Improvements in and relating to Boxes or Cases.
Year: 1898

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in and relating to Boxes or Cases.
I, ERNEST HARRISON, of No. 8, Regina Road, Tollington Park, in the County
of Middlesex, Watchmaker and Jeweller, do hereby declare the nature of this
invention to be as follows:
This invention relates to boxes or cases, particularly to small boxes adapted
to contain jewellery and other small articles. Hitherto when it was required to
make up jewellery or other small articles into a parcel the article after being
placed into a small box was wrapped up in a piece of paper and then finally
secured by tying with twine or more usually sealed with sealing wax; these
operations were usually protracted owing to either the paper or else the twine
or wax not being to hand, but generally both. Now the object of the present
invention is to overcome these disadvantages, and it comprises essentially a piece
of paper or a wrapper attached permanently to the box or its lid and further
providing such paper or wrapper with one or more adhesive portions, so placed
as to effectually seal the contents.
A convenient method of carrying this invention into effect is to attach a suit-
able length of wrapping paper by means of an adhesive tongue to the inside of
the lid, the width of such paper being such as to make a neat parcel when
enveloping the box. The free end of this strip is gummed or furnished with a
suitable adhesive adapted to stick on being moistened; the sides of this strip,
in one or more places, or on tongues projecting therefrom, are similarly treated.
It will thus be seen that when the paper is wrapped or folded round the box
it is only necessary to moisten the paper in one or more places and a neat and
well secured parcel is the result. In nesting the boxes ready for use I prefer to
fold up the attached strip of paper so that it lies snugly within the lid.
T 01 dev of Naxamber 1898
I, ERNEST HARRISON, of No. S, Regina Road, Tollington Park, in the County
Middlesex, Watchmaker and Jeweller, do hereby declare the nature of this
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page_text: invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly
described and ascertained in and by the following statement:
This invention relates to boxes or cases, particularly to small boxes adapted
to contain jewellery and other small articles. It comprises essentially a wrapper
attached permanently to the box or its lid, the said wrapper being provided with
one or more adhesive portions so as to effectually seal the contents.
A convenient method of carrying this invention into effect is to attach a suit-
able length of wrapping paper by means of an adhesive tongue to the inside of
the lid, the paper being of such a size as to make a neat parcel when enveloping
the box. The free end of the wrapper is gummed or furnished with a suitable
adhesive adapted to stick on being moistened.
The sides of the wrapper are
similarly treated in one or more places, or on tongues projecting therefrom.
In nesting the boxes ready for use prefer to fold up the attached wrapper
so that it lies within the lid.
To show clearly how my invention is carried out I explain it in reference to
the accompanying drawing.
Fig. 1 is a representation of box lid A with the wrapper B attached to it
by tongue C. D, D, D, are the gummed or adhesive portions. The wrapper B
can be folded so as to lie in the box lid A. When used for packing, the box
lid is placed over the other part of the box and the wrapper B brought over
and round the entire box and secured by the gummed portions D.
The wrapper B may be attached to any part of box.
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 method of securing boxes or cases by attaching permanently to some part
of the box or case a wrapper which can be brought over the entire box and
secured by gummed or adhesive portions of the said wrapper.
2. A box or case to which a wrapper is permanently attached with gummed
or adhesive portions so that the wrapper can be brought over and around the
box and secured by gummed or adhesive portions.
3. The special form of the invention described in the specification and shown
in the drawing.
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