US1422966A - Package blank and package - Google Patents

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PACKAGE BLANK AND PACKAGE.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE 4,1920.

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JASQN H. GREENSTREET, OF INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented July 18, 1922.,

Application filed .Tune 4, 1920. Serial No. 386,541.

To all whom t may concern Be it known that l, JAsoN H. GREEN- sfrnnnr, a citizen of the United States, re siding' at indianapolis, in the county of Marion and State of Indiana, have invented a new and useful Package Blank and Package, of which the following is a specification., Y

The object of my invention is to produce a sheet-and-cleat wirebound box blank, and completed box, in which the sheet and cleat sections are assembled to torni the blank with the several sheet and cleat sections materially separated 'from each other upon the binding wires, so that when the sections are first assembled, a material surplus of binding wire exists at each corner, this surplus being subsequently twisted upon itself so as to draw the sections iirmly together at the box corners, thereby making it possible to subject binding wires to adequate tension at cach of the box corners.

The accompanying drawings illustrate my invention. Fig. 1 is a perspective view of my improved package in partially assembled condition; F ig. 2 a plan of the blank.

In the drawings, 10, 1() indicate a series of box-side-forming sections consisting of sheets and cleats of a common type. These sections are connected with each other by binding` wires 11, which are secured to the sheets and cleats by staples 12.

rlhe sections 10 are associated with the binding wires in such manner that the adjacent edges oit the sheets are materially separated from each other, thus providing surplus portions 18 ot the binding wires between each pair ot sections. The usual end portions 14 of thebinding wires are projected beyond the first and final sections 10. By this arrangement, when the sections 10 are folded into position to form tour sides ol a package, the portions 13 of the wires become Ushaped, as indicated in Fig. 1, and these U-shaped portions are then grasped by a suitable twisting tool and twisted together to form portions 13 (Fig. 1) in such manner as to draw the adjacent portions of adjacent sections 10 tightly together. The portions 13 may then be bent down against the sections 10, as indicated at the lower righthand corner or Fig. 1. The ends 14; are twisted together, in closing the package, as indicated at 1e', in the usual manner.

I claim as my invention:

1.y A blank for wirebound packages comprising a series of side-forming sections formed 'for angular association with adjacent sections, said sections being connected together by binding wires and in such spaced relationship to each other that Ushaped surplus of binding wire is formed at the corners of the associated sections.

2. A wireboundf package comprising a series of side-forming sections associated with each other in angular relationship edge to edge, and connected together by binding wires having surplus at the package corners, said surplus being twisted upon itself to place adjacent portions of the wire under tension and lirmly hold the adjacent edges ci adjacent side-forming sections firmly together.

3. The method of making wirebound boxes, which comprises assembling previ ously-formed independent cleats in longitudinal series with connecting sheet material and longitudinally extending wires, the cleats and connecting sheet material forming a series of package-forming sides, and the wires having such lengths asto provide excessive material between adjacent edges of adjacent sideforming sheets-and-cleats; and twisting the excessive wire portions after the side-forming members have been brought to package-fomning relationship.

.4?. The method of making wirebound boxes, which vcomprises assembling previously-iiormcd independent cleats in longitudinal series with connecting sheet material and longitudinally extending wires, the cleats and connecting sheet material forming series of package-iliorming sides, and the wires having such lengths as to provide excessive material between adjacent edges of adjacent side-forming sheets-and-cleats.

5. A wirebound box blank comprising a plurality of sections iexibly connected together by wires and separated from each other a distance suliicient to provide a sur-- plus of wire which may be doubled and twisted to draw the adjacent sections to box forming positions.

6. A wirebound box blank comprising a plurality oi' sections flexibly connected together by wires and spaced such a distanceapart that the adjacent edges of the sections will be primarily in non-maintainable relation to each other and subsequently associated in box torni by taking up the surplus intermediate portions of lWire.

7. A flexible box-blank which is composed ot a pluralit)T o'f sections tlexibljT connected together by wires and the length `olf `which blank is substantially greater than the dii'nensions of the finished box require and subsequently-associated inbox form by taking up the surplus intermediate,portionsof Wire.

8. The process -o-li1naking aY Wirebound bonn comprising. the applicationfol' the binding' nires'oia length to-orm a surplus at one or more ofthe corners ofli the box7 and doubling andtWisting oflthefsurplus upon .itself to tighten the Wire around theA boX 9. The process oli making i a `Wirebound box,` comorising` Vthe tighteningof the Wires betweenathe ends thereof, as Well asy the twistingottheends of theV Wirestogether,

so that each Wire is tightened around the box and mechanically tightened on each cornera ll), The process ol making a wirebound box, comprising the Wiring of the sections of the blank together, with the sections separated from each other a distance greater than is necessary for the dimensions olfl the inishedwbox, applying the sections to the heads or end Walls of the box, thereby form* ing surplusI bendsfiirtheuWire between Athe sections, `at one'or more ofithe corners ot the box, and twistingr these surplus 4bends to tighten the Wires.

ln yWitness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand at Indianapolisi indiana, 'this {ii-'st day of June,4 A. D. one thousand 'nine hundred and twenty.

JASON H. GREENSTREETy

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