US1356895A - Box and method of making - Google Patents

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H. V. WAGONER.

BOX AND METHOD OF MAKING.

APPLICATION FILED DEC.3I.1919.

1,356,895. Patented 0ct."26,i1'9 20.

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' 7 BOX ANDMETHOD' or MAKIliTG.

Specification of i ettersPatent. I Patented 0013.26, 1920.

Application filed December 31,1919; SerialNo. 348,624.

To oil? to ham it ma'yconcem Be it known that I, HENRY V. .VVAGONER,

I a citizen of the United States of: America,

residing at New York, N. Y., have invented a new and useful Boxfand Method of Mak ing, of which the following is a specification.

box coverings, both as to the article itself and as to the methodpf manufacture.

in the accompanylngj drawings, I have shown a preferred embodiment of my invention, "but I wish it to be distinctly understood that a wide varietyof modifications may be resorted. to without departing from the spiritand scope of the same.

In the drawings:

Figure 1 is a view of the blank representing what I may term a permanent box covering. I

Fig. 2 is a corresponding view of another blank which i may characterize a protective covering. H o

Fig. 3 is an edge view of thetwo blanks shown in Figs. 1. and 2, illustrating-their relative relation when ready for application.

tore. box. s

4 is a perspective {view of the under side of a box or box cover, the same being constructed to embody my invention.

Fig. 5 is a side elevation diagrammatic in character, illustrative of part of the method resorted to in the practice of my invention.

1 represents the body of a box or box cover. In this instance,'the said body is made of pasteboard. f This body is provided with a permanent covering of paper of the desired color and quality, and outside of the permanent covering is a-protective 'covering usuallyof transparent or semi transparent paper, which is so applied thereto as to be securely retained thereon, or it may be easily removed therefrom without injury to the box or the permanent covering. 2 represents the main body of a permanent covering.- 3, 4c, 5 and 6 are fiapsat the edges of said body. The flaps 3 and 5 aredesigned to cover the ends of the box body 1, while the fiaps l and 6 are designed 'tocover the sides thereof. The extreme edges-of the flaps are designed to'foldinside of the box body as best seen in Fig. 4. 7 represents the main body of the protective covering which is preferably made of suitable protecting material such as transparent andsemitransparent paper. 8, 9, 10 and 11 are flaps on the body 7 which preferably correspond material.

spectively, excepting that the side flaps 9'1l need not be as long as the flaps 4 and V 6,, the latter being preferably extended slightly at their ends to fold. around the corners of the box body. My invention relates to improvements in protective covering by-hand to the finished art cle having thereon the permanent covering. This is a slow, laborious, and. ex pensive process. By my invention much time and expense is saved since I so construct the permanent and protective coverings that they are applied simultaneously. To that end, I provide means for tacking the protective covering 7 lightly to the permanent\ covering 2 whereby they may be handled as a unit and v applied to the box a body at oneand the same time. One con- -venient method of tacking the temporary or protective covering to the permanent covering is to provide a plurality of notches, recesses or small holes 12, l2which may be called openings at or near the edges of the flaps of the permanent covering- When the glue or. adhesive is applied to the permanent covering, a portion of said adhesive is squeezed through the openings 12 onto the surface of the protective covering 7, so thataportion of said adhesive will tack the two layers together as shown in Fig. 3, the said adhesive acting thereafter not only as a means for attaching the covering 2 permanently to the box body throughout substantially the entire area of surface contact, but also operating as a means to adequately fasten the protective covering to the finished article.

