Year: 1898

page_text: I, ARTHUR COOMER, of Richmond Place, Lion Terrace, Portsea, Portsmouth.
Cardboard Box Maker, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows.
This invention relates to collapsable boxes of the kind used by milliners and
others, for containing and conveyance to customers and others, millinery, hats,
caps, bonnets and other goods. As is well known, auch boxes are made of card-
board, millboard, strawboard and like materials, and are made collapsable so that
when not in use for the purposes aforesaid they can be piled up or stored in a
flattened state, thus economising space
The improved collapsable box in which this invention consists has a body made
separately from the top and bottom The body consists of a band of cardboard,
millboard, strawboard, or the like, having bends extending at intervals throughout
the depth of the body The band constituting the body is connected together
at the ends by iivets, studs wiring or other means When folded at its benda
the body lies flat, the panels of which it consists being doubled on one another
When thus folded the body can be laid on the bottom which is turned up all
round The top is similar to the bottom, that is to say, tray-shaped, but it is
turned down at the edges. When the body lies in the bottom the top fits over
both and thus the depth of the box in its collapsed state is virtually that of the
upturned edges of the bottom.
When it is desired to put the box into position for use. the top cover is
removed and the body is raised and opened out and stood upon the inner face
of the bottom After the goods which the box is to receive have been placed
therein, the top is placed on
Tieing is effected by a string or cord which is arranged as follows
Near each
of two of the sides the bottom has an eyeletted hole The cord is laid-along the
inner face of the bottom and the respective ends are led out through the said
eyeletted holes The cord is then carried outside the upturned edges of the
bottom and up on the exterior of each side to an eveletted hole through which it 19
conducted into the interior of the box Still higher up in each side 19 another
eyeletted hole through which the cord is agam led out to the exterior of the box
and after having been conducted over the top cover the two ends are tied or
otherwise connected together
Dated this 28th day of December 1808
NICHOLAS WATTS,
Chartered Patent Agent, Bristol.

page_text: I, ARTHUR COOMER, of Richmond Place, Lion Terrace, Portsea, Portsmouth,
Cardboard Box Maker, 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 :-
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This invention relates to collapsable boxes of the kind used by milliners and
others. for containing and for convevance to customers and others, millinery, hats,
caps bonnets, and other goods As is well known, such boxes are made of card-
board, millboard, strawboard, and like materials, and are collapsable so that
when not in use for the purposes aforesaid they can be piled up or stored in a
flattened state, thus economising space
The improved collapsable box in which this invention consists has a body made
separately from the top and bottom The body consists of a band of cardboard,
millboard, strawboard or the like, having bends extending at intervals throughout
the depth of the body and forming the box corners The band constituting the
body is connected together at the ends by vets, studs. wiring, or other means
When folded down at its bends, the body lies flat, the panels of which it consists
being doubled on one another When thus folded, the body can he laid on the
separate box bottom which is turned up all round The top or cover is similar
to the bottom, that is to sav, trav-shaped, but it is turned down at the edges
When the body lies in the bottom, the top or cover fits over both and thus the
depth of the box in its collapsed state is but slightly in excess of that of the
upturned edges of the bottom
When it is desired to put the box into position for use. the top cover is
removed and the body is raised and opened out and stood upon the inner face
of the bottom After the goods which the box is to receive have been placed
there, the top is placed on
Referring to the accompanying sheet of drawings, Fig 1 is an elevation of one
side of the body of my improved collapsable box It consists of a band a made
up of two strips of cardboard, millboard. strawboard, or like material, having
bends at intervals to form the corners The band is connected in the example
shown by binding staples of wire Instead of such staples, rivets, studs, or
other means may be used for connecting the ends of the band Holes, care
provided for the string by which the box is tied when closed The body a of
the box is capable of being folded at the bends or corners so as to assume an
approximately flat state, as shown at Fig 2 which is an edge view of the body
as folded to the said approximately flat state At Fig 3 is represented in section
the bottom of the box which, as shown, 18 trav-shaped having up-turned edges
or sides e The body a 18, when folded, as shown in Fig 2, laid in the bottom
The top or cover f 1s then put on and thus the depth of the box and cover
18 slightly in excess of the cover alone, as seen at Fig 4 When it is desired to
put the box into position for use, the top or cover f is removed and the body a
taken out and raised and opened out The body a is then stood upon the inner
face of the bottom d The goods are then placed in the box and the top or cover f
is then placed on The strings are then drawn tight and tied together above
the upper face of the top or cover f
According to one method of tving, the strings are laid crosswise inside the
bottom and are led out through apertures provided in the bottom d, as seen at
Tie 3
The strings are then conducted outside the upturned edges of sides e
of the bottom and up on the exterior of each side of the body a to apertures —

page_text: Fig 1-through which the strings are returned into the
whence they are again conducted out through apertures c¹
led over the top or cover f and tied together.
interior of the body
The strings are then
The arrangement of strings and the method of tying them may be varied.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this
invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim 18:
A collapsable box, consisting of a body such as a, made separate from the top
or cover and from a bottom such as d, with sides e, so that the body is capable of
being folded approximately flat and can then he and be contained between the
cover and the bottom, and when the box is arranged for use the body stands up
in the bottom and is closed by the cover at top; the whole being secured by a
sting or strings, substantially as hereinabove described with reference to the
accompanying drawing
Dated this 13th day of September 1899
NICHOLAS WATTS,
Chartered Patent Agent, Bristol.