IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF CARD AND MILLBOARD BOXES
Year: 1864

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Thomas James Denne, of Mile End, in the County
of Middlesex, Manufacturer, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN
THE MANUFACTURE OF CARD AND MILLBOARD BOXES."
Sealed the 20th December 1864, and dated the 21st June 1864.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Thomas James Denne
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on
the 21st June 1864.
I, THOMAS JAMES DENNE, of Mile End, in the County of Middlesex,
Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for
"IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF CARD AND MILLBOARD BOXES," to be
as follows:-
My Invention consists in the manufacture of card and millboard boxes
suitable for millinery, hosiery, and other like goods by the employment of
stamps to cut sheets of board into the shapes and sizes necessary for forming
the boxes so that they shall require simply scoring, uniting, and covering to
form them into boxes.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Thomas James Denne in the Great Seal Patent Office on
the 21st December 1864.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, THOMAS
JAMES DENNE, of Mile End, in the County of Middlesex, Manufacturer,
send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-first day of June, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-four, in the twenty-eighth
year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and
grant unto me, the said Thomas James Denne, Her special licence that I,
the said Thomas. James Denne, my executors, administrators, and assigns,
or such others as I, the said Thomas James Denne, 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 Card
AND MILLBOARD BOXES," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said
Thomas James Denne, my executors or administrators, by an instrument in
writing under my, or their, or one of their hands and seals, should parti-
cularly 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 Seal Patent Office within six calendar months next and immediately
after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Thomas James Denne, do hereby
declare the nature of my 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, reference being had to the Drawings hereunto
annexed, that is to say :-
:
My Invention consists in the manufacture of card and millboard boxes
suitable for millinery, hosiery, and other light goods, by the employment of
stamps to cut sheets of board into the shapes and sizes necessary for forming
the boxes so that they shall require simply scoring, uniting, and covering to
form them into boxes.
Figure 1 of the accompanying Drawings represents in perspective a stamp
or cutter for cutting sheets of card or millboard into the shape required for
forming a square box. After the cutting has been performed, the board is of

page_text: the form represented on a smaller scale in Figure 2; it is only necessary to
score it as indicated by the dotted lines, to turn up the four sides or flaps,
unite their edges, and cover the board to form a box.
And having now described the nature of my said Invention, and in what
manner the same is to be performed, I declare that I claim manufacturing
card and millboard boxes by the means and in manner herein-before
described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Thomas James Denne, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Twenty-first day of December, One
thousand eight hundred and sixty-four.