Improvements in Folding Boxes or Baskets.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 23rd Jan., 1895
Complete Specification Left; 23rd Oct., 1895-Accepted, 30th Nov., 1895
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Folding Boxes or Baskets.
LUDVIG CHRISTIANSEN 38 Charrington Street Saint Pancras N.W. in the
County of Middlesex Cabinet Maker do hereby declare the nature of this invention
to be as follows:---
This invention relates to an improved construction of connecting boxes together
of any material; they can be made of paper, basket work, wood, metal &c.
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This invention will make it possible to open and close a box, and in an easy
way get every article out of them, whether placed near the bottom or top.
folding box made combined with strechers as shown in the drawing hereto
annexed.
The said invention is particularly described and set forth in the following
statement.
The boxes can be made in so many different proportions, in any number, and
in many designs, and can be used for every purpose desired.
It is not necessary to describe them all here the description of one will answer
the purpose to ascertain in what my invention consists.
The construction consists of two or more strechers in connecting two or more
boxes as shown in drawings Fig. 1. A. B. C. and Fig. 5 X. Y.
The strechers can be made of paper, basket work, wood, metal, or any suitable
material, in shape and proportion suitable for the boxes they are intended for.
The strechers can be connected with the boxes by screws, or otherwise fixed to
the required position as shown in drawings Fig. 1. 2. 3. 4. and 5.
The strechers can be made any length and placed in any position suitable
according to how far the boxes are required to open, see Figs. 2. & 4.
The boxes cau be joined together with grooves or rabbited as desired, and can
be fixed or fitted on furniture where convenient.
The boxes can be made in frames and fitted with pannels of any material
suitable the top of the boxes can be fixed in an ordinary way with lock and
hinges.
The boxes can be fitted inside with flap for writing purposes and small compart-
ments for stationery &c.
The boxes can be made of paper or metal to contain cigaretts, tobacco &c.
Dated 22nd ins of 1005
Improvements in Folding Boxes or Baskets.
I LUDVIG CHRISTIANSEN of 38 Charrington Street, St. Pancras in the
County of London, Cabinet Maker 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:-
My invention relates to improvements in the construction of collapsable or

page_text: folding boxes or baskets and consists in connecting together one or more
series of small boxes or trays by means of pivoted arms or stretchers in such
a manner that they may be opened out or uncovered for the purpose of
gaining access to their contents, or closed up or collapsed into their smallest
possible space.
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These collapsable boxes or trays may be used with and form any useful article
of furniture such as a lady's work-table, a writing table, a wash-hand stand and
such like; and in order to illustrate one example of my said invention, viz.; that
of a lady's work-table I will describe the same with reference to the accompanying
sheet of drawings in which Figure is a front elevation of such a table in its
closed or collapsed position, a portion only of the legs or supports being shown,
Figure 2 is a similar view in its open position, and Figure 3 is a vertical cross
section.
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a is the frame of the table to the back of which is hinged a lid or cover a¹ which
may be provided with a mirror a 2. To the sides of the frame are hinged the
flaps fitted with spring catches which enter notches in the frame to keep the
said flaps closed, and c is a flap hinged to the front and fitted with a lock e for
securing the lid or cover in its closed position. d is an open tray or receptacle
forming the bottom of the table. e is a series of open boxes or trays carried in
one half of the table, and e¹ is another similar series carried in the other half.
These two series of boxes or trays rest upon the tray d when in their closed
positions, the top edge of the said tray being rabetted at d¹ for receiving a projecting
lip formed around the lower edges of the bottom box or tray resting thereon. The
top edges of the boxes or trays are likewise, rabetted as at e 2 for receiving the
box or tray resting thereon, each series of the latter thus being held firmly together
when in their closed positions.
The boxes or trays e and e¹ are connected together by the pivoted arms or
stretchers ff, the latter of which are, double the length of the former, and each
series of which are placed equidistant from and parallel with each other so as to
cause the boxes or trays always to maintain a level position as the latter are opened
out or closed up.
To open out the boxes or trays from their closed positions the front flap c is
unlocked and lowered as shown in each of the figures, the lid or cover al is raised,
as shown in Figures 2 and 3 and the flaps bb lowered...
The top box or tray of each series is then raised by hand and pushed over into
the position shown in Figure 2 thus causing the whole of the boxes or trays e e¹
and d to be fully opened and their contents exposed to view..
In Figure 3 the boxes or trays are only half-opened out the bars or stretchers ff¹
standing in a vertical instead of an inclined position.
The boxes or trays of which there may be any desired number as well as, the
bars or stretchers may be formed of wood, metal, cardboard or other suitable
material and may be applied to any useful purpose as will be well understood.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion I declare that what I claim is ;-
1. In collapsable or folding boxes or baskets, connecting one or more series of
boxes or trays together by parallel pivoted arms or stretchers substantially as
described and for the purposes specified.
2. In the construction of collapsable boxes or baskets the combination with a
frame or structure provided with hinged sides and cover, of one or more series of
boxes or trays connected together by parallel and equidistant pivoted bars or
streichers substantially as described and for the purposes specified.
3. In collapsable boxes or baskets the combination of the frame a hinged lid a
pivoted flaps bbc, tray d formed with a rabetted edge d¹, boxes or trays e el formed.
with a rabetted edge e 2 and projecting lip, and pivoted bars or stretchers ffl
substantially as described and for the purposes specified.

page_text: 4. The improved collapsable or folding box or basket substantially as described.
and shown in the accompanying sheet of drawings.
Dated this 23rd day of October 1895.
J. B. FLEURET,
5 Hatton Garden, London, Agent for the Applicant.