IMPROVEMENTS IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF BOXES OR CASES FORMED OF CARDBOARD OR OTHER SIMILAR MATERIAL
Year: 1883

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Albert Harley Storey of Wandsworth in the county of
Surroy for an Invention of IMPROVEMENTS IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF BOXES
OR CASES FORMED OF CARDBOARD OR OTHER SIMILAR MATERIAL
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Albert Harley Storey at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 18th September 1883.
ALBERT HARLEY STOREY of Wandsworth in the county of Surrey IMPROVE-
MENTS IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF BOXES OR CASES FORMED OF CARDBOARD OR OTHER
SIMILAR MATERIAL
The object of my invention is to construct a box or case of cardboard or other
similar material which while it will be very light shall at the same time be
extremely stiff and strong and therefore very suitable for the transmission of
bottles or other fragile articles by parcels post or otherwise.
With this object I take a piece of cardboard or other material of suitable size
and shape and score it or partially cut through it so as to be able to bend the same
into the required form. I will describe my invention as applied to a box or case
of a square or quadrilateral section For this form I make three or four
longitudinal scores in the piece of cardboard and when it is bent into the required
shape the lateral edges which may overlap are secured together by glue or other
adhesive material or otherwise. The ends may be formed of separate pieces of
cardboard or other material or the same piece may be so shaped as to form both
the sides and the ends of the box and one end is secured in its place. I then take
another piece of cardboard or other material of similar shape and of a suitable
size for its purpose and I make therein seven or eight longitudinal scores in such
a manner that when it is bent into the required shape this part is of an octagonal
section, and the lateral edges which may overlap are secured together by glue or
other adhesive material or otherwise. Ends may be fitted to this part also if
I should deem it desirable. This part of octagonal section is then inserted in the
other part of square or quadrilateral section in such a manner that every alternate
side of the octagon shall be in contact with one of the sides of the square or

page_text: .
quadrilateral and these parts so in contact are secured together by glue or
otherwise. The other alternate sides of the octagon are therefore opposite to the
angles of the square or quadrilateral and stiffen and support the same. The bottle
or other article can then be inserted and the open end be closed when the parcel is
ready for transmission. The box or case so made is of great strength and rigidity
while it is extremely light.
In the same manner I can make these boxes or cases of any shape that may be
required such for instance as of a trilateral section or of a pentagonal section and
so on and in every form the inner part has double the number of the sides of the
outer part which inner part is always so secured and placed in the outer part that
every alternate side of the inner part is opposite one of the angles of the outer
part while the other alternate sides of the inner part are secured to the sides of the
outer part.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed by
the said Albert Harley Storey in the Patent Office on the 12th March 1884.
ALBERT HARLEY STOREY of Wandsworth in the county of Surrey IMPROVE-
MENTS IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF BOXES OR CASES FORMED OF CARDBOARD OR OTHER
SIMILAR MATERIAL
The object of my invention is to construct a box or case of cardboard or other
similar material which while it will be very light shall at the same time be
extremely stiff and strong and therefore very suitable for the transmission of bottles
or other fragile articles by parcels post or otherwise.
In order to explain my invention and in what manner the same is to be
performed I refer to the accompanying drawing.
In Figures 1. 2. 3 and 4 I shew one method of constructing a box according to
my invention. Figure 1 is the outer shell of a box of a square or quadrilateral
section before the formation thereof. Figure 2 is the inner shell of the same in a
like stage. Figure 3 is an end view on an enlarged scale of the said box when
made. Figure 4 is a cross section of the same on the same scale as Figure 3.
I take a piece of cardboard or other material A in Figure 1 of a suitable size
and shape for the outer shell of the box that is required and in this piece of
material A I make four longitudinal scores a shewn in broken dotted lines in
Figure 1 which scores a may if required be partially cut through the material so
as to enable me easily and readily to bend this said material A into the required
form of a square or quadrilateral section. I also make two transverse scores & also
shewn in broken dotted lines in Figure 1 in the same manner when I want to
provide the edges C to be turned over the ends of the box as shewn in Figure 3.
In a box formed in this manner as shewn in these aforesaid Figures the ends D
and E of the box are also made in this same piece A-and the scores e are made to
enable me to bend these said ends D and E easily and readily into their required
places and another score f is made in the end D which forms the lid of the box so
that the part F thereof can be turned over on the opposite side of the box when an
article is placed therein and can be secured in any convenient manner on the said
opposite side so that the said article may be safely enclosed. These aforesaid
scores e and f are also shewn in broken dotted lines in Figure 1. I then take
another piece of cardboard or other material B in Figure 2 of a suitable size and
shape for the inner shell of the said required box and in this piece of material D I
make eight longitudinal scores b shewn in broken dotted lines in Figure 2 in the.
same manner as hereinbefore described so as to enable me to bend this said piece
of material B into the required form of an octagonal section. Ends may also be
formed or fitted with this shell if I should so desire in manner as herein before
described or otherwise. This piece B is then bent into the required form and the
lateral edges thereof which according to this method overlap as shewn at G in
Figure 4 are secured together by glue or other adhesive material or otherwise.
Round this inner shell B of octagonal section is then placed the piece of material A
which forms the outer shell of a square or quadrilateral section and the lateral
edges of the said piece A which according to this method overlap as shewn at H
in Figures 3 and 4 are secured together by glue or other adhesive material or
otherwise. These aforesaid two shells A and B are so placed in respect of each
other that every alternate side of the inner shell B of octagonal section is in
contact with one of the sides of the outer shell A of square or quadrilateral section
and these said sides so in contact are secured together by glue or other adhesive
material or otherwise. The other alternate sides of the inner shell B are thereforo.

