US340904A

US340904A - Lonie

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Publication number: US340904A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1886-04-27
Anticipated expiration: 1903-04-27

Description

(ModeL) W. J. AUGHTERLONIE.

PAPER BOX.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

WILLIAM J. AUGHTERLONIE, OF NEWARK, ASSIGNOR TO HIMSELF AND GEORGE W. AVERELL, OF MONTOLAIR, NE\V JERSEY.

PAPER BOX.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 340,904,dated April 27, 1886.

Application filed February 6, 1886. Serial No. 191,064. (ModeL) To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, WILLIAM J. AUCHTER- LONIE, a citizen of the United States, residing at Newark, in the county of Essex and State of New Jersey, have invented new and useful Improvements in Paper Boxes, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to apaper box of the class known as knockdown boxes.

The novel and peculiar features of my improved box are pointed out in the following specification and claims, and illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which-- Figure 1 represents a perspective view of my box partly closed. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal section of the same on a smaller scale than the previous figure, the line 00 m, Fig. 1-, indicating the plane of section. Fig. 3 is a crosssection on the line 3 y of Fig. 1. Fig. 4 is a top view of the blank prepared for folding to complete the box.

Similar letters indicate corresponding parts.

The letter A designates the part of the blank which, when folded, forms the upper side of the box, as presented in Fig. 1. The part A has end flaps, B B, which can be folded down along the dotted lines 1 1. Thelinesl 1 there and elsewhere on the blank indicate the places where the blank has been scored by a proper tool to form joints, which enable the parts to be folded upon each other. The end flaps, B B, are made tapering, as shown in the drawings. The positions of thelines 1 1 determine the length of the part A, and consequently determine the length of the box. The end flaps, B B, are bent down at right angles to the part A when the blank is folded up to form the box. Adjoining the part A is the part G, which is of equal length with the part A, and is comprised between the cuts 2 2,which separate the part 0 from the flanges D D. The part 0 forms one of the sides of the box when the blank is folded up to complete the box, and consequently its width determines the height of the box between its top and bottom. The part 0 is separated from the part A on one side by a scored joint, 1, and on its other side from the part E by asimilar scored joint. The part E will form the bottom of the box as the box is shown in Figs. 1 and 2, being equal in width and length to the part A. The bottom part, E, has end flaps, F F, which are connected to it by scored joints 1 1. The outer side of the bottom part, E, is connected by the scored joint 1 to the part G, which forms another side of the completed box, and which has on its outer edge a flap, H, which is connected to it by a similar scored joint 1, that enables the said flap to be folded under the outer edge of the part A, as shown in Figs. 1 and 3, where it is united to the under surface of part A by paste, cement, or any suitable fastening. The part G, like the part 0, is separated at its ends by cuts 2 2 from flanges D D, which are connected by scored joints 1 1 with the ends of the flaps F F. The flanges D are curved on their outer edges,so that they can readily be passed into the ends of the box between the sides 0 and G and the edges of the tapering end flaps, B, when the box is made up and is to be closed at its ends, the construction being such that the forward or free ends of the flaps D enter readily into the angular space which is left between the tapering edges of the flaps D and the sides 0G of the box, and as the parts of the flaps (marked 3) enter said space it requires more force to insert them, because the upper part of the space is narrower than the lower part by reason of the tapering edges of the flaps B, and consequently when the flaps B are fully inserted they are held in place automatically by reason of frictional contact.

The flap F and flanges D D compose whatl call the swinging head, and said head,when its flanges D D are pushed into the box, covers the swinging flap B and effectually closes the box. The sector-like flanges D should be made a little shorter along their edges 2 than along the edge 1 for the sake of convenience in inserting their free ends into the box.

The tapering form of the space which is left between the sides of the box and the edges of the flaps B is indicated by dotted lines in Fig. 1 at the left-hand side of the flap B.

The box is constructed from a single blank, and can be folded into a compact and flat con dition for transportation when the swinging heads are withdrawn from the body ofthebox, having tapering flaps B at the ends of the top thus having the characteristics of what is A, the swinging head F D D at the ends of the known as a knockdown box. bottom E, and the sides 0 G, and the pastinghat I claim as new, and desire to secureby flap H, substantially as shown and described.

5 Letters Patent, is In testimony whereof Ihave hereunto set my 1. The tapering flaps B at the ends of the hand and seal in the presence of two subscribtop A, in combination with the swinging head ing Witnesses. v

F D D, formed at the ends of the bottom E, M. J. AUCHTERLONIE. [L. s]

and with the sides C G, substantially asshown \Vitnesses:

IO and described. J. VAN SANTVOORD,

2. A paper box made from a single blank A. FABER DU FAUR, Jr.