US124459A

US124459A - Improvement in cracker-boxes

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Publication number: US124459A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1872-03-12
Anticipated expiration: 1889-03-12

Description

CHARLES F. TH-U RSTON.

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CHARLES F. THURSTON, OF CAMBRIDGEPORT, MASSACHUSETTS.

IMPROVEMENT IN CRACKER-BOXES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 124,459, dated March 12, 1872.

To all to whom these presents may come:

Be it known that 1, CHARLES F. THURsToN, of Cambridge-port, in the county of Middlesex and State of Massachusetts, have invented an Improved Caddy or Box for Holding Crackers, &c.; and do hereby declare the same to be fully described in the following specification and represented in the accompanying drawing, which denotes a perspective view of a caddy or box as constructed in accordance with my invention.

The object of my invention is to produce a cheap and effective anti-absorbent caddy or box for preserving crackers, wafers, and other articles of pastry or confections in their normal condition.

It is a well-known fact that it is impossible to keep crackers and various other kindred edible matters containing any considerable amount of shortening-butter, lard, or other oleaginous or fatty matter-for any great length of time in a vessel composed of an absorbent material; and consequently the better quality of such articles are packed and kept in tin boxes.

To furnish a cheap and reliable substitute for such boxes is the design of my improvement. My invention completely obviates this difficulty, and preserves the articles in their fresh normal state; and my invention consists in an improved manufacture of caddyviz., of pasteboard or card-board, having one of its surfaces veneered with tin-foil, such veneered surface covering the entire inner surfaces of the caddy orbox. V

In carrying out my invention, I take sheets of pastcboard or card-board, of any desirable been effected, I next stamp out or cut the bottom, top, and sides of the caddy by means of suitably-shaped dies. The parts are then put together in the ordinary manner that paper boxes are made, each part forming an inner surface havingametallic facing.

"In the said drawing, A denotes the body of the caddy, which is of a rectangular shape, but may have any other desired form. B is the cover thereof, the said parts being connected by means of a paper hinge. a is the metallic veneering.

From the above it will be seen that I produce a simple, cheap, and effective box for the purpose designed-one which can be afforded at a much cheaper rate than one made of tin, while at the same time it preserves the normal condition of the articles inclosed with equal effect.

I am aware that wooden boxes for containing lard have had a coating of tin-foil'applied to their exterior surfaces, while the wood itself has been impregnated with an anti-absorbent solution. I am also aware that tea-chests have been made of wood and combined with an interior casing of lead separate and independent therefrom; neither of which I claim. Nor do I claim the invention as described and shown in Letters Patent granted to Chas. L. Tucker on May 2, 1871, as my invention differs therefrom.

Having described my invention, what I claim as an improved article of manufacture, is

A caddy or box formed of metal-surfaced paper or pasteboard, in manner as shown and described, and for the purpose set forth.

CHARLES F. THURSTON.

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