Improvements in Collapsable Boxes.
Year: 1892

page_text: Reprinted in accordance with the decision of the Chief Examiner, dated the 1st day
of December 1899.
Date of Application, 16th Feb., 1892
Complete Specification Left, 16th July 1892-Accepted, 20th Aug., 1892
I, DUNCAN FISHER, of 5, Wendover Crescent, Mount Florida, Glasgow, in the County
of Lanark, North Britain, Box Manufacturer; do hereby declare the nature of this
invention to be as follows:-
sorts
This invention relates to improvements in collapsable boxes, to reduce space
in carriage and for storage. The invention is applicable to boxes of all
wood or
but principally to thin
cardboard boxes for dress goods
millinery and the like. In accordance with the invention I lay out the
bottom and the four sides flat; in cardboard boxes for example the sideя
being hinged to the bottom of the box by any suitable means such as by
strips of linen. When the box is for transit the four sides are raised up to form the
square of the box. The edges are secured together by hinged flaps or ears on the one
side piece fitting into slits in the other side piece. The ordinary lid is used. To
collapse or fold up the box the four sides are drawn apart and then each folded down
flat one over the other upon the bottom of the box. The sides are preferably so
hinged that they can be folded either way. The box thus folded is laid within its
cover so that the whole depth of the box when folded is not more than the depth of
the lid. Or I may, if the lid deep enough, fold two boxes within the one cover and
then slip the second cover over the top of the other cover, the one cover in this case
being made slightly bigger than the other. When fixing up the boxes the ears
may be gummed in the slits.
Improvements in Collapsable Boxes.
I, DUNCAN FISHER, of 5, Wendover Crescent, Mount Florida, Glasgow, in the County
of Lanark, North Britain, Box Manufacturer, 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 relates to improvements in collapsable card-board boxes, with a

page_text: view to reduce space in carriage and in storage. The invention is specially
applicable to such boxes as are generally used of all sorts but principally to thin
wood-or-eard board boxes for dress goods, millinery, and the like. As shown in the
plan, Fig. 1, I make the four sides A B C and D to fold from the bottom E. In
order to set up the box. I raise up the two sides A B and D and insert the
hinged flaps or ears a of the side A into the pockets b of the sides B and D ;
the same with regard to flaps a of the other side Care then inserted in the
pockets b of the sides B and D. The ordinary lid is then put on and the box is
complete.
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In collapsing or folding up the box the four sides are drawn apart and then
each folded down flat, preferably with the two. Two sides are folded over the
bottom of the box and the other two folded under the bottom of the box. The
box, thus folded, is laid within its cover F, Fig. 2, which is of a with an-ordinary
size-efeover-there--is sufficient depth fer to hold two collapsed boxes. and-in-that ense
the The cover G for of the second box fits over the other cover F, as shewn in
Figure 2, the one cover G being necessarily made a little bigger than the other
cover so as to fit over it. When the boxes are of cardboard the hinging of the parts
may be effected by simply folding the cardboard or by forming the hinges of the
sides and ears by of linen strips H or the like. The pockets or slits for the reception
of to receive the ears may be are made by strips of cardboard gummed or fastened
at their ends to the sides of the box.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is,
(1) In collapsable-boxes the The general arrangement and construction of the
folding sides card-board box as described with reference to Figures 1 and 2.
(2) The arrangement of folding-the-parts within the cover as described.
(3) 2. The arrangement of two sets of folding parts within two covers so that the
collapsed parts are box is capable of being made into two complete expanded boxes
as described with reference to Figure 2.
Dated this 14th day of July 1892.