Improvements in Folding Boxes.
Year: 1895

page_text: Improvements in Folding Boxes.
I ALBERT ROSLINGTON BUCKTON of Milton Villa Askern in the County of
York Traveller do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to improvements in "folding boxes" which may be made
of paper, strawboard, leatherboard, wood pulp, wood, tin, or any suitable material.
The box can be made in one piece or in pieces. The ends and sides of the box
are hinged to the bottom in any suitable manner. Two sides of the box have
attached to them wings or prolongations so arranged that when the sides of the
box are turned up at right angles to the bottom of the box, the wings or prolonga-
tions of the sides can be turned at right angles to the sides themselves. The
remaining two sides are each provided at their outer edges with a flap which is
suitably hinged to it. When the box is being made ready for use the two sides
having wings or prolongations are turned up at right angles to the bottom of the
box, the wings or prolongations are turned at right angles to the sides themselves
the remaining two sides are turned up at right angles to the bottom of the box and
by that means they being brought face to face with the wings or prolongations
already mentioned the hinged or Ecored flap before referred to can then be turned
to the inside of the box and can be kept in position by studs, stop, or other suitable
means.
Dated this Third day of May 1895.
ALBERT ROSLINGTON BUCKTON.
1, ALBERT ROSLINGTON BUCKTON, of Milton Villa, Askern, in the County of
York, Commission Agent, do hereby declare the nature of my said invention and
in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascer-
tained in and by the following statement :-
This invention relates to improvements in folding boxes which may be made of
paper, straw board, leather board, wood pulp, wood, tin, or any other suitable
material, and as the principle of my invention will be the same irrespective of the
nature of the material employed, a description of it as applied to a paper or straw
board box will suffice.
The nature of my invention will be better understood on reference to the
accompanying sheet of drawings in which,
Fig. 1. represents the board cut to shape ready for bending.
Fig. 2. represents the board partly folded as it would be packed and delivered
by the makers to customers or as it would be kept ready for use.
Fig. 3. is a perspective view of the box when bent and in a state of preparation
for use.
The same letters refer to similar parts throughout the several views.
The box can be made in one piece or in pieces. The sides, b, b, and ends, c, c,
being binged to the bottom a, in any suitable manner but by preference the parts

page_text: referred to would be all formed out of the same piece of material, which would be
scored or creased where necessary to facilitate the bending of the same.
Two sides, b, b, of the box have attached to them in this way wings or prolonga-
tions, d, d, so arranged that when the sides, b, b, are turned up at right angles to
the bottom, a, the wings or prolongations, d, d, can be turned at right angles to the
sides, b, b, to which they are attached.
Two other sides or the ends, c, c, of the box are each provided at their outer
edge with a flap, e, which is hinged or scored or creased to facilitate the bending of
the same.
When the box is being made ready for use the two sides, b, b, with the wings or
prolongations, d, d, are turned up at right angles to the bottom, a, the wings or
prolongations, d, d, are then turned at right angles to the sides, b, b, the remaining
two sides or ends, c, c, of the box are then turned up at right angles to the
bottom, a, and by that means are brought face to face or in line with the wings or
prolongations, d, d. The hinged or scored flap, e, e, is then turned to the inside of
the box so that the wings, d, d, are sandwiched or enclosed between the flap, e, and
the side or end, c. Where necessary the flaps, e, e, can be kept in position by
studs or other suitable means, but in most cases when the box is packed the
contents will be sufficient to prevent the flaps from springing back.
In Fig. 3. one of the flaps, e, is shown before it is bent over the wings, d, d, and
the other flap, e, is shewn after it has been bent over the opposite side wings, d, d,
but not quite closed upon the same.
In some cases I construct the lid for the box herein last described precisely in
the manner in which the box itself is made and the lid may be made as deep or
shallower than the box as required.
In other cases I provide one of the sides, b, with a flap, f, wide enough to make
a lid for the box which may also be provided with a second flap, g, which can be
bent and turned to go inside the box so as to form a stay between the flaps, e, e,
and also as a stay to the lid, f, to prevent its being crushed inwards.
Sometimes instead of making the flap, f, wide enough to form the whole lid,
I provide two narrower flaps, one on each side, b, b, so that together they form a lid
to the box and overlap each other at the joint.
I am aware that folding boxes of paper, straw board or the like material have
been made so that the bottom, sides and ends, together with the wings or prolonga-
tions and the lid have been formed out of the same piece of material which has
been scored where necessary to facilitate the bending of the same and also that the
lids of such boxes have been made separately or hinged and so far as such mode of
construction is concerned I lay no claim as to novelty.
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.
(1.) In a folding box constructed as herein described and illustrated, providing
a hinged, scored or creased flap, e, on the outer edge of each side or end, c, c, of
such box, so that when the box is being made ready for use, each flap, e, is turned
to the inside of the box so that the wings, d, d, d, d, are sandwiched or enclosed
between the said flaps, e, e, and the sides or ends, c, c.
(2.) Constructing a loose lid for a box precisely in the manner in which the box
itself is made, substantially as set forth in Claim 1.
(3.) Constructing a hinged lid for a box substantially in the manner in which
the box itself is made, the turning in flap, e, which secures the wings or prolonga-
tions of the sides being employed on the front only.
Dated this 1st day of February 1896.
R. HEBER RADFORD,
Agent for the Applicant.