Improvements in Collapsible Boxes or Cases.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 3rd May, 1894
Complete Specification Left, 4th Feb., 1895-Accepted, 9th Mar., 1895
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Collapsible Boxes or Cases.
I, WILLIAM EDWARD WALMSLEY of 8 Hyde Road Waterloo Liverpool,
Manager, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows :-
My invention relates to certain improvements in collapsible boxes or cases
whereby boxes or cases, made of cardboard or other suitable material, can be readily
made up or collapsed. The invention consists of the application of pliable or spring
metal fasteners (similar to those in use as glove buttons) to the edges or corners of
boxes or cases instead of the permanent fasteners or fastenings at present in use, or,
of a combination of pliable or spring metal fasteners, with the edges or corners of
With the aforesaid fasteners, attached to the edges or corners
of the boxes or cases, in suitable positions, they can be packed together in the flat,
and made up, when required very quickly by bringing up the edges or corners into
position and forcing them close together.
the boxes or cases.
Dated this Second day of May 1894.
Improvements in Collapsible Boxes or Cases.
1, WILLIAM EDWARD WALMSLEY, of No. 8 Hyde Road, Waterloo near
Liverpool in the County of Lancaster Manager 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 :-
My invention consists of the application of pliable or spring metal fasteners
(similar to those in use as glove buttons) to the sides and corner flaps of cardboard
boxes and their lids, whereby a box can be made up from the flat or collapsed,
by simply fastening or unfastening the aforesaid pliable or spring metal fasteners
or buttons.
The following description, with the accompanying drawings will enable my
invention to be clearly understood.
Figs. 1, 2 and 3 are enlarged, plan, elevation, and end views of the pliable or
spring metal fastener.
Figs. 4 and 5 show enlarged sections of the pliable or spring metal fastener and
metal eyelet, permanently fixed into the cardboard, with the usual eyeletting and
studding machinery and it will be easily understood, that when the projecting or
spring part of the fastener is pressed into the metal eyelet, it will hold the pieces
of cardboard together and will require some little force to separate them again.
Fig. 6 is a strip of metal stamped out of sheet metal, and shows a method of
making the metal fasteners in strips, similar to the metal edges and studs as at
present in use for box making, but these fasteners may be used singly, as is the case
with the metal eyelets if thought advisable. The dotted lines in Fig. 1 also show
the shape of the single fastener as stamped out of the sheet metal.
Fig. 7 shows a cardboard box in the flat, cut, and scored or creased in the usual
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page_text: way, and having holes punched in their respective positions, ready to receive the
pliable or spring metal fasteners and metal eyelets, the holes marked F 1, F 2, F3
and F 4, receive the fasteners and those marked E1, E2, E 3, and E 4 receive the
eyelets.
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Fig. 8 shows the box lid in the flat, cut, and scored or creased and also having
holes punched as in Fig. 7. The dotted lines in Figs. 7 and 8 show the score or
crease in the cardboard.
Fig. 9 shows the box, fixed up by bringing up the sides into position and pressing
into their respective eyelets, the pliable or spring metal fasteners.
Fig. 10 shows the box lid, fixed up as in Fig. 9.
Now it will be seen, on reference to Figs. 7 and 8 that when the fasteners and
eyelets are permanently fixed into their respective punch holes, in the manner shown
in Figs. 4 and 5, the sides of the box and the lid may be brought up into position
and the fasteners and eyelets snapped together and thus form the box and lid as
shown in Figs. 9 and 10, and will hold together, forming an ordinary box and lid.
These fasteners and eyelets may be modified and varied in form or size.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
The application of pliable or spring metal fasteners in conjunction with metal
eyelets, both being permanently fixed to the sides and corner flaps of the cardboard
box and lid, in the manner substantially as herein described and set forth.
Dated this Second day of February 1895.
W. E. WALMSLEY.