Improved Method of Strengthening Boxes for Holding Bottles and the like.
Year: 1898

page_text: Date of Application, 1st Oct., 1898
Complete Specification Left, 1st July, 1899-Accepted, 19th Aug.,
1899
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improved Method of Strengthening Boxes for Holding Bottles and
the like.
I, KATE ROBINSON, of 11, Ashbridge Road, Leytonstone, Essex, Married Woman,
do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
My invention is applicable to various kinds of boxes, but is more particularly
intended to be used in the construction of light open topped boxes for containing
bottles and the like. It has for its object to bind the several parts more firmly
together and thereby enable such boxes to better withstand rough usage.
In practice, I proceed as follows: having put a box together in the usual manner,
preferably by dovetailing, I bore a number of small holes in the sides and bottom,:
and to make a more secure bond, pass a wire binder around the box near each end,
where the wire coincides with before mentioned holes I form loops long enough to
pass some distance through the wood and secure each loop to the box ends by means
of staples screws or nails and finally secure both ends of the wire by similar means
after driving the spiked bent ends down also into the wood.
To prevent undue wear of the bonding wires they may be inserted wholly or in part
in grooves prepared in the wood for that purpose.
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1000.
ISAAC BECK, F.S.P.A.,
Agent, for the Applicant, Haymarket Chambers, 17, Haymarket, Sheffield.
Improved Method of Strengthening Boxes for Holding Bottles and
the like.
1, KATE ROBINSON, of 11, Ashbridge Road, Leytonstone, Essex, Married Woman,
nature of this invention
do hereby declare the
and in what Inanner
the same is to be performed to be particularly described and ascertained in
and by the following statement :-
My invention relates to an improved method of strengthening boxes for
containing bottles and the like, especially boxes of the kind used for containing
aerated waters.
In boxes of this kind it is usual to strengthen the mortised or otherwise firmly
secured corners of the box and also the attachment of the sides and ends of the
box to the bottom thereof by binding the ends of the box with a metal strip or

page_text: The use of a wire for this purpose has several advantages over the use of a flat
strip of metal, especially when countersunk in the wood of the box so as not
materially to project above it. But the wire binding as hitherto known and applied
suffers from the disadvantage that if it is broken at a corner or elsewhere the binding
becomes loose and practically of no efficiency. In view of the hard wear incurred by
boxes of the kind above set forth this is a great disadvantage.
My improved method of binding consists in forming a series of loops in the binding
wire and in providing at suitable distances apart holes or apertures in the sides of the
box through which the said loops are passed in such a manner as to project say about
half an inch into the inside of the box. A groove is cut around the outside of the
box in such a position that the inwardly projecting loops will lie flat against the
ends of the box and can be secured thereto by staples, nails or other convenient
means.
The accompanying diagram illustrates the invention.
The box sides and ends A have grooves cut in them in which the wire B lies: The
side wire passes through holes in the sides or ends at suitable intervals, forming loops,
which are secured by pins or plugs C. Or the same may be bent over and
fastened by nails or the like as set forth. Staples D may also be driven in from the
outside.
This improvement adds greatly to the security of the binding wire and if the
said wire is broken at one or more points of its length the separately secured
sections remain practically as firmly secured as before and cannot give way.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is
Improved wire binding for boxes and the like having loops at intervals
projecting inwardly into the box and suitably secured therein, substantially as
described.
Dated AL 1st do STL 1000
W. P. THOMPSON & Co.,
322, High Holborn, London, W.C., Patent Agents for the Applicant.