Improvements in and Connected with Boxes or Cases for the Packing of Bottles and Jars.
Year: 1887

page_text: Date of Application, 27th Aug., 1887
Complete Left, 26th May, 1888
Complete Accepted, 29th June, 1888
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in and Connected with Boxes or Cases for the Packing
of Bottles and Jars.
L, ARCHIBALD HOOD, Box Maker, of 34 Garturk Street, Govanhill, in the county of
Lanark, do hereby declare the nature of my invention to be as follows:-
My said Invention has reference to and comprises special modes and means of
fitting and securing the thin vertical cross bars for dividing the boxes or cases into
spaces or divisions for securing the bottles and jars vertically within them safe from
injuring each other which improvements will be more economical in the mode and
means of securing the cross strips, and be more efficient in steadying the bottles and
cases as heretofore
jars than such cross fittings have been in packing boxes or
constructed.
:
The nature and novelty of my invention or improvements consist as follows:-One
simple form, as suitable for steadying short bottles (such as soda-water bottles) and
jelly cans or jars in their packing boxes or portable cases, consists in nailing or other-
wise securing a solid preferably square stile or post to the bottom of the box at every
crossing of the longitudinal and transverse division thin bars of wood or other materials
(which are preferably half-checked into each other at their crossings to the size of
square recesses desired to easily receive the bottles or jars) and in inserting these bars
at their crossings in vertical cross diagonal slots or recesses cut to the width of the
thickness of the bars and generally to about their depth, so as to secure all these bars
firmly at their half checked crossings. The width of these square stiles would pre-
ferably be made proportional to the size of the divisions or spaces for receiving the
bottles or jars, so that their sides would divide the square divisions into octagonal
divisions, and so enable the stiles to steady the bottles or jars throughout their height,
while the cross bars steady the bottles at their upper parallel or bulged parts below the
necks, and in the case of preserve cans or jars at their sides near the top. When two
tiers of preserve cans or jars are to be packed over each other, a second false or portable
bottom would be inserted to rest on the lower stiles and their cross bars, this bottom
having stiles and rails secured on it substantially the same as described in the bottom
The ends
of the box for packing a second tier of jars in the depth of the box or case.

page_text: of these cross bars may be steadied as usual by notched laths or fillets secured over
them to the sides of the box, which maintains them in their proper divisions and
prevents them from rising out of the diagonal slots in the stiles when the boxes are
inverted, and further secures the stiles at the top; cr a nail or other equivalent may be
inserted through the sides of the stiles into the cross rails to prevent these from rising
out of the diagonal checks in the stiles, and also steady the upper part of the stiles.
For long and other particular shapes of bottles, diagonal slots may be cut in the stiles
at the bottom for having division bars inserted there as well as at the top of the
stiles, and which would more effectually steady the bottom of the bottles; and the
depth of the diagonal slots in the stiles and the depth and position of the cross
rails in them, might be varied in many ways to suit the form and length of the
jars for steadying and packing them; the main feature of the invention being the
construction and use of solid stiles, of square, round, or other section, with diagonal
vertical slots for retaining the division bars at their checked crossings in cases or
boxes for the packing of bottles or jars.

