GB319446A - Improvements in and relating to boxes or containers for fragile articles - Google Patents

Abstract

319,446. Robinson, H. G., and Robinson, Ltd., E. S. & A. July 25, 1928. Boxes made from special blanks; covered boxes; fittings, internal.- A box of cardboard &c. for electric lamps, eggs &c. of the type comprising a number of pockets has an additional internal supporting unit adapted on the insertion of an egg &c. to assume an elliptical or lenticular form. The box is folded into the form shown in Fig. 3 from a blank shaped as shown in Fig. 1, a strip 7 cut to form partitions 8 being folded behind the front wall of the box. A supporting unit 15. Fig. 2, is bent to V-form as shown in Fig. 3, the walls assuming a lenticular shape when the eggs &c. are inserted. The box is secured in the closed position by engagement of teeth 14 on the lid beneath triangular portions 11 adjacent the hinges of the flaps 8. The partitions and supporting unit may be arranged as an inner container, or the box may be supported within an outer box or stiff covering.