Improvements in or in connection with Boxes and Cases.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 29th Mar., 1893—Accepted, 10th June; 1893
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or in connection with Boxes and Cases.
I FREDERICK WILLIAM GOLBY, of 36 Chancery Lane, in the County of
Middlesex, Patent Agent, do hereby declare the nature of this invention as
communicated to me by Oswald Heinrich of Mittelwalde in Silesia, Merchant,
Michael Goldschmidt, Siegfried Goldschmidt and Philipp Goldschmidt, Merchants,
all of Breslau, Germany, 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 a hinged joint-link for joining walls of boxes and
casings and the object of this improved joint-link is to provide means for joining
walls of boxes and casings to each other in any position.
Each joint-link consists of two plates catching into each other with sockets and
held in position by means of a pin passed through the said sockets. The other
edges of the plates are fastened by any suitable means to the edges of the walls to
be joined.
In the accompanying drawing
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Figures 14 to 6 represent in front view and section the double joint-link and
some modifications thereof; one plate a being fastened to the edge of the wall.
Figure 7 shews in section a box, the narrow sides or walls of which consist each of
two parts "c joined with each other by means of the above described hinged
joint links. Figures 8 and 8B shew also in section a box of which the four side
wails " C and the lid "d" are connected with one another by hinged joint-links.
Figures 9 to 9 shew a wall formed by a grating having a hygroscopic and soft
material jammed in between the rods or bars of the grating.
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According to Figures 1 to 2 each plate "a" of the joint-link has a Ụ shaped
form. The two legs thus formed lap over or embrace the edge of the wall "c
be joined and enter or catch with their projections into the material of the said wall.
After two plates " have been fixed or attached in that way to two walls "c" or
parts of walls, the sockets "a" of the plates "a" may be brought in line with
one another by putting the sockets of one plate between the sockets of the other
plate and held in position by passing a pin "b" through the row of sockets or
"a¹."
eyes
In Figures 34 to 4³ and 6ª and 6B the hinge plates are attached to the respective
walls by means of rebates. The rebate connection between the plate "a
"and the
wall" C may be single (Figure 3B and 4B) or manifold (Figure 6B). Also the
rebate surfaces of the plates "a" may be corrugated (Figure 4B) or provided with
projections in any way, in order to give a greater security to the joint and a
greater stiffness to the material.
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Figure 3 illustrates also a modification of the fastening of the plate a to the
edge of the wall "e" shewing at the same time that the sockets "a" can be
arranged upon the surface of the plate as well as at the edge.
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According to Figures 5 and 5B the edges of the plate "a and of the wall "c"
are bent so as to form hooklike edges, which are to be hooked in each other.
Moreover, the edge of plate "a" is furnished with teeth entering into or piercing
through the material of the wall "c."
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In Figure 6 two tongues or projections "a" of the plate "a are shewn, which
projections shall be bent against and in the two walls which are to be placed upon
the edges "e" and "c" of the wall "c."
Figures 7, 8 and 8B represent two examples of employing the hinged joint-
links. As above stated, these figures shew sections of boxes, for instance of paste-
board, the walls of which are formed in the usual way by bending or folding the
sheet of pasteboard at the proper lines. Now in order to keep the walls together

page_text: and on the other hand to get them easily apart or loosened from one another, the
corresponding walls are joined by means of the improved hinged joint-links.
The loosening of the walls from each other by removing or drawing the pin "b"
out of the sockets or eyes "a" is for the purpose of facilitating the packing of
goods in the box, as the loosening and dropping apart of the walls renders the
interior of the box more easily accessible. Moreover, a good deal of space or
room can be saved when it is necessary to have a greater number of such boxes or
casings in store.
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In the grating wall shewn in Figures 9ª, 9B, and 9c the, ends of the rods or
bars "d" forming the grating, are held together and in position by means of
hinged joint-links a a. Between the said rods "d" a hygroscopic and soft
material such as sponge may be jammed in so as to form a mattress. These
mattress walls joined together form boxes or casings specially adapted for
containing objects and substances to be kept wet or moist such as flowers, fruit, or
other goods, that require to be protected against shocks and blows during
transmission.
The hinged joint-links herein described can be employed or used for all sorts of
boxes or casings of wood, paste-board, paper or similar material, but preferably
they will be employed in the manufacture of cardboard boxes.
The hinged joint-links are made preferably of metal especially of sheet metal,
which may be protected from oxidation by tinning, nickeling, or by means of any
other suitable coating.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
1. A hinged joint-link for joining walls of boxes and casings consisting of two
plates fastened by any suitable means to the edges of the walls to be joined and
provided with sockets, which are brought in line by putting the sockets of one
plate between the sockets of the other plate and are held in position by a
removeable pin passed through the row of sockets, substantially as described.
2. The employment of the hinged joint-links claimed by Claim 1 for keeping
together grating walls, between the rods or bars of which is jammed in or fastened
a soft hygroscopic material adapted to form a mattress, substantially as described.
Dated this 29th day of March 1893.
F. W. GOLBY,
36, Chancery Lane, London, W.C.