Improvements in Folding Boxes Made of Cardboard, Leatherboard, and such like Materials.
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 29th Oct., 1896-Accepted, 5th Dec., 1896
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Folding Boxes Made of Cardboard, Leatherboard,
and such like Materials.
I, REGINALD HARRY FILMER, of 17 to 20 Little Sutton Street, Clerkenwell, in
the County of London, Box Manufacturer, 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:-
The invention has for its object improvements in folding boxes made in one piece
of cardboard, leatherboard and such like materials, with a view to obtain simplicity
of construction combined with facility for erecting the box for use and for folding
the same for packing or storing.
My invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which,
Fig. 1 is a plan of the blank, shaped and creased or scored according to my
invention and provided with a lid or cover and small flaps around the top of the
body as is sometimes done.
Fig. 2 is a plan of the box erected for use and with the lid or cover open and
turned back. Fig. 3 is a cross section of the same.
Fig. 4 is a plan and Fig. 5 is an end view of the box partly folded and Fig. 6
shows the same completely folded for packing or storage.
Figures 2 to 6 are drawn to a larger scale than Fig. 1.
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The blank, see Fig. 1, is cut to the shape required and scored or creased on
lines a. a b.b at the junction of the bottom c with the sides d d¹ and inner end
flaps e. e, on the lines at the junction of the sides d. d' with the outer end
flaps f. f, on the line d³ at the junction of the top of the side d with the small flap
on the line d' at the junction of the side d' with the lid or cover h, on the lines
at the junction of the tops of the outer end flaps ff, with the small flaps ff and
on the lines g'g' at the junction of the lid or cover h with the descending small
outer flaps g g².
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The blank thus scored or creased is folded on the lines of the said creases or
scores to produce a box and lid or cover as is well understood.
I would here remark that the blank as above described is of known construction
and forms no part of my invention, separately considered, and I would further
remark that the improved box may be made without the flaps fg and lid or cover h
and it may be used with a separately formed lid or cover.
According to my present invention I also score
or crease the blank on the
lines i. i which for convenience of manufacture are carried across the inner end
flaps e as well as the outer end flaps f and small top flaps although the portions
of said scorings or creasings i. i across the outer end flaps f and small top flaps 12
are alone used.
I further according to the substance of the material used make one or more
scores or creasings j across the centre of the bottom c and inner end flaps e. e with
a view to enable such parts to be folded on said linej; the inner end flaps e. e for
packing or storage are folded inwards on the lines b as shown. I also after having
folded the inner end flaps e.e inwards cement, rivet or otherwise fasten the over-
lapping portions of the outer end flaps ff together and fold them either inwards as
shown on the lines i. i or outwards if desired.
The blank may also be perforated at k k on the inner and outer end flapse. e jf
as shown or in other convenient arrangement and tapes or cords knotted at one

page_text: end, threaded through such holes as shown in Figures 2 to 5 so as to afford facility
for holding the inner end flaps ee against the outer end flaps ff thus fixing the
parts in position for use and at the same time these tapes or cords may be used for
tying the lid or cover on the box and for carrying the same.
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. In a folding box formed of a blank shaped and scored to produce bottom, sides
and inner and outer end flaps, making one or more scores or creases across the centre
of the bottom and inner end flaps, and a crease or score across each outer end flap
and connecting together the overlapping parts of the outer end flaps, all substantially
as herein shown and described and for the purpose stated.
2. The improved folding box constructed and folded substantially as herein shown
and described.
HARRIS & MILLS,
23 Southampton Buildings, London, W.C., Agents.
HARRIS & MILLS,
23 Southampton Buildings, London, W.C., Agents.