Improvements in or connected with the Attachment together of Boards of Built up Veneer for the Formation of Boxes.
Year: 1897

page_text: Date of Application, 25th May, 1897
Complete Specification Left, 22nd Mar., 1898-Accepted, 14th May,
1898
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or connected with the Attachment together of
Boards of Built up Veneer for the Formation of Boxes.
I, ERNEST HARRY ARCHER, of 23, St. Mary Axe, City of London, Merchant,
do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to certain improved means and appliances connected with
the attachment of boards of built up veneer in continuous or other order.
For the purpose of this invention, I employ plates, strips, or other forms of
metal or other material as connections, corners, or hinges for boards built up of
veneer in layers and cemented together in sheet like form and to prescribed sizes
proportionately to the sizes of the boxes to be made.
The attachment of the plates or the like is by hollow stemmed yet headed rivets,
or with solid stemmed rivets which can be driven through the wood and clamped
on the inner side by a spread outwardly of the clamping ends.
The veneer boards thus assembled can be in any number and kept flat for trans-
port and secured in bulk like long strips only, and when a box has to be formed,
the strip plates are simply bent at the seam ends, or at the hinge ends, and the
free end of the final plate secured to the adjoining free end of the strip.
The plates may be from sheet iron, from tin plate, from brass, or the like, or
of other desired material.
Dated this 25th day of May 1891.
H. GARDNER,
Patent Agent, 166, Fleet Street, London,
Agent for the said Ernest Harry Archer.
Improvements in or connected with the Attachment together of
Boards of Built up Veneer for the Formation of Boxes.
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I, ERNEST HARRY ARCHER, Merchant, formerly of No. 23, St. Mary Axe, but
at present of No. 20, Eastcheap, both in the City of London, 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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My said invention relates to improvements in or connected with the attachment
together of boards of built up veneer for the formation of boxes.
In carrying the invention into effect, the boards employed are of that kind
which are formed of two or more sheets or thicknesses of wood veneer, united
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page_text: by means of a suitable cement with the grain of the wood arranged in different
directions and which possess great strength combined with lightness.
The required number of these compound boards to form the body and if desired
the top and bottom of the box are arranged edge to edge in the same plane and
at the edges bevelled or rabbetted or arranged with a suitable space between the
same to admit of the folding hereinafter referred to, and these compound boards
are united by means of plates or strips of metal which constitute connections,
hinges or corner pieces for the several parts of the box, as hereinafter described.
The plates or strips are attached to the boards by means of headed rivets, provided
with hollow or other suitable stems or shanks, and these rivets are forced through
the plates or strips and boards, and clinched on the opposite side of the latter.
One of the end boards of the blank is provided with projecting plates, strips,
or the like for the purpose hereinafter described.
The box blank of connected boards thus formed may be retained in its flat
state for transport, and a large number of said blanks may be superposed one
upon the other when they will occupy the minimum of space, and thus may be
conveniently stored or transported in bulk.
When it is required to form a box from a blank constructed in the manner
hereinbefore described, each board is folded at right angles to the next adjacent
one until the body of the box is formed, the connecting plates or strips are
'correspondingly bent and form corner or hinge pieces thereto and the projecting
plates, strips or the like which have been previously similarly bent, are then
rivetted to the adjacent board, thus completing the body of the box minus the
top and bottom or ends.
The top and bottom may be similarly connected to the body, in which case
the top at three of its sides must be secured to the body of the box otherwise
than by rivetting.
Or, the top or bottom or both may be of metal or solid pieces of wood attached
to the body of the box in any suitable manner.
By the employment of built up sheets or boards of veneer, the connecting
plates or the like may be readily rivetted to the boards without danger of the
latter splitting, which would be difficult or impossible with ordinary boards of
a single thickness on account of their liability to split.
And, in order that the said invention may be more clearly understood and readily
carried into effect, I will proceed, aided by the accompanying drawings, more
fully to describe the same.
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS.
Figure 1 is a plan of a box blank constructed according to the present invention,
and minus the top and bottom.
Figure 2 is an edge view thereof.
Figure 3 is a side view of a box body formed of the blank represented at
Figures 1 and 2.
Figure 4 is an end view thereof partly in section.
Figure 5 is a plan of one of the metal plates or strips separately.
Figure 6 is an edge view thereof.
Figure 7 is a plan of a box blank representing slight modifications in some
of the parts, and showing the bottom and lid attached.
Figure 8 is an end view thereof.
Figure 9 is a side view partly in section of a complete box constructed of the
blank represented at Figures 7 and 8, and
Figure 10 is a horizontal section thereof.
In the several figures, in which like parts are indicated by similar letters of
reference, Figures 3 to 6, and 9 and 10 are drawn to an increased scale with
respect to the other figures of the drawings.
Referring to Figures 1 to 6,.a represents the boards which are built up of two
or more sheets or thicknesses of wood veneer united by means of a suitable cement

