Improvements in Card-board, Straw-board, and other similar Boxes.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 27th Feb., 1894
Complete Specification Lelt, 27th Nov., 1894-Accepted, 29th Dec., 1894
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Card-board, Straw-board, and other similar Boxes.
We, CAROLINE FANNY BAINES, of 10, Spring Gardens, Bradford, in the
County of York, Gentlewoman, and HENRY TAYLOR, of 96, Cottenham Street,
Chorlton-on-Medlock, Manchester, in the County of Lancaster, Box Maker, do
hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:
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This invention relates to improvements in card-board, straw-board and other
similar boxes and its object is to facilitate their construction.
For this purpose I form a flap on each end of two of the opposite sides (or ends)
of the box adapted to be bent in and be parallel with and lie closely against the
two remaining sides (or ends) and these latter sides (or ends) are made somewhat
deeper than required for the finished box so as to allow a strip along the top to be
folded over the said flaps to secure them. This folded strip may be glued or
fastened down with metal fasteners or in any other convenient manner.
"The lids of the box may be made in a similar way.
Boxes constructed in this manner may be made collapsable by arranging the
sides to fold inward and providing metal or other suitable fasteners to secure the
folded strips.
Dated this 26th day of February 1894.
DRACUP & NOWELL,
Bradford, Agents.
CUMI LEIE DI MUITIVATIV
Improvements in Card-board, Straw-board, and other similar Boxes.
We, CAROLINE FANNY BAINES, of 3, Oak Mount, Harrogate, in the County
of York, Gentlewoman, (late of 10, Spring Gardens, Bradford, in the aforesaid
County) and HENRY TAYLOR, of 96, Cottenham Street, Chorlton-on-Medlock,
Manchester, in the County of Lancaster, 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 :-
This invention relates to improvements in card-board, straw-board and other
similar boxes, and its object is to facilitate their construction.
For this purpose we form a flap on each end of two of the opposite sides (or
ends) of the box adapted to be bent in and be parallel with and lie closely against
the two remaining sides (or ends) and these latter sides (or ends) are made somewhat
deeper than required for the finished box so as to allow a strip along the top to be
folded over the said flaps to secure them. This folded strip may be glued or
fastened down with metal fasteners or in any other convenient manner.
Reference is to be had to the accompanying sheet of drawings forming a part of
this Specification, in which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts
in each of the figures.
Figure 1, represents a piece of card-board or straw-board cut to the form required
to form a box in accordance with our invention.

page_text: Figure 2, represents a side view of the same partly folded to form the box.
Figure 3, represents a sectional elevation of the complete box but without the
lid and looking towards a side at right angles to that shown in Figure 2.
Figure 4, represents a side view of the same.
Besides being cut to the shape shown in Figure 1 the card-board is cut through
along the lines marked A, A, A and A and creased or scored along the lines
marked B, B, C, C and D, D.
To form the box the sides E and E are first turned up and the flaps F and F
on the ends of these sides are bent in at right angles similar to F Figure 2. The
sides G and G' are then turned up and the strips H and H' along the top of
the sides are folded down over these flaps and may be glued thereto to complete
the box.
The lid of the box may be made in a similar way but in this case as in the case
of comparatively shallow boxes the flaps F and F may not meet or extend so far
across the sides G and G'.
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Instead of glueing the strips down they may be secured by eyelet rivets or by
ordinary paper fasteners J, as shown by Figures 3 and 4 or by other means.
When paper or other similar fasteners are employed the box may be made
collapsable by making the creases B, B and C, C so that the flaps F, F and F, F*
may be folded against the sides E and E' and all the sides folded over towards the
bottom similar to other collapsable boxes.
The perforations e are made to readily allow the fasteners J to be inserted.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what we
claim is:
A card-board or straw-board box the sides of which may be connected together
by means of end flaps formed on two opposite sides and secured against the other
sides by means of strips on the top of these latter sides folded down over them,
substantially as herein shown and described and illustrated in the accompanying
drawings.
Dated this 24th day of November 1894.
DRACUP & NOWELL,
Bradford, Agents.