US1254692A - Foldable shipping-box. - Google Patents

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@HES HFM,0]F ROCHESTER, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR, BY Ill/IESNE ASSIGNMENTS,

T0 JBETHA VIRGINIA HOFMAN,

or ROCHESTER, NEW Yoan. A

FOLDJBLE SHIPPING-BOX.

Specication of Lettere Jlatent.`

Patented dan, 2, 494.

Application led May a4, 11916. Serial No. 99,500.

v .To all 'wlwmz't may concern:

lBe it known that I, CHARLES HOFMAN, of Rochester, in the county of Monroe and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Foldable Shipping-Boxes; and ll do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the saine, reference bemg had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, and to the refervence-numerals marked thereon.

y invention has for its purpose to construct a foldable packing or shipplng box from a single blank of material, such as cardboard, heavy paper, or other flexible fibrous substance, and'is designed to a'ord a structure which can be more or less economically manufactured and furnishes a rigid, strong and durable container susce tible of being readily packed and fulfils all the requirements of a box of this general class. To these and other ends the invention consists in certain improvements and combinations of parts, all as will be hereinafter more fully described, the novel features being pointed out in the claims at the end of the specification.

lin the drawings: y

Figure 1 is a perspective view of the blank from which the box is formed;

Fig. 2 is a sectional view showing the blank partially assembled and collapsed; ig. 3 is a transverse sectional view of the box when assembled;

Fig. 4 is a sectional view on line 4-4a of Fig. 3, looking in the direction indicated;

Fig. 5 is a vertical sectional view on line 5- of Fig. 3, and

F ig. 6 is a perspective view showing the box assembled for filling.

Similar reference numerals in the several gures indicate the same parts.

he invention may be carried out in .different ways other than that about to be describe but for the purposes of illustration, l have shown a preferred embodiment for which there is employed a blank, which comprises twobodyjportions each consisting of a central sectionjl and side sections 2, the latter being ada ted'to overlap one another in the complete box, 4. The body portions are disposed on opposite sides of an end3, which is connected thereto by walls 4 that are adapted to fold Btg un the inner surfaces of the walls of as illustratedin Fig' to the walls of the body when the body portions, as indicated in Fig. 3, so that the end 3 may be inset with reference to the ends of the body portions.l The walls 4 are secured against the walls of the body portions Ain any desirable manner, as by staples, rivetsor the like. The end 3 has connected to its' free edges extensions, one of which comprises an inner Wall 5 and an outer wall 6, while the other comprises an inner wall 7 and outer wall 8. The wall 8 is adapted to be located interiorly of the adjacent wall of the body portion, as shown in Fig. 5, for attachment thereto, affording a bracing and stiifening means, while the wall 6 is adapted to be positioned exteriorly of the body ortion and .to be secured after the box is filled, insetting of the end 3 being permitted in each instance by the inner walls 5 and 7.

\ A second end 9 is similarly connected with the adjacent body portion and is provided with extensions at its free edges, including inner walls 10, 11 and 12, respectively, and outer. walls 13, 14 and 15 respectively. rlhe walls 14 and 15 are wider than the wall 13, as shown, and are adapted to lie adjacent the inner surfaces of the walls of the body portion, to which they are attached by securing devices that may be used for the purpose.

in assembling the structure, the parts are secured together in the mannershown in Fig. 6, with the" upper flaps 2 of the body portions and the walls 6 and 13 of the extensions open, and after the box is packed,y

the side sections 2. are brought downwardly into overlapping relation and the walls 6 or otherwise.

ll claim as my invention:

1. A blank for a foldable shippingbox, comprising body portions with sections of one body portion adapted to overlap correspondin sections of the other body portion, an end ocated between said body portions, walls connecting the end and body portions, and adapted to lie adjacent to walls of the body portions when the box is folded to affor an inset end, extensions at the' free edges of said end adapted to lie adjacent and 13 are thensecured by nailing, riveting folded, a second end connected the body adjacent to a wall of the bodyv when the box is folded, and extensions carried by the tree to one of the box is portions by a wall adapted to lie located adjacent to edges of the second end and adapted to be the walls of the body when the blank is folded, the said end extensions acting to hold the aforesaid overlapping sections of the body portions together.

2. A blank for a foldable shipping box comprising body portions with sectlons of one body portion adapted to overlap corresponding sections of the other body portion, an end, a wall connecting said end andl body portion, and extensions carried by the free edges of the end and adapted to lio adjacent to the walls of the body when the blank is folded, and acting to hold the aforesaid overlapping sections of the body por tions together.

CHARLES HOFMAN.

Witnesses:

HARRIET T, VAY, H. E. STONEBRAKER.

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