Improvements in or applicable to Boxes Made of or from Cardboard or other Light Material.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 25th Jan., 1893
Complete Specification Left, 19th Oct., 1893-Accepted, 25th Nov., 1893
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or applicable to Boxes Made of or from Cardboard
or other Light Material.
1, MITCHELL HOLT 20 Waterloo Road Burslem, Staffs, Boot Maker do hereby
declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This my invention has reference to boxes made of or from cardboard or thin
wood, or cardboard and thin wood, such as those used by boot-makers, drapers,
stationers and others, and known as stock-boxes, the object of my said invention
being to make such boxes dust-proof, of any suitable shape and size.
To carry my said invention into practice I make such boxes in two parts, an
inner drawer which can be slid within and withdrawn from an outer casing, the four
sides and one end of the drawer, and of the outer casing of such boxes I make of
cardboard, or the sides may be made of cardboard and one end of thin wood, each
side of the open end of the drawer may have a strap, tape or the like with a
suitable fastening attached thereto, so as to prevent its contents falling therefrom
when such drawer is withdrawn from its outer casing, by means of a suitable
handle or handles attached to its front end, and I make the front edges of the
drawers of such boxes with a slanting or angular inward bevel, so that when such
drawers are forced or pushed into their normal position, within their outer casing,
such bevelled or slanting edges will bind or fit closely, thus rendering such boxes
dust-proof. Such boxes and drawers may be finished and stengthened by being
partially or wholly covered with linen cloth, leather, paint, enamel or the like.
Doted this 24th day of January 1893
JOHN NEWTON,
Longport, Staffs, Agent for Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or applicable to Boxes Made of or from Cardboard
or other Light Material.
I, MITCHELL HOLT 20 Waterloo Road, Burslem, Staffs, Boot Maker, 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 :—
This my invention has reference to boxes made of or from cardboard, or thin
wood, or cardboard and thin wood, such as those used by boot-makers, drapers,
stationers and other, but more especially applicable to the boot trade, and known
as stock boxes, the object of my said invention being to make such boxes dust
proof, of any suitable shape and size, and somewhat similar to those boxes
described in the Specification of my Patent 13594 of the year 1892, so as to
dispense with boxes having lids, as ordinarily used.
To carry my said invention into practice I make such improved stock boxes of
any suitable shape and size by any suitable means in two parts, a drawer having
four sides and one end, and a casing having four sides and one end, so that the said
drawer can be slid within and withdrawn from its casing by means of a suitable
handle or handles attached to the front end of such drawer by rivets or other
suitable means, the sides and end of each drawer and its casing I make of or from
cardboard, or cardboard and thin wood, or the sides of such box and its casing may
be made of cardboard, and the ends of thin wood, and I make two or more of the
front edges of the drawers of such boxes with a slanting or angular inward bevel
or slope, so that when such drawers are pushed or forced into their casings, such

page_text: bevelled or slanting edges will bind or fit closely, thus rendering such boxes dust
proof or nearly so. Such boxes may be strengthened by being partially or wholly
covered with linen, cloth, leather, or other suitable material, and coloured or
decorated in any approved manner.
In order that my said invention may be more readily understood and explained
in detail I have hereunto annexed a sheet of drawings on which letters of reference
are marked on corresponding parts.ou all the figures alike.
In order that my said invention may be more readily understood and explained
in detail I have hereunto annexed a sheet of drawings on which letters of reference
are marked on corresponding parts.ou all the figures alike.
DESCRIPTION OF DRAWINGS.
Figure 1 is a side elevation of the front portion or end of a drawer and its casing
rectangular in transverse section, and made in accordance with my invention,
shewing a drawer having three slanting or angular bevelled front edges partly
withdrawn from its casing.
Figure 2 is a front end elevation of Figure 1, shewing one form of metallic or
other handle I propose using in connection with the drawers of such boxes, for
withdrawing such drawers from their casings.
Figure 3 is a side elevation of the front portion or end of a drawer and its casing
square or nearly so in transverse section made according to my invention, the
drawer having four slanting or angular bevelled edges, being partly withdrawn
from its casing.
Figure 4 is a front end elevation of Figure 3, with a similar handle to that
shewn at Figure 2.
Figure 5 is a side elevation of a box similar to that at Figures 1 and 2 shewing
the drawer closed or pushed into or within its casing.
In these figures a is the casing, and 6 the drawer of such improved stock boxes,
around the sides and front lower edge of the drawer shewn at Figures 1, 2 and 5,
and around the four sides of the front end of the drawn shewn at Figures 3 and 4
I have shewn a slanting or bevelled cushion or edge c, which bevelled edges may be
flexible and made of or from india-rubber, cork, wood, cloth or other suitable
material, and be attached to such drawers during construction, or after such drawers
are made by screws, glue, rivets or other suitable means. It will be understood
that when such drawers are pushed or forced into their casings, such bevelled edges
will cause the front or handle end of such drawers to fit closely within their casings,
and when a number of such boxes are stacked together or superimposed, the
drawer of one or all of the lowermost casings can be readily removed without
displacing the boxes above.
I would have.it understood that I do not confine myself to the use of the handle
shewn at Figures 1, 2, 3 and 4 attached to the front end of the drawer of such
boxes, as handles of any other suitable shape, size and material may be used in
connection with such boxes.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is ;-
1. The construction of stock boxes of any suitable size, and shape in transverse
section for the use of boot and shoe dealers and others, each box consisting of a
drawer having four sides and one end, and a casing having four sides and one end,
the drawer being removable from its casing by means of a suitable handle attached
to its front end, such drawers and their casings being made of or from cardboard
or thin wood, or cardboard and thin wood, either the top or bottom front edge of
the handle end of such drawers being made with a slanting or inward bevelled edge
or cushion, so that when such drawers are pushed into their respective casings, such
boxes will be rendered dust proof or nearly so as herein substantially described and
set forth.
2. The construction of stock boxes of any suitable size, and shape in transverse
section, for the use of boot and shoe dealers and others, each box consisting of a

page_text: drawer having four sides and one end, and a casing having four sides and one end,
the drawer being removable from its casing by means of a suitable handle attached
to its front end, such drawers and their casings being made of or from cardboard or
thin wood, or cardboard and thin wood, two or more of the front edges of the handle
end of such drawers being made with a slanting or inward bevelled edge or cushion,
so that when such drawers are pushed into their respective casings, such boxes will
be rendered dust proof or nearly so as herein substantially described set forth and
illustrated on the drawings hereunto annexed.
Dated thin
der of October 1892
JOHN
NEWTON,
Longport, Staffs, Agent to Applicant.