An Improvement in Joining Wood in the Manufacture of Boxes, Bee-hives, Packing Cases, and the like.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 27th May, 1891
Complete Specification Left, 27th Feb., 1892-Accepted, 2nd Apr., 1892
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improvement in Joining Wood in the Manufacture of Boxes,
Bee-hives, Packing Cases, and the like.
WE PAUL HARBORDT, Seedsman of 50 Great Charlotte Street, Liverpool and
WILLIAM CORKHILL, Joiner of 6 Nuttall Street Edge Hill Liverpool, both in
the County of Lancaster do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
Our invention consists in joining the several parts of boxes, bee-hives, packing
cases, and the like, here-in-after termed a construction, or constructions, by the
application of a continuous dove-tail, or dove-tails, either straight or tapered, to
such construction, or constructions, in conjunction with a block, or blocks, having
a corresponding projection or projections thereon to fit into the dove-tail, or
dove-tails, aforesaid and so hold the construction, or constructions, together
without the use of any nails, screws, or other extraneous support; and at the
same time to afford a ready means whereby the said construction, or constructions,
may be easily taken to pieces, and re-erected without injury or damage to the parts
thereof.
Dated this 26th day of May 1891
HAROLD H. LINDON,
Agent for the Applicants.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improvement in Joining Wood in the Manufacture of Boxes,
Bee-hives, Packing Cases, and the like.
We, PAUL HARBORDT, Seedsman, of 50, Great Charlotte Street, Liverpool,
and WILLIAM CORKHILL, Joiner of 6, Nuttall Street, Edge Hill, near Liverpool,
and both in the County of Lancashire, 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:-
Our invention consists in joining the several parts of boxes, cases, fowl-houses,
dog-kennels, domestic furniture, bee-hives, or any other construction, or construc-
tions, in which two or more pieces of timber, metal, or other material are joined
together, hereinafter referred to as a construction, or constructions,-by the
application of a continuous dovetail, or dovetails, to such construction, or con-
structions, (such continuous dovetail, or dovetails, having the sides thereof either
parallel or tapered) in conjunction with a block, or blocks, having corresponding
projections thereon to fit into the afore mentioned dovetail, or dovetails, and so
bold the construction, or constructions, together without the use of screws, nails,
or other extraneous support and at the same time to afford a ready means whereby
the said construction or constructions may be easily taken to pieces, and re-erected
without injury or damage to the parts thereof.
:
In order that the intention of this our invention may the better be understood,
we describe the same with reference to the accompanying drawings in which :-
Figures 1. & 1 show two pieces of timber, metal, or other material ununited
and ready for being joined together by the insertion of the projections a. a¹ on the
block (Figure 2.) into the dovetails b. (Figures 1. 1ª).
Figure 3 is a similar block to that shown in Figure 2. only having two or more
projections thereon on the same side: when using this form of block corresponding
dovetails would be formed in the pieces to be so joined.

page_text: Figure 4. shows the inner face of a piece of material in which the dovetail
formed therein has its sides parallel to one another: and
Figure 5. the same view of a similar piece of material in which the sides of the
dovetail are inclined to each other; the projections on the block, or blocks, would
in this case taper in a corresponding manner.
Figure 6. shows the whole corner of such a construction as is hereinbefore
mentioned joined or united in the manner which is hereinbefore described and
.shown.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said
invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what
we claim is :-
1st. The method of joining together the several parts of such hereinbefore
mentioned constructions by means of a continuous dovetail, or dovetails, in con-
junction with a block, or blocks, having corresponding projections thereon in the
manner hereinbefore described and shown.
2nd. The use and manufacture of boxes, cases, fowl houses, dog-kennels, domestic
furniture, bee-hives, or any other construction, or constructions, in which two or
more pieces of timber, metal, or other material are joined together in the manner
which is hereinbefore described and shown.
Dated this 26th day of February 1892.
HAROLD H. LINDON,
10*, James Street, Liverpool, (formerly at 2, South John Street),
Agent for the Applicants.