Year: 1887

page_text: Date of Application, 9th Nov., 1387
Complete Left, 21st Dec., 1887
Complete Accepted, 27th Jan., 1888
I, JACOB HERTZ of the firm of Hertz and Collingwood of 101 Leadenhall Street in
the City of London Merchants Agents do hereby declare the nature of this invention
to be as follows:-
According to this invention I make a package of cardboard or the like and by
preference I line the cardboard with textile fabric or the like for the sake of strength
and flexibility in the corners, or I merely line the package in the corners. Sometimes
I score it along the interior corners without lining it. The package consists of the
body which is generally four sided and of a flap made to turn up from the bottom and
fold over at each end with or without shallow lateral end flaps. These folding over
flaps have one or more holes to admit of inspection of the contents of the package.
To fasten the flaps I may use any suitable means such for instance as paper fasteners
passed through eyelet holes in the body of the package and in the flaps, but I prefer
a piece of elastic cord which is passed through an eyelet hole in one of the flaps and
stretched over the length of the box and holding the flap at the other end closed. Or
the cord may pass through an eyelet in each of the flaps. This package will when
empty fold down flat to one side and with the flaps folded down upon it and thus take
up little room.
In a modified form especially suitable for cloth samples the package consists of the
body itself, that is to say, top, bottom, two ends and one side and of a side flap which
is folded over the top and fastened thereto in any suitable manner such for instance
as by one or more paper fasteners passed through eyelet holes, but I prefer using one
or more elastic cords passed through eyelet holes in the flap and stretched around the
body of the package thus holding the flap closed. In order to afford facility for
inspection of the contents of the package I cut out a four sided hole at each end of the
side of the package. To fold the package down flat so as to take up little room I form a
crease in the side and two ends along the middle of their height, and the aforesaid
holes will permit of folding the sides and ends down inwards, bellows fashion, and
with the flap folded down upon it.
Dated this 9th dox of Nawamban 1007

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Packages Suitable for the Sample Post.
I, JACOB HERTZ of the firm of Hertz and Collingwood of 101 Leadenhall Street in
the City of London Merchants' Agents do hereby declare the nature of the said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed to be particularly described and
ascertained in and by the following statement:-.
According to this invention I make a package of cardboard or the like and by
preference I line the cardboard with textile fabric or the like for the sake of strength
and flexibility in the corners, or I merely line the package in the corners.
Sometimes
I score it along the interior corners without lining it. The package consists of the
body which is generally four sided and of a flap made to turn up from the bottom
and fold over at each end with or without shallow lateral end flaps. These
folding over flaps have one or more holes to admit of inspection of the contents of the
package.
Figure 1 of the accompanying drawings is a perspective view of such a package in
the form which it assumes when in use.
a, a are the top and bottom and b, b the two sides of the package. c, c are the two
end flaps which are made to turn up from the bottom and fold over the top a at each
end where they are provided with one or more holes d to admit of inspection of
contents.
Figure 3 is a perspective view of a similar package but having shallow lateral end
flaps on the sides b.
To fasten the flaps c I may use any suitable means such for instance as paper
fasteners passed through eyelet holes in the body of the package and in the flaps but
I prefer a piece of elastic cord e which as shewn in Figure I is passed through an
eyelet hole in one of the flaps e and stretched over the length of the box and holding
the flap at the other end closed. Or the cord may pass through an eyelet in each of
the flaps as shewn in Figure 3. This package Figure 1 will when empty fold down
flat one side and with the flaps folded down upon it and thus take up little room, as
shewn in Figure 2 where one of the end flaps c, moreover is turned in under the top a.
a shews the gummed down joining seam of the cardboard.
In a modified form illustrated by the perspective view Figure 4 especially suitable
for cloth samples the package consists of the body itself, that is to say, top a, bottom,
two ends bb and one side c and of a side flap c¹ which is folded over the top a and fastened
thereto in any suitable manner such for instance as by one or more paper fasteners
passed through eyelet holes, but I prefer using one or more elastic cords e passed
through eyelet holes in the flap and stretched around the body of the package thus
holding the flap c¹ closed. In order to afford facility for inspection of the contents of
the package I cut out a four sided hole d at each end of the side of the package.
To fold the package down flat so as to take up little room I form a crease in the side c
and two ends bb along the middle of their height, and the aforesaid holes d will

page_text: permit of folding the sides and ends down inwards bellows fashion and with the flap c¹
folded down upon it as shewn in Figure .
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is ;-
The construction of packages with folding over flap or flaps and with holes for
inspection of contents substantially as described and shewn.
Dated this 21st day of December 1887.
JACOB HERTZ.
By Jensen & Son,
77, Chancery Lane, London, W.C.,
Patent Agents.