Year: 1887

page_text: Date of Application, 1st July, 1887
Complete Left, 31st Mar., 1888
Complete Accepted, 4th May, 1888
I DAN RYLANDS, of Hope Glass Works and Box Factory, Stairfoot, near Barnsley,
in the county of York, Glass Bottle and Van Box Manufacturer do hereby declare
the nature of this invention to be as follows :-
This invention has reference more especially to improvements in boxes or packing
cases where it is necessary that the same should be strengthened with iron or wiro
binding as for instance with van boxes or packing cases made for carrying mineral
water and other such bottles.
In a former patent granted to me No. 4897 and dated October 15th 1883, and in a
further patent granted to me No. 11,514 and dated September 10th 1886, I give
illustrations of packing cases bound with wire around the ends. According to my
present invention I also form a groove around the middle of the box externally; such
groove is deep enough to contain a piece of suitable wire, and the ends of the wire
are bent over and secured inside the box. The wire is embedded in the groove on
both sides and along the bottom of the box or caso, and thus the box or case is
materially strengthened in the centre, and the bottom of box is well supported in
the middle.
Where so preferred a piece of thin hooping may be attached around the centre of
the box to strengthen the same instead of the wire.
This invention will apply to every variety of partitioned van boxes or packing cases
as are used by mineral water makers and ale and beer bottlers, and others.
Dated this 30th day of June 1887.
DAN RYLANDS.

page_text: Improvements in Van Boxes or Packing Cases.
I, DAN RYLANDS, of Hope Glass Works and Box Factory, Stairfoot, near Barnsley,
in the County of York, Glass Bottle and Van- Box Manufacturer do hereby declare
the nature of this invention and in what manner the same is to bo performed,
to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following statement :-
This Invention has reference more especially to improvements in Boxes or Packing 5
Cases where it is necessary that the samo should be strengthened with iron or wire
binding, as for instance with Van Boxes or Packing Cases made and used for the
purpose of carrying bottles containing mineral water and other beverages.
In a previous Patent granted to me and dated October 15th 1883 No. 4897 and
also in a further patent granted to me and dated September 10th 1886 No. 11514, I
give illustrations of Packing Cases bound and strengthened by means of-wire around
the ends, and where a partition or partitions are formed across the Box or Case to
divide the same I also show wire binding securing the partitions to the sides of
the box.
According to my present Invention (which I will proceed to fully describe with
reference to the accompanying drawings) I also form a groove G-when using wire
binding around the middle of the Box B (Figs. 1 and 2). Fig. 1 is a longitudinal
elevation and Fig. 2 a cross sectional elevation of one form of my improved Box.
The groove G is deep enough to contain a piece of suitable wire W, the ends of which
are bent over the sides of the Box and secured inside the Box as shown at Fig. 2.
The wire W is embedded in the groove G on both sides and along the bottom of the
Box also, and thus the box is materially strengthened in the centre, and the bottom of
the Box is well supported in the middle.
Where preferred a piece of thin hooping H, as shown at Figs. 3 and 4, is attached
around the centre of the box to strengthen the same instead of wire. Fig. 3 is a
longitudinal elevation, and Fig. 4 a cross sectional elevation of my improved Box so
strengthened with narrow iron hooping. One end of the hooping H is secured on
the inside of the Box and then the hooping H is bent over down the side, under the
bottom, up the opposite side, and again bent over and secured on the opposite inside
of the Box. The hooping may either lie in a.groove or otherwise..
It will be well understood that the strengthening wire W shown at Fig. 1 may
also be applied to Boxes bound round the ends either with wire or iron hooping;
and also that the strengthening hooping H shown round centre of Fig. 3 may also
be applied to Boxes either unbound at the ends or bound round the ends with
iron hooping.
This Invention will apply to varieties of partitioned Van Boxes and Packing Cases
which are used by Mineral Water Makers, Ale and Beer Bottlers, and others; and
when the Boxes or Cases are made larger than those described and illustrated, and

page_text: cither with or without one or more cross divisions, the extra binding, whether
consisting of the wire W or hooping H, may be applied as described around any
suitable part of the Box as well as or instead of the centre.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is
1. The arrangement of affixing wire binding completely around the middle of
the sides and bottom of open partitioned Boxes whether such Boxes be also wired
or hooped at the ends or not, one end of such middle wire binding commencing
part way down the inside of tho Boxes and passing down the outside, along the
bottom, up the other side, and the second end secured a short distance down the
opposite inside, substantially as described and illustrated at Figs. 1 and 2.
2. In open partitioned Boxes which have their ends wirebound, the combination of
the narrow hooping H passing round the sides and under the bottom in manner
described and illustrated at Figs. 3 and 4.
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