Improvements in the Construction of Boxes and Packing Cases.
Year: 1889

page_text: Date of Application, 19th Oct., 1889
Complete Specification Left, 10th July, 1890-Accepted, 16th Aug., 1890
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Construction of Boxes and Packing Cases.
I, HENRY SALISBURY WRIGHT of Teign View, Newton Abbot in the County of
Devon, Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
My invention relates to the means of drawing together and securing the corners of
boxes and packing cases.
It is usual to secure the corners of boxes and packing cases by nails or screws and,
in cases where extra strength is required, by clips or cleats of metal embracing the
corners and secured to the box or case by means of nails or screws.
By my invention the securing of the corners is more easily and more cheaply
attained and the corners when secured are stronger than when the usual clips or cleats
of metal are employed.
For this purpose I employ a wire or strip of metal bent into the form shewn on
Drawing No. 4.
The point B of this wire or strip of metal is inserted into the corner of the
box or case at the point C on Drawing No. 1 and driven home in a slanting position
as shewn.
The wire or strip of metal is then bent over the corner of the box or case until
it's point D is brought immediately over the hole E on the other side of the corner as
shewn on Drawing No. 2.
It is then driven home and in it's passage into the hole E the bent point D draws
the wire or strip of metal into the shape as shewn on Drawing No. 3 and so draws
together and secures the corner of the box or case.
From this description it will be seen that in my invention the wire or strip of metal
fastens the corner of the box or case with all the advantages of the usual clips or cleats
without the use of the usual screws or nails with which the clips or cleats have to be
secured.
Dated thin 19th dove of Ontaba, 1080
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Construction of Boxes and Packing Cases.
1 HENRY SALISBURY WRIGHT of Teign View, Newton Abbot, in the County of
Devon, Engineer 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 means of drawing together and securing the corners of
boxes and packing cases.
It is usual to secure the corners of boxes and packing cases by nails or screws, and
in cases where extra strength is required by clips or cleats of metal embracing the
corners and secured to the box or case by means of nails or screws.
By my invention, the securing of the corners, is more easily, and cheaply attained,
and the corners when secured are stronger than when the usual clips or cleats of metal
are employed.
For this purpose I employ a wire or strip of metal bent into the form shewn on
Drawing left with Provisional Specification No. 4.
The point B of this wire or strip of metal is inserted into the corner of the box or
at the point C on Drawing left with Provisional Specification No. 1 and driven
home in a slanting position as shown.
case,

page_text: The wire or strip of metal is then bent over the corner of the box or case until its
point D is brought immediately over the hole E on the other side of the corner as
shewn on Drawing left with Provisional Specification No. 2.
It is then driven home and in its passage into the hole E the bent point D draws
the wire or strip of metal into the shape as shewn on Drawing left with Provisional
Specification No. 3 and so draws together and secures the corner of the box or case.
From this description it will be seen that in my invention the wire or strip
of metal fastens the corner of the box or case with all the advantages of the usual
clips or cleats without the use of the usual screws or nails with which the clips or
cleats have to be secured.
Having thus 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
The wire or strip of metal bent into the shape as shewn on Fig. No. 1 for drawing
together and securing the corners of boxes or packing cases.
Dated this 9th day of July 1800
HENRY SALISBURY WRIGHT,
Applicant.