A NEW OR IMPROVED PACKING CASE, Box OR RECEPTACLE
Year: 1884

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
We JOHN CHAPLIN of Bethnal Green Road, in the County of Middlesex and
JOHN PEARSON of East Dulwich in the County of Surrey do hereby declare the
nature of our Invention for A NEW OR IMPROVED PACKING CASE, Box OR
RECEPTACLE and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly
described and ascertained in and by the following statement, reference being had
to the accompanying Sheet of Drawings and to the letters and figures marked
thereon that is to say -
This Invention relates to a new or improved packing case or box which is more
especially applicable for containing articles during their transmission through the
parcels post or other means of conveyance. The object of the Invention is to
provide packing cases or boxes which can be readily adapted to the various sizes of
articles which have to be sent. Inconvenience is often experienced in packing
articles intended to be sent by the parcels post or otherwise by reason of the
difficulty of finding a packing case, box or receptacle sufficiently near the size of
the article or articles to be sent. According to the present Invention we make
packing cases, boxes or receptacles of various sizes and shapes in two parts one of
which is adapted to slide into the other. By sliding the internal part more or less
into or out of the other, a capacity is easily produced suitable to contain the article
it is desired to enclose, and devices for fastening the two parts together after the
article is enclosed and the two parts are slid together to the required extent, are
provided in connection with the case or box or receptacle. These fastening devices
may take the form of adhesive flaps, springs, pins, hooks and eyes, and so forth, or
the inner part may be adapted as well to screw into the outer part and to be fixed
in any required position by one or other of the said fastening devices.
Figure 1 of the accompanying Drawings shews a closed packing case, box or
receptacle of a round form and constructed in accordance with this Invention and
Figure 2 shews the two parts separately. A is the external portion into which the
internal portion B is adapted to slide telescopically in the manner heretofore
described, the two portions A and B, being connected when in place, by the
adhesive flaps C or in any other convenient manner.
It will be seen that the case, box, or receptacle thus formed is of a telescopic
character and that its capacity can be varied by the telescopic action referred to, the
shape, size, and material may each be varied as required to suit different articles
and requirements, and the exterior may be utilized for the display of advertise.
ments, the protits derived from which may in some cases be sufficient to enable the

page_text: cases,
boxes or receptacles to be sold very cheaply, or even given away.
For cases,
boxes or receptacles intended to contain articles to be sent through the parcels post
we prefer that they shall be coloured red, that being the colour adopted usually in
this country for the vehicles belonging to the postal department; but of course
they may be of any other colour; we consider however that the colour of the case,
box or receptacle may be made an important distinctive feature as distinguishing
the department, agency, firm or railway company by which the package is to
be sent.
In order to render packing cases, boxes or receptacles, constructed as above
described impervious to moisture, and washable, and to prevent injury to the
contents by moths and other insects, and in. order to add stiffness and strength to
'the said packing cases, boxes or receptacles, we sometimes coat the same inside or
outside, or both, with a solution of celluloid.
Having now particularly described the nature of our said Invention and the
manner in which the same is to be performed we declare that what we claim is:
First. The construction of packing cases, boxes, or receptacles so that they can be
closed up or opened out telescopically to suit the size of their contents and
the two parts of such packing cases, boxes or receptacles be secured together
in the desired position, substantially as herein before described and illustrated
in the Drawings.
Second. The application of celluloid to packing cases, boxes, or receptacles
constructed as hereinbefore described and for the purposes specified.
Dated this Seventeenth day of January 1884