Improvements in or relating to Paper Boxes applicable for Cigars, Cigarettes, Matches, and like Articles.
Year: 1899

page_text: Date of Application, 9th May, 1899
Complete Specification Left, 9th Feb., 1900-Accepted, 7th Apr., 1900
Improvements in or relating to Paper Boxes applicable for Cigars,
Cigarettes, Matches, and like Articles.
I, MATTHEW VIERENGEL, of 604, Van Buren Street, Brooklyn, New York, in
the County of Kings and State of New York, United States of America, do
hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
My invention relates to the production of a paper box into which to pack
cigars, cigarettes, matches and the like articles and which shall be adapted to
be made by a machine from a blank cut in a single piece out of stiff paper or
card board, and the blank folded and glued and the box packed or filled in the
machine and while being made, with the said articles.
The object of my invention is to produce a paper box which shall be capable
of being used for the same purpose, viz., the receiving of cigars, cigarettes,
matches and the like, as boxes made in two parts are now used for, and which,
owing to the smaller quantity of material required for making them, can be
produced much more cheaply than the boxes made in two parts, so that the
cost of packing the said articles will be greatly reduced by using them.
The blank is scored or creased to provide folding lines on which the parts of
the blank to form the body of the box are bent up into position to form the
box and also to provide flexible lines or hinge like joints on which the lid cover
and tongue are manipulated to open and close the box. The blank is creased,
scored and incised on these lines by means of machine operated dies such as are
commonly used for cutting and creasing paper to make box blanks, and the
blank is converted into a box in the following manner. The side sections
attached to the parts forming the front and back respectively are bent up at
right angles to the front and back. The front and back are then bent up at
right angles to the bottom whereby they are brought parallel to each other and
the sides sections meet and overlap and their contiguous surfaces having been
coated with glue the two over-lapping sides sections are fastened together by
the glue and the body of the box is thus completed. The top is next bent up
at right angles to the back and the tongue is bent over at right angles to the
top and into position over the lid where its shoulders rest upon the front or
free edge of the lid and holds the latter while the tongue is in position to be
thrust into the slot in the lid and thus close and fasten the box. The tongue
is cut to form a little more than a semi-circle, so that notches are formed at
the point where the shoulders join the tongue into which the ends of the slot
catch and hold the tongue in the slot.
The blank for the box is cut out by dies folded the sides glued together and
the cigarettes or like articles packed in the box by machinery.
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page_text: Improvements in or relating to Paper Boxes applicable for Cigars,
Cigarettes, Matches, and like Articles.
I, MATTHEW VIERENGEL, of 604, Van Buren Street, Brooklyn, New York, in
the County of Kings and State of New York, United States of America, 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 follow-
ing statement:-
My, invention relates to the production of a paper box into which to pack
cigars, cigarettes, matches and the like articles, and which shall be adapted to
be made by a machine from a blank cut in a single piece out of stiff paper or
card board, and the blank folded and glued and the box packed or filled in the
machine and while being made, with the said articles.
The object of the invention is to produce a paper box which shall be capable
of being used for the same purpose, viz., the receiving of cigars, cigarettes,
matches and the like, as boxes made in two parts are now used for, and which,
owing to the smaller quantity of material required for making them, can be
produced much more cheaply than the boxes made in two parts, so that the cost
of packing the said articles will be greatly reduced by using them.
In the accompanying drawing, Fig. 1 illustrates the blank from which the
box is made.
Fig. 2 the box closed, and
Fig. 3 the box open and showing the positions of the closing flap and lid
when it is desired to abstract a cigarette.
In a practical embodiment of my invention a blank is. cut, scored and creased,
and incised substantially as illustrated in Fig. 1, whereby there is produced the
box front I, back V, bottom E, sides E, E¹, N, G, lid E2, cover L, and tongue M.
