Improvements in Boxes for Packing Textile and similar Fabrics.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 26th Nov., 1894-Accepted, 2nd Feb., 1895
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Boxes for Packing Textile and similar Fabrics.
Wilhelminenstrasse
I, HEINRICH WOLLHEIM, of Villa Simmig, 344
Loschwitz-Dresden in the Kingdom of Saxony and German Empire, Director
of The Actien Gesellschaft für Cartonnagen Industrie in Dresden, 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 :-
This invention relates to the arrangement and construction of boxes for packing
textile and similar fabrics, which suffer in appearance when they are pressed or
rubbed, for instance velvet, plush gauze crape etc.
In order that my invention may be the better understood I now proceed to
describe the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings and to the
letters and figures marked thereon.
Figure 1 is the cover of the box.
Figure 2 is a sectional view of the box.
Figure 3 is the sheet of cardboard from which the box is made.
Figure 4 is a longitudinal sectional view of the box.
Figures 5. 6 and 7 are views of the devices for suspending the fabric in the
box and
Figures 8 to 19 are modifications of these suspending devices.
The box is made from a strong card board or similar piece of material T which
is provided with grooves, along those lines which will form afterwards the inner
edges of the finished boxes, in order to facilitate the bending of the card board.
The corner pieces of the board T have been stamped out in the usual manner, see
Figure 3.
When the box is not being used, the card board T (which has been prepared as
before mentioned to be capable of being easily formed into a box, when required
and to be flattened out when not used) may remain in its flat condition; when the
box is to be used the side parts S S and S, S₁ are bent upwards in the succession
described hereinafter until the neighbouring parts meet one another, so that they
form the wall of the box.
The fabric to be packed is inserted into the box in horizontal layers. In order
to fix the several layers, so that one layer cannot rub against another nor press
upon it, the corners of the layers are hung at their edges over small pointed hooks,
formed on the teeth or serrations of a strip of sheet metal, of the shape shown in
Figures 5 to 7. These hooks may be conveniently formed in one piece with the
serrations by bending over the material. As shown in the drawings, the metal
strip has the form of a rake r, the prongs z of which are at right angles to the
bridge, see Figure 6. The points of the prongs are formed by the small hooks h
to which the fabric is attached. These rakes r are placed near the edges of two
opposite side parts of the card board. The distance of the points is calculated so
as to be of a certain length or measure for instance metre, and the box is
proportioned so that the distance of the two side parts provided with rakes
corresponds to the width of the fabric. In this way the fabric is being measured
automatically while it is packed or hung in the box.
However as the requirements of business render it necessary to provide for
various units of measure, besides the metrical system, for instance for yard
measurement, the box is arranged so that it may also be used for packing fabrics
according to a second system of measurement.
This is effected in the following

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The two other side parts S₁ S₁ of the box are provided with arrange-
ments which allow of the attachment of the rakes. As it thus becomes necessary
to change the places of the rakes, provision is made therefore by fixing buttons k,
Figures 3, 5, 6 and 7 at proper intervals to the side parts of the card board, and
for the same purpose the rakes have recesses e. The rakes are attached by pushing
the recesses somewhat under the discs of the buttons k which are somewhat away
from the card board, so that the edges of the recesses e surround the necks of the
buttons, see Figures 3 and 6.
The fabric is packed or placed into the boxes as follows:-The side parts S. S.
are bent upwards until they are in vertical position, Figure 2. The fabric which
extends in its width from the points of one rake to the points of the opposite
rake is hooked at two corner edges to the lowermost hooks of two opposite rakes,
carried horizontally to and around the lowermost hooks of the two other rakes,
carried back to the next higher hooks of the first rakes and so on to and around
all hooks, see Figure 4. When the box is full, the side parts S, S₁ are bent
upwards and the box is closed by a cover formed in any suitable manner,
Figures 1, 2 and 4.
As the edges of the box are not connected with one another, there remain
open joints, which might allow dust &c. to enter the box. In order to prevent
this the edges of the card board are stamped out so that flaps L are left on the
side parts S₁ S₁ as shown in dotted lines on the left hand top corner of Figure 3.
These flaps are bent over at right angles see Figures 3 and 4. Therefore, when
the side parts of the box have been bent upwards so as to form the box, these
flaps L close the open joints.
In a modified manner the prongs of the rakes may be formed as shown in
Figures 18 and 19. All these prongs z¹ are of bridge form along their whole
length.
In this case teeth or points h' arranged on the edges of the prongs serve for
the attachment of the fabric. These points h¹ may be formed either by cuts into
edges, Figures 8 to 10 or by suitable configuration thereof. In the latter case
the several teeth may be a comparatively large distance apart, see Figures 11
and 12, or they may be arranged in a larger number and form a compact row,
Figures 15 and 16.
If the prongs are formed in this manner, the fabric is pushed somewhat further
on then and is therefore better supported; further it is held at a great number
of points and it is thus better protected against tearing.
This manner of constructing the prongs is therefore specially advantageous for
packing very thin and light fabrics
As shown in Figures 13 and 14, the prongs may have axial grooves, in order to
ensure their greater rigidity in the direction of the tensional strain of the fabric.
Instead of arranging the teeth at the edges of the prongs, they may be situated
in their middle as shown in Figures 17 to 19. In this case they are formed us
points which have been bent out from the body of the prongs after the
latter have been cut correspondingly. The teeth form an acute angle and act
as barbed hooks. They cannot easily break off, because they are formed in one
piece with the prong and are very broad at the connecting basis.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
1. A box for packing, plush, velvet, crape, gauze, and similar fabrics in
horizontal layers which do not touch one another, consisting of a card board T,
the corners of which are stamped out and which is provided with grooves along the
bending lines, to the side parts S. S and S, S₁ respectively of which are detachably
attached (so as to allow of exchange) rakes by means of slots or recesses e and
buttons k; the prongs z of such rakes ending in hooks which serve for the
attachment or hanging of the fabric.

page_text: 2. In boxes as claimed in Claim 1, the modification of constructing the prongs
for the attachment of the fabric with teeth at the edges, or with teeth h¹¹ in the
middle of the prongs, see Figures 17 to 19.
3. The modification of providing stiffening grooves along the longitudinal axis
of the prongs z z¹ to ensure their greater rigidity.
Dated this 26th day of November 1894.
FELL & WILDING,
Agents for the Applicant.