US310241A

US310241A - Paper box

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Publication number: US310241A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1885-01-06
Anticipated expiration: 1902-01-06

Description

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UNITED STATES PATENTMOFFICE.

CHARLES M. ARTHUR, OF EVANSVILLE, VISOONSIN.

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 310,241, dated January 6, 1885.

Applica-tion led September 15, 1884. (Model.)

To all whom t may concern.-

Be it known that I, CHARLES M. ARTHUR, of Evansville, in the county of Rock and State of Visconsin, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Paper Boxes; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

This invention relates to the class of collapsible or knoekdown paper boxes, and more especially to such boxes of the telescoping variety.

The several branches ofthe invention concern the form of the blank, the Yform of the fold, and the attachments of the collapsed and partly-joined box, and the completed structure.

The invention consists in the mattershereinafter fully set forth, and pointed out in the appended claims.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l is a perspectiveview of a teleseoping form of paper box for which my improvement is more particularly designed. Fig. 2 shows an extended blank from which an open-ended paper box adapted to form one half a telescoping box may be formed in accordance with my present improvement. Figs. 3, 4C, 5, and 6 illustrate the blank variously folded, showing different stages in the folding of the blank,

and in some particulars also showing dissimilar forms of folds made therein in completing the collapsed and pasted structure from the blank. Fig. 7 is a perspective view of an open-ended box, which may form either the outer or the inner of two parts of a telescoping box, such as is shown in Fig. 1, but which ,contains a certain peculiarity of construction that particularly ts it to form the outer one of sai parts. Fig. 8 is a perspective interior view of onev` half of the open box shown in Fig. 7, divided in the plane of the line :o x, and looking toward the side C. Fig. 9 is an interior perspective view of the opposite half of the said box, or looking toward the side A. Fig. l0 is a perspective interior view of one half of the box shown in Fig. 7, vertically divided in the plane of line y y, and looking toward the side D. Fig. Il is an interior view of the opposite half of the box, or looking toward the side B. Fig. 12 is a view of the same part of the box as shown in Fig. ll, when the several parts of the box-bottom occupy the relation given them in that form of fold in the blank shown in Fig. 6.

One of the objects of this invention is to pro-V vide a form of blank for a collapsed or collapsible paper box in which two parts which, either in the collapsed or in the finished box, are to be located ata distance from each other, are brought in line with and adjacent to each other, so that the paste, glue, or other adhesive agent may be conveniently and rapidly applied to said parts, and in which, when the members ofthe blank are folded upon each other to form the collapsed box, bothpasted surfaces are brought into proper position for attachment with the members with which they are to be joined.

Another object of theinvention is to provide a construction in a collapsed box in which not only the lap whichjoins the sides is pasted or secured, but in which the interior lap, which connects one of the bottom iiaps to the appropriate side of the box, is also permanently secured, so that it fully sustains said bottom piece, and also brings the latter perfectly and promptly to its place in the operation of finally setting up the box.

Still another object of the invention is to provide a form of the interiorly-projecting lapping partial side of the outer part of a telescoping box, whereby said lapping and projecting member will offer little obstruction to the application of the parts of the telescoping box to each other.

. In Fig. 2, which shows the blank extended, full lines indicate through cuts at which the adjacent parts are entirely separated, and dotted lines indicate 'scores to facilitate folding, except the dotted lines at the margin of the member D', whi ch indicate one allowable variation in the form of said member.

A, I3, O, and D in the blanks shown are IOO -f to said side by paste or glue.

F, F, and G are adjacent continuations of the several members, A, B, and C, respectively, intended to formy the closed end oi' the box when the latter isset up, and called end 5 pieces7 or end flaps.77 The ceiitralend piece or flap, F, is provided with an extension, DZ,

intended to form a tuck ,to hold the said iiap in place in the completed box in a familiar manner. Through cuts in the blank completely [O separate said end iiaps, E, F, and G, from each other, but all these parts or members are separated from the side members by scores, and a score also marks therdivision of the tuckiiap D2 from the end piece F.

