provements in or relating to Boxes or Packages for Postal and other Purposes.
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 10th Mar., 1896-Accepted, 13th June, 1896
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Ir provements in or relating to Boxes or Packages for Postal and
other Purposes.
A communication by ENRICO BLANCO, of Naples, in the Kingdom of Italy.
1, WILLIAM PHILLIPS THOMPSON, F.C.S. M.I.M.E. of The Agency for
reign Patent Solicitors 6, Lord Street, Liverpool and 6, Bank Street
Manchester, both in the County of Lancaster, 118, New Street, Birmingham
in the County of Warwick and 31, High Holborn in the County of Middlesex,.
Civil Engineer, 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 has for its object to provide by means of suitably prepared and
cut out blanks a ready and certain means of making boxes or packages for postal
or other purposes.
The invention is shown in the accompanying drawings, in which,
Figure 1 shows a specimen of this new pattern of box;
Figures 2 and 3 show two different ways of cutting out the blanks for the
boxes, and also show the manner of bending, folding and fastening the cut out
blank.
These figures of the drawing relate to the manufacture of boxes having the
shape of a parallelopipedon, but it is evident that the invention is not limited to
making boxes or packages of this form as other shapes may be produced by suitably
cutting out the cardboard blanks.
The essential feature of this system consists in all the joints being completely
protected and covered. For the preparation of these blanks, cardboard coated on
one side with any suitable impermeable substance is preferably employed but any
other suitable material may of course be used.
The blanks are folded along the dotted lines shown in the drawings in the following.
manner:-
Taking Figure 2, the ends 1 and 2 with their attached parts are bent up vertically
to the side 3 and the flaps 4 and 5 folded together; the side 6 is now folded to
connect 1 and 2 and the flap 7 turned to lie over 1, the edge 1 of 1 being bent at
right angles; by now folding the flaps 8, 9 and 10 successively onto 5, the bottom
of the box is completed, the flap 11 being folded over 3; the flaps 12, 13, 14, 15, 16,
form the top of the box and are folded on top of each other successively. The
various flaps are perforated at suitable points to receive short cords and are tied
together step by step as the folding is effected. Metal clips, rivets or the like may
equally well be used to secure the Haps, or they may be gummed. A perforation a
is also provided through which a group of cords are passed to the outside, being
retained by a knot or plate on the inside. These cords are passed completely round
the box in different directions and then tied.
In the case of Figure 3, the ends 1 and 2 with their attached parts are
bent up vertically to the bottom 3; the sides 4 and 5 are now folded over each
other and similarly the sides 6 and 7; the flaps 8 and 9 are then folded onto 5
and 7 respectively to complete the sides; the flaps 10, 11, 12, 13 are folded
successively to complete the top. The edges 6", 5", 7", 4" are bent at right angles
to protect the folded edges.
The invention comprises the system of cutting out and folding herein before

page_text: described and shown in the accompanying drawings, the materials employed being
of any suitable kind, the object being to realise the following advantages:-
1. Economy of time and expense;
2. Efficacious protection of the contents of the box against all damage liable to
arise from atmospheric agencies;
3. Cleanliness and sureness of fastening, whereby the article enclosed is placed
beyond the reach of any manipulation through the envelope, and enabling any
attempt at abstraction or fraud to be immediately detected, as such cannot be effected
without traces of the attempt being left.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, as communicated to me by my
foreign correspondent, I declare that what I claim is :-
1. Blanks specially cut out for the manufacture, by folding, of boxes or packages
of suitable shape for postal or other purposes, substantially as hereinbefore described
and shown in the accompanying drawings.
2. The manufacture of blanks, such as described, of cardboard, coated on one side
with any suitable impermeable substance, substantially as described.
Dated this 9th day of March 1896.
WM. P. THOMPSON & Co.,
Agents.