US467336A - Paper box - Google Patents

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H. Si MUNSON. PAPER BOX No. 467,336. Patented Jan. 19, 1892.

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H. S. MUNSON.

PAPER BOX Patented Jan. 19, 1892.

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HARVEY S. MUNSON, OF NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT.

PAPER BOX.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 467,336, dated January 19, 1892. Application filed May 25, 1891- Serial No. 393,972. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, HARVEY S. MUNSON, of New Haven,in the county of New Haven'an d State of Connecticut, have invented new Improvements in Paper Boxes; and I do hereby declare the following, when taken in connection with accompanying drawings and the letters of reference marked thereon, to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, and which said drawings constitute part of this specification, and represent, in

Figure 1, a perspective View of the box without the cover. Fig. 2 represents the blank from which the box is made, broken lines of this figure indicating the formation of the cover as an integral part of the box; Fig. 3,a longitudinal central section cutting on line a: 00 of Fig. 2, showing the ends with their flaps turned up; Fig. 4, a top View showing the ends and sides as turned up, with the side flaps projecting beyond the ends and the said side flaps represented in broken lines as turned inward against the outside of the ends; Fig. 5, a vertical section on line a: so of Fig. 4, representing the flaps of the ends as turned down over and outside of the side flaps. Figs. 6, 7, S, 9, and 10 represent the previous construction upon which this invention is an improvement.

This invention relates to an improvement in that class of boxeswhich are made from paper having one surface coated with metal and so that in the make-up of the box the interior of the box may present a metallic surface, the object of such metallic surface being to protect the contents of the box from direct contact with the paper, paper being porous and liable to absorb from the contents where the contents are subject to such action by the paper, or to protect the contents from the deleterious effects arising from the porous character of the paper, such box being specially adapted for samples of tea, coffee, and other purposes. The paper for such boxes has the surface covered with foil preparatory to the making of the boxes, the box being cut from the sheet, one side of the blank present ing a paper surface and the other side the metallic surface. The adhesive material usually employed in the manufacture of these boxes to secure the parts together will not adhere to this metallic surface. The blank for the boxes of this character are usually cut as seen in Fig. 6, the solid lines indicating the cuts and the broken lines the scores.

A represents the part which is to form the bottom; B, one side; 0, the opposite side; D, one end, and E the opposite end. The side B is cut with a flap F at each end and the side 0 with a fiap G at each end corresponding to the flaps F of the side D. The flaps F G are separated from the ends D E by cutsr The blank thus cut is folded into'box shape by turning up the sides from the bottom, then turning the flaps F G inward, as seen in Fig. 7, and then turning the two ends D E up against the flaps F and G, as seen in Fig. 8; but as the inside of the ends D E present a metal surface to the outside paper surface of the flaps F G, if adhesive material be applied between the two surfaces, they will not properly adhere. It is therefore necessary to apply some device to secure the ends to the flaps, and this is usually done by pasting upon the outside a strip of paper H, one side of which has a metal surface, substantially the same as that of the box. This metal surface is outside, and the paper surface is attached by the usual adhesive material to the paper surface of the end, as E in Fig. 9, to which it readily adheres, then this strip H is folded inward over the flaps, as F, (see Fig. 10,) and this flap turned inside the box presents the same metallic surface as the rest of the box, and thus folded over the turned-up end and the turned-in flaps, holds them in their proper position and secures them together. While this accomplishes a desired result, it adds materially to the cost of manufacture of the box and also detracts from the general appearance of the box.

The object of my invention is a construction of box from paper having one surface covered with metal and in which the flaps cut for securing the box in the set-up condition are adapted to be folded so that their paper surfaceswill meet corresponding paper surface 011 corresponding parts of the box and so that the adhesive material may be introduced between such paper surfaces, and thereby avoid the application of this independent strip or binding, and yet produce a neat and tasteful box. To this end the inface.

vention consists in the construction of the box, as hereinafter described, and particularly recited in the claim.

The blank is formed, as seen in Fig. 2, the solid lines indicating cuts in the blank and broken lines scores. That portion marked a is the bottom, I) b the two sides, each of which has a longitudinally-projecting flap c at both ends.

d 01 represent the two ends, which extend from the bottom a and which are separated by cuts-e from the flaps c. The projections from the ends of the bottom are substantially double the length required for the height of the ends of the box, so as to form a flapf, projecting from each end cl. The blank thus prepared and scored, as indicated in broken lines, the ends d, with their flaps, are turned up, as seen in Fig. 3, the fine line indicating the metallic surface of the paper, then the sides are turned up, as seen in Fig. 4, the flaps c projecting beyond the turned-up ends d. The flaps c c are then turned inward outside the ends (Z, as represented in broken lines, Fig. 4. Then the flaps ff are turned outward and down over the flaps c, as seen in Fig. 5, the metallic surface being the inside of the box and the outside presenting a paper sur- The outside of the flaps 0 when turned in present the paper surface outward, and the fiapf when turned outward presents its paper surface next to the outer surface of the flaps c. The adhesive material being applied to these meeting paper surfaces, they readily adhere, and the box is complete and presents a neat and finished appearance. The construction is much simplified from that of the previous construction of this class of boxes, and the box is very much stronger, because of the perfect union which is formed between the paper surfaces of the flaps c and f, the flapsf being integral parts of the box.

I have illustrated the box as made separate from the cover; but the cover may be formed as a part of the box by a corresponding extension from one side, as represented in broken lines, Fig. 2, a common and wellknown construction, not necessary to be described as whether or not the cover be made an integral part of the box is immaterial to this invention.

I claim The herein-described paper box, made from a single piece of paper having-one side covered with metal and the other side presenting a non-metallic or paper surface, consisting of a bottom a, two sides I) 1), two ends dd, the sides constructed with longitudinallyprojecting flaps c at each end, and the ends (1 constructed with flaps f projecting from their outer edges, the flaps c of the sides folded against the outside of the ends d, and the flaps f folded down over the outside of the said flaps 0, the said flaps f presenting their non-metallic surface to the corresponding non-metallic surface of the flaps 0, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have signed this specification in the presence of two subscrib-

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