An Improved Box or Receptacle for Light Goods.
Year: 1889

page_text: Date of Application, 21st Oct., 1889
Complete Specification Left, 2nd Dec., 1889-Accepted. 18th Jan.. 1890
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Box or Receptacle for Light Goods.
I, EDWARD HOWARD HALE, of 16, Cullum Street, in the City of London,
Manufacturing Stationer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
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box or
My Invention relates to an improved construction of "knock down
receptacle for light goods such as fruit, flowers, etc., for conveyance by post or
otherwise.
The Invention consists in a construction of box which, whilst simple and cheap,
is strong enough to afford the necessary protection to the goods and which, while
capable of being easily set up for use, may be quickly developed or spread out in
the flat for storage or conveyance when empty, and which has no loose parts liable
to become mislaid.
The box is constructed of three, or more, strips of thin wood such as is used
for bandboxes and matchboxes and known as scale board or strawboard, or the like.
I will describe a box made of three strips which for convenience I will designate
1, 2, and 3.
The strip No. 1 is slightly broader than the other two and the latter are rivetted
to opposite sides of the first strip by eyelets or other equivalent pivotal connection
situated centrally in the breadth of the strips which they unite and also centrally
between adjacent pairs of creases in the strips. The strips are all transversely creased,
and strip No. 3 has a cross-slit whilst its other end is tapered and bas an inwardly
projecting tongue punched up in the strip which, when the tapered end is inserted in
the slit, engages therewith and secures the two ends together.
The developed box may be packed in quantities when all the strips are brought into
the same direction by turning on their pivots.
To crect the box, the strips Nos. 2 and 3 are first brought to a position at right
angles to No. 1. The strips Nos. 1 and 2 are then folded up where they are creased
and the strip No. 3 is then folded around the other two and its ends united by inserting
the tongued end in the slit. The box is then ready to be filled, after which the
strip No. 1 is folded down and its end is tacked in between its own upwardly
turned end and strip No. 3.
Dated October 21st 1000
E. H. HALE.
By A. M. & Wm. Clark.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Box or Receptacle for Light Goods.
I, EDWARD HOWARD HALE, of 16, Cullum Street, in the City of London,
Manufacturing Stationer, 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 "knock-down" boxes or receptacles for light goods, such
as fruit, flowers, etc., for conveyance by post or otherwise, of the kind described in
a former application for Letters Patent made by me dated the 6th day of July
1889, No. 10923. The box described in my aforesaid application is formed of
two strips of thin wood pivoted together and creased transversely so that they may
be bent at right angles to one another and provided with means for securing their ends.
The said box, whilst simple and cheap, is strong enough to afford the necessary
protection to the goods and, while capable of being easily set up for use, may be
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page_text: quickly developed or spread out in the flat for storage or conveyance when empty
and it has no loose parts liable to become mislaid.
The object of my present invention is to enable the joints between the sides and
bottom of the box to be more effectually closed than is the case in the former
construction.
The Invention will be described with reference to the accompanying drawings,
in which figure 1 is a perspective view of the box with the lid partly open while
figure 2 shews the strips of which the box is composed in the flat.
Figure 3 is a
similar view to figure 1, the parts being in the position they occupy before heing
finally secured.
The box is constructed of preferably three strips A, B, C, of by preference thin
wood such as is used for the manufacture of match boxes and known as scale board.
The strip A is slightly broader than the other two and is creased transversely at the
dotted lines marked 2, 3, 6, 7, and the other two strips B, C, are pivoted to opposite
siles of the strip A by eyelets D, E, or other equivalent connection, situated centrally
in the breadth of the strips which they unite and also centrally between the adjacent
pairs of creases in the strips. The strip B is transversely creased at the dotted lines
marked 4-4, 5-5, and it has a cross-slit at whilst its other end is tapered and has
an inwardly projecting tongue &, as in the former construction, to engage with, and
secure, the two ends together. The strip C is creased transversely at the dotted lines
marked 1-1.
To erect the box for use, the parts are first placed in the position shown in figure 2,
the end members of the strip C are then folded up at right angles to the middle
member along the lines 1-1 and the strip A is folded at right angles along the
lines 2, 3, successively; the strip B is then folded up at right angles on the lines 44
and 5-5, successively, and its ends united by inserting the tongued end in the slit b.
The box is then ready to be filled, after which the strip A is folded along the lines 6, 7,
successively, and finally the end member A' of the strip A is tucked in between its
own upwardly turned end and strip B. In this construction, the band d, through
which the strip A is passed as in the previous construction, is unnecessary.
Although I have described the box as composed of three strips only, I do not limit
uy invention in this respect for it will be obvious that it may be composed of four
strips if necessary, as it might be for certain articles or where extra strength is
required. In this case, the fourth strip would (as indicated in dotted lines in
figure 2) extend across and be pivoted to the extremity of strip A and its end
members would be folded in a manner similar to the strip C.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, 1 declare that what I
claim is ;-
A "knock down" box for light articles constructed of a combination of thre
transversely-creased strips A, B, C, the strips B, C, being pivoted to the strip A. a
described, and the ends of strip B being adapted to engage together, as described
the strips when folded to form a box lying in three directions at right angles to on
another, substantially as specified.
Dated this 2nd day of November 1889.