I 5 D' is a lateral continuation of iiap G, reaching to or near the free edge of the lap-piece A, and commonly narrowed to a point at its outer end, as shown. Said part D is intended to fold upon the inner side member, D, with 2 j its point or end d at d', Figs. 2 and 3, and to be permanently secured at this point or end The said end piece G has a score-line, g, which bisects the angle adjacent to the side D,to permit the said end piece to be temporarily folded upon itself for the purpose of forming the collapsed and partiallyjoined structure. This particular score-line forms a single feature in a former invention, set forth in Letters Patent of the United States No. 234,221, dated November 9, 1880, and is not here independently claimed. It is of course understood that the lap A is to be united by paste or glue to the inner face of the side A at its edge ct. It is desirable, in

order Yto readily and economically accomplish the pasting necessary to join the lap-piece A with the side A and the extremity of the meniber D With the slide D, as described, that the said extremity of the member D and the lap- 4o piece A be arranged adjacent to each other,

as shown.

In the following description it may be understood that the paste has been applied to the under surface of these parts A and D by some suitable device or means While the blank is in its extended form, as shown in Fig. 2. After Vbeing pasted the members of the blank are folded in their score-lines, substantially as will be next described.

lVith a view to imparting greater supporting strength to the closed end of the completed box, I prefer to turn the iiap G toward the side C, and to simultaneously fold said flap G upon itself by bending it in the score-line g.

This operation brings the several members G and D into the positions indicated in Fig. 3, with the pasted surface on the part D uppermost. N ext, the side D maybe folded over the parts C, D', and G, bringing the 6o pasted surface of the lap-piece A uppermost, in the position indicated in Fig. 4, and also bringing the inner surface at d of the side D into contact with the pasted surface d of the part D. The side A is then folded upon the 6 5 side B and pasted lap A', as indicated in Fig. 5, a permanent union of the side with the lap being effected by the application of suitable pressure of the hand or otherwise. The blank being thus folded and joined in two places presents the collapsed structure shown in plan in Fig. 5. Said structure is obviously capa ble of being expanded and further folded to form an open-ended box, T L, at any time, by first pressing the extreme lateral edges thereof until the sides are at right angles with each other, and then turning in the iiap E over the thusextended end piece G, and finally folding the outer flap, F, over E and thrusting its tuck DZ into the space between the members D and D. The arrangement of the end pieces just described is shown in Figs. 8,- 9, 10, and 11.

Still greater strength may be obtained in the closed end by proceeding as follows from the stage of the folding represented in Fig. 3-that is to say, first turn the flap E against the side A, and` then simultaneously turn the sides A and D toward each other, inserting the lap A between A and E as both are borne down upon the underlying sides B and C. Thereafter the fiap F D2 may be folded over into the position shown in Fig. 6, if desired., giving to the collapsed structure the compact rectangular form presented by said Fig. 6'. In finally setting up the box having the end piece E upturned, as last described, the bottom piece, G, (as before,) straightens out of itself when the sides are brought to right angles with each other, and the flap E will need to be pushed down upon it by the finger from the inside of the box, after Which the flap F and tuck DIl are disposed of as before set forth. The arrangement of the bottom pieces will, in this case, have the relations shown in Fig. 12.

In bringing the member D upon C, instead of folding the end piece G upon the side member, C, as above suggested, and as shown in Fig. 3, said end piece may be simply folded upon itself in the diagonal score g,- butin this case the form of collapsed box shown in Fig. 6 is not obtainable.

In the use of an open-ended box formed as and from the blank described for the larger or outer part of 'a telescope box, such as is illustrated in Fig. l, the inclined direction of the projecting edge of the member D favors its passage over the upper edge of the inner half-box, and thus facilitates putting the two telescoping parts together.

I claim as my invention- IOO IIO

1. A box-blank comprising the four sidesl f A B C D and lap A', arranged continuously in line with each other, the end iiaps, E, F, and G, continuous with the sides A, B, and C, the tuck D2, continuous with the flap F, and a member, D', continuous with the side of the flap G, and terminating practically at or in line with the edge of the side lap, A', substantially as described, and for the purposes set forth.

2. A collapsed partly-made box constructed from the blank described, and having the parts A and D permanently secured, respect- In testimony that I claim the foregoing,` as 1o ively, to the sides A and D, as set forth. my invention I znfx my signaturein presence 8. In ai telescoping box, the combination, of two Witnesses. with an inner part, L, of the box, of an outer open ended part, T, constructed from the CHAR-LES M. ARTHUR. blank described, and having the member D' pointed and permanently secured at its pointed XVitliesses: extremity to the side D, substantially as and OTTO WINTER, for the purposes set forth. Gno. L. PULLEN.