Year: 1896

page_text: I, PETER STUART BROWN, of Bothwell Park, Bothwell in the County of Lanark,
Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of this Invention to be as follows:-
This Invention which relates to wooden and composite boxes such for example
as are used for carrying tea, has for its object to provide simple and inexpensive
means for binding together the wooden or other boards constituting the lids or
ends of such boxes.
The lid or end piece is made up as usual of several wooden boards, or of a
single board; and in order to bind together the boards and to strengthen them
a atrip of sheet metal in the form of an angle iron bar is driven into grooves
formed transversely of the boards or of the grain of the wood in the single board,
the grooves being made by saws or other means at an inclination the one to the
other and more or less close together. The angled strip driven into these grooves
greatly stiffens the lid whilst effectually binding the boards together.
Several pairs of transverse inclined grooves may be cut in the boards constitut-
ing the lid, and a corresponding number of metallic strips driven into the grooves
to enhance the binding effect.
In lids for boxes designed to serve as tea cases a covering of sheet metal is laid
over the boards and made to overlap their edges all round.
1
WALLACE FAIRWEATHER,
Of the Firm of Cruikshank & Fairweather,
Chartered Patent Agents,
Saint Vincent Street, Glasgow, Agent for the Applicant.
Composite Roxes.
I, PETER STUART BROWN, of Bothwell Park, Bothwell, in the County of Lanark,
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 which relates to wooden and composite boxes such for example
as are used for carrying tea, has for its object to provide simple and inexpensive
means for binding together the wooden or other boards constituting the lids or
ends of such boxes.
The Invention is illustrated by the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 of which

page_text: is a plan, and Figure 2 a cross section of the lid of a box constructed in accordance
with my Invention.
The lid or end piece is made up as usual of several wooden boards A as shewn,
or of a single board; and in order to bind together the boards A and to strengthen
them a strip of sheet metal in the form of an angle irou bar B is driven into
grooves C formed transversely of the boards or of the grain of the wood in the
single board, the grooves C being made by saws or other means at an inclination
the one to the other and more or less close together. The angled strip B driven
into these grooves greatly stiffens the lid whilst effectually binding the boards A
together.
Several pairs of transverse inclined grooves C may be cut in the boards A
constituting the lid, and a corresponding number of metallic strips B driven into
the grooves to enhance the binding effect.
In lids of boxes designed to serve as lea cascs a covering D of sheet metal is
laid over the boards A and made to overlap their edges all round as shown.
By the term composite boxes is meant boxes composed partly of wood and
partly of metal.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is:-
In wooden and composite boxes the provision of means for strengthening the
board or for binding together and strengthening the several boards constituting
the lids or ends and consisting of one or more metal strips in the form of angle
iron bars driven into inclined grooves formed transversely of th. boards or of
the grain of the wood in the single board substantially as described.
Dated this 17th day of transt 1807
WALLACE FAIRWEATHER,.
Of the Firm of Cruikshank & Fairweather,
Chartered Patent Agents,
62 Saint Vincent Street, Glasgow, Agent for the Applicant..