IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF BOXES MORE ESPECIALLY ADAPTED OR SUITABLE FOR MATCHES, SPLINTS, CIGARETTES, BON-BONS, AND OTHER ANALOGOUS ARTICLES
Year: 1873

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Edward Loomes at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 11th
October 1873.
I, EDWARD LOOMES, of No. 9, Athelstone Road, Bow, in the County
of Middlesex, Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of the said Inven-
tion for "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF BOXES MORE ESPECIALLY
ADAPTED OR SUITABLE FOR MATCHES, SPLINTS, CIGARETTES, BON-BONS, AND OTHER
ANALOGOUS ARTICLES," to be as follows:-
The boxes more especially contemplated as the subject of the
Invention are match boxes, fusee boxes, and the like, a manufacture
requiring to be produced of a very inexpensive character. Whether for
these or for other purposes the Invention relates to the well-known “slide
box" or sliding drawer of such boxes as are made with four sides and a
bottom (and an open top) sliding within a four sided cover, envelope, or ·
wrapper open at one or both ends. And it also embraces the said cover,
envelope, or wrapper when made with one closed end.
The ordinary process of making boxes of the "slide box" character is
divided into several operations. Wood is cut into thin shavings, is
pressed and creased where the angles are to be formed, bottom or

page_text: end applied, and paper is pasted on to bind and hold all together, the
paper being frequently printed with the name of the manufacturer,
advertisement, trade mark, or other device. All these operations are
performed not only by hand but also by machinery adapted to the
purpose.
The object of the present Invention is to do away with the necessity
of paper for the above mentioned purposes, thus economising not only
material but labor in manufacture, and to turn out boxes with any
device printed upon them at one or more operations, as the case may be.
An illustration of my improved manufacture of the "slide box" or
sliding drawer is given in the accompanying Drawing which will explain
more clearly my intentions.
Figure 1 is a piece of thin veneer or shaving of wood commonly
known in the match trade as "scaleboard" (or any other suitable material
may be used) which I cut in parts as at a, a, a, a, and crease in parts as 1
indicated by the dotted lines, thus providing for the four sides and the
bottom of a slide box, as indicated by the folding up, and glueing or
cemented together shewn by the perspective sketch, Figure 2.
The improved manufacture of the cover, envelope, or wrapper is to
be performed in a somewhat similar manner. Should the operations be 2
performed in one machine the scaleboard, pasteboard, or cardboard
equal in length and width to the number of the respective parts of the
boxes to be made, whether drawers or cases, will be fed through rollers.or
by any other means, with an intermittant motion, printed, cut into form,
creased where to be bent, and forwarded, to the folding or forming part 2
of the machine. The requisite parts will then have some glue or other
suitable cement placed upon them, and the folding being completed the
boxes may be passed through tubes or preferably such a length of endless
webs as will allow time for the cement to become sufficiently dry to be
adhesive.
In the case of match boxes I apply the sand paper afterwards or
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