IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF BOXES AND OTHER HOLLOW
Year: 1853

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to William Brookes, of 73, Chancery Lane, in
the County of Middlesex, Patent Agent, for the Invention of
"IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF BOXES AND OTHER HOLLOW
Sealed the 9th December 1853, and dated the 9th June 1853.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said William Brookes
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition,
on the 9th June 1853.
I, WILLIAM BROOKES, of 73, Chancery Lane, in the County of
Middlesex, Patent Agent, do hereby declare the nature of the said
Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF BOXES AND OTHER
HOLLOW RECEPTACLES" to be as follows:-
The improvements consist in making boxes or hollow receptacles
from paper pulp, combined with other materials, such as rice pulp,
cream of lime, or other thickening matter, to give solidity, in lieu of
making such boxes or bollow receptacles from paper.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said William Brookes in the Great Seal Patent
Office, on the 9th December 1853.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I,
WILLIAM BROOKES, of 73, Chancery Lane, in the County of Middlesex,
Patent Agent, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Ninth day of June, in the year of
our Lord One thousand cight hundred and fifty-three, in the six-
teenth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto me, the said William Brookes, Her special
licence that I, the said William Brookes, my executors, adminis-
trators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said William Brookes,
my executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any time agree
with, and no others, from time to time and at all times thereafter
during the term therein expressed, should and lawfully might make,
use, exercise, and vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain
and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for
"IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF BOXES AND OTHER HOLLOW
RECEPTACLES," (communicated to me from abroad,) upon the con-
dition (amongst others) that I, the said William Brookes, by an instru-
ment in writing under my hand and seal, should particularly describe
and ascertain the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner
the same was to be performed, and cause the same to be filed in the
Great Scal Patent Office within six calendar months next and imme-
diately after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said William Brookes, do hereby
declare the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the
same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained
in and by the following statement thereof (that is to say):
Heretofore certain kinds of boxes, such as pill boxes and other
hollow receptacles, have been produced by first folding over paper or

page_text: paper board upon a suitable mandril or form, so as to obtain a cylin-
drical or other figure. The ends or edges, and the various thicknesses...
of the paper or paper board, being secured together by past or other.
adhesive matter. Tubes or other figures thus prepared in various
lengths are then cut into lengths suitable for the depth of the intended
receptacle, or, if for the rim of the lid or cover, the paper or paper
board is cut, accordingly. And the top and bottom are afterwards
The present
applied and secured by gum or other adhesive cement.
improvements consist in making boxes or hollow receptacles from paper
pulp, combined with other materials, such as rice pulp, cream of lime, or
other thickening matter, to give solidity, in lieu of making such boxes
or hollow receptacles from paper.
The proportion of thickening matter, whether rice pulp, cream of
lime, or other matter, added to the paper pulp, will vary according to
the degree of elasticity or rigidity required to the box or other
receptacle.
Amongst other things capable of being used as a thickening matter,
the composition (formed of rosin, glue, and whiting) commonly used by
picture frame makers and others in making imitations of carving has
been found to answer well; and such composition, when combined with
the paper pulp, is to be heated to a plastic state, and then placed
between suitable dies, or to be acted upon by suitable forms, to produce
the required articles.
Figure 1, of the Drawing shows the section of a pair of dies suitable
to produce the lower part of one form of box; and Figure 2, shows a
pair of dies suitable to form a lid for such box; but these may be varied,
and, if desired, the moulds may be so formed as to obtain ornamental
effects upon the surfaces of the boxes or other hollow receptacles. In
using these dies their inner surfaces are first moistened with a little
soap and water, or oil, and then the compound material is placed in the
female die, and by suitable pressure the male die is forced therein.
The matters thus forced into form are then allowed to cool, when the
articles so produced may be used in lieu of like articles heretofore
forined of paper or paper board.

page_text: Having thus described the nature of the said Invention, I would have
it understood that I do not confine myself to the precise details, so long
as the peculiar character of the Invention be retained.
In witness whereof, I, the said William Brookes, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Ninth day of December, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-three.
Witness,
BENJ MILLS.
WILLIAM BROOKES. (L.S.)