Improvements in the Manufacture of Cardboard Boxes and the like.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 26th Sept.,. 1895..
Complete Specification Left, 26th June, 1896-Accepted, 1st Aug., 1896
PROVISIONAL. SPECIFICATION..
Improvements in the Manufacture of Cardboard Boxes and the like.
I GEORGE SCOTT, of No. 21, St. George Street, Northampton, in the County
of Northamptonshire, Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of this
invention to be as follows:-
My invention relates to the manufacture of plain-and-fancy cardboard boxes,
wherein the necessity for using paste or other mucilage for the purpose of joining
the edges, is entirely obviated, the usual means: adopted: being to bring the edges
of the sides. together and close them by means of a covering strip of material
pasted on both inside and outside.
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According to my invention I simply bend over the edges of the two ends or the
two sides, as the case may be, of the box or cover, to form a flap, and secure the
sides together by means of two or more bent pieces of wire, suiting the angle of
the box, and let into each of the respective sides, the ends or heads of such wires
being turned over to fulfil the purposes of rivets, thus firmly securing.
Dated this 26th day of September 1895.
HUGHES, SON & Co.,
38 Chancery Lane, W.C., Agents.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Manufacture of Cardboard Boxes and the like.
1, GEORGE SCOTT, of No. 21 St. George Street, Northampton, in the County
of Northampton, Manufacturer, 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 relates to the manufacture of plain and fancy cardboard boxes,
wherein I entirely dispense with the necessity of using mucilage which is the
means at present employed for jointing purposes, the usual mode being to bring
the corners and edges of the box together and keep them so closed by means of a
covering strip of suitable material both inside and outside of the box. According
to my invention I simply bend over the edges of the ends or the sides-as the case
may be of the box or cover, to form a flap, and secure them together by means
of one or more bent pieces of wire suiting the angle of the box and having the
heads bent over to form a rivet, thereby firmly securing the sides and ends
together.
To enable my invention to he more fully understood I will proceed to describe
same with reference to the accompanying drawings and letters and figures of
reference marked thereon.
Fig. 1 is a projection of the box with the cover off and showing in the corner
thereof and up the sides of the said box, the aforementioned flaps, also the bent
pieces of wire.
Fig. 2 is a plan view of a piece of cardboard stamped or cut out to the required

page_text: shape to form the bottom and the two sides respectively, the dotted lines showing
where the bend or angle takes place.
Fig. 3 is a plan of one of the pieces which form the ends.
After cutting out the pieces shewn in Figs. 2 and 3 to form the bottom, sides,
and ends, respectively, I bend the parts over to the dotted lines hh to the angle
that may be required, the end pieces then being simply put into position and
secured by one or more pieces of bent wire, as shewn in Fig. 1 at a and b.
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 :-
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1. In a box formed of cardboard or other suitable material, the ends having
flaps folding inwardly, substantially as described and shewn.
2. In a cardboard or other box the pieces of wire uniting the sides and passing
through the flaps, substantially as described and illustrated.
3. In a cardboard box or the like, the combination of the flaps with means of
jointing, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.
Dated this 26th day of June 1896.
HUGHES, SON & Co.,
38 Chancery Lane, W.C., Agents.