Corner Stays for Boxes and the like.
Year: 1898

page_text: Date of Application, 19th Apr., 1898
Complete Specification Left, 2nd Nov., 1898-Accepted, 28th Jan.,
1899
Corner Stays for Boxes and the like.
CHARLES LOFMARK, Dairy Inspector, 18, Myrtle Hill Terrace, Lower Glanmire
Road, Cork, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
Corner stays for boxes and the like made of wood, iron or such like material
manufactured in a way to strengthen the sides and ends of boxes and to prevent
the boxes yielding to any pressure put on from outside. The material of which
the stays are made is grooved in such a manner as to hold the boxes in position
and to bear rough handling without damage. And I claim that the advantages
of these corner stays are the manner in which the sides and ends are housed and
as they run the full depth of whatever box, drawer or case in which they are
used they strengthen the inside. These corner stays when used in drawers can be
made with square outside edge and when used for boxes may be champhered.
The sides and ends of boxes or drawers are nailed or glued to corner stays, as
illustrated by drawing herewith.
C. LOFMARK,
Per E. K. Kearney.
CHARLES LOFMARK, Dairy Inspector, 18, Myrtle Hill Terrace, Lower Road,
Cork, 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:-
:-
Corner stays for boxes and the like, made of wood, iron, copper, tin, and such
like materials.
The invention consists in the angle at which these corner stays are rabeted
being such that the sides and ends of any box drawer or case when fitted into
rebate of said corner stay forms an oblong or square side and end. These corner
stays are made, square, champhered or rounded, or otherwise suitably shaped doing
entirely away with sharp corners cutside, and sharp angles inside if desirable.
I propose to illustrate the invention by means of the drawings filed with Pro-
visional Specification.
These corner stays are a novelty being made of wood or other materials, and
when made of the champhered form as illustrated by drawings filed, are parallelo-
gram in form (end section) rabeted on opposite sides at such angles as to bring

page_text: any two pieces of wood or other materials when fixed in rabete of said corner
stay at right angles with one and other, they are capable of bearing great pressure
and rough handling without breaking and also secure and support the sides ends
tops & bottoms of any box drawer or case where these corner stays are used,
This great strength is given by the grain running transverse to sides & ends,
wood or other materials when fixed in rebate of said corner stays (by nails,
screws, or otherwise,) are so secured to said corner stays that the nails, screws
or other fastenings used enter said corner stays and do not protrude.
These corner stays may be so rabeted as to bring wood or other materials fitted
into rabete at any desired angle.
Having now particularly 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, corner stays made of wood or other materials rabeted on opposite sides
at such angles as to bring any two pieces of wood or other materials when fixed
in rabete of said "Corner stays" at the required angle with one and other, sub-
stantially as hereinbefore described.