IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF CARDBOARD OR PAPER BOXES, OR RECEPTACLES
Year: 1863

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Francois Patureau, of Paris, in the Empire of
France, Manufacturer, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE
MANUFACTURE OF CARDBOARD OR PAPER BOXES, OR RECEPTACLES."
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Sealed the 27th November 1863, and dated the 29th May 1863.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Francois Patureau at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 29th
May 1863.
I, FRANCOIS PATUREAU, of Paris, in the Empire of France, Manufacturer,
do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN
THE MANUFACTURE OF CARDBOARD OR PAPER BOXES, OR RECEPTACLES," to be as
follows:-
This Invention relates to an improved and economical mode of making
cardboard or paper boxes or receptacles for articles of various kinds, and con-
sists in first stamping from a sheet or strip of cardboard or paper slightly
moistened a number of cups or capsules of any desired shape and size by
means of a plunger
plunger and die, or matrix, or other suitable contrivance, the
planger or the matrix being worked by any convenient form of press, the
plunger being provided with a projecting collar which on coming in contact
with the upper edge lip of the die severs or cuts off the capsule so formed from
the sheet, or the same operatiou may be effected by other suitable contrivances.
The bottom and sides of these capsules are consequently formed in one entire
piece, and in order to manufacture boxes or covered receptacles, a lining of
cardboard or other suitable material is secured by means of cement or other-
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page_text: wise round the interior surface of the sides of the capsule, and projects or
stands
s up some distance above the edge of the capsule itself so as to form a
support upon which the lid of the box may be sted, such lid consisting of a
second capsule of the same diameter as the first, but without the inner lining;
or in lieu of applying a lining as above described, and using two paper or
cardboard capsules of equal diameter, one of the capsules may be made rather
larger than the other so as to fit over it, and so form the lid of the box, or a
single paper or cardboard capsule may be employed covered with a piece of
paper or fabric secured by a string, or by a band, or cemented over it. In
making receptacles for cigars and other merchandise requiring a long or deep
box, one of the above-mentioned capsules is to be secured to the end of a tube
of the desired length and diameter, and the other fitted on to the opposite end
of the tube to form a lid or cover. As these boxes or receptacles can be
manufactured at a very cheap rate, it is intended to employ them in sub-
stitution for ordinary wrapping paper in making up small parcels of goods.
In making boxes of large diameter the capsule is stamped out of a separate
disc of paper or cardboard of the proper size in place of stamping them out of
a sheet as above described.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said François Patureau in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
28th November 1863.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, FRANCOIS
PATUREAU, of Paris, in the Empire of France, Manufacturer, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-ninth day of November, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, in the twenty-sixth year
of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant
unto me,
the said François Patureau, Her special license that I, the said
François l'atureau, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others
as 1, the said François Patureau, my executors, administrators, or 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 MANUFACTURE OF CARDBOARD OR PAPER BOXES, OR
RECEPTACLES," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said François

page_text: Patureau, my executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing under
my hand and seal, or under the hand and seal of one of them, should particu-
larly 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 I, the said François Patureau, do hereby declare
the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be
performed, to belparticularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement, reference being had to the accompanying Drawings, and to the
letters and figures marked thereon, that is to say :-
The said Invention relates to an improved and economical mode of making
cardboard or paper boxes, or receptacles for articles of various kinds, and
consists in first stamping from a sheet or strip of cardboard or paper slightly
moistened,a number of cups or capsules of any desired shape and size by means
of a plunger and die, or matrix, or other suitable contrivance, the plunger or the
matrix being worked by any convenient form of press, the plunger being pro-
vided with a projecting collar which, on coming in contact with the upper edge
or lip of the die,severs or cuts off the capsule so formed from the sheet, or the
same operation may be effected by other suitable contrivances. The bottom
and sides of these capsules are consequentlyformed in one entire piece, and in
order to manufacture boxes or covered receptacles, a lining of cardboard or
other suitable material is secured by means of cement or otherwise round the
interior surface of the sides of the capsule, and projects or stands up some
distance above the edge of the capsule itself so as to form a support upon
which the lid of the box may be fitted,such lid consisting of a second capsule
of the same diameter as the first, but without the inner lining. Or in lieu of
applying a lining as above described, and using two paper or cardboard cap-
sules of equal diameter, one of the capsules may be made rather larger than
the other so as to fit over it, and so form the lid of the box; or a single paper
or cardboard capsule maybe employed covered with a piece of paper or fabric
secured by a string, or by a band, or cemented over it.
In making receptacles for cigars and other merchandize requiring a long
or deep box, one of the above-mentioned capsules is to be secured to the end
of a tube of the desired length and diameter, and the other fitted on to the
opposite end of the tube to form a lid or cover.
As these boxes or recep-
tacles can be manufactured at a very cheap rate, it is intended to employ
them in substitution for ordinary wrapping paper in making up small parcels
of goods.

