US394158A

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Publication number: US394158A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1888-12-11
Anticipated expiration: 1905-12-11

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2 Sheets-Sheet 1.

(No Model.)

W. E. ORUME.

PAPER REGEPTAOLE.

Patented Dec. 11 1888.

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2 Sheets-Sheet 2.

W. E. ORUME.

PAPER REOEPTAGLE.

No. 394,158 Patented Dec. 11, 1888.

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IVILLIAM E. CRUME, OF DAY"ON, OHIO, ASSIGNOR TO THE CRUME & SEFTON MANUFACTURING COMPANY, OF SAME PLACE.

PAPER RECEPTACLE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 394,158, dated December 11, 1888.

Application filed August 15, 1888. $erial No. 282,819. (No model.)

To (all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, \VlLLIAM E. CRUME, a citizen of the United States, residing at Dayton, in the county of Montgomery and State of Ohio, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Paper Receptacles, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

My invention relates to an improvement in paper receptacles designed to contain merchandise in either liquid or solid form, in which a sheet of paper or similar flexible material is folded by creasing it into a rectangular bag or vessel with fiat bottom and sides, and the sides extended up so as to be bent or folded toward one another at an obtuse angle to the sides, their edges being fastened together to close the receptacle as in the n1anner familiar in the construct-ion of travelingbags and the like. The upper portions of the ends are creased inward or folded upon themselves to completely close the vessel.

The novel features of my invention will be more fully hereinafter set forth.

In the accompanying drawings, illustrating the invention, like letters re inesent identical parts in the various figures.

Figure 1 represents a single sheet of paper which has been formed into a receptacle and is flattened out, showing the creases used or produced in folding by dotted lines. 2 is a view in perspective of my improved receptacle closed and fastened and provided with a carryingbale. Fig. 3 is a view in perspective of the receptacle open. Fig. 4.- is a view in perspective showing a modified form of the closed receptacle in which the upper parts of the ends are not folded in, but upon themselves to produce an end wall, all in the same plane and unbroken. Fig. 5 is a similar View to Fig. 4, showing the receptacle open. Fig. 6 is a sheet of paper flattened out, out, and creased to produce the form of recepta cle shown in Figs. 4? and 5, with the unbroken ends.

In producing the vessel the sheet of paper is cut in the form shown and scored as indicated by the dotted lines to cause it to crease or fold as desired. The four corners 5690 being then drawn upward and together and the edges forced inward, the sheet is folded at the l scores, forming the receptacle A, having a flat base or bottom and straight or fiat sides and ends. The flaps or folds formed by folding the sheet upon itself are all brought within 5 5 the vessel and folded against or parallel with .the sides, where they are fastened by the wire staples B orin any wellknown manner. These folds being thus arranged and fastened give the vessel greater stiffness and strength, and the folds or surplus paper being folded inward leave the outside surface plane. This is important as producing a better appearance and providing a plane surface upon which to print or stamp upon the receptacle any matter which may be desired. The upper portions of the sides are creased at C and pressed or bent toward one another, one of them being provided with an extension-flap, D, which is folded over the other, as seen in 2 and 4-, thus completely closing the top of the vessel. The upper portion of the ends may be folded in two ways, as shown in Figs. 1 and 6. The creases G G may be made to come together at the edge of the paper, as in Fig. 1. hen the end extensions are folded in at an angle to the ends proper and beneath the extensions of the sides, there is an exterior triangular recess at each end of the box, as is shown in Figs. 2 and 53; but when the creases G I are carried to the edge of the end extension at a distance apart, as in Fig. ti, and the creases H H are provided, then when the end extensions are folded inward the fold-lines of the central portions meet the fold-lines at the ends of the side extensions in the plane of the end proper, as shown in Figs. 4: and 5, leaving the ends unbroken and all in the same plane, without the exterior triangular recess.

In order to fasten the receptacle shut I provide, attached to the flap, a flexible strip or strips, K K, preferably of thin sheetnnetal, though any n1aterialsuch as tapes or strings-may be used. These strips K K may 5 be passed through the side at the crease where it is joined to the flap 1), or through the flap D itself, and bent over and tied or fastened. Vhen the flap D is folded over the edge of strips K K are passed under the staples B B and bent or secured by tying in any conventhe opposite side, as in Figs. 2 and 4, these int way, thus effectually closing and securing the vessel, the staples B B in this construction of receptacle serving a double purpose to fasten the folds to the sides and hold the receptacle in shape and to lock the lid. The bail or handle may be provided in any convenient way or of any desired material. I prefer to use awire bail, M, the ends of which are passed inwardly through the side carrying the flap D at the crease or hinge where the flap D joins the side as that becomes the apex of the receptacle when closed, and then carried out to the ends of the receptacle and bent up and around the lid or extended side, as shown at N. It thus provides a secure fastening and gives additional strength and stiffness in binding together the sides and the inner folds.

Having fully described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States, is

1. A paper receptacle having a cover integral with it and comprising defined extensions of the sides of the receptacle, which incline at an angle to the sides when brought together to close the receptacle, one of these sides being provided with an extension or flap to fold over the other to completely close the receptacle, and provided with means for securely fastening the same, substantially as and for the purpose described.

2. A paper receptacle having a cover integral with it and comprising defined extensions of the unsevered sides of the receptacle, which incline at an angle to the sides of the receptacle when brought together to close the receptacle, one of the sides being provided with an extension or flap to fold over the edge of the other side, in combination with the strips K K and staples 13 B, substantially as and for the purpose described.

A receptacle formed of a single sheet of paper, the top consisting of extensions of the sides folded together, the sides re-enforced by the inwardly-folded flaps, the cla1nping device l3, fastening the folds and the sides together, and the lock or fastening of the cover engaging the clamping device, substantially as and for the purpose specified.

4. A paper receptacle having a cover integral with it, and consisting of the extended sides of the receptacle folded together over the inwardly-folded ends, one of these sides provided with an extension or flap to fold over the other, and a handle, M, attached at the hinge or crease, which becomes the apex of the vessel when closed, substantially as and for the purpose described.

5. In a paper receptacle having a cover integral with it and comprising defined extensions of the sides of the receptacle, which incline at an angle to the sides of the receptacle when brought together to close the receptacle, the end extensions having fold-lines and folded inward, so that the fold-lines of the central portions meet the fold-lines at the ends of the side extensions in the plane of the end proper, substantially as and for the purpose described.

\VILLIAM E. CRUME.

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