Improvements in Boxes or Cases for Packing Eggs and other Articles for Transit or Storage and in Protecting the said Boxes or Cases.
Year: 1896

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Boxes or Cases for Packing Eggs and other
Articles for Transit or Storage and in Protecting the said Boxes
or Cases.
I THEODORA WILSON-WILSON, of Quarry House, Kendal, in the County of
Westmoreland, Spinster, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
My invention consists of the improvements hereinafter described in constructing
boxes or cases for packing eggs and other articles for transit or storage. My invention
further consists in protecting egg and other boxes by the protecting pads or wrappers
hereinafter described.
By my improvements the safe packing of the articles is ensured and the breaking
of the eggs or contents of the box during transit or storage is reduced to a minimum..
I will describe my improvements as applied to an egg box or case, square or oblong
in plan and made of cardboard; but I wish it to be understood that my improvements
may be applied to boxes or cases of other shapes and of various sizes and made of
other materials and for various purposes.
My improvements in egg boxes or cases apply to the inside boxes in which the
eggs are packed, the said inside boxes being ordinarily placed in a wooden or other
outside case.
Instead of dividing the inner cardboard box or case in which the eggs are packed,
into square compartments, each compartment holding an egg, by single crossing
divisions or partitions as usual I divide the said box or case into square compartments
by double crossing divisions or partitions constituting hollow walls the walls of the
said crossing partitions being situated a short distance apart. The double partitions"
running in one direction are supported where they cross by the double partitions
situated at right angles thereto.
Each compartment of the box is thus separated from the adjacent compartments
by double partitions or hollow walls so that should pressure be applied to one-
compartment its yielding double partition or wall prevents the transmission of its
pressure to the adjacent compartiments and hence great safety in the transit or
storage of the eggs or contents of the box is ensured.
For the purpose of protecting the contents of the inside divided boxes or cases
constructed in the way described, or made in other ways, I enclose them in an outside'
wrapper of the following kind.
For protecting the top and bottom of the box or case I use pads, each pad consisting
of a flat square or oblong bag of gauze or other fabric filled or packed with flock,
feathers, wool, straw or other packing material, and for protecting the sides of the
box I use a long narrow pad of the same kind. After the eggs or articles have been
packed in the compartments of the box and the open top covered by a lid or cover as
usual, the flat square or oblong pads are placed against the top and bottom of the

page_text: box and the long narrow pad is passed around the sides of the box. In this way the
inside box is very efficiently protected during transit.
Dated this Seventeenth day of October 1896.
W. T. WHITEMAN,
Agent for the Applicant.
Improvements in Boxes or Cases for Packing Eggs and other
Articles for Transit or Storage and in Protecting the said Boxes
or Cases.
I THEODORA WILSON-WILSON of Quarry House, Kendal in the County of
Westmoreland, Spinster, do hereby declare the nature of my invention and in what
manner the same is to be performed to be particularly described and ascertained
in and by the following statement:-
My invention consists of the improvements hereinafter described in constructing
boxes or cases for packing eggs and other articles for transit or storage..
My invention funther consists in protecting egg and other boxes by the protecting
pads or wrappers hereinafter described.
By my improvements the safe packing of the articles is ensured and the breaking
of the eggs or contents of the box during transit or storage is reduced to a minimum.
I will describe my improvements as applied to an egg box or case, square or oblong
in plan and made of wood or cardboard, but I wish it to be understood that my
improvements may be applied to boxes or cases of other shapes and of various sizes
and made of other materials and for various purposes.
My improvements in egg boxes or cases apply to the inside boxes in which the
eggs are packed, the said inside boxes being ordinarily placed in a wooden or other
outside case.
Instead of dividing the inner cardboard box or case in which the eggs are packed,
into square (or rectangular) compartments, each compartment holding an egg, by
single crossing divisions or partitions as usual, I divide the said box or case into
square (or rectangular) compartments by double crossing divisions or partitions
constituting hollow walls, the walls of the said crossing partitions being situated a
short distance apart. The double partitions running in one direction are supported
where they cross by the double partitions situated at right angles thereto.
compartment of the box is thus separated from the adjacent compartments by double
partitions or hollow walls so that should pressure be applied to one compartment, its
yielding double partition or wall prevents the transmission of its pressure to the
adjacent compartments and hence great safety in the transit or storage of the eggs
or contents of the box is ensured.
Each
For the purpose of protecting the contents of the inside divided boxes or cases
constructed in the way described, or made in other ways, I enclose them in an outside
or inside wrapper of the following kind.
For protecting the top and bottom of the box or case I use pads, each pad
consisting of a flat square or oblong bag of paper, gauze or other fabric filled or
packed with flock, feathers, wool, straw, or other packing material; and for protecting
the sides of the box I use a long narrow pad of the same kind. After the eggs or
articles have been packed in the compartments of the box and the open top covered
by a lid or cover as usual, the flat square or oblong pads are placed against the top
and bottom of the box and the long narrow pad is passed around the sides of the
box. Or the pads may be placed between the inside divided part of the box and the