The blank is scored or creased to provide folding lines on which the parts
of the blank to form the body of the box are bent up into position to form
the box and also to provide flexible lines or hinge-like joints upon which the
lid cover and tongue are manipulated to open and close the box. The creasing
or scoring of the blank is made on the lines 12 to permit the sides R E to
be bent up at right angles to the front I; on the lines 3-4 to permit the
sides N G to be bent up at right angles to the back V; on the lines 56 to
permit the front I and back V to be bent up at right angles to the bottom E
and parallel to one another; on
the line 7 to permit the cover
to be bent up at right angles to the back V; on the line 8 to
permit the tongue M to be bent at right angles to the cover L; on the line 9
to permit the lid E2, which is separated from the sides R E by the incised
lines 10-11, to be turned up at any desired angle to the front I;
lid E2 is incised to form a curved slots for the reception of the tongue M.
I,
and the
A blank such as that illustrated in Fig. 1, and provided with the creased
and scored and incised lines that permit the several portions mentioned above
to be bent or folded in the manner referred to, may be produced by the well-
known dies commonly used, or it may be made by hand, or by any other
method, and the blanks may be converted into a box in the following manner.
The sides R E2 are bent up at right angles to the front I, the sides NG are
bent up at right angles to the back V. The front and back are then bent up
at right angles to the bottom E whereby they are brought to positions parallel
with one another, and the sides R N and sides E G over-lap, and in this posi-
tion the side E is gummed to the side N and the side Elto the side G, and thus

page_text: the rectangular box seen in Fig. 2 is formed. The closing top L is bent up
at right angles to the back whereby it is brought over the open end of the
box, and the tongue M being bent at right angles to the top L is brought into
position over the lid E3 where its shoulders tt rest upon the front edge of the
lid, and the tongue is brought into position where it can be thrust into the slot s.
When the box is closed by shutting the lid down on the contents, turning the
top up against the ends of the cigarettes, and laying the tongue down on the
lid and thrusting it into the slots, the box will be perfectly closed and the lid
held down flat. The tongue, it will be seen is cut so as to form a little more
than a semi-circle, whereby the cover at the points where it joins the shoul-
ders tt, is cut into slightly, so that when it is thrust into the slot, the ends of
the slot catch into these points and prevent the tongue from slipping out.
When it is desired to take a cigarette out of the box, the tongue is slipped
out of the slot, the cover turned back and the lid lifted up as seen in Fig. 2.
The ends being thus exposed the cigarettes can be readily withdrawn by the
thumb and forefinger.
A box such as above described is much cheaper than the box and case now
in use, as the quantity of material and the labor required to make it are much
less. It can be cut out, made and packed by machinery; it is much more
convenient to open and close; the contents are more accessible and at the
same time they are equally as well secured, and the box is quite as durable.
The tongue M is described as semi-circular, but it is obvious that the shape
is not material, as it may be of any form that will permit of its being narrowed
at its junction with the shoulders to form the corners u u, and provide a lock
for holding the tongue in the slot.
The use of the box for holding cigarettes only is referred to above, but it is
adapted to contain other articles, for example, small cigars, matches, etc., and
it is intended for general use as a receptacle for articles of that kind.
While the box is described as made from a single piece of paper &c., and
scored or creased to adapt it to be put together, I do not confine myself to the
precise construction of the sides and bottom specified as a box made up in any
way with the lid, cover and tongue constructed as herein described, would be
within the scope of my invention.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is:-
A paper box, to be made and filled with cigarettes and the like articles by
machinery, formed from a blank and in one piece from stiff paper and con-
sisting of a front, back and bottom and double sides, the front having a lid.
separated from the sides by incised lines, and having a curved slot formed
therein, and the back having a hinged top and the top having a hinged tongue
with shoulders and notches at the junction of the shoulders and the tongue to
catch the ends of the slot in the lid when the tongue is thrust therein to close
and fasten the box.
Dated this 8th day of February 1900.
W. P. THOMPSON & Co.,
Of 6, Lord Street, Liverpool, Agents for the Applicant.