An Improvement in Folding or Collapsible Boxes.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 24th Apr., 1895
Complete Specification Left, 10th Jan., 1896-Accepted, 15th Feb., 1896
WILLIAM TOWNSEND Manufacturer of Fancy Goods 115 Fore Street
London E.C. I do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
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My invention relates to folding or collapsible boxes in card board or other
similar material.
I purpose using in scored cardboard boxes of any size or description, a clamp of
the same inaterial, attached by rivets or otherwise, in such a manner that, each end
or side of the box may receive the parts intended to form it, and afterwards keep
it firmly in position. I shall use two or more such pieces or attachments in every
case. My object is to form the box for use more quickly than by any hitherto
known method.
Dated this 94th day of Amil 1005
An Improvement in Folding or Collapsible Boxes.
I, WILLIAM TOWNSEND, Manufacturer of Fancy Goods, 115, Fore Street,
London, E.C. 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 folding or collapsible boxes in cardboard or other
similar materials and more particularly to an arrangement in which wing pieces on
the sides or ends are adapted to pass between other pieces (which I have in this
Specification referred to as clamp pieces) and the ends, or sides, and which
arrangement adimits of the box being folded so as to lie flat and be packed in its
lid and so that it is very easy to set up and when set up it is firmer and has greater
stability, and is also cheaper to manufacture than collapsible boxes as heretofore
generally constructed.
In the accompanying sheets of drawings 1 have represented one of my improved
boxes.
Fig. 1 shows the body of the box laid out flat, and looking at the outer side
of it.
Fig. 2 is one of the clamp pieces shown separately.
Fig. 3 is a plan and Fig. 4 an elevation of the same folded so that it may be
packed in the lid for storage.
Fig. 5 is a perspective view of the box partly set up for use, and Fig. 6 its lid.
In these figures A is the part that forms the bottom of the box. B. B are the
ends, and C. C. the sides. Each of the sides have wing pieces D. D. E is one of
the clamp pieces which are attached to the ends B. B. of the box as shown in
Figs. 1 and 5.
The cardboard, pasteboard, millboard, strawboard, scale board or other like
material is scored, on the outer side, along the lines 9 and in the inner side along

page_text: the lines h, or preferably instead of being scored the bending may be performed in
one of the well known machines for that purpose, so that the parts B and D fold
over inwards that is to say towards the inside of the box; and the parts C fold
over outwards thereby enabling the box to be folded and laid flat as shewn in
Fig. 4 with the sides CC' bent backwards so as to fold under the bottom piece A
of the box and the ends B fold over inwards i.e. over the bottom piece A; or this
order may be reversed.
Each of the clamp pieces Ę is attached to one of the ends B at or about its
central line by metallic fastenings e, e, e, or by cement or otherwise, according to
the texture of the board and size of the box so that when the box is being set up
each of the wing pieces D passes in between the one of the clamp pieces E and
side B as is shewn in Fig. 5 where one side is represented closed and the other
partly open.
The lid is of the ordinary construction and when placed on the box prevents the
sides falling outwards and keeps the whole firm and sufficiently rigid..
It will be obvious that the wing pieces may be made to form part of the ende.
instead of the sides and the clamp pieces be affixed to the sides instead of the ends,
and that the proportions of the length breadth and depth of the box may be varied
indefinitely.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my inveu-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is :-
Collapsible boxes made out of cardboard, pasteboard, millboard, strawboard,
scale board, or other like material with clamp pieces on the ends, or sides, and
with wing pieces on the corresponding sides, or ends, adapted to pass in between
such clamp pieces and the surface to which they are attached substantially in the
manuer and for the purpose described.
Dated the 10th day of January 1896
NEWNHAM BROWNE,
Agent for the Applicant.