page_text: sides and top and bottom of the box in which the inside divided part is fitted. In
this way, the inside divided box is very efficiently protected during transit,
Figure 1 of the accompanying Drawing represents in plan, with, the lid and upper
protecting pad removed, and Figure 2 in longitudinal section, taken on the line a a
Figure 1, an egg box or case consisting of an outer wooden box and a divided inner
cardboard box, inade and protected according to my invention; Figures 3 and 4
represent a pair of the crossing divisions of the inside box.
The same letters of reference indicate the same parts in the several Figures of the'
Drawing.
b, b is the outer wooden box or case and c the lid or cover of the case. Within
the said wooden box or case, the inner divided cardboard case or box in which the
eggs or other articles are packed is fitted. The said inner cardboard box or case
consists of double crossing divisions or partitions d, d and e, e situated at right angles
to one another, so as to form square (or rectangalar) compartiments, each
compartment holding an egg. The said crossing divisions or partitions d, d and e, e
constitute hollow walls situated a short distance apart. The double divisions or
partitions running in one direction are supported where they cross by the double
divisions or partitions at right angles thereto; that is to say, each longitudinal
division e of the box has in its upper half a series of pairs of notches or slits h, h
(see Figure 4) and the lower half of each of the crossing divisions d has in it
similar pairs of notches or slits i, i (see Figure 3) so that by engaging the slits of
one division with the unslit parts of the other crossing division, the several divisions
will be supported and secured together as seen in Figure 2.
By the use of the double partitions described and represented ench of the
compartments of the box is separated from adjacent compartments by the hollow
walls g, g, so that on pressure being applied to one compartment, its yielding double
partition or hollow wall prevents the transmission of its pressure to the adjacent
compartments as will be understood by an examination of Figure 1.
The square or oblong pads for protecting the top and bottom of the inside divided
box are marked respectively k and . Each of these pads consists of a flat square or
rectangular bag of paper, gauze or other fabric filled or packed with flock or the other
packing materials herein before enumerated. In packing the box for transit the
bottom pad is first placed on the bottom of the wooden box and afterwards the
divided cardboard interior of the box is fitted in its place so as to rest on the said
bottom pad. The eggs having been placed in the compartments of the box,
tue upper pad ke is laid on the top of the box and the box is finally covered by the lid a
as seen in the section Figure 2. The box or case is now ready for transit, the
contents of the box being very securely protected by the double walled compartments
of the box and its protecting pads. For further protecting the sides of the box, a
long narrow pad may be interposed between the sides of the cardboard divided inner
box and the wooden outer box.
When, instead of making the sides of the box of wood or other strong and rigid
material, the sides of the box are made of cardboard or of a material less rigid than
wood I protect the contents of the box by pads at the top bottom and sides of the
outside of the box.
A cardboard divided box protected as last described is represented in plan in
Figure 5 and section in Figure 6, where m is the divided cardboard box and n, p
the protecting pads on the outside of the top and bottom of the box; 9 is the long
narrow pad or wrapper for protecting the sides of the box, the said pad q being
passed around the sides of the closed box in the manner represented. After the sides
and top and bottom of the box have thus been protected the box is enclosed in a
paper covering and is ready for transit.
My improved method of protecting the box or case by pads or wrappers may be
applied to boxes or cases having compartments of the ordinary kind, and my improved
methods of constructing and protecting the boxes or cases may be applied to boxes
or cases for holding articles other than eggs.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my invention and

page_text: in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that I claim as my invention
of "Improvements in boxes or cases for packing eggs and other articles for transit
or storage and in protecting the said boxes or cases" :-
First. Dividing the inner box or case into square or rectangular compartments by
double crossing divisions or partitions constituting hollow walls, the hollow walls
formed by the said double crossing divisions or partitions surrounding the said
compartments and being situated a short distance apart, so that each compartment
of the box or case is so separated from the adjacent compartments that should
pressure be applied to one compartment its yielding double partition or wall prevents
the transmission of its pressure to the adjacent compartments for the purpose and
substantially as herein before described and illustrated in the accompanying Drawing.
Secondly. Protecting the contents of the inner divided boxes or cases by means
of protecting pads or wrappers of the kind herein before described and illustrated in
the accompanying drawing, the said pads or wrappers being applied either to the
inside or to the outside of the box or case.
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T... 1907
THEODORA WILSON-WILSON.