IMPROVEMENTS IN COLLAPSIBLE BOXES.
Year: 1882

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Herbert John Haddan, of Kensington, Middlesex for an
invention of IMPROVEMENTS IN COLLAPSIBLE BOXES.-A communication from
abroad by Bruno Rückert, of Leipzig, Saxony
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Herbert John Haddan at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 5th May 1882.
IN
HERBERT JOHN HADDAN, of Kensington, Middlesex, IMPROVEMENTS
COLLAPSIBLE BOXES," a communication from abroad by Bruno Rückert, of Leipzig,
Saxony.
This invention has for its object to reduce the space occupied by empty boxes by
making them collapsible. For this purpose I make the bottom and sides of a box
of one piece, or secure the sides to the bottom in such a manner that every side can
be folded inward. For erecting the sides when required, and for holding them
together I provide each end of the sides with an eyelet (two cyclets for every side)
aud pass a string through these eyelets, so that the string after having been drawn
through an eyelet of the first side is passed through the nearest cyclet of the
contiguous side, then through the opposite eyelet of the same side, then through
the nearest eyelet of the third side, subsequently through the second eyelet on the
third side and so on all round. The first side has an eyelet in the centre besides
the two near its edges, which central eyelet serves to receive the ends of the string.
If the box is laid out fiat, it can be erected by pulling the two ends of the string,
and fixed in this position by attaching the ends to a button or hook.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed
by the said Herbert John Haddan in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
4th November 1882.
HERBERT JOHN HADDAN, of Kensington, Middlesex, "IMPROVEMENTS IN
COLLAPSIBLE BOXES, a communication from abroad by Bruno Rückert, of Leipzig,
Saxony,"
The sides a of the box, (see Fig. 1 of the accompanying drawings) the bottom,
and the cover are made of one piece. To form the edges of the case,
the cardboard,
wood or similar material used, slit or notched at the respective places.
In the sides a are orifices b (fig. 1), or slits c, through which passes the string s.
If the material has been made up into a box the string s runs inside along the
circumference of the box so as to protrude at the corners only, which causes the
sides to join firmly together, and the folding corners e e (fig. 1) to fold inwards
(fig. 2). The two ends of string & pass together outside through the orifice d.
If the case has been folded down and the string is drawn, the sides are drawn
up until they are at right angles with the bottom and thereby joined together. By
winding up the ends of the string at a convenient place around a button f, the
whole case is firmly secured and the sides caused to remain in their vertical
position.
As the string runs as nearly as possible along the upper end of the side pieces,
only little strength is required to raise the sides and thereby form the case." The
free ends of the string remaining after the sides of the case have been drawn up,
serve to tie up the whole case at the centre of its side, eventually to secure the
contents of the case (see fig. 5), as well as the cover B.
Cases constructed in this manner may be made of different shape according to
requirements and taste, the effect of this arrangement of the string remaining the
CLAIM:
The special construction of folding boxes or collapsible cases, comprising a string
or cord 8 adapted to act on the folding corners e substantially as described, and a 3
double string attachment or eyelet d, which allows the box to be tied up and
the articles contained in the box to be locked by means of the free ends of the
string.
The whole substantially as described and illustrated.
In witness whereof I the said Herbert John Haddan, have hereunto set
my hand and seal this twentieth day of October A.D. 1882.