Improved Method of and Means for Attaching Handles to Boxes made of Cardboard or the like Material.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 27th May, 1891
Complete Specification Left, 5th Sept., 1891-Accepted, 31st Oct., 1891
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improved Method of and Means for Attaching Handles to Boxes
made of Cardboard or the like Material.
MITCHELL HOLT, 20 Waterloo Road, Burslem, Staffs., Boot-maker, do hereby
declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This my invention has reference to boxes made of or from cardboard or the like
material, which boxes are applicable for the purpose of containing light articles, and
the object of my said invention is to provide such boxes with a suitable handle by
which the said boxes may the more easily be carried about from place to place.
To carry my said invention into practice I take a piece of leather, braid, webbing
or other suitable material of any suitable shape and size, one end of which I secure
to the body of the box beneath the lower edge of the rim of the cover when in its
normal position by means of a thin metallic clip having pointed ends, one end of
which metallic clip I pass through the body of the box and bend or double over a
short length of same inside the box. I then pass the other end through one end of
the material forming the handle, and through the side of the box to the inside of
the box where I bend or double the same over so as to secure the said handle to the
box, or I pass both ends of the said clip first through the end of the material
forming the handle and then through the body of the box to the inside of the box.
where I bend or double over the ends of the said clip in any suitable manner so as
to' securely attach the handle to the box. To the other end of the material forming
the handle which passes above and across the lid of the box, I attach by any
suitable means a suitably shaped metallic spring hook, the upper short tongue of
which hook when in its normal position passes upward between a transverse
metallic clip attached to the front side of the body of the box, and the outside of
the body of the box, the said transverse clip being fastened to the box by passing
each of its ends through the side of the box opposite to that to which one end of the
handle is secured, and bending the ends of the said clip over inside the box so as to
secure the said clip to the box.
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1901
JOHN NEWTON,
Agent for Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improved Method of and Means for Attaching Handles to Boxes
made of Cardboard or the like Material.
MITCHELL HOLT, 20 Waterloo Road, Burslem, Staffs., Boot-maker, 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 the like
material, which boxes are applicable for the purpose of containing light articles,
and the object of my said invention is to provide such boxes with a suitable handle
by which the said boxes may the more easily be carried about.
To carry my said invention into practice, I take a piece of leather, braid,
webbing, cord or other suitable material of any suitable shape and size, one end
of which material I secure to the body of the box beneath the lower edge of the
rim of the lid or cover when in its normal position, by means of a metallic clip of
any suitable size and shape, one end of which metallic clip 1 pass through the

page_text: Fig. 1 is a perspective view of a box made of or from cardboard having a
handle formed from cord attached thereto by a metallic clip and a metallic spring
hook.
Fig. 2 is a front elevation of a similar box to that shewn at Fig. 1, partly in
section, shewing a cord handle attached to the box by means of a metal clip at one
end, and by a metallic spring hook at the other end.
The above figs. being drawn about one third of the full size.
Fig. 3 is a plan view of a blank formed from a thin piece of metal.
Fig. 4 is a perspective edge view of a metallic clip which may be used for
attaching one or both ends of a handle to a box such as described, and formed by
any suitable means from a blank, such as that shewn at Fig. 3.
Fig. 5 is a plan view of a blank formed from a thin piece of metal, from which
the transverse metallic clip shewn at Fig. 6 is formed by any suitable means, and
attached to one end of the box and into which the upper short tongue of the
metallic hook shewn at Figs. 2, 7, 8, 9, 10 and 11. engages for connecting one end
of the handle to the box:
Fig. 7 is a side or edge elevation of the metallic spring hook.
Fig. 8 is a front elevation of Fig. 7.
Fig. 9 is a front elevation, shewing the manner in which the cord forming the
handle of the box is attached to the spring hook, and the manner in which the
spring hook engages or is connected to the transverse metallic clip, for the purpose
of connecting the handle to the box at that end.
Fig. 10 is an enlarged side view shewing the spring hook connected. to the box
by means of the upper end of the said spring passing upward between the side of
the box, and the transverse metallic clip attached to the end of the box, and
Fig. 11 is a sectional plan view taken through the lines A-B of. Figs. 9
and 10.
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The Figs. 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, and 9 being drawn about full size, Figs.. 10 and 11
being enlarged views.
In these figs. a represents a cardboard box, to one end of which box a handle b
formed of or from cord is attached by means of a metallic clip c², such as is shewn
at Fig. 3. By any suitable means I form or make a metallic. spring hook which
I attach to the other end of the cord handle b, by passing the looped end of the
said handle between the parts e, e² of the said spring hook d, into the loop or eye
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of the said hook d as shewn at Figs. 2 and 9, the said handle which is attached to

page_text: the metallic spring hook d is connected to the box a, by passing the upper short
tongue 2 of the said hook d upward between the end of the box, and a transverse
metallic clip attached to the box a by passing both of its pointed ends through
the material of which the box is made, at the opposite end to that which one end
of the handle is secured by the clip c², and bending the ends of the said clip f
over inside the box so as to secure the said clip to the box.
The said metallic spring hook being prevented from becoming accidentally
detached from the transverse clip by means of a raised portion d³ formed on or in
the said transverse clip. The said transverse clip being formed from a metal
blank such as is shewn at Fig. 5 by stamping, pressing or other suitable means.
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,
1st. The adaptation of handles made of or from leather, braid, webbing or cord
to boxes made of or from cardboard or thin wood, or cardboard and thin wood for
the purpose of enabling such boxes to be carried about, in the manner as herein
substantially set forth and illustrated on the accompanying drawings at Figs. 1, 2,
and 10.
2nd. The attaching of handles made of or from leather, braid, webbing or cord
to boxes made of or from cardboard or thin wood, or cardboard and thin wood by
means of a metallic clip or clips c² shewn at Figs. 1, 2 and 4, a metallic clip or
clips shewn at Figs. 6, 9, 10 and 11, and by means of a metallic spring hook or
hooks attached to one end of the material forming the handle, as herein sub-
stantially described and set forth, the said metallic spring hook being illustrated at
Figs. 2, 7, 8, 9, and 10 of the drawings hereunto annexed.
Dated this 4th day of September. 1891.
JOHN NEWTON,
Longport, Staffs., Agent for the Applicant.