Improvements in Boxes for Butter and other Merchandise.
Year: 1899

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Boxes for Butter and other Merchandise.
I, HENRY MASTERS, of 175 to 185, Hackney Road, in the County of London,
Provision Merchant, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
My invention relates to boxes chiefly designed for containing butter, the
object of my invention being to provide improved means for facilitating the
opening of such boxes and displaying their contents more fully than is now
possible with boxes designed to be opened by the removal of the lid or top as
heretofore.
According to my invention a box is divided into two or more sections, the
divisions being in parallel planes (if more than two sections are used) so that
the sections can be readily separated and the goods contained in each section
exposed to view.
Any suitable means may be employed for connecting the sections together.
In practice, however, I find it advantageous to build up a box of the required
size and then to make the necessary divisions by sawing through the sides by
means of a circular or other saw, "small connecting pieces being left at each
side between adjacent sections in order to hold the said sections together, which
connecting pieces can be readily cut through by means of an ordinary saw.
Dated the 15th day of November 1900.
G. F. REDFERN & Co.,
4, South Street, Finsbury, London,
Agents for the Applicant.
Improvements in Boxes for Butter and other Merchandise.
I, HENRY MASTERS, of 175 to 185, Hackney Road, in the County of London,
Provision 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 :—
My invention relates to boxes chiefly designed for containing butter, the
object of my invention being to provide improved means for facilitating the
opening of such boxes and displaying their contents more fully than is now
possible with boxes designed to be opened by the removal of the lid or top as
heretofore.
According to my invention a box is divided into two or more sections, the
divisions being in parallel planes (if more than two sections are used) so that

page_text: the sections can be readily separated and the goods contained in each section
exposed to view.
Any suitable means may be employed for connecting the sections together.
In practice, however, I find it advantageous to build up a box of the required
size and then to make the necessary divisions by sawing through the sides by
means of a circular or other saw, small connecting pieces being left at each
side between adjacent sections in order to hold the said sections together, which
connecting pieces can be readily cut through by means of an ordinary saw.
To enable my invention to be fully understood I will describe it by reference
to the accompanying drawing; in which:-
Figure 1 is a perspective view of a box made according to the invention; and
Figure 2 is a horizontal section thereof.
a and b are the top and bottom respectively of the box which are both left
plain and c, c, c, c are the sides. These sides c, c are divided into a number of
sections as above described by the horizontal saw cuts d, d. These saw cuts can
be diagonally formed if desired, instead of being horizontal as here shewn.
The saw cuts d, d which are made in the sides c, e do not extend the whole
length of the sides but a portion is left solid at one end of each cut, these
portions being left alternately upon opposite ends of the cuts. With this
arrangement all the sections of the box are held together.
To divide the box into sections it is merely necessary to finish the saw
cuts along the whole length of the side after which the box sections can easily
be separated, thus exposing to view the contents of the box contained in each
section.
In some cases I find it advantageous to arrange in connection with one or more
of the slis in the box, a wire or string which, when the corners of the box are
severed as herein before described, will serve for cutting or wiring" the contents
of the box.
6.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is
1. A box for butter and other merchandise divided into a number of sections
which can be readily separated, substantially as, and for the purpose, herein-
before described.
2. The improved box for butter and other merchandise constructed substan-
tially as hereinbefore described and illustrated in the accompanying drawing.
Dated the 22nd day of August 1900
G. F. REDFERN & Co.,
4, South Street, Finsbury, London,
Agents for the Applicant.