Improvements in the Manufacture of Boxes of Cardboard, Wood, or the like.
Year: 1899

page_text: Date of Application. 17th Mar., 1899
Complete Specification Left, 16th Dec., 1899-Accepted, 20th Jan., 1900
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Manufacture of Boxes of Cardboard, Wood, or
the like.
We, ALBERT HUGH STEVENSON, Box Manufacturer, and FELIX MAGINN,
Manager, both of 62-66, Ogden Street, Ardwick, Manchester, do hereby declare
the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
"
Our invention relates to an improved method for inserting in boxes, paper lace,
fly papers, and the like, hereinafter referred to as "lace." The custom until now
has generally been to insert these by hand, but we are aware of two processes
by which this can be done by machinery, and which processes are described in
British Patents No. 18541 of 1895, and 9496 of 1898, granted to Albert Hugh
Stevenson & Clarence Whitman Hobbs respectively. By both of these methods,
however, the lace is glued or fastened on the outside of the cardboard or other
material forming the sides of the box, and in some respects this does not form
so neat a box as if the lace were on the inside of the material. The object of our
invention is to apply lace to the box by machinery in such a manner that it can
be turned into the inside of the box, and is firmly fastened to the inside of the
material forming the sides of the box. For this purpose we employ an ordinary
box covering machine upon which in suitable position behind the glue roller
we place a continuous roll of lace and a continuous roll of covering paper of the
usual width required for "banding' or covering" the sides of the box. The
lace and covering paper are guided over the revolving glue roller in such a posi-
tion laterally that the portion of the lace or fly paper which is not intended to
be glued overlaps the covering paper and is protected by it from the glue roller
but the remaining narrow portion of the lace projects over the covering paper and
comes in contact with the glue roller, and accordingly receives a strip of glue.
The lace is then guided completely over the covering paper to which the strip
of glue causes it to adhere, and both are passed round the sides of the box, the
covering paper adhering to it in the usual manner. The lace will then be found
to be adhering only to that portion of the covering strip which is usually turned
down over the edges of the cardboard or other material. into the inside of the
box, and the operator will of necessity turn over both that portion of the covering
strip and the portion of the lace adhering to it. The portion of the lace not turned
over will still be on the outside the box, but after cutting this at each corner of
the box it can easily be turned over to the inside of the box into the position
usually occupied by lace, flypapers and the like. It is obvious that as the lace
has to he turned over, it should, when guided over the glue rollers, be preferably
the wrong side upwards.
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Dated this 16th day of March 1800

page_text: Improvements in the Manufacture of Boxes of Cardboard, Wood, or
the like.
We, ALBERT HUGH STEVENSON and FELIX MAGINN, both of 62 to 66, Ogden
Street, Ardwick, Manchester, in the County of Lancaster, Fancy Box Makers, 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:
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This invention relates to an improved method for inserting into boxes, paper
lace, fly papers and the like, hereinafter referred to as "lace."
The ordinary custom has been to apply this lace by hand, but it is also done
by machinery as described in the Patent No. 18541 of October 4th, 1895, granted
to H. and A. H. Stevenson.
By the methods therein described the "lace" is glued or fastened on the out-
side of the cardboard or other material forming the sides of the box.
The object of our invention is to apply the "lace" to the box by machinery in
such a manner, that it can be turned into the inside of the box, and is firmly
fastened to the inside of the material forming the sides of the box.
In the accompanying sheet of drawings-
Fig. 1 is a view of a piece of "lace" placed upon a covering strip of paper
previous to glueing the projecting edge of the lace and the surface of the covering
strip.
Fig. 2 is a similar view to Fig. 1 but with the upper edges of the lace and
strip brought flush or even with one another so as to connect them together by
the glued portion of the lace.
Fig. 3 represents one side of. a box to which the lace and covering have been
attached.
Fig. 4 represents a sectional view of the inside of a box with the lace on the
outside of the covering strip, and the glued upper edge of the covering strip and
of the lace turned in and glued into position on the inside of the box.
Fig. 5 represents a plan of the inside of a box with the lace turned inside in its
finished position.
In these views, 2 denotes the lace and 3 its plain edge, 4 the covering strip,
5 a portion of the box to be covered.
In carrying out our invention we employ an ordinary box covering machine
upon which in suitable position behind the glue roller we place a roll of lace 2
and a roll of covering paper 4 of the usual width required for "banding or
covering the sides of the box 5.
"
The lace and covering paper being both in continuous rolls are guided over a
rotating glue roller in the position shown in Fig. 1, so that the portion 2 of
the lace paper which is not intended to be glued overlaps the covering paper 4,
and is protected by it from the glue roller, but the remaining narrow portion 3
of the lace which projects over the covering paper 4 comes in contact with the
glue roller and is coated with glue by it.
It is obvious that the narrow strip of glue could be applied to the lace by a
separate narrow glue roller, but we prefer the method described above.
The plain edge of the lace is then guided automatically completely over the
covering paper to which it adheres by its glued strip, both papers combined as
one are now passed over the sides of the box as it is turned on a revolving block
or dummy shape in a box covering machine, the glued side of the covering paper
adhering to it in the usual manner as shown in Fig. 3; it will be seen in Fig. 4

page_text: that the lace is adhering only to that portion of the covering paper 4 which is
usually turned down over the edges of the cardboard or other material into the
inside of the box, the lace lying on the outside of the box as shown in Fig. 4.
In order to finish the box the lace on the outside of the box is cut when
necessary at each corner when it can be easily turned over to the inside of the
box into the position usually occupied by lace, fly papers, and the like as shown
in Fig. 5.
It is obvious that as the lace has to be reversed by turning it over from the
outside to the inside of the box it should preferably be placed upon the covering
paper 4, prior to passing it over the glue roller, with its wrong side outwards.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed we declare that what
we claim is :-
The improved method of manufacture of a fancy box in which method the lace
is applied preferably wrong side outwards to the upper surface of the covering
hand to which it is attached, then banding the box with the glued covering paper
having the lace on its outside, and subsequently cutting when necessary the lace
at the corners of the box and reversing it by turning it over into the interior of
the box all substantially as herein described and as illustrated by the accompany-
ing drawings.
1711
1000
H. B. BARLOW & GILLETT,
Agents for Applicants, 17, St. Ann's Square, Manchester.