Improvements in the Manufacture of Partitions or Diaphragms for Bottle Packing Cases, and in Apparatus therefor.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 5th Feb., 1895
Complete Specification Left, 5th Nov., 1895-Accepted, 7th Dec., 1895
Improvements in the Manufacture of Partitions or Diaphragms for
Bottle Packing Cases, and in Apparatus therefor.
I, PETER STUART BROWN, of Egremont, Cambuslang, in the County of
Lanark, Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as.
follows:-
This invention has for its object the expeditious production of movable partitions
or diaphragms for bottle packing cases of the kind described in the Specification
of Letters Patent No. 9177 of 1891 the partitions being produced by suitably
channelling or grooving wooden blocks and subsequently sawing or dividing them
transversely of the channels or grooves instead of boring cut boards in order to
ensure accurate spacing of the recesses or orifices for supporting the bottle
necks.
For that purpose I employ apparatus consisting of a framing carrying a series.
of rotating spindles furnished with knives or cutters adapted to scoop out a series
of longitudinal grooves or channels of semi-circular cross section in a wooden block
secured upon a table situated over the cutters and adapted to be depressed by a
foot treadle or otherwise to bring the block into contact with the knives. These
cutters may extend the whole breadth of the block to be acted on and form
grooves or channels of uniform depth and at suitable distances apart longer knives
or cutters are secured upon each spindle in order to cut at intervals V-shaped
grooves of greater depth than the channels. The wooden blocks are subsequent
to the channelling or grooving operations sawn or otherwise divided into boards
transversely of the longitudinal channels through the centre of the V-shaped
grooves whereby partitions or diaphragms for bottle packing cases are produced
having at suitable distances apart semi-circular recesses with countersunk beveled
or inclined edges to receive the necks and shoulders of the bottles when packed in
the cases in the manner set forth in the Specification before referred to.
Dated this 4th day of February 1895.
WALLACE FAIRWEATHER,
Chartered Patent Agent,
62 Saint Vincent Street, Glasgow, Agent for the Applicant.
Improvements in the Manufacture of Partitions or Diaphragms for
Bottle Packing Cases, and in Apparatus therefor.
I, Peter StuaRT BROWN, of Egremont, Cambuslang, in the County of
Lanark, Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what
manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained
in and by the following statement :-
This invention has for its object the expeditious production of movable partitions
or diaphragms for bottle packing cases of the kind described in the Specification

page_text: of Letters Patent No. 9177 of 1891 the partitions being produced by suitably
channelling or grooving wooden blocks and subsequently sawing or dividing them
transversely of the channels or grooves instead of boring cut boards in order to
ensure accurate spacing of the recesses or orifices for supporting the bottle necks,
or these blocks may be first sawn and then grooved.
For that purpose I employ apparatus such as is illustrated in front elevation at
Figure 1 and in end elevation at Figure 2 of the accompanying drawings consisting
of a framing A carrying a series of rotating spindles B furnished with knives or
cutters C adapted to scoop out a series of longitudinal grooves or channels D of
semi-circular cross section in a wooden block E secured upon a table F situated
over the cutters C and adapted to be depressed by a foot treadle G or otherwise to
bring the block E into contact with the knives C. These cutters C may extend
the whole breadth of the block to be acted on and form grooves or channels D of
uniform depth, and at suitable distances apart longer knives or cutters H are
secured upon each spindle B in order to cut at intervals V-shaped grooves I of
greater depth than the channels D. The wooden blocks E are subsequent to the
channelling or grooving operations sawn or otherwise divided into boards J as
shewn in dotted lines at Fig. 2 transversely of the longitudinal channels D through
the centre of the V-shaped grooves I whereby partitions or diaphragms for bottle
packing cases are produced having at suitable distances apart semi-circular
recesses D with countersunk beveled or inclined edges I to receive the necks and
shoulders of the bottles when packed in the cases in the manner set forth in the
Specification before referred to.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
1. The manufacture of partitions or diaphragms for bottle packing cases from
solid wooden blocks substantially in the manner hereinbefore described.
2. For scooping, grooving or channelling wooden blocks for the purpose set
forth, apparatus constructed and arranged to operate substantially as described.
3. In apparatus for scooping, grooving or channelling wooden blocks a rotating
spindle carrying a double series of cutters arranged to operate on wooden blocks
substantially as described.
Dated this 4th day of November 1895.
WALLACE FAIRWEATHER,
Chartered Patent Agent,
62 Saint Vincent Street, Glasgow, Agent for the Applicant.