Improvements in the Construction of Chests or Boxes for Tea or other Substances.
Year: 1899

page_text: Date of Application, 20th May, 1899
Complete Specification Left, 19th Feb., 1900-Accepted, 24th Mar., 1900
PROVISION AL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Construction of Chests or Boxes for Tea or other
Substances.
I, JAMES DAVIDSON, of 11, Waring Street, Belfast, Ireland, Tea Planter, do
hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention has reference to the construction of chests or boxes for con-
taining substances of various kinds, but more particularly tea for transport and
storage and its object is to construct in an economical manner chests or boxes
which are light, strong, durable and airtight and a number of which can be
stowed on shipboard or elsewhere in a minimum space.
My improved chests or boxes are constructed as follows:-
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I make a frame or crate preferably of wood and preferably cubical. This
frame or crate consists of top and bottom rectangular frames connected to each
other by corner uprights. To the four sides and bottom of the frame or crate
I securely affix by screws, nails or otherwise, slabs or sheets of pasteboard,
wood, metal or other material but preferably of pasteboard faced with lead-
paper or the like. I make the lid of similar material to the bottom and sides
and when the chest has been filled the lid is fastened down by screws (1
otherwise.
A chest made as above described is light, strong, durable and cheap. When
it is required to be airtight I paste or otherwise affix round the corners and
edges, that is to say over the joints, strips of paper, metal foil, or other material.
The strips over the joints between the lid and the side pieces are put on after
the lid has been fastened down, but the strips over the other joints are preferably
put on before the chest is filled.
An air tight chest is thus produced which from its cubic shape is favourable
for freight, convenient for handling and lends itself to ornamentation.
Dated this 20th day of May 1899.
J. C. MEWBURN & ELLIS,
55 and 56, Chancery Lane, London, Chartered Patent Agents.
Improvements in the Construction of Chests or Boxes for Tea or other
Substances.
I, JAMES DAVIDSON, of 11, Waring Street, Belfast, Ireland, Tea Planter, 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:-
This invention has reference to the construction of chests or boxes for con-
taining substances of various kinds, but more particularly tea for transport and
storage and its object is to construct in an economical manner chests or boxes
which are light, strong, durable and airtight and a number of which can be
stowed on shipboard or elsewhere in a minimum space.

page_text: My improved chests or boxes are constructed as follows:-
I make a frame or crate preferably of wood and preferably cubical. This
frame or crate consists of top and bottom rectangular frames connected to each
other by corner uprights. To the four sides and bottom of the frame or crate
I securely affix by screws, nails or otherwise, slabs or sheets of pasteboard,
cardboard, wood, metal or other material, but preferably of pasteboard or card-
board, or a combination of metal and paper, faced with lead, lead-paper or the
like. I make the lid of similar material to the bottom and sides and when the
chest has been filled the lid is fastened down by screws or otherwise.
A chest made as above described is light, strong, durable and cheap. When
it is required to be airtight I paste or otherwise affix round the corners and
edges, that is to say over the joints, strips of paper, metal foil, or other material.
The strips over the joints between the lid and the side pieces are put on after
the lid has been fastened down, but the strips over the other joints are preferably
put on before the chest is filled.
The accompanying drawings will serve to illustrate a box or chest con-
structed in accordance with my invention, Figure 1 being a vertical section of
the box with the lid removed and Figure 2 a perspective view with the paste-
board or other sides and lid and the joint strips broken away to show the skeleton
frame or crate before referred to.
The box illustrated comprises a skeleton cubical frame or crate of wood, this
being constituted by a top rectangular frame a, a bottom rectangular frame b
and connecting corner uprights, the whole being connected securely together
by mortise and tenon joints or in any other suitable way. d are slabs of paste-
board or other material attached to the four sides and bottom of the framework
thus constituted and preferably lined on their inner faces with lead foil. The
slabs or sheets & are connected to the skeleton framework by means of nails
or screws, c. f is the lid of the box. It is of similar material to that of the
sides d and when the box has been filled is fastened down by screws or other-
wise. gare strips of paper, metal or other material pasted, clamped or otherwise
secured around the edges of the box over the joints, so as to render the box air-
tight. The strips over the joints between the lid and the side pieces are
preferably put on after the lid has been fastened down, but the strips over the
other joints are preferably put on before the chest is filled.
An air-tight chest is thus produced which from its cubic shape is favorable
for freight, convenient for handling. and lends itself to ornamentation.
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 or chest for containing tea or other substances, said box or chest
comprising a skeleton framework or crate of wood or other suitable material,
side walls and bottom of pasteboard, cardboard wood, metal, a combination of
metal and paper or other suitable material secured to said skeleton framework
by nails, screws or otherwise and a lid preferably of similar material to said
side walls and bottom, adapted to be fastened down upon the box by means of
screws or otherwise, with or without strips of paper, metal or other material
secured over the joints of the box or chest thus constituted, all substantially as
and for the purpose described.
2. The improved box or chest for containing tea or other substances, sub-
stantially as described and illustrated in the accompanying drawings.
Dated this 19th day of February 1900.
J. C. MEWBURN & ELLIS,
55 and 56, Chancery Lane, London, Chartered Patent Agents.