US268311A - Cake or cracker box - Google Patents

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(No Model.)

H. R. STEWART, GAKB 0R CRAGKER BOX. Y

Patented Nov. 28,1882.

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- UNITE STATES A PATENT FFICE.

HUGH It. STEWART, OF ALLEGHENY, PENNSYLVANIA.

CAKE OR CRACKER BOX.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 268,311, dated Appliea-tionfiled April 21, 1882. (N 0 model.) 7

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HUGH R. STEWART, a citizen of the United States, residing at Allegheny city, in the county of Allegheny and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in (Jake and Cracker Boxes, of which the following is a specification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawings.

The object of this invention is to provide a cheap, light, durable, and air-tight box or package for containing and preserving in a fresh condition articles of diet, such as cake, crackers, biscuit, and the like; also, to construct the said box in a simple and substantial manner, so that it will resist the wear and tear of the trade. These objects I attain by the devices illustrated in the annexed drawings,in which Figure 1 represents the blank from which my improved box is made, the dotted lines in said figure indicating the points at which the blank will be creased in forming the box. Fig. 2 is a perspective view of the box with its lid or cover open, and Fig. 3 the box incased in a sealed wrapper.

The material which I employ for making this box consists of card, straw, or paste board,

, covered on one side with tin or lead foil, which latter, when the blank is made up into a box, constitutes the inner surface of the same.

The blank shown in Fig. 1 is composed of a layer of card orpaste board and a layer of tin or lead foil, which can be pressed, rolled, or otherwise secured together. This blank is cut away at its corners and scored at two of its sides, as indicated, so as to form the coverflaps, the main end flaps, and the combined corner and end flaps ofthe box. The dotted lines, which indicate the points at which the blank will be creased in forming the box, also serve in Fig.1 to space off the blank into the several parts of the box, which saidparts are as follows:

A indicates the bottom; B B, the sides; C, the four corner and end flaps; D, the main outer end flaps; E E, the two cover-flaps, and F the flaps which will be bentinwardly to constitute supports for the cover. The blank is further formed with the tongues or catches 1 on its end flaps, 1), and with slitsor slots 2 in November 28, 1882.

its corner flaps, O, for receiving said tongues. It is also formed with the slits or slots a in one of its cover-flaps E, and on its remaining cover-flap provided with tongues or catches a for engaging in the said slots a 7 It will be observed that the tongues 1 on an end flap point toward each other, and that of the tongues formed on the cover-flap two point one way, while the third points in a reverse direction. This arrangement of tongues effective] y locks the component parts of the box together after the tongues have been inserted into their appropriate slots. These tongues are preferably cut from the material which composes the blank, and will fit snugly in the slots, so as to close the same.

In forming the box shown in Fig. 2 from this blank the sides B are turned up onthe lines G and brought at right angles to the bottom A. The corner flaps, G, are then turned inwardly on the lines I until they stand at right angles to the sides B, thereby perfecting the corners, and also forming the inner portions of the ends of the box. The ends D are then turned up on the lines H and brought at right angles to the bottom A, so as to form the outer walls or portions of the box ends, their tongues being inserted from opposite directions in their respective slots 2 in the corner flaps by first drawingthe sidesB slightly toward each other, then inserting the tongues, and next springing back the said sides, which, it will be seen, carry the slotted corner flaps. The cover-supports K are also bent inwardly into the horizontal position shown in Fig. 2, so as to constitute strong supports for the two portions E of the cover. The box, having its tin or lead foil surface L on the inside, will now be ready to receive the cake, crackers, biscuit, or other like article which it is designed to contain.

After being filled the flaps E, forming the two portions of the cover, will be turned down and connected together by engaging the tongues of one portion in the slots of the other. The whole is then incased in a strong paper wrap per, M, which is closely united and sealed at its folds or ends by suitable gum or paste,thus rendering the package air-tight and adapted for shipment.

These packages will be light and compact, and can be kept sealed as long as may be desired. After the wrapper has been removed the covers can be opened, so as to inspect or remove any portion of the contents, and at the same time the parts of the box will be held firmly together.

Prior to my invention paper or pasteboard boxes have been lined with foil. Hence the feature of lining a box with foil is not claimed by me; but

What I claim as my invention is The herein-described box for containing and preserving articles of diet, said box being provided with a. tin or lead foil lining, and being constructed with the bottom A, the two sides B, the four corner and end portions 0, with 15 HUGH It. STEWART.

Witnesses:

WM. BlLLmcs, P. SOLARK.

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