A Folding Cardboard Box suitable for Packing Millinery and the like.
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 1st Dec., 1896
Complete Specification Left, 17th July, 1897--Accepted, 21st Aug., 1897
ISIONAL SPECT
ION.
A Folding Cardboard Box suitable for Packing Millinery and the like.
I, WILLIAM TERTIUS PRETTY of Tower Ramparts Ipswich in the County of Suffolk,
do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
The bottom of this box is rectangular, and it has the four sides of the box jointed
around it; two opposite sides of the box are connected by strings or wires which serve
to keep their upper edges at the same distance apart as their lower edges where they
meet and are connected with the bottom of the box. The same strings or wires also serve
to support the remaining sides when they are raised and to hold them in position at
right angles to the bottom. For this purpose these last mentioned sides are provided
with inwardly projecting flanges and these flanges are notched to receive the strings;
the notches are curved or inclined so that although the strings can readily be made to
enter them, they are when they have so entered held sufficiently firmly to keep the
box in shape. The lid of the box is jointed to the upper edge of one of the first
mentioned sides, strings passing over across the lid and attached to the sides
serve as a fastening the box.
The whole box is so arranged that the parts will fold down flat.
Dated this 2011, dow of November 190c
WILLIAM TERTIUS PRETTY.
A Folding Cardboard Box suitable for Packing Millinery and the like.
I, WILLIAM TERTIUS PRETTY, of Tower Ramparts, Ipswich, in the County of Suffolk,
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 :-
The bottom of this box is rectangular, and it has the four sides of the box jointed
around it; two opposite sides of the box are connected by strings or wires which serve
to keep their upper edges at the same distance apart as their lower edges where they
meet and are connected with the bottom of the box. The same strings or wires also
serve to support the remaining sides when they are raised and to hold them in
position at right angles to the bottom. For this purpose these last mentioned sides
are provided with inwardly projecting flanges and these flanges are notched to receive
the strings; the notches are curved or inclined so that although the strings can
readily be made to enter them, they are when they have so entered held sufficiently
firmly to keep the box in shape. The lid of the box is jointed to the upper edge of
one of the first mentioned sides, strings passing over across the lid and attached to the
sides serve as a fastening and handle to the box.
The whole box is so arranged that the parts will fold flat.

page_text: The annexed drawings show a box made in accordance with this invention.
Figure 1 shows the box opened out flat, and
Figure 2 shows it shut up.
Figures 3 and 4 áre sections on the lines 3. 3, 4. 4, Figure 2.
The bottom a of the box has the four sides b b¹, and c c¹ jointed around it; the two
sides c c¹ are connected by a string d. One end of the string is passed through the
hole c² in the side c, and is knotted as is shown at din Figure 3. The string passes
through the holes c3 c4 in the side c¹ and so to the hole in the side c where it is
again knotted. In this way the upper edges of the sides are kept at the same distance
apart as their lower edges where they meet and are connected with the bottom of the
box. The string d also serves to support the sides b 6', for this purpose these sides
are provided with inwardly projecting flanges e e and el e¹ and these flanges are
notched to receive the string & as is shown in Figure 4.
The lid is jointed to the side c and is provided with flanges f f f³, the
flange f³ is notched to receive the string d as is shown in Figure 2. Strings g g¹
attached to the sides b b pass across the lid and serve as a fastening to the box.
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 :-
1. A box substantially as described in which two opposite sides are connected
together by strings, wires or the like so that their upper edges are kept at the same
distance apart as their lower edges where they meet and are connected to the bottom
of the box.
2. A box having four sides jointed to the bottom, two opposite sides being connected
by strings and the other sides being provided with flanges having notches to engage
the strings, substantially as described.
3. A box substantially as described and shown in the drawings.
WILLIAM TERTIUS PRETTY.