A MATERIAL FOR PACKING BOTTLES AND OTHER FRAGILE ARTICLES
Year: 1884

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
I, HERBERT JOHN HADDAN, of the firm of Herbert and Company, Patent Agents,
of 67, Strand, in the City of Westminster, Civil Engineer, do hereby declare the
nature of my Invention for "A MATERIAL FOR PACKING BOTTLES AND OTHER
FRAGILE ARTICLES" and in what manner the same is to be performed, to bo
particularly described and ascertained in and by the following statement:
This Invention consists in the formation of a packing material for bottles by
encasing straw, hay, hair, or other natural fibrous material, in tubes of paper,
which are then attached to a flexible fabric, such as paper or linen in parallel rows.
This forms an envelope, wrapper or cushion according to the manner of its
application. It may be wrapped around or placed between or alongside of the
bottles and perfectly protects them from contact with each other and with adjacent
surfaces. When placed between the bottles, a piece of the packing material is for
the sake of convenience, called a "pad."
The tubes containing the fibrous material may be made by placing corrugations
of opposite curvature in the flexiblo fabric, opposito to each other, or by spirally
winding a strip of paper around the strands of the hay, straw or or other fibrous
material and attaching segments of the same to the flexible fabric. When the
fibrous material is sufficiently compact, either when so naturally, as is the caso
with certain kinds of flags or reeds, or when made so by twisting strands of hay or
straw into the form of a rope, the paper covering to the tubes is of little valuo and
may be omitted.
In the Drawings similar letters refer to similar parts. Fig. 1 represents a
vertical plan view of a single bottle D, placed upright in a packing case, with the
wrapper A to which is attached the tubes B B¹ to protect it from contact with
another bottle back of it. Fig. 2, represents a vertical plan view and partial
section of the same bottle and wrapper in a plane at right angles to that of the
former section. Fig. 3 represents a plan view of one of the wrappers with the
different kinds of fibrous material attached to it, the paper tube being shown at E,
the twisted rope at B and the naturally fibrous material at C. Fig. 4 represents a
vertical section of a bottle D encased in a wrapper formed of the fabric A to which

page_text: are attached the tubes B, B', etc., tangent to the surface of the bottle. When so
used an additional inner wrapper A' may be placed next to the surface of the
bottle. Fig. 5 represents a horizontal section of the same bottle across its widest
part. Fig. 6 represents an enlarged section of one of the tubes B showing the
enclosed fibres or strands at a.
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:-
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As an article of manufacture, a packing material for bottles or other fragile
articles, composed of fibrous materials, placed in flexible tubes and secured in rows
to single or double sheets of paper or other flexible fabric substantially in the
manner set forth and for the purpose specified.