Improvements in Strengthening Mineral-water Boxes and other Boxes.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 6th Dec., 1892-Accepted, 7th Jan., 1893
Improvements in Strengthening Mineral-water Boxes and
other Boxes.
I, RUPERT ROBINSON Broomfield House, Dore, in the County of Derby,
Manager, 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 the means for strengthening wood
boxes, and more particularly mineral-water boxes, and I propose to accomplish
this object by the use of wire applied to the box in a peculiar and novel
manner.
I will therefore premise that I am aware that wire has been used for this
purpose, and that I therefore do not make any claim to the use of wire broadly.
The invention is clearly illustrated in the annexed sheet of drawings in which
Fig. 1, is a perspective view of a box for holding mineral-water bottles, with my
invention applied to it.
Fig. 2, a cross section of the box, cut in two different places.
Fig. 3, perspective view of one of the bottom corners of the box (enlarged)
showing the wire passing from the vertical side through the horizontal bottom.
Fig. 4, section of bottom corner.
Fig. 5, section of top corner.
In carrying out my invention, I use a single length of wire at each end of the
box, passed through the sides vertically, and through the bottom boards horizontally,
the two ends of the length of wire projecting above the top edge of box before they
are finally fastened.
I bore vertical holes H, at each end of the box through the thickness of the
wood of the sides A, close or thereabouts to the dovetails of the corner joint J, and
a like horizontal hole H2, at each end through the bottom boards B, close or there-
abouts to the ends E.
These holes I make so that the wire may pass through them easily, and they may
be easily and rapidly made by a suitable spoon bit. I prefer to make a short
opening or recess R, at each end of the horizontal holes, to enable the wire W, to
be carried straight down before being bent horizontally as shown in Fig. 3,
otherwise it would have to be bent as indicated by the dotted lines in the same
figure.
I bore the holes for the wire before described through the woodwork before the
When the
parts of the box are put together, all such work being done to gauge.
wire is threaded through the bottom boards the ends are turned up and passed
vertically through the sides of the box being made long enough to project a short
distance as seen in Fig. 2.
The extreme ends X, are bent at a right angle as shown in Fig. 2, and the pro-
jecting wire so bent is then turned and the point driven into the end E, and finally
secured by a staple S, as in Fig. 5, and Fig. 1.
Wire of any suitable metal may be used, and although I have shown a box for
holding mineral-water bottles having an opening O, as used in such boxes, the
invention being intended more particularly for this class of boxes, it may be applied
to any other boxes to give them strength and hold the parts together.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same may be performed and carried into practice,
I declare that what I claim is :-
The method of strengthening and binding together the sides and bottom of

page_text: mineral water boxes and other boxes, by passing a wire horizontally through the
bottom boards and vertically through each side, and securing the projecting ends
of the wire in the end boards, substantially as hereinbefore described and
illustrated.
Dated the 30th day of November 1899
ROBERT F. DRURY, C.P.A.,
Bank Buildings, George Street, Sheffield, Agent for Applicant.