An Improved Collapsible Box.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 28th Apr., 1892
Complete Specification Left, 28th Jan., 1893-Accepted, 4th Mar., 1893
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Collapsible Box.
I, MELVIN EDGAR of 85 Cowcaddens Street, Glasgow, Scotland, Restaurateur,
do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows :-
This invention relates to collapsible boxes and it has for its object to so construct
the boxes that they can be sent out or packed flat and when required for use
they can be pulled into shape by means of a string, tape, elastic or equivalent
attachment.
The box and its lid is preferably made from a single piece of cardboard, papier
machie or other suitable material. The material is half cut through or 66
"
creased
so as to form the sides, ends and lid when drawn into position by the string or
equivalent.
The side pieces are bent at their ends so as to form flaps which when the box is
pulled into shape form parts of the front and back of the box.
The parts of the material forming the front and also the back of the box are
threaded with or have attached to each of them a piece of string, tape, elastic or
equivalent.
The attachment of the string is, preferably, as follows:-One piece of string or
quivalent is or may be attached to the outside of the piece of the material which
is to form the front of the box and then passed through to the inside leaving the
attachment or knot on the outside. The string or other substitute is then passed
through an eyelet in the front flaps on the right and left. The string or similar
substitute is then passed back to the outside through an eyelet exactly in the centre
and near the top of the front. The said eyelet has a slit into which the string is
drawn so as to hold the box in position. The same process is repeated with string
or similar substitute on the back of the box and back flaps. To bring the box
into shape the two strings front and back are pulled and drawn into the slits
afore mentioned and the lid, being attached to the back part, is then folded over
and tied.
Dated this 27th day of April 1902
H. D. FITZPATRICK,
70, Wellington Street, Glasgow, Agent.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Collapsible Box.
I, MELVIN EDGAR, of 85 Cowcaddens Street, Glasgow, Scotland, Restaurateur,
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 collapsible boxes and it has for its object to so construct
the boxes that they can be sent out or packed flat and when required for use
they can be pulled into shape by means of a string, tape, elastic or equivalent
attachment.
The box and its lid is preferably made from a single piece of cardboard, papier-
machie, or other suitable material. The material is half cut through or
66 creased,"
so as to form the sides, ends and lid, when drawn into position by the string or
equivalent.
The side pieces are bent at their ends, so as to form flaps, which, when the box
is pulled into shape, form parts of the front and back of the box.

page_text: The parts of the material forming the front and also the back of the box, are
threaded with or have attached to each of them a piece of string, tape, elastic or
equivalent.
And in order that my said invention may be properly understood, I have hereunto
appended an explanatory sheet of drawings, whereon:-
Fig. 1 is a view of a cardboard blank for forming the box.
Fig. 2 is a plan view of the interior of the box, partly open.
Fig. 3 is a plan view of the interior of the box, with lid laid back.
Fig. 4 is a side view of the box, with the lid open.
Fig. 5 is a plan of the box as it appears when tied up.
Referring to the drawings, whereon the same reference letters, wherever repeated,
indicate like parts:-
The blank piece of cardboard or papier-machie a is cut, as shown, and is creased
er folded along the dotted lines. By cutting and creasing the blank in this manner,
the several parts of the box are formed-the part a' constituting the bottom of the 1
box, the part 6 the lid with its edges e, the part o the back with its flaps f, f³, the
part d the front with its flaps h, h, and the parts g, g', the sides.
A piece of string, cord, tape, elastic or equivalent m is, as shown at Fig. 2,
threaded first through a hole in the side g¹, then through a hole in the flap f³,
then through a hole in the opposite flap h¹, and finally through a second hole j
in the side g¹. Another piece of string or equivalent n is, likewise, threaded, at
the opposite side of the box, through the holes i, j³, j¹ and j, in the side g and
flaps h, f.
When the ends of the strings or equivalent m, n, are pulled, the box first assumes
When the lid is closed down
the form shown at Fig. 2, then that at Figs. 3 and 4.
and the strings tied, the box has the appearance, shown at Fig. 5.
To hold the strings, when the body of the box is formed, as at Figs. 3 and 4,
but the lid is not shut down, slits may be made in the sides g, g¹, in or through
which the ends of the strings are caught; or a little hooked piece of metal or &
clip o, may be fitted in the sides for this purpose.
Eyelets may be fitted in the holes i, j, j', j
The strings or equivalent may be threaded differently, if so desired.
The new boxes can be packed flat for transit or for storage, and can, at any time,
be pulled into shape by means of the strings.
The boxes are very useful and handy for seedsmen, confectioners, stationers and
others.
The boxes can be made any size and of different designs.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
1. A box, made substantially as hereinbefore described with reference to the
drawings annexed.
2. A collapsible box, having pieces of string, elastic, tape, or equivalent, fitted
thereto, for the purpose of pulling it into shape and tying it up, substantially as
hereinbefore set forth.
Dated this 27th day of January 1002.
H. D. FITZPATRICA,
70, Wellington Street, Glasgow, Agent.