IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANU- FACTURE OF CARDBOARD AND OTHER BOXES
Year: 1886

page_text: JOSEPH MELLOR BAINES General Merchant 10 Trafalgar St Bradford, Yorks do
hereby declare the nature of my invention for IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANU-
FACTURE OF CARDBOARD AND OTHER BOXES to be as follows:-
This invention relates to the manufacture of such cardboard boxes as have wood
frames. The object is to attach the cardboard bottoms to the wooden frames in
such manner as to give greater security against the bottoms being pressed or
forced out and to make the boxes more rigid. It has been customary hitherto in
forming a box to cut a piece of cardboard for the bottom the exact size of the
frame and secure it to the frame by means of strips of calico or linen. This
invention consists in using a piece of cardboard for the bottom cut larger than the
size of the intended box which cardboard is then scored to the proper size and the
edges turned up and secured to the inside or to the outside of the frame as may be
desirable.

page_text: I JOSEPH MELLOR BAINES, General Merchant, of 10 Trafalgar Street, Bradford,
in the county of York, do hereby declare the nature of my invention and in what
manner the same is to be performed to be particularly described and ascertained in
and by the following statement :-
The essential features of this invention lie in forming the bottoms of boxes with
a margin turned up on the four sides which turned up margin or edge is attached
by means of glue or paste or with wire or with or without nails or other similar
fasteners to the inner or outer side of the frame or box.
The object of the invention is to secure the bottom to the frame or box more
firmly and effectually than by the customary method and to avoid the necessity of
placing a strip of calico or other material round the outer edge of the box for the
purpose of fastening in the bottom thus rendering unnecessary the unsightly ridge
caused by the said strip of calico on the sides and ends of the box and giving a
much neater and better finished appearance.
This may the more easily be understood by reference to the accompanying
sheet of drawings in which Figure 1 represents a sheet of cardboard cut to form
the bottom of the box which cardboard is scored or broken along the dotted lines
in such manner that the narrow strips A. A. A. A forming the margin may be
turned upwards a piece being cut out at each of the four corners B. B. B. B to
allow of this being done.
A frame (of wood or cardboard) is now taken and the bottom so prepared is
placed inside it as shewn in Figure 2 which is a sectional view of completed box
in which A. A. is the wooden or cardboard frame forming the sides of the box
B. the cardboard bottom and C C the turned up margin or edges of the bottom B
which margin or edges are attached to the inner sides of the frame A. A. by means
of glue or paste or with wire or with or without nails or other similar fasteners
securely fixing the bottom in its place.
Or the bottom may be fixed on the outside of the said frame or cardboard box
as in Figure 3 in which A. A. is the frame of wood or cardboard. B the cardboard
bottom and CC the turned up margin or edges of the bottom B which margin or
edges is attached to the outer sides of the frame A. A. by means of glue or paste
or with wire or with or without nails or other similar fasteners securely fixing the
bottom in its place.

page_text: Having now described and particularly ascertained the nature of my said
invention and the manner in which the same is or may be carried into effect
I wish it to be understood that what I claim is
Firstly. The wooden frame or cardboard box substantially as and for the
purposes described.
Secondly. The cardboard bottom with turned up margin or edges substantially
as and for the purposes described.
Thirdly. The securing of the bottoms in wooden frames or cardboard boxes
by means of the turned up margin or edges to inner or outer side of frame
substantially as and for the purposes described.