Improvements in Boxes.
Year: 1893

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Boxes.
I JOHN BRIERLEY HOWARD of Penny Bank Chambers, Halifax in the County
of York Patent Agent do hereby declare the nature of the said invention which
has been communicated from abroad by Oswald Heinrich of Mittelwalde in the
County of Silesia and Michael Goldschmidt, Liegfried Goldschmidt and Philipp
Goldschmidt all of Breslau, Silesia in the Empire of Germany Merchants to be.
particularly described and ascertained in and by the following statement :-
This invention relates to improvements in boxes having movable or collapsable
sides, the latter being connected with each other by means of laps, or straight hinge
like eyed plates, or undulated furrows or corrugations engaging or catching into
each other, the box being thus closed or opened.
I prefer to make the lid as an ordinary removable side, namely, to arrange the
said lap, or furrow fastening between the lid and the sides of the box.
In order to fasten the lid to the box by means of laps, the sides "a2" "2" of the
box "a " and of the lid "" respectively are provided with laps "a" folding
inside or outside. The sides, either of the lid only or of both lid and box which
sides have heretofore been firmly connected with each other, are also separated
from each other as shewn in perspective view by Fig. 9 for the lid and by Fig. 10
for the box. Fig. 11 shews a perspective view of a box in which the sides a²,
(which are provided with laps "a¹") are firmly connected with each other as usual.
The laps "a" "11" are in each case independent and separate from each other.
The sides "2" of the lid and also the sides "a" of the box, are thus movable or
fixed to the top of the lid and to the bottom of the box respectively.
In order to connect the two parts of the box that is the lid and body of the box
their sides are folded into each other with their laps as shown by Fig. 1, after this
the upper sides "2" of the lid are connected with each other as hereinafter
described and through this connection the sides of the box, which are covered over
by the sides of the lid, are held together if the latter, as before mentioned, are
independent or separate from each other and are only connected with the bottom of
the box. The separation of the sides of the box from each other may be sometimes
of advantage for the packing of the articles for which the boxes are used and for
storing the boxes themselves.
After the box has been closed with the lid, the joining of the sides "62" of the
lid may be effected in different ways. A very simple way to connect the adjoining
edges of the lid or sides "2" is by means of a string "d" which is drawn through
the holes "3" of the sides (see Fig. 2).
A safer way of connecting two sides is by a pair of hinge like eye-plates which,
as shown by Figs. 13 and 14 consist of two plates "c" catching into each other by
means of the hinge-eyes "e" and being held together by a hinge or wire pin "c²
being passed through the several eyes c¹. Each hinge-plate is secured along the
edge of a lid-side, see Figs. 15 and 16. As soon as the box is united with the lid
by the sides and the laps being connected, each two adjoining plates "" are pushed
into each other with their eyes "e" and joined together by means of their pins "c2"
(which was before withdrawn from the eyes) being now passed through the several
adjoining eyes.
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Fig. 2 shows on the one side the simple connection of the lid-sides by means of a
string "d" drawn through holes, in which case the side edges may be strengthened
by metal strips "e" on the other side Fig. 2 shows the connection effected by the
hinge-eye-plates afore described.
If the laps "" of the lid are connected direct to the top of the lid, that is, if
there are no lid-sides to go round the sides of the box, the connection between the

page_text: cover plate "6" and the box" a" is formed as shewn by Figs. 14 to 34 wherein the
laps form the sides of the lid.
One of the box sides is parted in the middle and each half "a" has a lap "a¹."
The cover plate "6" is placed over the laps "a" situated on the outside, and each
of the laps "b" which are on two sides only, is pushed between one half side "a"
and one side lap "a"." Connected in this manner, the cover plate "6" and the box
are held fast by the before described hinge-eye-plates c. caud their pin "c","
these plates being fastened to the two lid edges "b" which have no laps, and to the
two box sides "a" situated under the same.
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The second manner of fastening the lid to the box, consists in the sides of the lid
and of the box being furrowed or corrugated and the corrugations or furrows of the
lid engage or catch in the corrugations or furrows in the box and are parted from
each other in the ordinary manner by drawing the lid from the box, and by one side
of the lid being divided and held together by hinge eye plates c c¹.
Figs. 3. 4. 7. 8. 12. 15 and 16 represent the uniting of the box and the lid by
means of side furrows catching into each other.
Figs. 3 and 4 show two boxes the side furrows of which are undulating; Figs. 7
and 8 show the lid "6" with furrowed sides parted in vertical direction. In like
manner as the lap sides the parting edges of the sides are provided with
strengthening metal stirps "e" and holes "63" or with hinge eye plates "e" iu
order to be able to join them together. Fig. 12 represents a box of which the side
furrows are straight lined, or bent at right angles.
In order to place the lid on the box and to be able to place the lid-furrows into
the furrows of the box, first the parted lid-sides, are folded open, then the lid is
placed on the box, and finally the lid-sides are refolded towards the box-sides. The
lid-sides having been united with each other in the way explained, a safe connection
is formed between the box and the lid.
In order to place the lid-slides over the sides of the box, the cover plate of the lid
may also have a joint "4" so that the lid sides in consequence of the cover bending
upwards, may be drawn from each other without being movable at the cover plate
see Figs. 15 and 16.
The ways above described for fastening a lid to its box are an advantageous
substitute for the string heretofore used for the same purpose, because the fastening
is effected by the relative parts of the hox itself, a uniting of the sides of the box
and of the lid being obtained all round and the cutting of the string into the material
(paste board) of which the box consists and the consequent damaging of the
contents of the box are done away with.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what we
claim is:
A self fastening box distinguished by the sides of the lid folding into the
adjoining sides of the box by means of laps (a¹¹) or furrows or corrugations at the
sides, and being held in this position by fastenings as set forth and as illustrated by
the annexed drawings.
Dated this 17th day of Anril 1893
JOHN BRIERLEY HOWARD.