Improvements in Card-board and similar Boxes.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 2nd June, '1894
Complete ´Specification Left, '2nd Apr., 1595-Accepted, 27th Apr., 1895
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Card-board and similar Boxes.
We, GEORGE WILCOX of 61 Stretford Road, Manchester, Cigarette Manu-
facturer, and HENRY JOSEPH CANDLIN trading as the Executors of William
Hargreaves of Swan Street, Manchester, Tobacco Manufacturer, do hereby declare
the nature of our said invention to be as follows:-
Our invention relates more particularly to that class of box used by tobacconists
and others for displaying cigarettes or cigars on a shop counter, which boxes are
usually made of card-board with the top and one of the sides made to fold up or
down in order to enclose or display the contents. The open side of the box is
usually glazed so as to shew the ends of the cigarettes but the top is unglazed,
being left open to facilitate the removal of the cigarettes when purchased. This
allows the cigarettes to get dusty and the lid being thrown back often necessitates
the saleman's going outside the counter in order to take out the desired quantity
of cigarettes.
Now our invention, which has for its object to more effectually display the
cigarettes, to keep them free from dust and enable the salesman to take out the
cigarettes from behind the counter, consists essentially in hinging the lid to
the front side of the box instead of to the rear side as heretofore and of glazing
such lid, also of forming the rear side of the box to fold outwards instead of being
part of the box.
The glazed lid protects the contents of the box from dust and the rear hinged
side when folded down enables the contents to be removed from behind the counter.
The flanges of the glazed lid when such lid is closed keep the rear hinged side of
the box in a closed position.
As the box is used for transit as well as for display it is necessary to provide
means of protection for the glazed lid and this we do by a supplementary card-
board lid which is hinged to the unhinged side of the glazed lid, its flanges serving
to retain the hinged front side of the box when closed.
The inner side of the supplementary lid when thrown open serves to bear
attractive printed matter or advertisements.
In this way we produce a box which entirely encloses the contents and keeps
them free from dust, more effectually displays them and enables the contents to be
withdrawn from the rear as aforesaid.
Our invention although only described in reference to boxes for displaying
cigarettes is equally applicable to boxes or receptacles used for carrying or
displaying other goods.
Dated this 1st day of June 1894.
JOHN G. WILSON & Co.,
Agents.

page_text: Improvements in Card-board and similar Boxes.
We, GEORGE WILCOX, of 61 Stretford Road, Manchester, Cigarette Manu-
facturer, and HENRY JOSEPH CANDLIN, trading as the Executors of William
Hargreaves of 44 Swan Street, Manchester, Tobacco Manufacturer, do hereby
declare the nature of our said 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 more particularly to that class of box used by tobacconists
and others for displaying cigarettes or cigars on a shop counter, which boxes are
usually made of card-board with the top and one of the sides to turn up or down
in order to enclose or display the contents. When the side is turned down and
the top turned up for displaying purposes the contents of the box are exposed to
dust and to remove the contents from the box when purchased, the salesman owing
to the lid being in the way, has either to disturb the box or go outside the
counter.
Now our invention which has for its object to more effectually display the
cigarettes, keep them free from dust, and enable the salesman to take out the
cigarettes from the rear of the box, consists essentially in hinging the lid to
the front side of the box instead of the rear side as heretofore and of glazing
such lid, also of forming the rear side of the box to fold or turn down, instead of
being fixed and forming a rigid part of the box. The front part of the box is
also glazed hence on turning down the flap on that side the contents of the box
are exposed to view. This side flap also serves to protect the glass from
fracture.
To protect the lid from fracture we provide a supplementary solid lid which is
hinged to the unhinged side of the glazed lid and the longitudinal flange of which
falls over and retains the front flap aforesaid.
In this way we produce a box which entirely encloses the contents and keeps
them free from dust more effectually displays such contents and by reason of the
hinged back enables the contents to be withdrawn from the rear without
disturbing the box.
And in order that our said invention shall be the more readily understood and
carried into practical effect we have hereunto annexed a sheet of drawings and
will now proceed to describe the same with the assistance of the various figures
and letters of reference marked thereon.
Fig. 1 is a perspective view of my improved box, shewing the front side more
particularly, and Fig. 2 is also a perspective view of the same box, but more
particularly of the rear side of the box and shewing the various flaps and lids in
the act of folding.
Figs. 3 and 4 illustrates the application of my invention to wooden show boxes
or cases, and shewing how my invention may be applied to a box or case having
two or more compartments on one or more levels. .
In accordance with our invention and as shewn in Figs. 1 and 2, (A) is the
glazed side or front which, with the ends (B), form the body of the box (C) is the
glazed lid, hinged at (D) to the top edge of the side (A). (E) is the folding
back or rear side of the box hinged at (F) and locked in its vertical or closed
position by the longitudinal flange of the lid (C) as illustrated.
(G) is the hinged flap or side which folds against and protects the glazing (A).
(H) is the solid or unglazed lid, hinged at (I) to the glazed lid and serving to
protect such lid from fracture.
To remove the contents of the box all that requires to be done is to raise the
glazed lid (C) and lower the flap (E) as illustrated in Fig. 2 when the contents

page_text: will be disclosed to view and may thus be more readily and conveniently removed
than heretofore. A special advantage of this method of obtaining the contents
from the rear is that the raising of the lid (C) enables the hand to pass into the
box and remove the top or foremost articles.
As applied to other than cigarette boxes, such as show cases with two or more
compartments either on one or more levels as shewn in Fig. 3, or Fig. 4, I may
dispense with the glazed lid and employ a solid lid (J) with the beading (K)
serving the purpose of a flange.
In boxes with compartments one above another as shewn in Fig. 3, I may
employ one common back, or a separate back for each compartment, using the
beading of the lid for locking the upper back and a hinged frame (L) for locking
the back of the lower compartment, such frame being pivoted inside the box
at (M) and in a space between the floor of the upper compartment and the top or
ceiling of the lower compartment.
As applied to boxes or show cases with vertical divisions or lateral compart-
ments as shewn in Fig. 4, I may also provide a separate folding back for each, or
a folding back common to all. Similarly I may provide separate folding lids or
one lid common to all.
Having thus particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed we declare that what
we claim is:-
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1st. In boxes for holding and displaying cigarettes and the like the use of a
glazed lid (C) hinged to the top edge of a glazed front (A) of such box, in
combination with a folding back (E) substantially as and for the purposes shewn
and described.
2nd. In boxes for holding and displaying cigarettes and the like, the combination
of parts hereinbefore described and illustrated on the accompanying drawing.
3rd. In show and other similar boxes of the type illustrated in Fig. 3 the use of
a lid (J) with beading (K) or its equivalent for locking a folding back as shewn
and described.
4th. The box or case shewn in Fig. 3 with one or more compartments having a
lid (J) with beading (K), and frames (L) for locking the several folding backs as
set forth.
5th. The box or case shewn in Fig. 4 with lateral divisions or compartments
with one common lid (J) or a separate lid for each for locking one or more
folding backs substantially as set forth and illustrated.
Dated this 1st day of April 1895.
GEORGE WILCOX,
HENRY JOSEPH CANDLIN,
By John G. Wilson & Co.,
Agents.