A New or Improved Folding Card-board Box.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 5th Sept., 1894-Accepted, 6th Oct., 1894
A New or Improved Folding Card-board Box.
1, ALFRED MENZEL of Ullrichsberg, near Rosswein, in the Empire of Germany,.
Engineer, 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, that is to say :-
This invention relates to a card-board box which can be kept in a flat opened-
out condition until required for use when it can be put together or folded so as to
form a strong and firm box without the use of clamps or other such like means of
fastening.
In the drawings hereto annexed
Figure 1 shows a flat piece of card board cut out so as to form a box in
accordance with this invention, and
Figures 2, 3, and 4, show respectively front, side and plan views of the box made
from the said piece of card-board.
The bottom b is connected with the side pieces and s and these can be bent up
at the lines k k where the card-board is scored to a slight depth to form the corners.
The sides are made of the required length of the box, but the ends of the sides s
are furnished with the flaps p p. These flaps can be bent along the scored lines n
so as to lay against the sides .
The flaps p are provided with slits e, and the parts which are defined by the
said slits, are made somewhat narrower than the rest of the flaps, and the corners
are bevilled off as shown.
In the sides are formed narrow slits corresponding to the ends of the parts t,
which are passed through the said slits so that the parts t come partly inside and
partly outside of the completed box.
The flat piece of card-board, intended to form a box, is cut or stamped-out in the
form shown in Figure 1, and the lines k and n are scored or cut slightly into the
same. In order to form the box out of this flat piece, the sides 1, and afterwards
the sides s, are turned up on the lines k so as to stand at right angles to the
bottom b, and the flaps p of the sides s are then bent on the lines n so as to lay
against the sides 1, and the ends of the part t, limited by the slits e, are then passed
through the slits in the sides 7 and a strong and firm box is thereby produced. A
second, but shallower, box the bottom of which is larger than that of the first, by
the thickness of the card-board, is made in the same way and forms a cover for
the first.
2
As the cardboard forming each box can be opened out and kept in the flat state
as shown in Figure 1, it is possible to keep, or send from place to place, a
considerable number of boxes in that form in a comparatively small space.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
A folding cardboard box consisting of a piece of cardboard the parts s of which
are furnished with flaps p slit at e to form the ends t, and the parts of which card-
board are furnished with slits adapted to receive the ends of the parts t when the

page_text: parts and are bent up at right angles to the bottom b, substantially as described
with reference to the drawings.
Dated this 5th day of September 1894
A. MENZEL,
Per W. H. Beck,
115, Cannon Street, London, Agent.