Improvements Connected with Cans, Boxes, and the like to Facilitate Opening.
Year: 1888

page_text: Date of Application, 12th Sept., 1888
Complete Specification Left, 12th June, 1889-Accepted, 13th July, 1889
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements Connected with Cans, Boxes, and the like to Facilitate
Opening.
I, CHARLES WELLS, of 115, Great Titchfield Street, in the County of Middlesex,
Gentleman, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
The object of the invention is to facilitate the opening of cans, boxes, and the
like, in which the joint of the lid to the body is covered by paper, or the like
substance, which has to be cut or torn before the lid can be removed.
The cutting or tearing of this paper offers a certain amount of difficulty which I
avoid by laying or gumming a piece of thread, cotton, or silk, under the paper where
it is to be cut, and leaving one or more ends or loops protruding.
By pulling the thread the paper is easily ripped open exactly where it requires to
be cut.
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PHILLIPS & LEIGH,
Agents for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvement Connected with Cans, Boxes, and the like to Facilitate
Opening.
I, CHARLES WELLS, of No. 115, Great Titchfield Street, in the County of Middlesex,
Gentleman, 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 object of the invention is to facilitate the opening of cans, boxes, and the
like, in which the joint of the lid to the body is covered by paper, or the like
substance, which has to be cut, or torn, before the lid can be removed.
The cutting, or tearing, of this paper offers a certain amount of difficulty which
I avoid by laying, or gumming, a piece of thread, cotton, or silk, under the paper,
where it is to be cut; and leaving one or more ends, or loops, protruding.
By pulling the thread, the paper is easily ripped open exactly where it requires
to be cut.
In order that my invention, and the best means of carrying the same into practical
effect, may be thoroughly understood; I will now proceed to describe the same,
referring in so doing to the accompanying drawing which is to be taken as part of
this specification, and read therewith.
Figs. 1 and 2 are, respectively, sectional and side elevations of a circular wood
box to which my invention has been applied.
Fig. 3 is a plan of the box before the lid is put on.
A is the box an B, the lid. The outer edge of the seat of the lid, as well as
that of the lid-flange, are both cut away, or swaged, according to the material of
which the box and lid are made, so as to produce a groove e in which is laid the
cord d.
E is the paper band through the junction e of which, or at any other convenient
point, the ends d' of the cord protrude. far enough to be seized and held for the
purpose of my invention.
The groove c may be dispensed with, but I find its presence convenient, inasmuch
as it prevents the cord being jammed between the lid and the box.
The cord may be of any flexible material.

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
1. The combination of box, lid, cord and paper band, as and for the purpose set
forth.
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2. Adapting a cord to the purpose of severing a box-band as set forth.
PHILLIPS & LEIGH,
22, Southampton Buildings, Chancery Lane, W.C.,
Agents for the Applicant.