US307897A

US307897A - Paper box

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Publication number: US307897A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1884-11-11
Anticipated expiration: 1901-11-11

Description

(No Model.)

0. M. ARTHUR.

PAPER BOX.

Patented Nov. 11, 1884.

called the top.

- tacks, screws, &c.

Darren STATES PATENT @rrrcn.

CHARLES M. ARTHUR, OF MOB-BISTOVN, NEW YORK.

PAPER BOX.

SPECIFICATIGN forming part of Letters Patent No. 307,897, dated November 11, 1884.

Application filed September 1, 1884. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES M. ARTHUR, of Morristown, in the county of St. Lawrence and State of New York, have invented a new Improvement in Paper Boxes; and I do hereby declare the following, when taken in connection with accompanying drawings and the letters of reference marked thereon, to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, and which said drawings constitute part of this specification, and represent, in

Figure l, a perspective view of the box set up and closed, Fig. 2, the flat blank; Figs. 3, 4, and 6, perspective views illustrating the method of setting up the box; Fig. 5, a vertical central section looking toward the back of the box; Fig. 7, the box collapsed.

This invention relates to an improvement in that class of paper boxes which are made from a single piece of paper out in such shape that it may, when not full, lie in a flat or 001- lapsed condition for convenience of transportation or storage, commonly called folding boxes, and particularly to that class which are adapted to packing small articles, like These boxes are usually made with one end constructed to tuck within the box, to close and secure that end which is If there be no protection or pocket formed for the tongue, then it is difficult to introduce the tongue, owing to the obstruction which the contents of the box offer. Various constructions have been made to form the pocket upon the side of the box opposite to that to which the closing end is attached, and so that the tuck on that end will pass be tween the outer thickness and the lining, which, with the outer thickness, forms the pocket.

The object of my invention is to form the pocket for the tuck as well as to strengthen the bottom of the box; and it consists in the blank, cut as hereinafter described, and the box forined therefrom, as particularly recited in the claims. The blank is shown in Fig. 2. It is cut from paper of suitable thickness and quality, and the size of the blank according to the size of the box to be produced. The

parts of the blank as seen in Fig. 2 may be represented as A, the back; B, the front; 0, one side, and D the opposite side. These are cut in a continuous line, the oneside or front, B, provided with a flap, E, which, when the four sides are turned into box shape, is pasted against the opposite'side, O, in the usual manner, and whereby the body of the box is secured. From the back A an extension is'made to form the top F, which terminates in atuckflap, G. The two sides 0 D are each provided with an extension or flap, H H. These are also of usual and common constructionthat is to say, the four sides of the box, with the flap E, the top and its tuck G, and the two flaps H H, are common to boxes of this class. The back A has an extension from its lower end to form the bottom a, and from this is a further extension, b, to form apasting-fiap. From the edge of the bottom a, and at right angles with the body parts of the box, is an extension, d, which corresponds in extent and size to the side D, and from this side D, parallel with it, is an extension, 0, to form the lining for the front of the box. This front e is provided with a flap, f, at its extreme or that which is to be the upper end. From the ,side 0 is a downward extension, 9, corresponding substantially to the size of the bottom a. The blank is cut on the solid lines, broken lines denoting the scores. Diagonally from the intersection of the lining c and the bottom a a score, 71, is run across the sidelining, d, at an angle of about forty-five degrees. This completes the blank. In this condition it may be placed in the market.

To form the box the linings e d are turned up, as seen in Fig. 3, at right angles to the bottom a, and the flap b on the bottom a is pasted to the lining, as seen in Fig. 3; then the linings are turned into position to bring the lining 6 parallel with the side A, as seen in Fig. 4:; then the part B is brought overthe lining e and the part 0 turned up to close its side of the box, and C and B united by bending the flap E around and pasting it to the side 0, and as seen in Fig. 6. The lining d doubles the side D, and the lining 0 doubles the front of the box and forms a pocket, into which the tuck G may be introduced. To close the box the flaps H H are first turned in, then theflap f over those, and finally the top F turned down and the tuck G introduced into the pocket formed by the lining and the front, as

seen in Fig. 1,-to completely close the box. \Vhen the two flaps E f are respectively pasted, the diagonal score it permits the box to be collapsed, and this is done by turning the bottOIll outward, as seen in Fig. 7, the side (I doubling on the score h, as indicated in brokenlines in that figure, the four sides of the box collapsing in the usual manner for this class of boxes.

I elain1 1. The herein'described blank for paper boxes, consisting of the back A, front B, two sides, 0 D, and the flap E, in a continuous line, the two sides 0 D constructed with the flaps H H, the back A provided with the extension F G, to form the top and tuck, and an extension from the back at its lower end to form the bottom a, and from this bottom an extension parallel with ,the sides to form the side lining, (I, and front lining, e, the bottom provided with a flap, b, and the front lining, c, with a flap, f, and the side 0 with an extension, G, from its lower end, the said blank out and scored for folding, substantially as described.

2. The herein-described paper box, consist 1 ing of the back A, front 13, two sides, 0 D, and flap E, in a continuous line, the said flap E pasted to the opposite edge to secure the body of the box, the back having an extension at its upper end to form the top F and tuck G, the two sides 0 D each having a flap, H, extending from their upper ends, the back having an extension therefrom at its lower end to form the bottom a and flap b, the bottom also having an extension at right angles thereto to form the lining (Z for one side and e for the front, thelining 6 having a flap, f, at the upper end, the side 0 of the box also having an extension, 9. at its lower end, the flap b of the bottom pasted to the lower end of the front lining, e, the said extension 9 lying inside the bottom a, and the side d constructed with the diagonal score 71, whereby the box may be collapsed, the box made complete from a single blank, substantially as described.

CHARLES M. ARTHUR.

\Vitnesscs:

ALBERT Pnoc'ron, Rom. L. DowNEY.