US1102750A

US1102750A - Folding paper-board box and stay therefor.

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Publication number: US1102750A
Application number: US71415212A
Authority: US
Inventors: Edgar M Hawkins
Original assignee: MD Knowlton Co
Current assignee: MD Knowlton Co
Publication date: 1914-07-07
Anticipated expiration: 1931-07-07

Description

E. M. HAWKINS.

FOLDING PAPER BOARD BOX AND STAY THEREFOR. APPLICATION FILED AUG. 9, 1912.

1,1 02,750. Patented July 7, 1914.

' hesirelv a) lied fastenin sta stay has generally been applied to the adonnng side-Wall. sections of the blank with ddffii lildte Pi liillilhl fi EDGAR M. HAWKINS, Oh ROCHESTER, NEH YORK, ASSIGNOR TQM. D. KNOWLTON COMPANY, OF ROCHESTER, NEW YORK, A CDRFORATIQN 0F NEW YORK.

FOLDING- PAPER-IBOARD BOX AND STAY THEREFQR.

ildfiZJZtid Application filed August 9,

To all whom it may concern Be it known that l, EDGAR M. HAWKINS, citizen of the United States, and resident of Rochester, in the county of, Monroe and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Folding Paper-Board Boxes and Stays Therefor, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to folding papee board boxes and fastening stays therefor, and one of the principal objects of the invention is toprovide means for reducing the danger of a fastening stay on the edge of a box being; stripped, torn or rubbed ofi' from the box. 5

In the manufacture of folding or knockdown paper-board boxes it is customary to score and cut a one-piece blank along suit-- able lines for permitting the folding or setting-up of the blank into box form. it has also been customary to join the ends of the blank at one edge of the box by an ad in the form Such of a strip of strong sheet material.

its ends overlapping onto the end wall sections, and in setting up the boxes with the fastening or joining stay applied in such manner, it has been the-practice to slit the overlapping ends'of the stay back lengthwise thereof with a sharp knife to permit ot the end wall sections being folded down onto each other in usual manner. Some have held that this slitting of the stay facilitated the tearing of the same, While others have held that the tendency of the stay to tear when slit and folded around the corner of a box in this manner was no greater than when the stay was cut shorter and applied with square ends terminating at the edges of the side Wall sections. However this may be, a stay so formed at its end as to have a substantially U-shaped opening-that is, a stay in which a substan tially U-shaped piece with the closed endof the U facing inward is cut bodily out of the end of the stay-is much superior to either of the others just described, as there Specification of Letters Patent.

iatenteddnly 1912. Serial in. 714,152.

Mill

is inuch less tendency for a tear to start in the tape. This is especially the case with stays made of strong textile fabric or tape in which the closed end of the il-shapcd cut runs substantially in the direction of the woof of the fabric in which case it exceedingly diilicult to tear against the woof threads. I

An important object of the present i ticn is to prevent this re ing of b and the result is obtained by main r use of stayssubstantially the type described, that is to say, by employing a stay in which the,- end is bifurcated in such a manner that a piece is taken bodily out of the end of the stay. which piece when rcznoved leaves a longitudinal opening or cutout portion the inner end wall of which is defined by a line running in. a general direction crosswise of the stay.

()tlier features of the invention not hereinbefore referred to will be hereinafter described and claimed and are illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which,

Figure l is a plan of a portion of a finished paper-board box hlanlF-that is, a paperboard box complete except for set ting it up-ha\'ing applied thereto a stay such as hereinbefore described, and Fig. 2 is a perspective of the same showing the parts in the positions they assume at one cornerof the box when the finished blank set up inbox form. Similar characters designate like parts in all the figures of the drawings.

l3 designates in a general Way a portion of a finished bot: blanh in its unfolded or spread-out state. l our adjoining sections or Walls of this blank or box are illustrated,

the same being designated respectively by t e). O

i and llere the sections u and 3 represent side walls of the box, While, 4 and 5 maybe end flaps for forming, one end or the top of the box. These parts are or may be substantially of the usual and ordinary construction, they being formed froinf.

a blank suitably scored and out along in tersecting lines, such as'li, 7, 8 and ,91, for permitting the proper folding of the and flexible material.

