Improvements in Boxes.
Year: 1888

page_text: Date of Application, 21st June, 1888.
Complete Specification Left, 12th Mar., 1889-Accepted, 15th June, 1889
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Boxes.
I KRIKOR GARABED KRIKORIAN of Monument Buildings London E.C. Merchant
do hereby declare the nature of my invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN BOXES" which
has been communicated to me from abroad by Caspar Garabed Krikorian of Smyrna
in the Empire of Turkey Merchant, to be as follows:-
My Invention relates to the construction of boxes more particularly such as are
intended to contain various kinds of fruit such as figs, dates, raisens, prunes, and the
like and many other kinds of goods, which it is desirable that an intending purchaser
should be able to inspect thoroughly and with facility, and for this purpose I attach
the two ends and the back and front of the box to the bottom by means of hinges in
such manner that each such piece will open outwards on its hinges, away from the
contents of the box, so that the latter can be freely inspected not only on its upper
surface but at each side also. I hinge the lid to the upper edge of the piece forming
the back of the box and I generally provide a hook and eye or some kind of well
known hasp catch or lock to fasten it when closed such fastening also serving to
support the front of the box.
In order to keep the two ends closed I make them with bevelled edges or with
rabbets or tongues interlocking with correspondingly shaped bevels rabbets or grooves
in the back and front pieces.
In opening such a box the lid being thrown back the front and back of the box are
free to fall open outwards and when these have been thus opened the ends become
free and may also be similarly lowered, falling to the right and left respectively and
this exposing all four sides as well as the top of the contents of the box.
According to the size and strength of the box I use ordinary metal hinges, or wire
hinges, or if it is to be very light I make the joint of some flexible material such as
canvas, or the like, in place of a more substantial hinge.
It will be obvious that the ends may be made to enclose (instead of being enclosed
by) the back and front, but in such case the hasp or fastening must be provided at
each end, instead of one only in front.
If desired the back and front and end pieces or one or more of them may be
rabbeted, bevelled or the like on their upper edges and the lid made to correspond so
that the lid when closed may further secure the said pieces.
It will at once be obvious how great are the advantages for the uses named of such
a box over those in which such goods, say for instance figs, are generally packed, and
which are often very troublesome to open and then only expose the upper layer of
the fruit.
Dated the 20th day of June 1888.
NEWNHAM BROWNE,
Agent for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Boxes.
"
I, KRIKOR GARABED KRIKORIAN, of Monument Buildings, London, E.C. Merchant,
do hereby declare the nature of the said invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN BOXES
which invention has been communicated to me from abroad by Caspar Garabed
Krikorian of Smyrna in the Empire of Turkey, Merchant, 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 the construction of boxes more particularly such as are

page_text: intended to contain various kinds of fruit such as figs, dates, raisins, prunes and
the like, and many other kinds of goods which it is desirable that an intending
purchaser should be able to inspect thoroughly, and with facility and for this purpose
I attach the two ends and the back and front of the box to the bottom by means
of hinges in such manner that each such piece will open outwards on its hinges
away from the contents of the box so that the latter can be freely inspected not
only on its upper surface but at each side also. I hinge the lid to the upper edge
of the piece forming the back of the box and I generally provide a hook and eye
or some kind of well known hasp catch or lock to fasten it when closed such
fastening also serving to support the front of the box.
In order to keep the two ends closed I make them with bevelled edges or with
rabbets or tongues interlocking with correspondingly shaped bevels, rabbets or
grooves in the back and front pieces.
In opening such a box the lid being thrown back the front and back of the box
are free to fall open outwards and when these have been thus opened the ends
become free and may also be similarly lowered falling to the right and left respectively,
and thus exposing all four sides as well as the top of the contents of the box.
According to the size and strength of the box I use ordinary metal hinges or
wire hinges or if it is to be very light I make the joint of some flexible material
such as canvas or the like in place of a more substantial hinge.
It will be obvious that the ends may be made to enclose (instead of being enclosed
by) the back and front, but in such case the hasp or fastening must be provided at
each end, instead of one only in front.
If desired the back and front and end pieces or one or more of them may be
rabbeted bevelled or the like on their upper edges and the lid made to correspond so
that the lid when closed may further secure the said pieces.
It will at once be obvious how great are the advantages for the uses named of
such a box over those in which such goods, say for instance figs, are generally packed,
and which are often very troublesome to open, and then only expose the upper layer
of the fruit.
In order to enable my invention to be more fully understood I will proceed to
describe the same with reference to the accompanying drawings of which Fig. 1, is a
perspective view of one form of box constructed according to the said invention the
lid being there shown raised and Fig. 2, is a plan of the same in an open condition
that is to say with all the walls or sides of the box flat, as though lowered as they
would be to expose to view the contents of such box A, A, indicate the two ends;
B the back; C the front; D the bottom; and E the lid of the box. To the bottom D,
are hinged the ends A, by the hinges A¹; the back B, by the hinges B₁; and the
front C, by the hinges C; while to the upper edge of the back B, is hinged the lid E
by the hinges B2. All of these hinges as shewn in the drawings are formed of wire
but for these may be substituted metal hinges of ordinary construction, or for boxes of
very light construction strips of canvas or equivalent flexible material may be used.
A2, A2, indicate the bevelled vertical edges of the ends A, and B³, B³, 0², C²,
indicate the correspondingly bevilled grooves in the back B, and front C, into which
the said edges fit as shown in Fig. 1. These edges and grooves instead of being
bevelled as shown in the drawing may be otherwise shaped to secure the same results.
F indicates the hook pivotted on the front C; and F1, a stud, or it may be an eye,
fixed in the lid E for fastening the box when closed; any other suitable fastening
device may however be applied to the box in place of the hook F and stud F¹.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed as communicated to
me by my foreign correspondent I declare what I claim is:
1. The construction of a box substantially in the manner and for the purpose herein
specified.
2. A complete box consisting essentially of a bottom D to which are hinged two
ends such as A, a front C, and a back B, to which is hinged the lid E the front and

page_text: back being formed with grooves to receive the vertical edges of the ends substantially
as and for the purposes herein before described and represented in the annexed
drawings.
Doted the Twelfth day of March 1900
NEWNHAM BROWNE,
Agent for the Applicant.