevation of same.
Fig. 3, perspective view of box closed.
Fig. 4, side elevation of box-partly in section showing the method of inserting
or removing the lid.
To avoid the great destruction and loss due to the above described cause,
I propose to construct the box as follows:
The end boards E, are made lower than the sides S, of the box, to an extent
square to the thickness of the lid L, and the sides are carried beyond the end
boards to an extent equal to the thickness of a batten B. At one end of the box
two battens (or upright boards B,) of the same height as the end board, are placed
against the projecting ends of the sides and nailed or screwed to both the ends and
sides, and at the other end of the box two similar battens B³, are used and fixed
but these are of such a length that their upper ends project above the end board E,
and are level with the top of the sides S.
Passing completely (or only partially if desired) round the box I secure two
strips of hoop iron H, and H2, their position being preferably the same as that of
the end boards E and E, and in all cases the upper part of the hoop iron stretches
across from side to side, over the end boards or thereabouts leaving a space or
opening O, between, to receive the lid of the box.
It will now be understood that a plain lid of suitable thickness can be pushed
between the hoop iron II, and the end E, where the short battens are passing
between the top edges of the sides S, until its front end may then be drawn back
until it will rest upon the opposite end board E2, under the hoop iron H', and
abutt against the projecting end of the longer battens B, which stop its further
progress.
To give more central support to the lid, I propose to secure transversely upon it
two battens B³, with overhanging ends B, which will rest upon the top edges of
the sides S, and to place this lid in position, it is necessary as before described to
insert one end of the lid under the hoop iron H, from the inside, and then draw it
back with the other end under the other hoop iron H, against the battens B³.
The lid L, may then be finally secured by means of a screw A, passed through
the hoop iron and lid into the end board as at A, or through the side into the lid as
as at A³, or by equivalent means.
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 1
claim is :-
1. In parking cases and other like boxes the means for securing the lid without
the use of nails, substantially as hereinbefore described, with reference to the
annexed sheet of drawings.
2. In packing cases, as a means for securing the lid, a permanent length of hoop
iron stretched across each end of the box under which the ends of the lid are
passed, one end being stayed by projecting battens, substantially as hereinbefore
described and shown.
ROBT. F. DRURY, C.P.A.,
Bank Buildings, George Street, Sheffield, Agent for Applicant.