Improvements in and relating to Collapsable Boxes of Cardboard, Strawboard, Millboard, Leather-board, and like Materials.
Year: 1897

page_text: Date of Application, 6th Apr., 1897-Accepted, 12th June, 1897
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in and relating to Collapsable Boxes of Cardboard,
Strawboard, Millboard, Leather-board, and like Materials.
We, ROBERT FRY, of 24, Coedcae Street, Cardiff, Foreman Box-maker, and
FRANK EDRIC JOSEPH MURRELL, of Saint Osyth, Barry, near Cardiff, Box
Manufacturer, 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 invention relates to collapsable boxes made of cardboard, strawboard,
millboard, leather-board, and like materials.
Such boxes, when "collapsed," lie flat and so economise space when not in use as
boxes.
This invention consists in improvements in such boxes as hereinafter described.
According to this invention, the body of the box consists of panels hinged by
bending or jointing; the bends or joints constituting flexible hinges, as is well
understood in the manufacture of cardboard and like boxes. The ends of the box,
as distinguished from the body, are alike. They consist of flaps hinged by bends
or joints to the panels of the body. The said flaps, when folded, close the box
ends, and when thus folded, they are retained closed by means of a pair of running
cords run, one at each side of the box, through holes provided in certain of the
flaps. The said cords are capable of being drawn from either end of the box and
are provided at each end with a ring, or its equivalent. Either end of the box may
be first closed, and, when closed, the cords are drawn. The rings at one end of
the cords keep one end of the box closed. The rings at the other end are connected
to a hook, or other catch, fixed to the body of the box, and thus the other end of
the box is kept closed.
The drawn cords, when thus anchored, constitute a convenient handle whereby
to carry the box.
Referring to the accompanying sheet of illustrative drawings, Fig. 1 represents
one face of a box constructed and arranged in accordance with this invention. The
box is shown as collapsed. Fig. 2 is a similar view of the other half of the box.
The two halves, thus spread, lie upon one another, and are two flat sheets of
cardboard, strawboard, millboard and other like material, of which the box is
made.
The panels a and b, Fig. 1, together with the corresponding panels a¹ and b¹ in
the other half, shown at Fig. 2, form the body of the box when the sheets are
brought to the position shown at Figs. 3, 4, and 5, of the drawings, which
represent, respectively, a side view with the box having the body standing and
one end partly folded in, an end view showing the box body standing and the
ends folded in and secured, and a view of the top of the box as closed and secured.
The ends of the box consist each of four flaps c, d, e, f, and c¹, d', e¹, f¹, which are
hinged, by bending or jointing, to the panels of the body.
As seen at Fig. 1, a cord 9, having a ring gl at each end, is run through apertures
provided for it in the flaps c, d, e, f. As seen at Fig. 2, a similar cord, with
rings h' at the ends, is run through apertures provided for it in the flaps c, d, e, f.
In the panel o of the body is fixed a double hook i. A similar hook k is fixed in
the panel b

page_text: In order to bring the sheets from the collapsed to the box form, the uppermost
sheet is raised to the vertical position. The flaps at one end-it is immaterial
which are then folded in the following order :-The two side flaps are first folded
inwards, next the top flap is folded down, and finally the fourth or bottom flap is
folded upwards. The box is then stood on the folded end the other end being
open. After placing in the box the article or articles which the box is to contain,
the flaps of the open-now the upper-end are folded in the same order as above
described in respect of the other end. The cords g and h are then drawn so that
the rings at the bottom end bear against the bottom of the box. The cords having
been thus drawn and extended from opposite sides over the top of the box, the rings
at the now-upper ends are connected to the hooks i and k, as shown at Fig. 5 of the
drawings, that is to say, the ring at the upper end of each cord is connected to the
hook furthest from the side at which such cord is drawn upwards. The cords thus
arranged, serve as a handle whereby to carry the box.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what we
claim is :-
A collapsable box of cardboard, strawboard, millboard leather-board and the
like, consisting of bedy panels such as a, b, a', b', hinged together by bending or
jointing, and end flaps such as c, d, e, f, c, d, e, f, hinged to the body panels, and
fitted with running cords such as g and h with end rings, or their equivalent; the
arrangement being such that the flaps at either end are capable of being folded to
form the top or bottom of the box and the cords act to secure the flaps in the
closed position and at either end are attachable to and detachable from suitable
hooks or their equivalent, fixed to the body panels, substantially as described with
reference to the accompanying sheet of illustrative drawings.
Dated thin 5th dar of A w 1907
NICHOLAS WATTS,
Bristol, Chartered Patent Agent.