US1508657A - Pilferproof box - Google Patents

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J. L. HOOD PILFER PROOF BOX Filed Oct. 17; 1923 Z'Sheets-Sheet 1 ww fw Patented Sept. 16, 1924.

.UNITED STATES PATENTTQFFEQEM' JOHN L. HOID,-OF PAWT'UCKET, RHODE ISLAND;

PILFERPROOF BOX.

Application filed Octoberli', 1923; Serial No. 669,174.

to provide a novel box of this type wherein it is practically impossible to remove one or more of the boards or strips or a wall of the box, to obtain access to the contents, without rendering it instantly apparent that the box has been tampered with.

A further object of the invention is to provide a box of this type which is of simple, economical and strong construction, and one wherein the fastenings, are securely held in position and practically protected against removal except by breaking down the structure.

Still further and other objects will be later set forth and manifested in the course of the following description. In the drawings:- Figure 1, is a perspective view of a box constructed in accordance with the present invention;

Figure 2 ure 1. v

Figure 3 is a section on line 83 of Figure 1,

Figure 4 is a section on line 4:& of Fig ure 1,

Figure 5 is a detail perspective view of one of the metal strips employed in con structing the box, and

Figure 6 is a like view of another of the metal strips.

In proceeding in accordance present invention, the box is preferably constructed of wood pieces or strips or wood boards to form the end and side walls, as well as the top and bottom of the box.

The end walls are formed of strips 1 is a section on line 2-2 of Figwhich are of greater thickness than the re maining strips and are provided with tongues 2, which latter may be formed by saw-cuts of kerfs 3 on one side thereof, the kerfs being spaced from the outer side faces shown in Figure with the of the strips. The opposite sides of the tongues, formed by cutting away. the opposite sides of the strips, provide the shoulders 4, while the outer ends of the tongues are spaced inwardly fromtheouter ends of the strips. irons engage over the .tongneand have wide sides 6 engaging in the kerfs 3, intermediate walls 7 engaged over the tongue ends and narrow sides 8, the latter engaging the in- Substantially J -shaped angle ner side faces of the tonguesand being dis" posed at a relative considerable distance outwardly of the shoulders 4.

The side walls are composed of wood strips 9 the ends of which are provided with saw-cuts or kerfslO to receive the flat metal strips 11, which latter" are located closer to the outer faces than to the inner faces of the strips 9, I v [I The top wall is composed of wood strips 12, the outer ends of which have saw-cuts or'kerfs to'rece-ive the fiat metal strips 13,

while the bottom Wallis composed of wood strips 14: the ends of which have saw-cuts or kerfs to receive the flat metal strips 15.

The angular and flat strips are first se-' cured to the variouswallsof the box. prei erably having atight frictional or driving fit into thekerfs'thereof so as to hold the various boards," of which i the walls are nected to the end walls by driving headless screw nails 16 through the metal strips 11 and into the boards 1 constituting the end Walls, The upper and lower edgesof the side walls are nailed to lie substantially flush with the shoulders 4,, as shown in Figure 2.

formed, in assembled" relation. 'Brads 2i? are employed to initially hold the angular strips in place The side walls are first con- The top and bottom are then nailed in posi tion by similar nails 17. driven through the fiat metal strips 13 and 15' thereof, as Similar nails 18' are then driven through the wide sides 6 of the angular metal strips and. into the too and bottom walls, the nails as shown in Figure 2, extending beyond the narrow sides 8 of the angular strips.

As shown in Figure 2 of the drawings,

the top and bottom walls 12 and 145' seat on the shoulders at so that should the boards shrink, the shoulders will prevent access to the box interior.

The top andbottom walls are thus secured in position not only by the vertical nails at their sides, but also: by the horizontal nails "18 at their ends. Similarly, the side Walls are secured by the vertical nails 17 and the horizontal nails 16, while the end Walls are held in place by the horizontal nails 16 and the horizontal nails 18,

As illustrated in Figures 2, 3 and t the nails are driven to have their} screw or roughened ends 16, 17 and 18 extend on the inner sides ofthe metal strips. It: will thus be: seen. that the metal strips protect the nails since they prevent access to the same to allow the removal-or extraction thereof.

Obviously, diffierent forms of headless nails may be used, for example ones having roughened, instead of screw, peripheries.

litwi l'l thus be apparent that each of the nails isprotected by a metal strip, the latter also holding the boards in position, presenting" a stronggstruotnre which is practicallyproott against abstraction of its contents Without sam ebein "v instantly obvious,

Having thus described my invention, What Ilelaiim as new and desire to secureby Letters Patent is z' 1; In: a box v endscomposed oi boards having end tongues With kerfs on the outer sides of the tongues and shoulders adjacent to-the' inner sides thereof, J-shaped metal kerts; sides; a-topiand a-bottom each composed of boards having end keri s located closer to: the outer than to the inner t'aees of the last named boards, metal plates in the last named. kerfs, the sides beingan ranged to lie between andifiushwith: the respective shoulders ofthe ends, the top and bottombeing-seated on. the shoulders and on the side edges of the sides, and headless rough-erred tasten'ings driven throughthe Wide side's: ofthe: J-shapedplates and into the ends of the topand bottom, through the top and bottom and into the sides and through the sides into the ends; allot the fasten-ings having their roughened parts extending on the inner sides of the respective metalplates. s

In a pilter-proei box, ends having top and bottom shoulders, angle irons embedded in the end edges Oifijtl'lfi ends, a top and a bottom seatedon the respective shoulders,

bottom, and headless roughened. fastenings driven through. the Walls to connect same and having their roughened partsdisposed on the inner faces of the respeetive strips.

3. In a box, ends having top and bottom tongues With lrerfs on the outer sides of the tongues and shoulders adjacent to the inner sidesthereof, J-shaped metal plates engaged over the tongues and in the kerfs, a top and a bottom seated on the shoulders, sides engaged with the ends and top and bottom, and headless fasteners driven through the Wide sides of the J-shaped plates and into thehends of the top and bottom;

4. In .a'box', ends having d-shaped metal platesyembedded in the top and bottom edges thereof, top and a bottom having metal plates embedded in the sideedge's thereof, sides having metal plates embedded in the end edges thereof, headlessfasteners driven through the" Wide sides of the J-shaped' plates and intothe ends ofth-e top and bettem, and headless fasteners-driven-through the second named metal plates of the sides,

top and bottom to connect the sid-es to the ends'and the top and bottom to the sides.-

respective shoulders, metal plates embedded in theside edges of the top and bottom, sides engaged with the ends and disposed between the top and bottom, metal plates embedded in the endsof the sides, headless fasteners plates of the ends and into the ends of the top and bottom, headless fasteners extending through the metal plates of. the sides and into the ends, and headless fasteners extending through the metal extending throu h the top bottom andg into the sides.

6. In abox, ends having Jshaped metal plates embe'dded in their top and bottom edges so as to be carried Wholly. by said ends, a top and a bottom engaged with the ends, sides connected to the top and bottom and tothe ends, and headless'fasteners extending through the Wide sides of he \l-shaped metal sides of thesa-id plates and into the top and bottom.

In testimony whereof; I have; signediny name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses. H v p 1 JOHN L; HOOD.

Witnesses W. BARR-Y, J, A.- MILLER.

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