Improvements in or connected with the Manufacture and Construction of Mineral Water and other like Boxes.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 7th Oct., 1893
Complete Specification Left, 12th May, 1894-Accepted, 16th June, 1894
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or connected with the Manufacture and
Construction of Mineral Water and other like Boxes.
We WALTER WOODWARD of Hope Drive, The Park, Nottingham, Timber
Merchant, and WILLIAM FROGGATT CLARK of Neville Terrace, Derby Road,
Nottingham Timber Merchant do hereby declare the nature of this invention to
be as follows: :-
Our invention has for its object the strengthening of the bottoms sides and ends
of mineral water and other like boxes. Along, and on each of the four junctions
of the ends and sides of every such box we cut a rabbet of about three quarters of
an inch in width, and about half an inch in depth, having its inner side curved or
coved, and its other side flat, or inclined towards the base of the cove. We fit
and nail or otherwise fasten into place along the rabbetted junctions half sections
of suitably sized cane so that the cane lies with its flat side on the flat or inclined
surface of the rabbet, and its convex side, to the extent of about half, under the
coved or curved side thereof. We continue the half sections of cane, nailed or
otherwise fastened, along the bottom of the box underneath the sides thereof.
We do not rabbet the bottom of the box. In place thereof we nail, or otherwise
fasten, strips of wood on the bottom of the box alongside the half sections of cane.
The edge of each strip of wood is curved or coved so that the strip, while
strengthening the bottom of the box, at the same time partly overlaps and protects
the section of cane.
and tear.
Binding and welding the boxes, as above described, enable us to more effectually
use cane, or other similarly shaped fibrous binding, as a binding and strengthening
material. Such cane binding rounds off the junctions, while, by the coved
arrangement, it is itself very much saved from violent injury. Mineral water,
and other like boxes, are necessarily required to stand rough usage and hard wear
Metal bindings rust, and are not sufficiently ductile or elastic when the
box is swollen by wet. Cane is a light, yet fairly strong and elastic binding, but
if used in smaller segments than half sections, or if unprotected, does not stand
the necessary rough wear and tear. Moreover letting it into grooves, or furrows,
cut near (as distinguished from our rabbet on) junctions, weakens the dovetailings
of boxes, and makes them more liable to burst or break off, and yet leaves them
exposed to injury.
Delhi e contohan 1002
PARKER WOODWARD,
Victoria Buildings, Victoria Street, Nottingham, Solicitor,
Agent for Applicants.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or connected with
the
Manufacture and
Construction of Mineral Water and other like Boxes.
We, WALTER WOODWARD of Hope Drive, The Park, Nottingham, Timber
Merchant, and WILLIAM FROGGATT CLARK of Neville Terrace, Derby Road,
Nottingham, Timber Merchant, 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:—
Our invention relates to improvements in, or connected with the manufacture,

page_text: and construction of mineral water, and other like boxes, the object being the
production of a box having its sides, ends, and bottom so constructed, and
strengthened as to stand more ordinary wear and tear than other boxes of this
class.
According to our invention, instead of strengthening the box by bindings of
hoop iron or iron wire, which, through its liability to rust, or corrode, its want of
pliability, and otherwise, has proved unsatisfactory, we use for such purpose half
sections of cane placed as hereinafter described so that the cane itself is partially
protected from injury.
In constructing a box according to our invention, having in the usual manner
dovetailed the sides and ends, fastened the bottom, clamped the angles where
thought fit, and provided division pieces, we, along the junctions of the ends
and sides of the box, cut a rabbet having two sides or surfaces, one flat and
the other curved. The flat side or surface may be either parallel with the
end, or inclined from the outside edge of the box, the curved side or surface
being shaped to correspond with the half section of cane used. Into this rabbet
we place our half section cane binding and there secure it by nails or other
suitable fastenings. We continue the cane binding aforesaid along the bottom,
underneath the .sides of the box, where it is protected from injury by a second
wood bottom nailed longitudinally upon the first bottom, the sides of such second
bottom being grooved so that when nailed in position the cane is in the groove,
covered and protected. [We find the second bottom as described better for the
purpose than the strips of wood described in our Provisional Specification.]
We illustrate our invention by the accompanying sheet of drawings:-
Fig. 1 is a drawing shewing a box bound according to our invention, one board
of the second botton being drawn as broken in order to shew the first bottom and
the cane binding along it.
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Fig. 2 is a vertical section through the sides of the box shewing the method of
protecting the cane at the bottom of the box.
Figs. 3 and 4 are sections of the junctions of the sides and ends to an enlarged
scale shewing the different rabbets with the cane inserted.
The sides (a.) of the box (Fig. 1) are joined to or connected with the ends (b.)
by dovetailing or other usual methods, and the first bottom (c.) is attached to the
sides (a.) by nailing. Along and on the junctions of the sides (a.) and ends (b.)
we cut a rabbet of the shape shewn in Figs. 3 or 4 for the reception of the
sections of cane (d.). The cane binding (d.) is of half sections, or approximately
so, and the rabbet for receiving it, as before described, is made with its inner face
curved or coved to correspond with the curve of the cane, and its outer face,
which may be either at right angles to the side of the box as shewn in Fig. 3, or
inclined as shewn in Fig. 4. The cane binding (d.) is continued from the junctions
of the ends (b.) and sides (a.) along and beneath the first bottom (c.) of the box
(Figs. 1, and 2) immediately underneath the sides (a.) and is securely fastened to
both by nails or other holdfasts. For protecting the cane beneath the first
bottom (c.) we provide the box with a second bottom (e.) nailed longitudinally,
which we groove so that when nailed, or otherwise fastened into position, it coverg
and protects the cane (d.) as shewn in Figs. 1 and 2.
We have in the foregoing description referred to the binding material as cane,
but we wish it to be understood that half sections of other similar fibrous material
may be used.
By forming the rabbet on the junctions of the ends and sides of the box, and
therein inserting half sections of cane, we entirely protect the edges of the box
without materially decreasing the strength of the joints of the sides and ends; and
by carrying the cane under the first bottom, and nailing upon it another bottom as
described, the bottom of the box, which is usually the weak place in this class of
boxes, is very materially strengthened, and it and the whole of the box made
more durable.
Binding in half sections increases the resisting capacity of the box because of

page_text: the curved face being substituted for rectangular or other sharp edges. By com-
pletely or partially protecting the curved surface of the cane by means of the
rabbet before described the resisting capacity of the box is still further increased
-the cane protects and strengthens the joints, and the rabbet protects the cane.
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 :-
1. In mineral water, and the like boxes, binding the junctions and bottoms as
described with half sections of cane (or similar suitable material) protected-
(1.) At the junctions of the ends and sides by being let into rabbets formed to
receive them, the rabbets being curved on one side and straight on the
other, the straight side being either at right angles to the sides, or inclined
towards the centre of the box to correspond with the section of cane; and
(II.) At the bottom by a grooved second bottom (which completely covers
and protects the cane binding on the first bottom) substantially as shewn
and described in the accompanying drawings, and Specification.
2. A mineral water or similar box constructed substantially as shewn and
described in the accompanying drawings and Specification.
Dated this 8th day of May 1894.
WALTER WOODWARD.
WILLIAM FROGGATT CLARK.
WALTER WOODWARD.
WILLIAM FROGGATT CLARK.