US233355A - Folding packing-box - Google Patents

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(Modem J. H. KEATING. Folding Packing Box.

No. 233,355. Patented Oct. 19, I880.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JEREMIAH H. KEATING, OF BOSTON, ASSIGNOR TO HIMSELF AND WILLIAM F. MILLER, OF CHELSEA, MASSACHUSETTS.

FOLDING PACKING-BOX.

SPECIFICATION forming partof Letters Patent No. 233,355, dated. October 19, 1880.

Application filed March 1, 1880.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JEREMIAH H. KEAIING, of Boston, of the county of Suffolk and State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful Improvement in the Manufacture of Folding Packing-Boxes; and I do hereby declare the same to be described in the following specification and represented in the accompanying drawings, of which- Figure 1 is a perspective View of a box of my improved kind. Fig. 2 is a bottom view,

' the dotted lineg m indicating the line on which the bottom flaps fold inward; Fig. 3, a vertical and oblique section of it on linea: wot Fig.

I5 1. Fig. 4 is a representation of the pattern or form for cutting the box from a single piece of paper or other proper material. Fig. 6 is a sectional view, showing the bottom of the box in a partially-folded position.

The improvement relates particularly to the bottom of the box, which, in accordance with my invention, is made in two separate parts, each of which is connected to the two next adjacent sides of the box, and is adapted to fold either within or without the box and on a diagonal line of the bottom, each of the parts, when at right angles to the sides of the box, lapping on the other part.

In Fig. I of the drawings the box is shown 0 as open at top and expanded for being filled, while in Fig. 5 it is shown as contracted or folded together for being packed into a small compass or arranged in a pack with others of the same kind.

The body or sides of the box is composed, as shown in Fig. 4, of a rectangle, A B O I), of thick paper, which fold at right angles to each other on four parallel lines, a b c d, the rectangular part A'D of being intended to 0- be overlapped by the rectangular part B G g h,

(ModeL) and to be pasted thereto. The sides of the box are marked, respectively, 1 2 3 4 and the flap 5, the same side bearing the same number throughout the drawings. K marks the tucking-flap.

' In Fig. 4 the parts to compose the bottom of the box are shown atH and I, one of which, H, is square and the other a right-angle triangle whose base equals the diagonal of the square. They extend down from the outer- I most side portions of the rectangle A B U 1), in manner as shown, and each on its inner side is provided with a fly, as shown at r and s. This fly is to be turned within the box and pasted to the next adjacent side, in order to complete the connection of each bottom part with the two next adjacent sides of the box. The square part of the bottom folds on its diagonal m 0 and the triangular part I on its altitude-line g g when the box is folded for transportation.

When the body of the box is unfolded into the form of a quadrilateral prism the parts composing its bottom lap on each other, the square part extending across the entire box and over and upon the triangular part.

The parts constituting the cover of the box may be made and arranged as represented at E, F, and G, or may be otherwise suitably formed and arranged.

I claim- In the folding box, the bottom thereof, composed of the two parts H I, each part connected with the next two adjacent sides, and

arranged to lap on the other part and to fold diagonally, substantially as set forth.

JEREMIAH H. KEATING. Witnesses:

R. H. EDDY, W. W. LUNT.

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