Improvements in Boxes.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 24th Jan., 1893
Complete Specification Left, 2nd Mar., 1893-Accepted, 6th May, 1893
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Boxes.
I ALBERT TOMPKIN, Bottle Lane, Nottingham, Wholesale Milliner, do hereby
declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
Each of the corners of the bodies and lids of boxes, made of paper, cardboard,
wood or other material is provided with one or more strips of elastic, indiarubber,
or like substance. One end of each strip is firmly secured to one side or end of
the box or lid, then bent round the corner onto the next side or end.
The securing of the elastic or other substance may be effected by rivetting,
glueing or otherwise cementing the ends of the elastic to the sides or ends of the
box or lid. The elastics at the corners give way when the lid is being placed upon
the box or removed therefrom, thus causing both the box and lid to last much
longer.
Dated this Twenty-third day of January 1893.
H. W. GOUGH, C.E.,
Agent.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Boxes.
I ALBERT TOMPKIN, Bottle Lane, Nottingham, Wholesale Milliner, do hereby
declare the nature of this invention and in what manner the same is to be per-
formed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement :-
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS.
Figure 1 shows one corner of a box lid opened out to show a strip of india rubber
secured to the adjacent side and end of the lid.
Figure 2 shows a side view of one corner of a box and lid with my improvements
applied thereto.
Each of the corners of the bodies and lids of boxes made of paper, cardboard,
wood or other material is provided with one or more strips of elastic, india-rubber
or like substance 1. One end of each strip is firmly secured to one side or end of
the box or lid then bent round the corner onto the next side or end.
Each strip of elastic may be punched out from a sheet of indiarubber of the
requisite thickness, or cut the requisite length from a tape or braid of india-rubber
and cotton, silk or linen threads. The ends of each strip of elastic may be secured
to the sides or ends of the box or lid either by glue or other cement for about the
length 2 shown between the lines a, a, on Figure 1, or by two or more lines of
stitching 3. Or the ends of the strips of elastic may be secured by brass or other
metal eyelets or rivets 4 shown at Figure 2, the heads of the rivets may be plain or
ornamental to show on the outside of the box or lid, the stem of the rivet being
passed through the elastic strip and the box or lid, and clinched flat on the
inside, or the ends of each strip of elastic may be secured to the corner of a box
or lid by other means.
The elastic may be covered by paper or other material on the outside as shown
at Figure 1 or it may be left exposed as shown at Figure 2.
In any case the lengths of elastic between their fixed ends give way, when the
corner is worn or broken through allowing the edges to separate when the lid is
being placed upon the box or removed therefrom, the edges closing again when the
lid is in position. Thus causing both the box and lid to last much longer.

page_text: 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 [
claim is :-
1. The application of strips of india-rubber or other elastic to the corners of
the bodies of boxes and their lids, substantially as herein before described and
illustrated in the drawings annexed.
... this it daw of March 1902
H. W. GOUGH, C.E.,
Agent.