The adhesive material may. be applied in any well. known manner, for example; A i

stack of alternately arranged coveringsj2v and 7 maybe moved under a roller 15 on the surface of which is applied the adhesive As the sheets are moved under the-roller from the solid line position, indicated in Fig. 5, to the dotted line position,

the adhesive is applied to the upper surface of the permanent covering sheet 2, and simultaneously a small portion of said adhe- T sivereaches the underlying protective cover- 1 ing sheet 7, whereby the two sheets are tacked together so that the operator may easily remove the twotopsheets as a unit from the stack without disturbing either ing flaps ofthe two coverings being sim iltaneously bent down around the sides and edges of the box body. By this'inethod substantially the entire surface of thepermaiient covering is caused to adhere tothe box body, whereas, the protective covering is caused to adhere to the finished article only throughout a small portion of its area. This limited adherence-is sufficient for the pur- I poses of the protective covering,and yet it makes it easy to remove said protective cov-' ing if desired without danger of injury tothe underlying permanent covering.

As I have already indicated, I have not attempted herein to show the various modifications 01' which my invention "is susceptible, but have merely shown and described it in a preferred form, it beiiig'my belief that I am the first to devise a method of manufacture which comprises applying the permanent and the protective coverings to the box body simultaneously and asa unit. Obviously this method may be carried on by hand or by appropriate machinery. I also believe thatthis is the first instance of Se curing the temporary and permanent coverings together so that they can be handled and applied asa unit to the box. a I believe the article as thus made is also original;

1. An improvement in the art of box making which comprises placing a permanent box covering sheet against a protective boX- covering sheet, said protective sheet having a,

portion not covered by said permanent sheet, then applying a coating of adhesive mate-v rial to the first mentioned sheet and causing some of said -material to be simultaneously applied to the uncovered portion o'fsa-id protective sheet to tie said sheets together so that both may be simultaneously applied to a box body.

2. An improvement in the art of box mal ing which comprises placing *a permanent coating of adhesive material to the first mentioned sheet and causing some of said material to be simultaneously a'pp'lied'to the uncovered portion ofsaid'protective, sheet to itie said sheets together so that both may be simultaneously appliedto a box body.

3. An improvement in theart of box making which comprises placing a permanent box covering sheet against a protective be covering sheet the permanent sheet having spacedpassagestherein adjacent to its edges When ' only.

to expose corresponding, portions of said protective sheets itherethrough, then apply-" ing a coating of adhesive material to the surface of the first mentioned sheet and causing some of said material to be simultaneously applied to said protective sheet through said passages to tie said sheets together so that both may be simultaneously applied to a box body whereby the permanent sheet will be secured thereto throughout substantially its entire surface area and the protection sheet will be securedthereto at its edges In the manufacture of'boxes o-i the "character described, theinethod applying to a box body a covering comprising; first'placin;; two covering sheets together in roper overlying position and tacking said sheets together by a suitable adhesive at or near" their edges and simultaneously"applying said adhesive to substantially the entire'surface of one of said sheets, then applying both of said sheets simultaneously to a box body to cause one of said" sheets to be per manently secured to said body throughout substant ally 1tsent1re-area of surface engagement, and to cause the other sheet to be secured tothe boX body throughout only a very small part of the surface of said sec 1 0nd sheet and adjacent itsedges only. 7 i

5. In a bo vconstruction a box body, a permanent covering sheet therefor, a protective covering sheet, adhesive material securing the permanent covering to the box body and also securing the protective sheet to said box body and to the permanent sheet at and adjacent the edge of the latter, said protective sheet bei g secured to the permanent sheet, before said sheets are applied to the "box body by placing the, permanent sheet on the protective sheet a portionof the-edge of the latter being uncovered whereby the application or" a coating of adhesive to the permanent sheet will cause said adhesive to simultaneously be applied to the uncovered portion of said'protective sheet to thereby hold sai'ol sheets together so that they may besimultaneously' applied to said box bodyl T a 6. Ina 'boxconstruction, a boX body, a, coveringtherefor eon'iprising two sheets one overlying the other, the underlying sheet having passages therein adjacent its edges,

the overlying sheet covering said passages, 1

an adhesivecoating covering substantially the entire surface area of the underlying sheet on :the "side toward the boxbody as well'as thoser portions of saidoverlying body throughoutsubstantially its entire surjface area while the overlying sheet is secured to said box body only adjacent its edges.

' sheet exposed through said passages, where *bythe underlying sheet is secured to the box

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