US476622A

US476622A - Veneer box

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Publication number: US476622A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1892-06-07
Anticipated expiration: 1909-06-07

Description

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J T. FERRES.

VENEER BOX.

No. 476,622. Patented June 7, 1892.

JEFFERY T. FERRES, OF ANDERSON, INDIANA.

VENEER BOX.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 476,622, dated June 7, 1892.

Application filed February 1, 1892.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JEFFERY T. FERRES, a citizen of the Dominion of Canada, residing at Anderson, in the county of Madison and State of Indiana, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Veneer Boxes, of which the following is a specification.

The object of my invention is to provide bottle-wrappers, egg-carriers, and other boxes made more easily of wood veneer which are put together stronger and more durable than hitherto obtained from this material.

It consists in joining two pieces by a locked hinge-joint in a novel and useful manner.

The various features of my invention are fully set forthin the description of the accompanying drawings, making a part of this specification, in which Figure l is a perspective view of one form of box. Fig. 2 is a plan view of one of the sides, showing cross-strips B in section when first united. Fig. 3 is a similar view showing the same finished. Fig. at is a plan of one of the cross-strips.

In Fig. 1 I have shown the corner cell of one of a series of a rectangular serial box for the purpose of illustrating one form of box and the process of construction, which is preferably carried out as follows:

The wide strips A are wet or steamed, so as to expand the grain of the wood, which runs horizontally, as seen in Fig. 1, then mortised or slotted across the grain. The strips B are thoroughly seasoned or their fibers are condensed and then notched, and in this condition are inserted into the slots of strip A. The slots are cut as wide as the strips B, which are inserted therein. This leaves a space or spaces 0 0 between the neck of strip B and the ends of mortise a. The box is then dried until all of the moisture is expelled from strips A, and during the drying process they will shrink till the edges of the mortises a have drawn together and embrace the neck of strip B, as shown in Fig. 3, and the strips B are thus well secured by the mortises a.

One or more cross-pieces B can be used, ac-

Serial No. &19,932. (1T0 model.)

cording to the height of the box. Several advantages are secured by this construction first, ease and simplicity of construction and effectual locking of the pieces together; second, strips B are passed loosely into the mortises and do not have to be forced in, which is apt to split strips A; third, closerfitting joints are obtained by this method of construction.

The steps of the process may be varied and obtain the same result. Thus stripA may be of wet veneer and strips 13 of seasoned veneer and put together and the veneer strips A seasoned or dried, or strips B may be inserted into the mortises of green or moistened strips A and then wet or steamed until they expand and the necks of strips B fill the mortises a and when completed the box dried and the same results are produced.

Ilaving described my invention, what I claim is r 1. The process of constructing a veneer box by mortising one set of veneer strips and notching another set, and then inserting one set of strips through the mortises of the other, one of which sets is wetted to expand them and the other condensed by seasoning, and then drying the strips to expel moisture and shrink one set upon the other, substantially as specified.

2. The process of constructing a box of veneer strips by mortising strips A across the grain of the wood in a moistened or expanded condition, notching strips 13 in a condensed or dry condition, inserting the notched strips B into the mortises' of strips A as far as the notches, and then expelling the moisture from the expanded strips A until they shrink upon and grasp the neck of strips B, substantially as specified.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand.

JEFFERY T. FERRES.

itnessos:

STEPHEN METCALF, Runs 0. CARPENTER.