Improvements in the Construction of Wooden Boxes.
Year: 1899

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Construction of Wooden Boxes.
A communication by ADOLF SCHOTT, of No. 1, Steinheil Strasse, Munich, in
the Empire of Germany, Merchant.
I, WILLIAM PHILLIPS THOMPSON, F.C.S., M.I.M.E., Agent for Foreign Patent
Solicitors, 6, Lord Street, Liverpool, and 6, Bank Street, Manchester, both in
the County of Lancaster, 118, "New Street, Birmingham, in the County of
Warwick, and 322, High Holborn, in the County of Middlesex, Civil Engineer,
do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
The present invention relates to a box in which the boards are so united
that only those surfaces or edges having a longitudinal grain are placed together
whilst all the cross-grain edges are left free or exposed on the exterior of the
box.
This object is attained in the following manner: -
Two opposite ends are placed between the top and bottom boards near the
cross-cut edges and are secured by nails driven through the top and bottom
boards into the longitudinal edges of the end boards. The cross-cut edges of
the top and bottom boards thus lic flush with the exterior faces of the end
pieces, whilst the cross-cut edges of the latter project at each side beyond the
longitudinal edges of the top and bottom boards sufficiently to receive between
them the side boards of the box, the cross-cut edges of which lie flush with the
top and bottom exterior faces of the box. Nails are driven through the side-
boards into the longitudinal edges of the top and bottom boards and through
All the cross-
the end boards into the longitudinal edges of the side-boards.
grain or cross cut edges of the boards are thus exposed flush with the exterior
of the box and do not receive any nails which might split the boards.
By this means the following advantages are attained. Owing to the pieces
being jointed with longitudinal faces or edges always in contact, and not with
longitudinal faces nailed to cross-cut edges as was previously the case, a firmer
jointing is effected, as experience has shown that nails take a firmer hold in
the longitudinal faces or edges of boards than in the cross-cut edges. Further,
the tiresome splitting of the wood caused by hammering nails into the cross-cut
edges of the boards is avoided. But besides this each board is not only nailed
through its surface but is also held fast by nails at two opposite edges.
Then again as the corners of any three adjacent boards do not actually meet
at the corner of the box, the latter is without the usual sharp corners, so liable
to be damaged.
Owing to the above mentioned advantages the present invention permits of
was formerly
poorer wood being used in the construction of boxes than
the case,
besides effecting a saving of a considerable amount of nails, and also
Finally, the usual bindings
(as the corners are done away with) of wood.
which were necessary principally in securing the stability of larger boxes, can
be done away with

page_text: But these are not the only advantages which result from the above improve-
ment, for, as is well known, it is the edges and corners of boxes that suffer most
in transport, whilst by the present invention all the exterior edges are cross-
cut which are much more capable of resisting wear, the longitudinal edges and
also the corners being done away with.
Dated this 27th day of Dogomban 1900
A communication by ADOLF SCHOTT, of No. 1, Steinheilstrasse, Munich, in
the Empire of Germany, Merchant.
I, WILLIAM PHILLIPS THOMPSON, F.C.S., M.I.M.E., Agent for Foreign Patent
Solicitors, 6, Lord Street, Liverpool, and 6, Bank Street, Manchester, both in
the County of Lancaster, 118, New Street, Birmingham, in the County of
Warwick, and 322, High Holborn, in the County of Middlesex, Civil Engineer,
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:―
The present invention relates to a box in which the boards are so united
that only those surfaces or edges having a longitudinal grain are placed together
whilst all the cross-grain edges are left free or exposed on the exterior of the
box.
To facilitate description a box constructed in accordance with the invention
is shown in perspective in the accompanying drawing.
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The object of the invention is attained in the following manner
Two opposite ends a a are placed between the top and bottom boards bb
near the cross-cut edges and are secured by nails driven through the top and
bottom boards into the longitudinal edges of the end boards a a. The cross-cut
edges of the top and bottom boards thus lie flush with the exterior faces of
the end pieces a a, whilst the cross-cut edges of the latter project at each side
beyond the longitudinal edges of the top and bottom boards sufficiently to
receive between them the side boards cc of the box, the cross-cut edges of
which lie flush with the top and bottom exterior faces of the box. Nails are
driven through the side-boards ce into the longitudinal edges of the top and
bottom boards bb and through the end boards a a into the longitudinal edges
of the side-boards c c. All the cross-grain or cross cut edges of the boards are
thus exposed flush with the exterior of the box and do not receive any nails
which might split the boards.
By this means the following advantages are attained. Owing to the pieces
being jointed with longitudinal faces or edges always in contact, and not with
longitudinal faces nailed to cross-cut edges as was previously the case, a firmer
jointing is effected, as experience has shown that nails take a firmer hold in
the longitudinal faces or edges of boards than in the cross-cut edges. Further,
the tiresome splitting of the wood caused by hammering nails into the cross-cut
edges of the boards is avoided. But besides this each board is not only nailed
through its surface but is also held fast by nails at two opposite edges.
Then again as the corners of any three adjacent boards do not actually meet

page_text: at the corner of the box, the latter is without the usual sharp corners, so liable
to be damaged.
Owing to the above mentioned advantages the present invention permits of
thinner or poorer wood being used in the construction of boxes than was formerly
the case, besides effecting a saving of a considerable amount of nails, and also
(as the corners are done away with) of wood. Finally, the usual bindings
which were necessary principally in securing the stability of larger boxes, can
be done away with.
But these are not the only advantages which result from the above improve-
ment, for, as is well known, it is the edges and corners of boxes that suffer most
in transport, whilst by the present invention all the exterior edges are cross-
cut which are much more capable of resisting wear, the longitudinal edges and
also the corners being done away with.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, as communicated
to me by my foreign correspondent, I declare that what I claim is:
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1. A wooden box having all its boards meeting with longitudinal side against
longitudinal edge (longitudinal grain to longitudinal grain) and the various
cross grain or cross cut edges exposed flush to the outside substantially as herein-
before set forth.
2. The improved wooden box constructed as a whole, substantially as herein-
before described and shown in the annexed drawing.
1000