Improvements in Collapsable Baskets and Boxes.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 12th Oct., 1894
Complete Specification Left, 11th July, 1895-Accepted, 17th Aug., 1895
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Collapsable Baskets and Boxes.
I, JAMES DOBSON of No. 73 Station Road, Finchley, in the County of
Middlesex, Director of a Public Company, do hereby declare the nature of this
invention to be as follows:-
My invention relates to improvements in collapsable baskets and boxes and has
more particular reference to those which can be, or are from consideration of cost,
made, as to the bodies of them, out of light sheet material, e.g., scale, card or
millboard or tin plate.
The invention consists principally in the combination with the body of the basket
or box, of stops and sockets on or in two opposite sides or ends thereof, against or
in which, angled or retorted continuations of the two other sides or ends, as the case
may be, engage or are adapted to engage. There are two engagements between
each continuation and the adjacent end or side which carries the relative stop and
socket. The engagement of the continuation in or with the socket, holds the said
continuation to and in the plane of the socketted side or end, as well as the side or
end carrying the said continuation, up to the said side or end. The stop may be
either the bottom of the socket or the edge of the end or side or both. In either
case, the stop, as well as the engagement of the continuation with the socket, will
be maintained by the weight of the contents of a basket, when the latter is
suspended by the handle or by the hold of the lid of a box upon the body of the
latter when the lid is in its place on the said body.
It is to be understood that my invention does not limit me in respect of the exact
conformation of the above mentioned stop and socket. In this respect, considerable
variety or modification is practicable, provided that the proper discharge of
the functions described above is duly provided for. One formation of socket
which I propose to use is an angled notch-say two linear notches meeting at
a right angle-the angle standing so as to face the continuation as the four sides
and ends of the body are set up.
The handle of a basket or box made according to the present invention is
preferably, a band of some sufficiently tough material, held to the body by any
suitable device, e.g. by passing the band through slits in the sides which carry the
continuations.
Suitable perforations for ventilating the interior of the basket or box, as the case
may be, are provided.
Dated this 19th dex of October 1891
PHILLIPS & LEIGH,
Agents for the Applicant.

page_text: Improvements in Collapsable Baskets and Boxes.
I, JAMES DOBSON of No. 9 Moss Hall Crescent, North Finchley (late of
73. Station Road Finchley) in the County of Middlesex, Director of a Public
Company 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 collapsible baskets and boxes and has
more particular reference to those which can be or are, from consideration of cost,
made as to the bodies of them, out of light sheet material, e.g., scale board, mill-
board or pulp-board (plain, or waxed on one side) from blanks cut to the desired
outline and creased "scored" or embossed where the foldings are required to
be made.
The invention consists principally in the combination with the body of the
basket or box, of stops and sockets on or in two opposite sides or ends thereof,
. against or in which angled or retorted continuations of the two other sides or ends,
as the case may be, engage or are adapted to engage. There are two engagements
between each continuation and the adjacent end or side which carries the relative
stop and socket. The engagement of the continuation in or with the socket, holds
the said continuation to and in the plane of the socketted side, or end, as well as
the side or end carrying the said continuation up to the said side or end. The
stop may be either the bottom of the socket or the edge of the end or side or both.
In either case, the stop, as well as the engagement of the continuation with the
.socket will be maintained by the weight of the contents of a basket, when the
latter is suspended by the handle, or by the hold of the lid of a box upon the body
.of the latter when the lid is in its place on the said body (and which lid may be
either separate from or form an integral part of the box).
It is to be understood that my invention does not limit me in respect of the
exact conformation of the above mentioned stop and socket. For instance, a
tongue, of the configuration of Fig. 3. a. may engage upwards into a horizontal
slit b. thereby securely locking the sides or ends of the box and so obviating
the necessity for a handle as a means of maintaining the sides and ends during
use should it be desirable to dispense with the handle. In this respect, con-
siderable variety or modification is practicable, provided that the proper discharge
of the functions described above is duly provided for. One formation of the
socket which I propose to use is an angle notch-say two linear notches meeting
at a right angle-the angle standing so as to face the continuation as the four
sides and ends of the body are set up.
The handle of a basket or box made according to the present invention is
. preferably, a flexible band of some sufficiently tough material, held to the body
by any suitable device e.g., by passing the band through slots in the sides which
carry the continuations.
Suitable perforations for ventilating the interior of the basket or box, as the
case may be, are provided when required.
PARTICULARS OF DRAWINGS.
Fig. 1 represents a blank for a nulu-hoord hacket out and wed

page_text: Having thus 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 :-
First. The method of constructing collapsible baskets and boxes substantially
as already herein shown and described.
Second. The combination with the body of the basket or box of stops or
sockets on two opposite sides or ends thereof against or in which, angled or
retorted continuations or tongues of the two other sides or ends, as the case
may be, engage, or are adapted to engage, substantially as already shown and
described and for the purpose stated.
Third. The application and adaptation of a flexible handle substantially as
described.
In witness whereof I, the said James Dobson, have hereunto set my hand
and seal this Fifth day of July in the year of our Lord One thousand
eight hundred and ninety-five.
JAS. DOBSON.