A NEW OR IMPROVED METHOD OF SECURING LIDS TO PACKING AND OTHER BOXES, AND IN THE MEANS EMPLOYED THEREFOR
Year: 1875

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by John Fullerton at the Office of
the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 16th March
1875.
I, JOHN FULLERTON, of the City of Glasgow, in the County of Lanark,
North Britain, do hereby declaro the nature of the said Invention for
"A NEW OR IMPROVED METHOD OF SECURING LIDS TO PACKING AND OTHER BOXES,
AND IN THE MEANS EMPLOYED THEREFOR," to be as follows:-
This Invention relates to a new or improved method of and means.
employed for securing lids to packing and other boxes used for the
holding and safe transit of goods and merchandise of all kinds from one
place to another, and it consists in the employment of specially con-
structed metallic oblong plates, one of which is secured to the outside
upper surface of the lid of the box, and the other to the upper edge of
the side or end of the box directly below the former plate. The plate on
the upper surface of the lid is formed with three or more holes, and is
secured thereto by nails, rivets, or screws, as may be preferred, and may
be sunk into the wood to lie flush with the surface. The corresponding
plate for the side of the box is similarly formed with holes, by which it

page_text: is firmly screwed down into the edge of the material forming the side or
end of the box, but it is preferred to have its central part somewhat
thicker or deeper than the extremities, and has a hole formed through
that part with a female screw thread in it, and the lid being bored with
a hole directly through from the centre hole in the upper plate a screw
nail is passed down through it, and is screwed tightly into the female
screw in the under plate, thus firmly securing the lid of the box.
It is to be understood that any desired number of these pairs of plates
may be arranged on the box lid and corresponding parts of the sides or
ends, according to circumstances, or to the weight of the goods to be
packed inside the box, and it will be obvious that under another
modification instead of forming and arranging the plates in the manner
described angular or shaped plates may be used for overlapping the
corner formed by the top and side or end of the box, in which case tho
corresponding plate with the female screw in it would be sunk into and
fixed to either the lid or the vertical surface of the side or end (or to
both the lid and side or end), as may be found most convenient, and in
any case desired the sides, ends, or bottoms may be secured to cach
other in either of the methods described, whether the plates are oblong
for use, as under the first modification, or 1 angle shaped, as under the
second modification, or angled horizontally to suit the corners of the box
and lid respectively.
The advantages of this Invention are numerous, as the saving of timo
in opening the boxes will be great, and the contents of the boxes will be
thoroughly protected from the injury resulting from badly driven nails;
but above all the boxes and lids will be preserved from the destructivo
effects of nailing down and again wrenching them open, and may be
used over and over again as often as desired, thus effecting great
economy.