Improvements in Paper Covered Cardboard or Strawboard Packets or Cases.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 21st May, 1892
Complete Specification Left, 21st Sept., 1892 - Accepted, 22nd Oct., 1892
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Paper Covered Cardboard or Strawboard Packets
or Cases.
I, JOSEPH MELLOR BAINES, of 10, Spring Gardens, Bradford, in the County
of York, Manager, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
This invention relates to improvements in paper covered cardboard or straw-
board packets or cases of rectangular form and adapted to be filled at the end such
as the packets or cases in which certain dry goods are commonly retailed and its
object is to facilitate the manufacture of such packets or cases.
For this purpose the cardboard foundation is cut and scored in the ordinary
manner to form the angles of the case so that it may be readily bent to form or be
readily collapsed so as to occupy a minimum space before it is filled. A single flap
is preferably left at each end of one side to form the ends. Instead of covering
the whole surface of that portion of the outer paper cover that comes in contact
with the cardboard or strawboard foundation with glue or other adhesive substance
the greater portion of it is left unglued. The opposite sides of the cardboard
foundation are folded over so that their cut edges meet and the foundation is then
laid upon the unglued portion of the paper covering that side uppermost. The
unglued edge of the paper cover is then turned over the foundation and the glued
portion brought tightly over the other way to meet and overlap such edge thus
bitting up
or joining together that angle of the case or packet formed by the
junction of the cut extremities of the cardboard foundation as well as tightly
securing the covering around the case. This method of arrangement greatly
facilitates the covering process, there is less liability to split the covering at
the angles when the case is either opened out or collapsed, considerably less
glue or its equivalent is required and the outer cover may be more accurately.
placed.
Dated this 20th day of May 1892.
DRACUP & NOWELL,
Bradford, Agents.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Paper Covered Cardboard or Strawboard Packets
or Cases.
I, JOSEPH MELLOR BAINES, of 10, Spring Gardens, Bradford, in the County of
York, General Merchant, 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 paper covered cardboard or strawboard
packets or cases of rectangular form and adapted to be filled at the end such as the
packets or cases in which certain dry goods are commonly retailed and its object is
to facilitate the manufacture of such packets or cases.
For this purpose the cardboard foundation is cut and scored in the ordinary
manner to form the angles of the case so that it may be readily bent to form or be
readily collapsed so as to occupy a minimum space before it is filled. A single flap
is preferably left at each end of one side to form the ends. Instead of covering the
whole surface of that portion of the outer paper cover that comes in contact with
the cardboard or strawboard foundation with glue or other adhesive substance the
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page_text: greater portion of it is left unglued: The opposite sides of the cardboard founda-
tion are folded over so that their cut edges meet and the foundation is then laid
upon the unglued portion of the paper' covoring that side uppermost. The
unglued edge of the paper cover is then turned' over the foundation and the glued
portion brought tightly over the other way to meet and over-lap such edge thus
bitting up or joining together that 'angle of the case or packet formed by the
junction of the cut extremities of the cardboard foundation as well as tightly
securing the covering around the case.
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This method greatly facilitates the covering process, there is less liability to
split the covering at the angles when the case is either opened out or collapsed,
considerably less glue or its equivalent is required and the outer cover may be
more accurately placed.
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, is a view of the paper cover and cardboard foundation before they are
folded.
Figure 2, is a view after the first fold has been made.
Figure 3, is a similar view after the second fold has been made and the cut edges
"bitted up" by the glued flap of the
paper.
Figure 4, is a perspective view of the box, and
Figure 5, is a separate view of the paper cover.
In each figure the portion shaded by the lines inarked G is the glued. part...
The cardboard or strawboard foundation A is shaped and scored in the ordinary
manner and the paper cover B is of the usual shape and size but it is only glued at
the shaded part G. The side D is first folded over as shown in Figure 2. Then
the side E, and the projecting flap F of the cover laps over the cut edges of the
sides, E and its extreme edge overlaps the other or unglued edge of the cover and
holds it too. H, H'are the usual end flaps.
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:
Covering cardboard or strawboard boxes by means of a partially glued covering
adapted. to thereby "bit up" the box and secure the cover in position, sub-
stantially as herein shown and described and illustrated in the accompanying
drawings.
Dated this 20th day of September 1892.
DRACUT & NOWELL,
Bradford, Agents.