USRE5855E - Improvement in paper boxes - Google Patents

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` nunnovsn.En-r` 1N .PAPER BoxEs.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 147,697, dated February 17, 18f4 reissue No. 5,855, dated April 2e; 1874; application ined nach 16, 1874. 1

To all 'whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FREDERICK W. SIIITII. of Chicago, State of Illinois, have inycnted un Improvement in 'Paper `Boxes, ot which `the following is a specifica-tion:

My invention relates to the construction of small packs-ges or boxes mede of pustebom'd, stiff paper, or wood, such usare generally used by groc'crs, coffee and spice mills, und others, for contnining spices, coffee, bakingpowde'r, and other articles;

In the drawings, Figure 2 represents n. box. with the cover ttnched. The cover consists of Y a. single piece of pnstcbourd or wood, C, which 'sets upon the top of a box, A. Around the edges of theA cover is fplecede string or cord, as shown in dotted lines, and over the whole is pasted a. piece of paper, e, extending down each side, as shown in Fig. 2. The ends of the cord project from one lside, as shown at D. The cover is then firmly secured to the box, so as to hold the contents safely, admitting of trenspox'l;:).tion and handling of the box:

'heu it is desired to open the box the ends of the string are graxbd, and by pulling the -some-the paper covering is severed at the edges and thelid can be raised. The string is intended to extend around three sides o f the cover und box, sothat iu opening it one "side nuy form a hinge to retain thecover uponv the box, es shown in Fig. l. One end of the string may protrude at a. rear corner and extend around the box to the other rea-r corner, instead of protruding from the center of the front, as shown'at D, Fig. 2. 'opened will rremain a convenient recep le for its contents, to' lle-used as occasion mayrequire for household use. cures the cover to the box` may be a-printed label to denote the contents, or the label which the seller and the purchaser.

VI have described and set forth.

broadly claim tearing n paper by menus -ot' n.:

The 'box thus The paper which secovers the sides of the box may belong enough' toy lap over onl the top and secure the cover,. und thus covering the string, which may protrud'c ot one of the, rear corners. These boxes or packages' can bc made very cheaply, und in the trede for which they are intended niukc n very com-enicnt-puckztge for holding 1vul-ions articles of retail trade, utioncc convenient to Instead of the dat top the cover Inn'fy extend over the sides in the Culinary manner, und the string secured UNITED STATES PATENT (Inliner.

under paper-pasted around the lower edges of the cover.

I do not claim :my particular. form ot" box,

as the cover Ina-y be'nttoched ln the' Inanner above described lto a. round or square box, or any other shape. 1 do not claim the securing ot'ithe cover of a. box to the` body ot' o, box bv means of paper pasted over the .edges unless it isdone in combination with n cord or string arrnnged'as und for the purpose cord orl string, or the breaking of o seal by means of a. cord or wire.

1 do not l I am aware that envelopes have been `opened by ineens of a cord arranged for that purpose; also, that the solder of tin cans has been cut by a. wire. These I do not clniln.

What I clainros my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent,l Vis- As u new article of manufacture, a paper box, the cover whereof is secured in a. closed position on the body of the box by a. thin paperv covering-strip, which' also contines on. three sides ofthe upper edges or mouth of the body an opening-string, as described..

FREDERICK. W. SMITH.

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