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in and Connected with Boxes or Cases for the Packing
of Bottles and Jars.
1, ARCHIBALD Hood, Box Maker, of 34 Garturk Street, Govanhill, in the county of
Lanark, do hereby declare the nature of my invention and in what maner the same is
to be performed to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement in writing, reference being had to the accompanying Sheet of Drawings, and
to the letters and figures marked thereon, that is to say :-
My said Invention has reference to and comprises special modes and means of fitting
and securing the thin vertical cross bars for dividing the boxes or cases into spaces or
divisions for securing bottles and jars vertically within them safe from injuring cach
other; which improvements will be more economical in the mode and means of
securing the cross strips, and be more efficient in steadying the bottles and jars than
such cross fittings have been in bottle packing boxes or cases as heretofore
constructed.
And in order that my said invention, and the manner of performing or carrying tho
same into effect or practice may be properly understood, I have hereunto appended an
explanatory Sheet of Drawings, in which the same reference letters are used to indicate
corresponding parts in all the figures where shown. Figure 1 is a sectional elevation,
and Figure 2 a plan broken away, the former taken on the irregular line 1---1 of
Figure 2, of a box or case for packing bottles or jars, constructed in accordance with
one modification of the improvements of my invention. Figure 3 represents perspective
views showing the arrangement of fitting the transverse bars or rails C, C¹, to each
other at their checked crossings c and the mode of forming the cross slots in the
vertical stiles B, B, for receiving the cross rails C, C. Figure 4 is a sectional elevation
of a box or case for inserting one case over the other to carry double sets of bottles,
and constructed according to my improvements. While Figure 5 is a sectional eleva-
tion of a modified arrangement of the box or case with the transverse bars CƠ¹
secured in the stiles B, B, both at top and bottom, suitable for packing and carrying
large bottles and preventing them from touching each other.
Referring to Figures 1 to 3 of these Drawings; the nature and novelty of my
invention or improvements consist as follows:-One simple form shown in these
Figures, as suitable for steadying short hottles (such as soda-water bottles) and jelly
cans or jars in their packing boxes or portable cases, consists in forming the outer
case itself of two sides A, A, and ends A', A', preferably dovetailed together at
the corners A", and with recesses in their ends for handles at A3, and having the
bottom formed preferably of spars or boards A³ nailed or otherwise secured to the
under edges of the sides and ends A A¹ preferably with division spaces A between
them, and having hearing laths under their sides or edges at A for the whole to
rest steadily on. The invention consists according to one improvement in nailing or
otherwise securing a solid preferably square stilo or post B to the bottom A³ of the

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box at every crossing c of the longitudinal and transverse division thin bars or
rails C, C, of wood or other material (which are preferably half-checked into each
other at their crossings c to the size of squaro recesses desired to easily receive the
bottles or jars) and in inserting these bars C, C, at their crossings c in vertical cross
diagonal slots or recesses cut to the width of the thickness of the bars CC¹ and
generally to about their depth, so as to secure all these bars C, C, firmly at their half
checked crossings c.
The width of these square stiles B is preferably mado pro-
portional to the size of the divisions or spaces a for receiving the bottles or jars ≈, so
that their sides divide the square divisions into octagonal spaces or divisions.
so enable the stiles B to steady the bottles or jars throughout their height, while the
cross bars C C also steady the bottles at their upper parallel or bulged parts below
the necks, and in the case of preserve cans or jars at their sides near the top, one
bottle being indicated in sharp lines in Figure 2, and in dotted lines in Figure 1.
Referring to the modification shown in Figure 4; when two tiers of bottles = or
preserve cans or jars are to be packed over each other, a second false or portable
bottom A is inserted to rest on the top of the lower stiles B and above their cross
bars C, C, this bottom A having stiles B and rails C, C, nailed or secured on it
substantially the same as described and shown in reference to Figures to 3 in the
bottom of the outer box, for packing a second tier of jars in the depth of the box
or case either with or without sides and ends as dotted in at A*. The ends of these
cross bars are steadied as usual by notched laths or fillets B2 nailed or secured
over them to the sides of the box, and which maintain the bars C, C, in their proper
divisions and prevent them from rising out of the diagonal slots in the stiles B, should
the boxes be inverted; to further secure the stiles B at the top, nails or other equi-
valent may be inserted through the checked sides of the .stiles B at ¹ into the cross
rails C, C, to prevent these from rising out of the diagonal slots in the stiles B and
also steady the upper part of the stiles. Referring to the modification shown in
Figure 5 as suitable for long, and other particular shapes, of bottles, diagonal
slots are cut in the stiles B at the bottom for having division bars C2, C, inserted
there as well as at the top of the stiles B and which will more effectually steady the
bottom parts of the bottles. The depth of the diagonal slots bor in the stiles B,
and the depth and position of the cross rails C, C, or C, C, in them, might be
varied in many ways to suit the form and length of the particular bottles or jars for
the better steadying and packing of these; the main novel feature of the invention is
the construction and use of solid stiles B of square, round, or other section with
diagonal vertical slots for retaining the divisions or bars C, C, or C2, C", at their
checked crossings e in cases or boxes for the packing of bottles or jars.
b
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
First. The construction, or arrangement and combination of the parts of boxes or
cases for packing bottles and jars, substantially as herein described and distinguishod,
in reference to and shown in the accompanying Drawings.
Second. In cases or boxes for the packing of bottles or jars, the construction and
use of solid stiles B, with diagonal vertical slots for retaining the division bars or
rails CC, at their checked crossings c, c, substantially as herein described in reference
to and shown in the accompanying Drawings..