IMPROVEMENTS IN BOXES MADE OF CARDBOARD OR SIMILAR MATERIAL, AND IN THE METHOD OF MANUFACTURING RASM
Year: 1882

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Martha Darby Wood of Stafford in the county of
Stafford and Emily Parker Smyth of Shepherd's Bush in the county
of Middlesex for an Invention of IMPROVEMENTS IN BOXES MADE OF
CARDBOARD OR SIMILAR MATERIAL, AND IN THE METHOD OF MANUFACTURING
RASM
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Martha Darby Wood
and Emily Parker Smyth at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on
the 21st June 1882.
MARTHA DARBY WOOD of Stafford in the county of Stafford, and EMILY
PARKER SMYTH of Shepherd's Bush in the county of Middlesex IMPROVEMENTS
IN BOXES MADE OF CARDBOARD OR SIMILAR MATERIAL, AND IN THE METHOD OF
MANUFACTURING THE SAME
The object of our invention is to produce a box made of cardboard or similar
material very cheaply and quickly, while at the same time this box will be very
strong and serviceable. With this object we take two pieces of cardboard or similar
material, one for the bottom or body of the box, the other for the lid. To make
the body, we then mark out the requisite size and shape of the bottom of the box,
and divide in a suitable manner the cardboard at or near the corners of the proposed
box, and bend upwards the sides and ends of the box at right angles or thereabouts
to the bottom. We then bend the prolongations of the sides or ends, which have
been cut as aforesaid in a suitablo shape, over the ends or sides, so that they overlap
the same, and secure these parts together by metallic or other fastenings, or if we
choose by any adhesivo material. We may also bend up the sides and ends without
dividing the cardboard, and fold over the parts so that the sides and ends may
stand in the required position, and the folded parts would then be secured to the sides
or ends as aforesaid. We make the lid in the same manner, and the box is ready
for use. It can also be ornamented in any convenient or desirable way. This box
therefore, made according to our invention, is formed of two parts or pieces only,
and not as usual of many parts joined together by glue or paste. It is also very
quickly, cheaply and strongly made and secured.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed
by the said Martha Darby Wood and Emily Parker Smyth in the Great Seal
Patent Office on the 21st December 1882.
MARTHA DARBY WOOD of Stafford in the county of Stafford and EMILY
PARKER SMYTH of Shepherd's Bush in the county of Middlesex IMPROVEMENTS
IN BOXES MADE OF CARDBOARD OR SIMILAR MATERIAL AND IN THE METHOD OF
MANUFACTURING THE SAME
The object of our invention is to produce a box made of cardboard or similar
material very cheaply and quickly while at the same time this box will be very
strong and serviceable. To carry out this object we make the bottom or body of
the box of one piece of cardboard or similar material and the lid of the box of
another piece as is hereinafter explained.
In order to explain our invention we refer to the accompanying drawing.
The letters are the same in all the Figures.
Figure 1 is a plan of a piece of cardboard or similar material out of which we
make the bottom or body of the box. Figure 2 is an elevation and Figure 3 is a
plan of the end of the box made in the manner shown in Figure 1.
On the rectangular piece of cardboard or similar material A we mark out the
bottom of the proposed box shewn by the dotted lines aa aa and we cut out
the triangular pieces B B B B at the corners thereof as shewn. The sides C and
the ends D are then bent upwards at right angles or thereabouts to the bottom
and the prolongations C of the sides C are bent round the ends D and secured
together to the centre of the same by a metallic or other fastening E as shewn in
Figures 2 and 3
Figure 4 shews different methods of cutting the material. Figure 5 is an
elevation and Figure 6 a plan of the end of a box made according to the upper
half of Figure 4 in which inethod irregular pieces B B are cut out of the piece A
and the prolongations C¹ of the sides C do not overlap each other as in Figures 2
and 3 but are secured separately to the end D by the fastenings E E.
Figure 7 is an elevation and Figure 8 a plan of the end of a box made according
to the lower half of Figure 4 in which method no pieces are cut out of the piece A
but the slits F F only are made therein. The prolongations C¹ are bent over the
end D and secured to the same by the fastenings E E.
Figure 9 shews other different methods of cutting the material
Figure 10 is an elevation and Figure 11 a plan of the end of a box made
according to the upper half of Figure 9 in which the slits F F are made in the
piece A us hereinbefore described and parts of the prolongations C¹ are cut off so
that they do not overlap each other as in Figures 7 and 8 but are secured separately
to the end D by tho fastenings E E.
Figure 12 is an elevation and Figure 13 a plan of the end of a box mado
according to the lower half of Figure 9 in which the slits G G are cut in the sides
of the piece A and the prolongations D₁ of the end D are bent over the ends of
the sides C and secured to the same by the fastenings E E.
It is obvious that instead of making the prolongations on the sides of the box
as herein before described we can in all cases when we so prefer make the said
prolongations on the ends securing the same to the sides in manner as hereinbefore
described. The prolongations of the sides or ends can also be placed and secured
on the inner sides of the ends or sides instead of on the outer sides as hereinbefore
described and shewn in the drawing.
The lid is made in the same manner and when the box is so made it can be
ornamented as we may desire

page_text: Having thus particularly described and clearly explained our invention and in
what manner the same is to be performed and used we would wish it to be clearly
understood that we do not limit ourselves to the precise shapes or details as shewn
in the drawing for the same may be altered without departing from our invention
neither do we confine ourselves to the metallic fastening as shewn in the drawing
for the prolongations herein before described may be secured to the sides or ends of
the box in any manner or by any adhesive or other material but what we do
claim as our invention which is protected and secured to us by the hereinbefore in
part recited Letters Patent is:
1st The boxes each made of two pieces of cardboard or similar material one
of which pieces forms the bottom or body of the box while the other piece
forms the lid thereof substantially as hereinbefore described and declared.
2nd The method of manufacturing these boxes as claimed the said method
consisting in cutting or slitting the piece of cardboard or other similar material
near the corners of the proposed box bending upwards the sides and ends thereof
and turning the prolongations of the sides or ends on the ends or sides which
parts are then secured together substantially as hereinbefore described and
declared and shewn in the accompanying drawing.
In witness whereof I the said Emily Parker Smyth on my own behalf
and on behalf of the said Martha Darby Wood have hereunto set my
hand and seal this twenty first day of December in the year of our Lord
one thousand eight hundred and eighty two.
EMILY PARKER SMYTH (L.S.)