provements in Portable Van-boxes used for Containing or Carrying Bottles.
Year: 1889

page_text: Date of Application, 17th Oct., 1889
Complete Specification Left, 17th July, 1890-Accepted, 4th Oct., 1890
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION
Improvements in Portable Van-boxes used for Containing or
Carrying Bottles.
I, JABEZ NALL of the Spring Vale Saw Mills Penistone in the County of York
Case Manufacturer do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to portable van-boxes which are formed with partitions so
that bottles may rest therein within suitable spaces in a vertical position and such.
boxes when filled with bottles are frequently placed either on their sides or ends.
when the said spaces form as it were pigeon-holes and the bottles thus rest therein in
a horizontal position as will be well understood. The boxes are placed in said position
so that the bottles may be taken out and replaced more easily, a great drawback
however to the plan of placing said boxes on their sides or ends is that the bottles
very often fall from the pigeon-holes or spaces; my present invention therefore has
for its object means for obviating this drawback which I attain by constructing or
forming the portable van-boxes in the following manner that is to say, I either form
around the outer sides of the top edge of box with a beading or projection, or secure
a raised strip of iron, wood or other suitable material of any desired form in cross-
section to said outer top-edges, or I taper all four sides of said box so as to make the
top thereof longer and wider or of greater area than the bottom, or I make the
thickness of the wood which forms the ends and sides of box variable that is thicker
at the top edges than at the bottom, or I arrange a suitable angular projection at each
upper corner of box; by means of either of these beforedescribed arrangements the
object of my present invention is attained inasmuch as the portable van-boxes when
so constructed or formed and placed upon their sides or ends stand or rest in a
slanting direction thus throwing the spaces or pigeon-holes which contain the bottles
out of the horizontal line that is lower near the bottom or back of box and higher at
the top or front so that the bottles when placed therein rest in an oblique position and
cannot possibly without force fall out of said holes or spaces.
Dated this 14th dave of Antak 1000
H. F. BOUGHTON, M.I.M.E.,
Barnsley and Sheffield, Patent Agent.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Portable Van-boxes used for Containing or
Carrying Bottles.
I, JABEZ NALL of Spring Vale Saw Mills Penistone in the County of York Case
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 relates to portable van boxes which are formed with partitions so
that bottles may rest therein within suitable spaces in a vertical position and such
boxes when filled with bottles are frequently placed either on their sides or ends when
the said spaces form as it were pigeon-holes and the bottles rest therein in a horizontal
position as will be well understood. The boxes are placed in said position so that the
bottles may be taken out and replaced more easily a great draw back however to the
plan of placing the said boxos on their sides or ends is that the bottles very often fall
from the pigeon holes or spaces my present invention therefore has for its object
means for obviating this drawback which I attain by constructing my improved boxes
in any of the ways set forth in the accompanying sheets of drawings which are to be
taken as part of this Specification and read therewith.

page_text: Figs. 1, 2, 3, 4 and 7 are isometric perspective views of portable van-boxes illus-
trative of some of the improvements I adopt in order to carry into effect my present
invention.
Figs. 5 and 6 are respectively sectional elevation and transverse sectional elevation
of a portable van box constructed in accordance with a modification of my said
invention and Fig. 8 is a sectional view of my improved boxes piled one above the
other on their sides or ends.
Like letters of reference denote corresponding parts in each figure.
The portable van box A may have formed around the outer side of top edge
thereof and a beading or projection b as shown at Fig. 1 or a raised strip of iron or
wood or other suitable material b of any convenient or desired form in cross section
may be nailed screwed or otherwise fixed to the top edges of box A as illustrated at
Figs. 2 and 3. Where preferred instead of arranging a projection as before described
with reference to Figs. 1, 2 and 3 I taper the sides and ends of the portable van box
so as to make the top e longer and wider or of a greater area than the bottom d see
Fig. 4 or I make the thickness of the wood which forms the ends and sides of the
box variable that is to say thicker at the top edges e than at the bottom edges d as set
forth at Figs. 5 and 6 or I arrange a suitable angular projection bat each upper corner to
portable van box A which projection may be either of wood iron or other suitable
material and may be either fixed to said corners as shown at Fig. 7 or may be made
in one with the wood forming the sides and ends as will be well understood. By
means of any of the before described and illustrated arrangements the object of my
present invention is attained inasmuch as portable van boxes when so constructed and
placed upon their sides and ends and resting one upon the other are caused to rest in
a slanting direction as shown at Fig. 8, thus throwing the spaces or pigeon holes
which contain or support the bottles fout of the horizontal line that is lower near the
bottom or back d of box and higher at the top or front e so that the said bottles f
when placed therein and the said van boxes being placed upon their ends or sides
they attain an oblique position and cannot possibly without force fall out of the
spaces g.
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It will be obvious that any of the improvements hereinbefore described and
illustrated may be combined that is to say the van boxes A may have tapered ends
and sides and likewise projections or angular projections or all or any of the
methods shown may be combined in one van box as will be well understood.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed 1 declare that what I
claim is
1. Portable van boxes used for containing or carrying bottles constructed with
beadings or projections 6 in order that when they be placed on their sides or ends
they rest in an oblique position substantially as described and illustrated at Figs. 1. 2
and 3 of the drawings attached.
2. Portable van boxes for containing or carrying bottles constructed with. their ends
and sides thicker at the top than the bottom in order that when they rest thereon they
attain an oblique position for the purpose specified substantially as described and
illustrated at Figs. 5 and 6 of the drawings accompanying this Specification.
3. Portable van boxes for containing or carrying bottles arranged with angular
projections substantially as described and illustrated at Fig. 7 for the purpose
stated.
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H. F. BOUGHTON, M. I. Mech. E.,
Barnsley and Sheffield, Agent.