, thereof.

ferent sections atjthe edges represented by v said lines. It has been customary to join so that approximately half of the main portion of the stay will adhere to one sec tional wall 2 and the other. half to the adjoining sectional wall 3 of the box, any suitable adhesive being employed for the purpose ofcausing it to adhere. At its ends,

however, this stay difiers from those heretofore'employed in that a portion of it is cut out len thwise of the strip to leave a substantia y U-shaped opening, that is, an

opening having an end wall; defined by a :line running in a general direction cross- Wise of the strip.

The two ends or forks formed by bi'furcating one end of the stay in this manner are caused to adhere. to the t5 twosections or flaps, such as l and 5, that are intended to be folded down onto each ;;other.to fori'irone end-such as the topof.

the box. Preferably the'opening formed by bifurcating the-end of the stay is substantially U-shaped or semi-elliptical, as illustrated at 11, the forked ends result-ingfrom dividing the stay in this manner being indicated at 12 and 13. It will-be seen that the inner end wall of 85 the opening '11 runs substantially in the same general direction as the woof of the tape from which the stay is formed, and that it is therefore exceedingly difficult to-tcar the stay lengthwise. Moreover, it will be 40 seen that when the box is set up, as illustrated in 2 the shape of the inner walls of the forked ondsj12 and '13 of the stay issuch as to reduce to the minimum the danger of the-stay being torn or rubbed off asa re sult of catching on an obstruction or otherwise. Because of these things a box provided with a fastening stay constructed and applied substantially in the manner described and illustrated, has great advanta "es overv those heretofore used and is aflorde a 'much better protection at the, corners What I claim is':-, 1. A folding box of paperboard or like material, comprising a blank scored and out to form a plurality of walls two of which are adapted to' be folded down onto each other to positions in which they are in planes substantially perpendicular to the planes of two adjoining walls, in combination with a stay comprising va strip of, sheet material having a longitudinally bifurcated end'the opening in which is substantially U-shaped Ward and located substantiallv at the corner of said four walls and the forks of said hi; furcated end adhering to the two walls which are adapted. to be folded down onto each other and with the body portion of the strip adhering to theother two walls.

2.'*A folding box of paper-board or like material, comprising a blank scored and cut to form a plurality of walls two of which are adapted to be folded down onto,each other to positions in which they are in planes substantially perpendicular to the planes of two adjoining walls, in combination with a stay comprising a strip of textile' fabric having a longitudinally bifurcated end the opening in which is substantially U-shaped with the closed end of the opening facing inward and located substantially at the corner of said four walls and running in the general direction of the woof of the strip and with the forks of said bifur cated end adhering to the two walls which are adapted to be folded down onto each other and with the body portion of the .strip adhering to the other tw wallsz/ material, comprising a blank scored and cut to form a plurality ofwalls two of which are adapted to be foldeddown onto ea'ch other to positions in. which they are in'planes substantially perpendicular to theplanhs of two adjoining walls, in cornbination fxwith a stay comprising a strip of/t'exti le fabric having 'a longitudinally bifurcated end t e opening in which issubstantially seIni-el hptical with the longitudinal axis i the opening running in the general diredt'ion of the warp of the strip and the rounded end of the opening facing inward and located substantially at the corner of said four walls and running in the general direction of the woof of the strip and with the forks of said bifurcated end adhering to the two walls which are adapted to be folded down onto each other and with the body portion of the strip adhering to the other two walls.

l. A fastening or joining stay for paperboard boxes, said stay comprising a strip of sheet material having a longitudinally bifurcated end the opening in which is substantially -U-shaped with the closed end of the opening facing'inward,

5. A fastening or board boxes, said stay comprising a strip of textile fabric having a longitudinally bifurcated end the opening in which is substantially U-shaped with the closed end of the opening facing inwardand running in the general direction of the woof of the strip.

6. A fastening or joining stay for paperboard boxes, said stay comprising a strip of with the closed end of the'opening faced in- 3. A folding box of papersboardoflike joining stay for paper- I textile fabric having a longitudinally bifur-' founded end of the opening facing inward cated end the opening in which is substan- Signed at Rochester, in the county of tially semi-elliptiizal with the longitudinal IVIc-nroe, and State of New York, this 31st axis of the opening running in the general day of July, A. D. 1912.

EDGAR M. HAWKINS.

direction of the warp of the strip and the Witnesses H. W. SPEARES,

andrunning in the general direction of the Tnos. D. PA'ITON.

weed of the strip.