Improvements in Cardboard, Paper, and other Boxes.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 24th Feb., 1891
Complete Specification Left, 17th July, 1891-Accepted, 22nd Aug., 1891
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Cardboard, Paper, and other Boxes.
I, GEORGE GRAY of 670 Rutherglen Road, Glasgow, Warehouseman, do hereby
declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to plain and fancy paper, cardboard and similar boxes for
holding silk handkerchiefs and other like goods although it may be applied to other
kinds of boxes where found suitable.
In carrying out my invention I make the box with two or, more drawers or com-
partments. preferably use but two drawers. In a box having two drawers I make
one of the drawers to slide in at each end of the box. The lower drawer is
preferably made with the outer end having an upwardly projecting flange or piece
so made that the end corresponds with and fills up the end of the box. The outer
drawer is made with a corresponding downwardly projecting flange or piece. There
may be a division for separating the drawers and this division may be closed at
each end so as to correspond with the inner ends of the drawers.
With this arrangement when the drawers are in place the box or case has the
appearance, at each end, of containing but a single drawer. Small rings or handles
may be fitted to the drawers.
The box may be made with fancy designs upon its exterior.
H. D. FITZPATRICK,
.70, Wellington Street, Glasgow, Agent.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Cardboard, Paper, and other Boxes.
I, GEORGE GRAY, 670 Rutherglen Road, Glasgow, Warehouseman, 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 plain and fancy paper, cardboard, and similar boxes for
holding silk handkerchiefs and other like goods although it may be applied to other
kinds of boxes where found suitable.
In carrying out my invention, I make the box with two or more drawers or com-
partments. I preferably use but two drawers. In a box having two drawers I
make one of the drawers to slide in at each end of the box. The lower drawer is,
preferably, made with the outer end having an upwardly projecting flange or piece
so made that the end corresponds with and fills up the end of the box. The other
drawer is made with a corresponding downwardly projecting flange or piece. There
may be a division for separating the drawers and this division may be closed at
each end so as to correspond with the inner ends of the drawers.
And in order that my said invention may be properly understood I have hereunto
appended an explanatory sheet of drawings, showing, by way of illustration, a
method of making a cardboard box in accordance with my invention.
On the drawings:-
Fig. 1 is a longitudinal section of the box.

page_text: Referring to the drawings whereon the same reference letters wherever repeated
indicate similar parts.
a, b, are two drawers which are capable of being slid, one below the other, into
the box c.
As will be seen the drawer, a, has a downwardly projecting flange or
picce d whilst the drawer has an upwardly projecting flange or piece d'. The
flanges or pieces d, d', constitute the ends of the box when it is shut. A small ring,
handle or knob e may be fitted to the ends d, d¹ for the purpose of shutting and
opening the drawers. On the drawings the ends d, d', are shown as formed of
separate pieces attached to the drawers which is the construction I prefer.
For the purpose of holding the drawers in place a single, or, if additional strength
is desired, a double horizontal partition or division f, f, is made in the box. This
division is preferably closed up, at the inner end of each drawer by cross
partitions g, g.
The box may have bands h, h, around it, and to strengthen it, pieces of tape i
(Fig. 3) or equivalent may be pasted on the sides. The top of the box may be
fancily got up as shown at Fig. 4.
When the drawers a, b, are closed up the box has the appearance of containing but
a single drawer, the ends appearing as illustrated at Fig. 2.
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 :-
Cardboard, paper, and other like boxes having two or more drawers, made
substantially in the manner hereinbefore set forth so that they appear to contain but
a single drawer.
Dated this 16th day of July 1891
H. D. FITZPATRICK,
70, Wellington Street, Glasgow, Agent.