US968192A - End for wire-bound boxes. - Google Patents

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F. A. PRAHL.

END POR WIRE BOUND BOXES.

APPLIoATIoN FILED 00T. 9, 1909.

Patented Aug. 23, 1910.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

FREDERICK A. PRAHL, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNOR- `'IO NATIONAL WIRE BOUND BOX COMPANY, OF SOUTH BEND, INDIANA, A CORPORATION OF INDIANA.

END FOR WIRE-BOUND BOXES.

Specication of Letters Patent.

Patented Aug. 23, 1ero.

Application filed October 9, 1909. Serial No.'521,851.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FRnnnnIeu A. Pimm.,

'a citizen of the United States, residing at useful Improvement in Ends for IVire- Bound Boxes, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to a built-up reinforced box-end of novel and improved construct-ion for use in the manufacture of wirebound boxes.

IVire-bound box-blanks of the general type shown in Reissue Letters Patent No. 12,725, dated November, 1907, particularly when supplied to customers at a distance, are usually shipped in knock-down condition, that is to say the cleated and wirereinforeed, or stitched, blanks, each intended to form the top, bottom and sides of a box are shipped in a fiat, or unfolded condition separate from the box ends. The latter, partieularly in the case of a box of large dimensions, are usually formed of a plurality of strips of thin lumber, or stock, of varying widths which, for shipment in the knockdown, are generally placed loosely together in proper relation', and in forming a box of this wire-bound type it has been usual to simply fasten the assembled end-stock, as thus provided, in place, by stapling it at the edge-portions to the cleats of the box-blank. I/Vhile in most cases this manner of providing the box-ends answers all the requirements in practice, it is desirable that boxes, particularly of large size and for the shipmentof certain kinds of merchandise, shall be provided with ends of a reinforced con: struct-ion which will materially increase the strength of the box and ati'ord an additional safeguard against unauthorized access to its contents in transit.

My object is to provide a simple and inexpensive built-up end, more especially for wire-bound boxes of the larger sizes, and so constructed, initially, that it may be readily secured to the cleats of a folded box-blank to produce a particularly strong, durable and sightly box.

In the accompanying drawing-Figure l illustrates a -well known wire bound box provided with my improved ends; Fig. 2, a broken section taken on line 2 in Fig. l;

and Fig. 3, an elevation of the end as it. appears before being fastened in place.

Each end-wall 4 may be forn'fed, as shown, of a plurality of strips 5 of different widths, or all of the same width. In practice, the stripsV 5 placed together, are sawed to the -proper dimensions to Yform an end-wall and then passed through a stitching machine which applies binding-wires 6 to its outer side which are fastened in place by short staples T. These staples straddle the wires 6, pass through the strips 5. and are clenched on the inner side of the wall whereby the said side presents a smooth surface. The box-blank 8, which when folded forms the top, bot-tom and sides of the box has endcleats 9 applied in the usual way. The wirereinforced end-wall is provided on its outer' face with battens l0 fastened 'against the strips 5 by means of nailsl or staplesdriven from the reverse side of the wall. The battens l() extend short' of the edges of the wall and tit within the cleats t). leaving the margin portion ll. which -in practice abuts against. the inner faces of the cleats 9,. with the edges of the wall fitting against the inner surfaces of the folded blank S. behind the cleats t). The end-portionsI of the wires G are drawn taut over the edges of the upper vand lower hattens and eut ottl tlush with the outer surfaces thereof. The box-ends are fastenedv in place by staples, or the like l2 driven from the inner sides-of the margin portions ll into the cleats 9. The battens l0 add comparativel)7 little to the weight of the box, but tend greatly to reinforce the ends and in fact to bra'ce the entire box. T he binding-wires t3 also Very materially strengthen'the ends` b v tending to hold the strips 5 together and prevent their being bent inward or outward and to give to each end, in eti'ect. the same security thatI itwould possess if of a single piece of the lumber.

That I claim as new, and desire to secure eure them in edgewise relation to each other, and battens secured to the outer face of said Wall to extend short of its edges and form a blank-cleat eng-aging margin about it, for the purpose set forth.

. 2.' The combination with a foldable boxblank formed of a plurality of sheets secured together by binding Wires, and provided with cleats, of a built-up box'- end therefor, comprising a plurality of strips forming an end-wall for the box, strengthening' wires extending,y crosswise of the said strips and stapled thereto, and end-strengthening battens fastened to said strips to leave f a surrounding margin, all so constructed and arranged that in the formation of a box the said strips at the margin tit against, and their battens are surrounded by, the cleats of the box-blank.

3. The .Combination with a box-blank formed of a plurality of sheets secured together by binding Wires, and provided with cleats, of a built-up box-end, adapted for margin, all so constructed and arranged that in the formation of a box the said strips at the margin it against, and their battens are surrounded by, the cleats of the box-blank- FREDERICK A. PRAHL. In presence of- F. OLoF CUDLIPP, C. L. MILLLARD.

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