US1284898A - Wire-bound box. - Google Patents

Description

A. IVI. HOOD.

WIRE BouNn Box.

APPLICATION FILED OCT. Il, ISIS.

LQ. I Patented N0v.12,1918.

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WIRE BOUND BOX.

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Paented Nov. 12, 1918.

iT@ %TATES FATENT @Fl-fl@ ARTHUR M. HOOD, OF INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA, ASSIGNOR, BY IVIESNE ASSIGNMENTS, TO C. FRED YEGGE, TRUSTEE, OF EVANSION, ILLINOIS.

WIRE-BOUND BOX.

Application filed October 11, 1915.

To all whom t may concern.'

Be it known that I, ARTHUR M. HOOD, a citizen of the United States, residing at Indianapolis, in the county of Marion and State of Indiana, have invented a new and useful Wire-Bound BX, of which the following is a specification.

The object of my invention is to produce a foldable wirebound boX blank having cleats of such form as to protect the ends of the sheet material and extend thc full width of such sheet material without, however, preventing a full overlapping of the edges of the sheets when the blank is folded, whereby the necessity of separate gage members for cleats and sheets, in the operation of manufacturing the blank, may be avoided.

The accompanyingr drawings illustrate my invention.

Figure 1 is a perspective view of my improved boX in folded condition, portions of the top and one side sheet being cut away and one end being omitted in order to show the cleat construction and cooperation; Fig. 2 a perspective view of adjacent cleat ends and sheets; Fig. 3 a plan of the inner, or cleat, face of the blank in the flat; Fig. l a longitudinal section of the blank in the flat; and Fig. 5 a perspective view of mating cleat ends.

In the drawings, T indicates a top section, S, S, two side sections, and B the bottom section of a wire-bound box, the sections being connected and bound together by binding wires and staples 11 in the usual manner. Each of the sections comprises thin sheet or slat material in the usual manner and cleats C. It is in the formation of these cleats that my invention differs from prior constructions, l

Heretofore it has been considered necessary, in order that the adjacent edges of the sheets might squarely overlap, that the cleats be of less length than the width of the sheets and, consequently,.in the manufacture of box blanks, it has been necessary to space the cleats a distance apart end to end greater than the spacing of the sheet material.

With my improved form of cleat, this difference in the spacing of cleats and sheets becomes unnecessary, the sheets being flush with both ends of each cleat.

While my improved cleat may be formed in pairs, with the ends of any one cleat iden- Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Nov. 12, 1918.

Serial No. 55,145. I

tical in conformation, l prefer to form the cleats all alike, the opposite ends of each cleat differing so as to mate with the adjacent end of the adjacent cleat. Each cleat is provided on its upper face, along its inner corner, with a longitudinal rabbet 12, thus forming a shoulder 13 against which the end of the sheet material will abut and thus be protected. At one end the cleat is rabbeted at le* at right angles to the rabbet 12 and leaving a thickness or projecting linger 15 forming a continuation of shoulder 13. At the opposite end that portion of the cleat in the plane of the shoulder 13 and for a distance equal to the depth of the adjacent cleat less the thickness of sheet material is cut away, as indicated at 16. This end of the cleat is also rabbeted transversely, as indicated at 17, this rabbeting being in a plane parallel with the rabbet 12 and at right angles to the rabbet 16 so as to leave a projecting linger 18.

By this arrangement each cleat remains the full width ofthe sheet so that the sheet will be iiush with both ends of the cleat. As a consequence, no separate gaging mechanism is necessary for the sheet material and in arranging the materials longitudinally of the binding wires, the cleats will be spaced apart a distance equal to, or slightly less than, the thickness of the sheet material, so that when the parts are folded into the position shown in Fig. 1, the binding wire will be drawn tightly around the boX.

I claim as my invention:

1. A package blank comprising a plurality of sections, each section comprising a sheet member and two transverse cleats attached thereto, said cleats having lengths substantially equal to the width-of the sheet to which they are attached and having their ends formed for overlapping engagement with the cleats of an adjacent section in such manner as to permit overlapping engagement of the sheets, and flexible binding members connecting said sections in series to permit the folded relationship mentioned.

2. A package blank comprising a plurality of sections, each consisting of a sheet and two cleats attached transversely to the sheet, each of said cleats having a longitudinal rabbet l2 for the reception of a sheet end, and at one end transversely rabbeted, and at the other end doubly transversely rabbeted, the maximum length of the cleat substantially approximating the width of the sheet to which it is attached, and flexible binding members foldablv connecting the sections in series whereby the sections may be folded to bring the eleatsinto overlapping and interlocking engagement and the sheet edges into overlapping engagement.

3. A package blank comprising a pluralty of sections eaeh consisting of a sheet and two cleats attached transversely to the sheet, each of said cleats having a longitudinal rabbet 12 for the reception of a sheet end, and the cleats of a longitudinal series having mating ends one of which is formed with a single transverse rabbet and the other Ef which is formed with two transverse rabets.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand at Indianapolis, Indiana, this 9th day of October, A. D. one thousand nine hundred and fifteen.

ARTHUR M. HOOD.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for ve cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents, 'Washingtom D. C.

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