page_text: In making boxes of large diameter the capsule is stamped out of a separate
disc of paper or cardboard of the proper size in place of stamping them out of
a sheet as above described.
And in order that iny said Invention may be fully understood, I shall now
proceed more particularly to describe the same, and for that purpose I shall
refer to the several Figures on the Sheet of Drawings hereunto annexed, the
same letters of reference indicating corresponding parts in all the Figures.
Figure 1 of the annexed Sheet of Drawings represents insectional elevation
a plunger and die, or matrix, in the act of shaping or forming one of the cap-
sules from which my improved boxes are manufactured; Figure 2 is a plan of
the capsule; Figure 3 is a side elevation of the same; Figure 4 represents a
finished box with the lid elevated; Figure 5 is a closed box of a modified
construction; and Figure 6 represents the construction of box intended for
long articles of merchandize.
A (Figure 1) is a metal plunger, which may be fitted to any well known
convenient form of press, so as to rise and fall from and into the matrix B.
This matrix which is stationary, may consist simply of a perforated plate, the
hole or holes in which are of a diameter corresponding to the outer diameter
of the capsule, and the plunger should fit therein so as to allow a clearance
all round for the thickness of the cardboard, the inner diameter of the capsule
corresponding to that of the end of the plunger. The sheet or piece of card-
board from which the capsule is to be made having been moistened, is laid
upon the surface of the matrix, and the plunger A is then brought down so as
to mould or depress that portion of the cardboard immediately. under it by
forcing it into thehole in the matrix, as shewn in Figure 1. A small shoulder or
projecting collar a, a, is formed round the plunger at a convenient distance or
height from its face, and when this collar in its descent nips the protruding
portion of the cardboard between the collar and the sharp edge of the matrix,
it severs or cuts off the capsule evenly all round. The sheet of cardboard is
now moved so as to bring a fresh portion under the plunger, which on its
descent will mould a second capsule, at the same time forcing out the previous
one contained in the matrix, which will fall into a receptacle beneath. In
order to prevent the cutting or tearing of the cardboard it is advisable that
the edges of the plunger be rounded on its under side as shewn at b, b. A
number of capsules each moulded or formed from one single piece of cardboard
are thus obtained, from which the boxes are manufactured in the manner
which I shall now proceed to describe.
According to one method I connect into one of the two capsules C, C,
intended to form the box a lining c of cardboard, as shewn in Figure 4, such

page_text: lining extending all round the interior of the capsule, and projecting a con-
venient height above the rim of the capsule so as to form a support for the
reception of the second capsule C¹, which constitutes the lid, as shown by the
dotted lines in Figure 4. In this way a neat, cheap, and strong form of box is
obtained, the lid making a flush joint with the body of the box. Simpler
and cheaper kinds of boxes may be made from two of these capsules of dif
ferent sizes, the larger one fitting over the smaller one, and forming the lid or
cover, as shewn in Figure 5,in which case the cementing of the lining cherein-
before referred to is dispensed with. In making boxes where considerable
depth is required, 1 cement one of the aforesaid capsules C to one end of a
cardboard tube D (Figure 6), and fit a second capsule C¹ on to the other end
of the tube to form the lid or cover. If desired, a lining of cardboard may be
applied to one or both ends of the tube D in which case the capsules C, C¹,
will join up flush to the ends of the tube as described in reference to Figure 4.
Having now described and particularly ascertained the nature of my said
Invention, and the manner in which the same is or may be used or carried
into effect, I would observe, in conclusion, that what I consider to be novel
and original, and therefore claim as the Invention secured to me by the
herein-before in part recited Letters Patent, is, the making of cardboard boxes
from capsules moulded or formed ach in one piece by means of a plunger and
die, or matrix, substantially as herein-before described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Francois Patureau, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Twenty-seventh day of November, One thousand
eight hundred and sixty-three.
(L.S.) FRANÇOIS PATUREAU.