US744563A - Collapsible or folding box for holding fruit, confectionery, pastry, &c. - Google Patents

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PATENTED NOV. 17, 1903 G. W. KING, v GOLLAPSIBLE 0R FOLDING BOX FOR HOLDING FRUIT,'

CONFEGTIONERY, PASTRY, 8w.-

APPLIOATION FILED MAR. 22. 1902.-

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UNIT D STATES Patented November 17, 1903.

PATENT OFFICE.

GEORGE W. KING, OFGLASGOW, SCOTLAND.

COLLAPSIBLE 0R FOLDING BOX FOR HOLDING FRUIT, CONFECTIONERY, PASTRY, 8L0.

SPECIFIGATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 744,563, dated November 1'7, 1903.

Application filed March ZZ, 1902. Serial No. 99,470. (Nomoclel) To aZZ whom it may concern;

Be it known that I, GEORGE WILLIAM KING,

lapsible or Folding Boxes for Holding Fruit,

Confectionery-,Pastry, or other Fragile Goods, of which the following is aspecification.

This invention relates to collapsible or folding boxes. Its object is to provide a box which may be quickly and easily assembled and disassembled and which will be inexpensive to manufacture;

\Vith these and other objects in view thein vention consists in certain parts and combinations of parts, as will be hereinafter fully described, and pointed out in the appende claim.

In the drawing forming a part of this specification, Figure 1 is a perspective View of my improved box with the bottom raised, and Fig; 2 is a vertical section of the box.

Like letters indicate like parts through the specification and drawings.

In carrying out my invention 1 make the four sides a b c d of the box of one piece of thin wood or other suitable material which is scored across the grain and folded over, so as to make the sides and enable the box to be collapsed together when required, the two ends being connected together by means of glue, paste, wire stitches, small rivets, or other suitable fastenings. The bottom 6, which is a separate piece, is scored across its whole breadth, thereby providing an attaching part onf, whichis riveted or otherwise secured to one of the sides of the box and a hinge, so that when thebox is in the collapsed state'for packing orotherwise the bottom can be, raised up and will rest against the sides of the box, as shown in Fig. 1. In the side of the box opposite the hinge of the bottom of the box there is a horizontal slit 9%,

in which a segmental extension 6, integral with and extending in the plane of the bottom, engages when the box is open ready for use. In this case the bottom of the box could not be inadvertently pushed up from the bottomand. so displace the contents.

When this box is set up from its knockdown position, the integral extension automatically enters the horizontal slit and forms a support for the front side of the bottom.

Further, the segmental extension 6 conforms to .the shape ot-the box when said box is bent to remove or insert the segmental extension from or in horizontal slit 11'. No sharp corners are provided which tend to enter the veneer in the direction of its grain and split the same.

What I claim is A collapsible or folding box constructed with four sides, and adapted to be collapsed,

--one of said sides being provided with a horizontal' slit; a hinged bottom scored'across its breadth to provide an attaching portion which is secured within the box, to the side opposite the side with the slit, and a segmental extension integral with and extending in the plane of the bottom, adapted to fit in the slit to lock the cover in position.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto affixed my signature in presence of two Witnesses. I

GEO. W.'KING.

" Witnesses:

JOHN LIDDLE, AGNES MAoK NTosH..

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