Improvements in Metal Corners and the Application thereof to Cardboard and similar Boxes.
Year: 1887

page_text: Date of Application, 24th Feb,. 1887.
Complete Left, 23rd Nov, 1887
Complete Accepted, 13th Jan., 1888
Improvements in Metal Corners and the Application thereof to
Cardboard and similar Boxes.
EYRE CROWE of Banbury, Engineer and LEWIS WYCHERLEY STONE of Banbury
Box Manufacturer do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
Our invention consists in uniting and strengthening the corners of cardboard or
similar boxes by means of a combination of metal strips or angles and wire stitching.
In applying the invention, the corner of the box with the metal strip or angle placed
on it in the required position is laid on the anvil of a wire stitching machine, the
operation of the machine brings down a staple or stitch the two ends of which pierce
the card at opposite sides of the strip or angle and are doubled over and clenched on
the inside of the box that part of the stitch outside the angle being embedded in it by
the blow. Instead of being stitched transversely as above described the stitches or
staples may be inserted longitudinally that is parallel with the length of the strip in
which case there will be two rows of stitches in each angle one on each side of it.
Dated this 23rd day of February 1887.
EYRE CROWE.
LEWIS WYCHERLEY STONE.

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Metal Corners and the Application thereof to
Cardboard and similar Boxes.
'
EYRE CROWE of Banbury Engineer and LEWIS WYCHERLEY STONE of Banbury
box manufacturer do hereby declare the nature of our invention for IMPROVEMENTS
IN METAL CORNERS & THE APPLICATION THEREOF TO CARDBOARD & SIMILAR BOXES,
and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and
ascertained in and by the following statement :-
Our invention consists in uniting and strengthening the corners of cardboard
and similar boxes by means of a combination of metal strips or angles and wire
stitching.
In carrying out the invention the corner of the box with the metal strip or angle
placed on it in the required position is laid on the anvil of a wire stitching
machine. The operation of the machine brings down a staple or stitch the two
ends of which pierce the card at opposite sides of the strip or angle; the staple may
also if desired pierce the strip or angle, the ends of the staple are doubled over and
clenched on the inside of the box that part of the stitch outside the angle being
partly embedded in it by the blow.
Figure 1 shews a perspective view and Figure 2 a section of a corner of a box
united and strengthened according to our invention.
A is the box, B is the metal strip or angle C.-C. C. are the wire stitches which are
doubled over and clenched inside the box, as clearly shewn in Figure 2.
Instead of being stitched transversely as above described and illustrated, the
stitches or staples may be inserted longitudinally, that is, parallel with the length
of the strip in which case there will be two rows of stitches in each angle, one on
each side of it. Figures 3 and 4 illustrate this, A is the box B is the metal strip or
angle as before, the stitches C. C. C. instead of crossing the strip transversely are
inserted longitudinally, the ends of the staples C. C. C. piercing the metal strips and
being doubled over and clenched inside the box.
It is sometimes necessary to strengthen or unite the bottom corners of a box as
well as the sides, in which case the metal angle or strip is carried down the sides &
along the bottom as shewn in Fig. 5, pieces being punched or cut out of the angle
to admit of its being bent round the corners.
In order to still further strengthen & give a better finish to the box, the angles
may be slit or punched at the top & turned over the top edge of the box as shewn
in Fig. 6.
Having fully described the nature of our invention & the manner in which it is

page_text: carried out, we delare that, what we claim is, for uniting and strengthening the
corners of cardboard or similar boxes.
1st. The combination of metal strips or angles and wire stitching, as hereinbefore
described.
2nd. The metal strips or angles secured to the box by means of wire stitched
transversely as described and illustrated by figures 1 and 2.
3rd. The metal strips or angles secured to the box by means of wire stitched
longitudinally as described and illustrated by figures 3 & 4.
4th. The metal strips or angles, slit or punched at the top and turned over the
top edge of the box, as described and illustrated by figure 6.
Dated this 22nd day of November 1887.
EYRE CROWE.
LEWIS WYCHERLEY STONE.