Improvements in or applicable to Boxes, made of or from Card-board or other Light Material.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 16th Jan., 1891
Complete Specification Left, 5th Sept., 1891-Accepted, 24th Oct., 1891
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or applicable to Boxes, made of or from
Card-board or other Light Material.
MITCHELL HOLT 20 Waterloo Road, Burslem, Staffordshire, Bootmaker, do
hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This my invention has reference to boxes made of or from card-board or other
light material, such as those used by drapers, boot-makers, stationers, cigar dealers
and others.
When several of such boxes without handles are placed or packed closely
together on the shelving of shops or like places, it is found difficult to remove one
or more boxes from between the others without damaging the box or lid. The
object of my said invention is to provide such boxes with a cheap and efficient loop
or handle, by means of which any separate or single box may be removed from.the
shelves without damage. To carry my invention into practice I place a piece of
tape, braid, leather or other suitable material of any convenient shape and size
round, or partially round the outside or inside lower portion of, or on the underside
of such boxes while in course of manufacture before the outer covering of such
boxes is put on, or it may be attached to such boxes already made, on the outside
by paste, glue rivets, or other suitable means, and I leave the said material a little
loose or slack so as to form a handle at one of the ends or sides of such boxes by
which they may be separately or singly removed from the shelves when requisite.
When the lids of such boxes are sufficiently deep rimmed I attach the tape,
braid, leather or other material of or from which the handle is formed, to such lids
by the means above indicated, or by other suitable means.
Dated this 14th day of January 1891.
JOHN NEWTON,
Agent for Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or applicable to Boxes, made of or from
Card-board or other Light Material.
MITCHELL HOLT, 20 Waterloo Road, Burslem, Staffordshire, Bootmaker, 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 other
light material, such as those used by drapers, boot-makers, stationers, cigar dealers
and others.
It will be understood that when several of such boxes without handles are placed
or packed closely together on the shelving of shops or like places, it is often found
difficult to remove one or more boxes from between the other without damaging a
box or its lid.
The object of my said invention is to provide such boxes with a cheap and
efficient loop or handle, by means of which any separate or single box can be removed
from between the others with facility without damage.
To carry my said invention into practice, I place and fasten a piece of braid,
leather, tape, webbing or other suitable material of any convenient shape and size
around or partially around the outside or inside lower portion of, or on the under-
Ride and one end of such boxes while in course of manufacture before the outer

page_text: covering of such boxes is put on, or it may be attached to such boxes already made
by means of metallic clips of any suitable shape and size, and I leave the said
material of or from which the handle is formed a little loose or slack, so that the
said loops or handles may be easily taken hold of and by which such boxes may be
separately or singly removed from the shelves when requisite.
In order that my said invention may be more easily understood and explained in
detail, I have hereunto annexed a sheet of drawings on which letters of reference
are marked on corresponding parts on all the figures alike.
DESCRIPTION OF DRAWINGS.
Fig. 1 represents a front elevation of a cardboard box, having one end of a handle
made of or from webbing attached to one end of the said box, and the other end of
the handle to the bottom or underside of the box by means of metallic clips, c.
Fig. 2 is a front elevation, and Fig. 24 is a sectional elevation taken through the
line A-B of Fig. 2.
Fig. 3 is a front elevation of a blank from which the transverse clips d are
formed.
Fig. 4 is a plan or edge view of Fig. 3 shewing the position of the ends of the
said clip d when ready to be used for attaching a handle or handles to such boxes.
Fig. 5 is a sectional plan or edge view, shewing the ends of the clip passed
through the material of which the box is made, and bent or doubled over against
the inside of the box.
Fig. 6 is a side elevation of a box shewing a handle attached to one of its sides
by means of metallic clips.
Fig. 7 is an end elevation of a box having a handle connected thereto at its sides
by means of metallic clips d.
Fig. 8 is a side elevation of Fig. 7.
Fig 9 is a front elevation of the metallic clip d' connecting the handle to the box
as shewn at Figs. 7 and 8.
Fig. 10 is a plan or edge view of the clip d' shewn at Fig. 9, shewing each of its
ends e, es, turned or bent down ready for use for attaching handles to such boxes.
In these views Figs. 1, 6, 7, and 8 are shewn about one-third of the full size, and
Figs. 2; 24, 3, 4, 5, 9 and 10 are drawn about full size.
In these figs. a represents the body of a box to which a handle 6 is secured by
means of metallic clips c, d, the end of each of the clips are first passed through
the ends of the material of which the handle is made, then the said end e³, and the
end of each of the said clips d' are passed through the end, side or bottom of the
box and bent or doubled over against the inside of the box, so as to securely hold
the said handles or loops to the box.
At Figs. 1 and 6 a short length of each end of the handle or loop is first passed
through the slot or aperture c³ formed through the said clips c and doubled back
against the main part of the loop and connected thereto by string, thread, metal
clips or other suitable means, the ends e* of each of the said clips c, shewn at Figs. 2
and 2 is then passed through the box, and bent or doubled over against the inside
of the box, so as to securely attach the loop or handle to the box.
The ends g, g of metallic clips & Fig. 4. formed from a metallic blank Fig. 3
being passed through the box adjacent to the metal clips c for the purpose of
strengthening the connection of the handle to the box.
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,
1st. The adaptation of loops or handles of suitable shape and size made of or from
braid, leather or webbing to the sides, ends or ends and undersides of boxes made of
or from cardboard or thin wood, or cardboard and thin wood, such loops being for
the purpose of enabling one or more of such boxes when packed together on

page_text: shelving to be removed from between the others with facility and without damage,
as herein substantially described and set forth.
2nd. The attaching of loops or handles of suitable shape and size made of or
from braid, leather, or webbing to the sides, ends, or ends and undersides of boxes
made of or from cardboard or thin wood, or cardboard and thin wood, by means of
metallic clips of suitable shape and size, such as those shewn at Figs. 1, 2, 6, 8,
and 9 of the drawings hereunto annexed, and as herein substantially described and
set forth.
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1001
JOHN NEWTON,
Longport, Staffordshire, Agent for the Applicant.
JOHN NEWTON,
Longport, Staffordshire, Agent for the Applicant.