Improvements in Card-board, Straw-board, and other similar Boxes.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 26th. Apr., 1895
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Complete Specification Left, 24th Jan., 1896-Accepted, 29th Feb., 1896
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PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Card-board, Straw-board, and other similar
Boxes.
I, CAROLINE FANNY BAINES, of No. 3 Oak Mount, Harrogate, in the County
of York, Gentlewoman, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
This invention relates to improveinents in or relating to the manufacture of
collapsable card-board boxes, and the objects of the invention are to facilitate the
construction, and to secure the ends or parts when folded into position of a box
without the use of metal clamps, studs, or eyelets and clamping tools heretofore
employed.
According to this invention, I form a flap on each end of two of the opposite
sides (or ends) of the box adapted to be bent and be parallel with and lie closely
against the two remaining sides, and these latter sides are made somewhat deeper
than required for the finished box, so as to allow a strip along the top to be folded
over the said flaps. Slits are cut in the opposite parts of the box, so that when
the slits of one part are opposite the slits of another part, an elastic band is passed
into the slits, and the parts are thus held in position.
The lids of the box may be made in a similar way.
Dated this 22nd do of Anril 1905
BRIERLEY HOWARD,
Penny Bank Chambers, Halifax, Agents for the Applicant.
Boxes.
I, CAROLINE FANNY BAINES, of 3 Oak Mount, Harrogate, in the County of
York, Gentlewoman, 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 improvements in or relating to the manufacture of
collapsible card-board boxes, and the objects of the invention are to facilitate the
construction, and to secure the ends or parts when folded into position of a box
without the use of metal clamps, studs, or eyelets, and clamping tools heretofore
employed.
According to this invention, I form a flap on each end of two of the opposite
sides (or ends) of the box, adapted to be bent, and be parallel with and lie closely
against the two remaining sides, and these latter sides are made somewliat deeper
than required for the finished box, so as to allow a strip along the top to be folded
over the said flaps. Slits are cut in the opposite parts of the box, so that when
the slits of one part are opposite the slits of another part, an elastic band is.
passed into the slits, and the parts are thus held in position.
The lids of the boxes may be made in a similar way.

page_text: Such being the nature and object of my said invention the following is a
complete description of same, référence being had to the annexed drawings, in
which:-
Fig. 1 is a plan view of a piece of card or straw board, cut and creased ready
to be bent into the shape of a box, the slits and holes for the elastic bands being
shewn:
Fig. 2 is a plan view of one end of a box partly completed.
Fig. 3 is a similar view to Fig: 2, the box being completed.
Fig. 4 is a sectional side elevation of part of a completed box.
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Fig. 5 ista sectional: elevation shewing the interior of one end of a complete
box.
According to this invention, the straw or card board from which the box is to
be made, is cut as shewn by Fig. 1, and creased as shewn by the dotted lines,.
holes 1.1 and slots being cut or punched therein for purpose hereinafter described.
The sides 2.2 are now folded upwards, and the flaps 3. 3 are bent towards'each
other (see Fig. 2), and an elastic baud 4 is passed through the slots and holes 1. 1
in each flap 3, so that the latter are thereby held together. The end 5 of the box
is next folded upwards, and the flap 6 is bent over the top edges of the flaps 3. 3.
and inside the box (see Fig. 4), after which the elastic band 4 is passed through
the slots and holes 1 in the flap 6 (see Figs. 3 and 5), and a like operation, having
taken place at the opposite end, the box is complete.
The pieces 7. 7 fixed to the edges of the box serve to strengthen and stiffen.
same, also to prevent the box end being crushed inwards.
The lids of the boxes are made in the same manner as the boxes.
'Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to 'be performed, I declare that wha
I claim is :-
2.
Collapsible boxes having flaps 3. 6, slotted; holes 1, and elastic bands, 4 all in
combination, as and for the purpose herein d'escribed, and substantially as illustrated
by the annexed drawings.
Dated this 23rd day of January 1896.