page_text: with the grain of the wood arranged in different directions and which possess
great strength combined with lightness.
In this example, four of the compound boards a, to form the body of the box,
are arranged edge to edge in alignment and in the same plane and these boards
are at their meeting edges a¹, bevelled or they might be rabbetted or arranged
with a suitable space between the same to admit of the folding hereinafter referred
to.
The compound boards a, arranged in the manner hereinbefore described, are
united by means of plates or strips of metal, which constitute connections, hinges
or corner pieces for the several parts of the box, as hereinafter described.
The plates or strips b, are attached to the compound boards a, by means of
headed rivets 62 provided with split or bifurcated stems or shanks, or said stems
might be of other suitable form and the stems of the rivets ba are pressed or driven
through the plates or strips b, and the boards, a, and clinched directly on the
reverse or inner side of the board a as represented more particularly at Figure 4.
One of the end boards a, of the blank is provided with projecting plates or
strips to connect with the opposite end board a*, when the blank is formed into
a box as hereinafter more fully described.
The box blank of connected boards formed in the manner herein before described,
may be retained in its flat state for transport, and a large number of said blanks
may be superposed one upon the other, when they will occupy the minimum of
space and thus may be conveniently and economically stored or transported in
bulk.
In order to form a box from a blank of the character herein before described,
each board a is folded at right angles with the next adjacent board as represented
at Figure 4, the connecting plates or strips b, being correspondingly bent, and
forming corner or hinge pieces and the projecting plates or strips 6* which have
been previously similarly bent are then rivetted to the now adjacent end board a*,
thus completing the box minus the top and bottom which may be formed of metal,
wood or other suitable material and fastened to the body a in any suitable manner.
If desired, the projecting plates or strips 6* may be bent up previously to fixing
them to the blank without interfering to any serious extent with the packing of
the blanks for storage or transport.
In the example given at Figures 7 to 10, the plates or strips and corner pieces b
are co-extensive with the compound boards a, which has the effect of rendering
the joints of the box approximately tight, and at the same time materially
strengthens the structure.
In this example, the bottom a², which is assumed to be a board of the same
construction as the body, is connected to the lower edge of one of the end boards
of the blank by a metal strip b, and the bottom board a² is provided with pro-
jecting metal plates or strips 6** on its other three sides, so that when the blank
is formed into a box body as hereinfore described with respect to the previous
arrangements and as shown at Figure 10, the bottom a², may be folded down on
to the body and the projecting metal plates or strips 6**, of the bottom thereof
may be turned over at right angles therewith and secured to the body of the box
by rivetting, as represented at Figure 9.
The lid a³ of the box, which is rabetted to receive the top edge of the body a,
is connected to the top edge of one of the end boards by means of a metal plate or
strip 6 rivetted to both parts, and this plate may serve as a rough kind of hinge
to the lid, or a properly formed hinge may be substituted therefor and the lid a³,
may be provided with any suitable fastening means by the aid of which it may be
secured by its opposite edge to the body of the box, and such for example as that
shown at Figure 9, which consists of a batten at, fixed on the inside of the box,
and a projecting metal plate or strip 6***, fixed to the lid a³, and bent over and
fastened through the body of the box to the batten a by screws or nails.
By the employment of built up sheets or boards a of veneer the connecting
plates or the like 6 may be readily rivetted to the boards a, without danger of

page_text: the latter splitting which would be difficult or impossible with ordinary boards
of a single thickness on account of their liability to split.
The box blanks of the character herein before describe may be conveniently
kept in stock and readily made up into box form when required for use.
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 blank formed of a number of boards of built up veneer united by
means of plates or strips of metal rivetted thereto in manner substantially as
herein shown and described, and for the purpose stated.
2. A box formed of a number of boards of built up veneer united by means of
plates or strips of metal rivetted to the boards, substantially as herein shown
and for the purpose, stated.
3. A box formed of a blank consisting of a number of boards of built up vencer
united by means of plates or strips of metal rivetted thereto in manner substantially
as herein shown and described and for the purpose stated:
This 2nd day of March 1900
VAUGHAN & SON,
Agents for the Applicant.