page_text: The
opposite to the angles of the outer shell A and support and stiffen the same.
edges C according to this method are then turned over one end of the box and may
be secured thereto as shewn in Figure 3 and the end piece E is bent over all
and secured in position by glue or other adhesive material or otherwise and the
box is ready for use. The bottle or other article can then be inserted through the
other end and when the end piece D is bent over and the part F thereof secured on
the opposite side of the outer shell in any convenient manner the parcel is ready
for transmission.
I consider that this method of construction as hereinbefore described and shewn
in the drawing is a very good one for carrying out my object as herein before
declared but it is obvious that I do not limit myself to the precise details as shewn
and described. For instance instead of overlapping the lateral edges of the two
shells as shown at G and H I can butt them together if I should so prefer lining
this butt with a strip of any material if necessary or I can make the said edges to
overlap in the middle of one of the sides of the two shells and when it is so necessary
I can make only three scores a in the piece A. and seven scores 6 in the piece B
instead of four and eight scores as herein before described. The scores ab de and f
also hereinbefore described may be made or cut in the pieces A and B when these
said pieces of cardboard or other material are stout and stiff but when I make the
box of thin or light material I can bend the said pieces A and B into the required
forms at the positions marked for the said scores abde and f without scoring or
cutting the material. I can also dispense with the edges C if I should so prefer.
It is obvious also that a box can be made of several separate pieces instead of the
two pieces hereinbefore described without departing from my invention. For
instance the end pieces may be separate from the remainder of the shell or the end
pieces and the side of the shell to which they are attached may be separate from
the remainder of the shell or all the sides of the shell may be separate from each
other and in each of these cases the separate pieces of which each shell is made may
be secured together by overlapping joints or in any other convenient manner.
In Figures 5 and 6 I shew cross sections of other forms of my box. In Figure 5
the outer shell A is of a trilateral section while the inner shell B is of an hexagonal
section. In Figure 6 the outer shell A is of a pentagonal section while the inner
shell B is of a decagonal section.
In both these cases the box is made in a similar manner and the two shells
thereof are secured together after the same method as hereinbefore described that
is to say the two shells are so placed in respect of each other that every alternate
side of the inner shell B is in contact with one of the sides of the outer shell A and
these said sides so in contact are secured together by glue or other adhesive material
or otherwise while the other alternate sides of the inner shell B are opposite to the
angles of the outer shell A and support and stiffen the same.
In like manner I can make these boxes of any exterior form that may be desired
that is to say the outer shell may be of any sectional form or may have any given
number of sides and in every case the inner shell would have double the said given
number of sides and. the two shells would be secured together in the same manner
and after the same method as herein before described and shewn.
I can also cover these boxes made according to this my invention with any
material that I may desire and I can ornament the said boxes or the coverings
thereof as may be convenient or suitable in each case.
Having thus particularly described and clearly ascertained my invention and in
what manner the same is to be performed I would state in conclusion that what I
claim as my invention which is protected by the herein before in part recited Letters
Patent is
1. The boxes formed of cardboard or other material substantially as hereinbefore
described and declared and shewn in the accompanying drawing.
2. The method of constructing the boxes formed of cardboard or other material
the said method consisting of making two shells for the said box one of which said
shells has double the number of the sides of the other shell and the first above

page_text: named shell is placed inside the second above named shell in such a manner that
every alternate side of the inner shell is in contact with one of the sides of the
outer shell and is secured thereto while the other alternate sides of the said inner
shell are opposite to the angles of the said outer shell substantially as hereinbefore
described and set forth.
3. In a box formed of cardboard or other material the combination of the outer
shell with three or four or more sides and the inner shell with double the number
of the sides of the said outer shell substantially as and for the purpose herein before
described and declared.
In witness whereof I the said Albert Harley Storey have hereunto set my
hand and seal this-tenth-day of March in the year of our Lord one thousand
eight hundred and eighty four.
ALBERT. HARLEY. STOREY. (L.S.)