MYTH Ап CRAMES AND
Year: 1860

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to George Frederick Stidolph, of Ipswich, Thomas
Simpson, of Woodbridge, Joseph Roberts Morley, also of Woodbridge,
and John Stidolph, of Ipswich, all in the County of Suffolk, for the
Invention of 66 Ternnom
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Sealed the 28th May 1861, and dated the 4th December 1860.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said George Frederick Stidolph,
Thomas Simpson, Joseph Roberts Morley, and John Stidolph at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with their Petition, on the 4th
December 1860.
We, GEORGE FREDERICK STIDOLPH, of Ipswich, THOMAS SIMPSON, of Wood-
bridge, JOSEPH ROBERTS MORLEY, also of Woodbridge, and JOHN STIDOLPH, of
Ipswich, all in the County of Suffolk, do hereby declare the nature of the
Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF CRATES AND OTHER PACKING
CASES," to be as follows:-
This Invention has for its object improvements in the construction of crates
and other packing cases. For these purposes, in constructing a crate or other
packing case, the top and bottom frames which are usually of a rectangular
form are connected together by a pair of stretchers at each of the corners or
angles, the stretchers being each composed of two parts pin-jointed together, and
pin-jointed at their ends to the angles or corners of the two frames, and the
stretchers are arranged to fold in like manner to the two parts or limbs of an
ordinary carpenter's rule. In some cases, in place of the top and bottom being
thus connected, two sides of a crate or other packing case may be thus con-
nected together. By these means a crate or other packing case may be used
when more or less opened out, and it will occupy but comparatively little space
when empty and folded together.

page_text: In some constructions of crates and packing cases, particularly those made
of open work, the bottom is made in the ordinary manner, and the four sides
are also framed in the ordinary manner, but in place of the sides being fixed at
right angles to the bottom they are so attached to or connected with it as to
admit of their being folded one on the other; for which purpose the sides
and ends are made of different heights, and their lower edges are attached to
the bottom at different distances above it, there being fixed or formed at the
four corners or angles of the bottom uprights suitable for the passage of rods,
such as are used in framing the four sides of the crate or packing case together.
The four sides are framed together, and consist of rods at a distance apart
fixed into end rails or bars, and it is through the lower ends of these rails or
bars that the rods above mentioned pass, in order to attach the framed sides to
the bottom. The framed sides when placed in their upright positions may be
fixed to each other in any convenient manner.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed 1
by the said George Frederick Stidolph, Thomas Simpson, Joseph Roberts
Morley, and John Stidolph in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 4th
June 1861.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, GEORGE
FREDERICK STIDOLPH, of Ipswich, THOMAS SIMPSON, of Woodbridge, JOSEPH
ROBERTS MORLEY, also of Woodbridge, and JOHN STIDOLPH, of Ipswich, all in
the County of Suffolk, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Fourth day of December, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty, in the twenty-fourth year of Her (2
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto us,
the said George Frederick Stidolph, Thomas Simpson, Joseph Roberts Morley,
and John Stidolph, Her special licence that we, the said George Frederick
Stidolph, Thomas Simpson, Joseph Roberts Morley, and John Stidolph, our
executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as we, the said George,
Frederick Stidolph, Thomas Simpson, Joseph Roberts Morley, and John
Stidolph, our executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any time agree
with, and no others, from time to time and at all times thereafter during the
term therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and
vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel,
Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE CONSTRUCTION

page_text: OF CRATES AND OTHER PACKING CASES," upon the condition (amongst others) that
we, the said George Frederick Stidolph, Thomas Simpson, Joseph Roberts
Morley, and John Stidolph, our executors or administrators, by an instrument
in writing under our or their hands and seals, or under the hand and seal of
one of us or them, should particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the
said Invention, and in what manner the same was to be performed, and cause
the same to be filed in the Great Seal Patent Office within six calendar
months next and immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that we, the said George Frederick Stidolph, Thomas
Simpson, Joseph Roberts Morley, and John Stidolph, do hereby declare the
nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed,
to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following statement
thereof, that is to say:-
This Invention has for its object improvements in the construction of crates
and other packing cases. For these purposes, in constructing a crate or other
packing case, the top and bottom frames, which are usually of a rectangular
form, are connected together by a pair of stretchers at each of the corners or
angles, the stretchers being each composed of two parts pin-jointed together, and
pin-jointed at their ends to the angles or corners of the two frames, and the
stretchers are arranged to fold in like manner to the two parts or limbs of an
ordinary carpenter's rule. In some cases, in place of the top and bottom being
thus connected, two sides of a crate or other packing case may be thus con-
nected together. By these means a crate or other packing case may be used
when more or less opened out, and it will occupy but comparatively little space
when empty and folded together.
In some constructions of crates and packing cases, particularly those made
of open work, the bottom is made in the ordinary manner, and the four sides
are also framed in the ordinary manner, but in place of the sides being fixed
at right angles to the bottom, they are so attached to or connected with it as
to admit of their being folded one on the other. For which purpose the sides
and ends are made of different heights, and their lower edges are attached to
the bottom at different distances above it, there being fixed or formed at the
four corners or angles of the bottom uprights suitable for the passage of rods,
such as are used in framing the four sides of the crate or packing case together.
The four sides are framed together, and consist of rods at a distance apart
fixed into end rails or bars, and it is through the lower ends of these rails or
bars that the rods above-mentioned pass, in order to attach the framed sides to
the bottom. The framed sides when placed in their upright positions may be
fixed to each other in any convenient manner.

page_text: Having thus stated the nature of our invention, we will proceed more fully
to describe the manner of performing the same.
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS.
Figure 1 shews a perspective view of a crate constructed according to our
Invention, the parts being shewn in the positions they assume when the crate
is extended to the largest extent.
Figure 2 shews another perspective view thereof when the parts are folded
together, so as to occupy the least space.
a is one rectangular frame, and 6 another rectangular frame, constituting the
upper and under sides of the crate; c, c, are stretchers which fold in their length
so as to admit of the upper and under sides coming together according to the
extent of goods introduced between the two parts a and b; these crates, it is
preferred, should be of sheet iron, though other materials may be used in their
construction. The peculiarity of this part of the Invention consists in the com-
bination of the parts a, b, c, as herein described.
Another part of our Invention is shewn at Figure 3, where the two ends or
two sides of a crate are made to fold one on the other. d is the bottom of the
crate, having at its angles short uprights e, e, to which the ends are hinged, or
are connected by axes, as shewn at f.f. The sides or ends of a crate thus put
together may be connected and covered in at top in any convenient manner,
and when desired the four sides may be similarly hinged to the bottom, and
.the whole arranged to fold one on the other. The sides and ends of a crate
may be constructed and framed together with rods or bars, as shewn at
Figure 4, or they may be otherwise framed together, as for instance, where the
ordinary material is used they may be twisted together to form the uprights at
the angles and the folding parts, as is shewn in Figure 5. The peculiarity of
this part of the Invention consists of combining the parts, as herein described.
In witness whereof, we, the said George Frederick Stidolph, Thomas
Simpson, Joseph Roberts Morley, and John Stidolph, have hereunto
set our hands and seals, this First day of June, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-one.
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