USRE12800E - Metal-bound box - Google Patents

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N0. 12,800. R EISSUED MAY 26, 1903.

' B. B. FLORA.

METAL BOUND BOX.

APPLICATION FILED MAR.25.190B.

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No. 12,800. REISSUED MAY 26, 1908.

E. E. FLORA. METAL BOUND BOX.

APPLICATION FILED MAR. 25. 190B.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ICLLSWORTII EI FLORA, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF T W. E RUTHER- MEIJ, ()l CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

METAL-BOUND BOX.

Specification of Reissued Letters Patent. Reissued. May 26, 1908.

nl'll'hlal. No. 881,786, dated March 10, 1908, Serial No. 370,484. Application for reissue filed March 25, 1908.

rial No. 423,277.

T 0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, Eceswon'm E. FLORA, a citizen of the Iinited States, residing at (Thicago, in thecounty of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Metal-Bound Boxes, of which to further reinforce this box against too great ilimsiness and affordfasteniug'ineans for the box-ends, it is provlded with strengthenmgcleats secured to the inner surfaces of the sides, bottomaud lid, near their ends, transversely thereor, by the staples which fasten the wires in place, these cleats'adding materially to the weight of the box and to the expense of manufacturing and shipping it.

My object is to provide anovel construction of metal-bound box of the variety referred to, which shall present all of the advantages, in an augmented degree, of the wire-bound article, and avoid all of the disadvantages of the latter. This object is accomplished. by the construction illustrated in the accompanyiiu drawings, in which Figure l is a plan view of the blank from which myim proved sheet-metal binding strip is formed by foldin, it along the dotted lines on the figure; Fig. 2, a perspective view of the box-blank provided alon its lateral edges with my blnding-strip; ig. 3, a similar view of a box of my improved construction, with thelid raised and one end omitted;

Fig. 4, a broken perspective view of the box, with its body- )ortion and ends in unasseme bled relation, iIlustrating an alternative manner of equipping it with my improved bind ing strips; and Fig. 5, a View of the completed box in cross-sectional elevation, with the lid fastened down.

The binding-strip 6 is composed of flexible sheet-metal, preferably tin and 111 a contmu ous length, formed, as by stamping, of an unmutilated rectangular section 7, with four similar lips, 8, extending laterally from it, and spaced apart, the end-lips having beveled outer edges, and their inner edges and the edges of the intermediate lips being cut away, as represented, to separate them. The blank is fo ded along the dotted lines at 9, 10, to produce an approximately U-shaped trough 11 with an-end-tongue 12 extending from one side of the trough; and the lips are bent along the dotted lines 13 to extend their beveled end sections at right angles to the trough as flanges 14.

Sheets 15, 16, 17 and 18, of veneer, or of fiber-board, or other analogous material, of proper dimensions to form the side's 15, 16, the bottom 17 and the top or lid 18, of a box 19, have applied to their ends these binding strips 6 by introduci'n the ends into the trough 11 to produce the b ank 20 shown in Fi 2, and the strips are firmly secured to the s ieets, preferably by eyelets 21 punched through the trough-sections of the stri s and through the sheets near their ed es; hereupon-the blank is folded, by ending the bmding-stripsto extend the respective sheets,

except the sheet 18, at right angles to each .fastened to the flanges, as by eyelets 21,

unched through them and through the ends. on the lid 18 is bent into place to cover the box, the flanges 14 thereon are similarly fastened to the box-ends; and the tongues 12 are bent over the side 16 and fastened through holes 23 provided in them, which may coincide with the upper eyelet-holes 21 in that side and be fastened through these coincident holes in any suitable manner, as 95. by eyelets, seals, or the like. If referred, the alternative method of assemb ing the parts of the box, illustrated in Fig. 4, may be einployed.- This consists in bending'the bindin -strips 6 into the cross-.100 sectional shape of t e. box and a plying andfastening, preferably by means 0 eyelets, the box-ends 22 to the flanges 14 to form the ends into covering-caps, and thereupon ap-' plying these caps to the sheets of material, which may be preparatorily assembled into box-form for the purpose, by introducing their ends into the trough-sections 11 of the stri s and fastening the strips and sheets toget er, referably by punching eyelets through tihem, as in the case of the first-described method of assembling. J

Of course the shape of the box may, without departure from my invention, vary fron 1 that herein shown and described, when the shape of the binding-strips will vary correspondingly.

What I claim as new and desire by Letters Patent is 1. A metal-bound box com rising a bodygortion formed of sheet-material, sheet metal to secure inding strips formed with sin 'le 'trough-.

versely at intervals along the inner side 'of trough-sections having flanges the trough at points of bendin it to conform to said body-portion, and the. divisions of the projecting at ri ht-angles thereto mime ately from the e ges'to form boxend abutments, and boxends abutting against and secured tosaid flanges. a

3. A metal-bound box comprising a bodyortion having its sides, bottom and lid Forniedof separate sections of sheet-material, binding-strips composed of sheet-metal bent into single trough-shaped sections, in which the edge-portions of the sheets are contained and secured, as by eyelets, each trough-seetion being divided transversely at intervals along its inner side at points of bending it to conform to said body-portion, and 'thedivisions of the trough-sections having flanges proljecting at right-angles thereto -i1nmediate y from their edges, and box-ends abutting against and secured to said flanges.

4. A metal-bound box comprising a bodyortion formed of sheet-material, sheet-metal iiindirzg-strips formed with single troughshape sections having end-lips, in whieh sections the edge-portions of the sheet-11ml erial are contained and secured, each said section being divided transversely at intervals along the inner side of the trolighat points of bending it to conform to said body orv tion, and the divisions of the trough-seetions having flanges projecting at rightangles thereto immediately frdnrthe-ir edges to form box-end abuti-nents, and box-ends abut-ting against and secured to said flanges.

vELLSWOR'III E. FLORA. In presence of R. A. RAYMOND,. W. T.-JoN s.

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