Manufacturer
Year: 1889

page_text: Date of Application, 19th Feb., 1889
Specification Accepted, 23rd Mar., 1889
[Communicated from abroad by the SINGER MANUFACTURING COMPANY, of New York,
in tho United States of America, Sewing Machine Manufacturers.]
I, ALEXANDER ANDERSON, Manager of the Singer Manufacturing Company's
Works, Kilbowie, Dumbartonshire, do hereby declare the nature of this invention
and in what manner the same is to be performed as communicated to me, to be
particularly described and ascertained in any by the following statement :—
This Invention has for its object the production of a novel box, one especially
adapted among other things to contain sewing machine attachments, the box being
attractive in appearance and compact in construction.
The improved box, herein to be described, is so constructed that it may he folded
into a compact body, or be unfolded or opened out flat or substantially so, the
end portions of the box. standing up substantially at right angles to the sides
and being angular in shape, the free ends of the end pieces meeting substantially
at the centre line of the box when closed.
This invention consists essentially of a box composed of a plurality of sides
flexibly jointed together, and of end pieces composed of a number of matching
segments equal to the number of sides and secured to the opposite ends of the sides,
the angular or inclined edges of the end pieces abutting together when the box is
closed, and meeting in line of the centre of the ends of the box, substantially as
will be described.
Figure in full lines shows a box embodying this invention, the dotted lines
showing it half open.
Figure 2 on a half scale shows the box fully open.
Figure 3 is a partial section of Figure 2 in line X, but on a larger scale to
better show the particular construction of the bearings entering into the production
of the box.
Figure 4 is an end view of the modified form of box closed up, and
Figure 5, is yet another modification in end view, the dotted lines showing the
box closed.
My improved box, as herein shown, is composed of a plurality of side pieces
a, b, c, d, shown in Figures 1 and 2 as four in number, the box shown in Figure 4
being hexagonal in cross section.

page_text: The side pieces of the box are composed each of paper or wood 6, covered with
leather, paper or textile material, the said side pieces being flexibly jointed edge to
edge by means of a strip, as 5, preferably of cloth or leather so as to make flexible
joints as 2, 3, 4, between the different sides entering into the composition of the
box.
The heads or end pieces are composed of a number of matching segments
(a', a, b, b, c'c' and d¹, d) equal in number to the number of sides a, b, c, d, and affixed
to the sides at right angles thereto. As shown in Figures 1 and 4 these segments
are triangular in outline and as shown in the oblong box two of these seginents
are triangular and the other two are trapezoidal.
These end pieces are of such thickness that when the box is closed the adjacent or
meeting edges of the end pieces are abutted together face to face one co-operating
with the other to form and supports for the side pieces.
It is not desired to limit this Invention to the precise shape for the box in cross
section as it is obvious that many changes in cross section may be made and
yet the box contain the gist of this invention, as for instance, in Figure 4, in
end view I have shown a box hexagonal in cross section, the said box having
side pieces and corresponding pairs of end pieces marked in Figure 4 from a¹ to fi
inclusive.
In Figure 5 I have shown in end view an oblong box, it having as will be seen,
side pieces of different widths, from the end pieces; but the angles of the end pieces.
are alike as to their inclination when the box is opened out flat.
The box when folded up is held closed by means of a fastening device / herein
shown as a hook and eye.
The sides and end of the box may be lined with any suitable fabric such as cotton-
flannel, or other material. Such lining is best shown at in Figures 2 and 3.
One or more thicknesses may be used; and the individual edges of the lining for
the various sides and their onds may be made by folding under, as shown in
Figure 3.
The lining may be secured to the sides and ends by paste; or other fastening medium
may be used.
I do not limit my invention to any particular kind of lining, or mode of
fastening or applying the same; nor, indeed, to the use of a lining of any
character.
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 I declare that
what I claim is :-
1. A box composed of a plurality of side-pieces flexibly jointed together so as to
fold out flat, and end pieces or heads each composed of matched segments equal in
number to the number of side-pieces, and secured to such side pieces the adjacent
edges of such segments abutting to form the heads of the box when folded
substantially as set forth.
2. A box composed of a plurality of side pieces flexibly jointed together so as to
fold out flat, and end pieces or heads each composed of matched segments equal in
number in the
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CRUIKSHANK & FAIRWEATHER,
62, Saint Vincent Street, Glasgow,
Agents.