Improvements in Boxes or Trays for Holding Eggs and Fragile Articles during Transit.
Year: 1898

page_text: Date of Application, 27th May, 1898-Accepted, 9th July, 1898
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Boxes or Trays for Holding Eggs and Fragile
Articles during Transit.
We, DAIRY OUTFIT COMPANY LIMITED, and SIDNEY JOB POCOCK, a Director of
said Company, all of 251 to 255, Pentonville Road, London, 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 boxes or trays for holding eggs and fragile articles such
as electric incandescence lamps during transit the object of same being to provide
a box or the like which is capable of being very cheaply constructed and which will
hold the articles effectively without fear of breakage by shocks to the box or the like
during transit.
Various forms of devices providing separate compartments having cushioned walls
have as is well known long been used more particularly for carrying eggs and as one
of these devices felt has been employed to line the walls of the compartments. Such
a construction while effective in use necessitates cutting the felt and shaping it in
various ways which cause the egg cases so manufactured to be somewhat expensive.
According to the present invention it is proposed to stamp or press into a sheet
of felt or like thick soft material the requisite recesses or pockets for the eggs or
other articles such single sheet of felt being suitably supported in a tray or the like
or in a box or case."
In the accompanying drawing there are illustrated two forms of the invention to
show how same may be carried into effect.
Fig. 1 is a section of a tray for a box or case for carrying eggs shewing one form
of the invention.
Fig. 2 is a plan of same.
Fig. 3 is a section of a part of another tray shewing another form and
Fig. 4 is a plan.
In carrying out the invention we take a sheet of felt or like thick soft material
and after damping same and if necessary warming it we press it between a lower and
an upper die which are provided with projections and recesses corresponding to each
other and shaped according to the form of cell or pocket it is desired to produce.
When the felt is removed from the dies and the sheet of felt is dry it will be found
to retain the cells or pockets pressed into it and it is then ready for mounting in
a tray or box in any suitable way.
It
In Figs. 1 and 2 are shewn one method of doing this, the shaped sheet of felt a
being laid upon a light frame b of cardboard or similar material such frame being of
he kind used in egg boxes as at present employed and being held in grooves in a
wooden or other suitable tray c or being laid or held in a box or case as desired.
will be seen that the light cardboard frame forms an efficient support for the felt
pockets or cells which in this case are shewn as adapted for taking the eggs in a
vertical position.
In Figs. 3 and 4 the felt sheet a is secured by nailing or otherwise to a series of
ight wood bars d held in grooves in the tray c no cross bars being employed in this
case as the pockets are sufficiently supported by the nailing or securing of the felt to

page_text: the bars d. e is a piece of felt placed at the bottom of each tray as a protection for
the eggs on the tray beneath. In this case the pockets are arranged to carry the
eggs lengthwise an egg being indicated in position to shew that the pocket need not
be the entire depth of the egg if the end walls of the tray c are high enough, as in
practice where a number of trays are used the tray above is carried on these walls.
It will be obvious that various other forms of arrangement may be provided for
holding or supporting the felt sheets such as wires run across the frame or box or in
some cases the sheets of felt may be employed without any interior supporting
devices.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what we
claim is :-
1. A means for holding eggs or fragile articles during transit consisting of a sheet
of felt or like thick soft material having a series of pockets or cells stamped or pressed
therein substantially as described.
2. A means for holding eggs or fragile articles during transit consisting of a sheet of
felt or like thick soft material having a series of pockets or cells stamped or pressed
therein and an interior supporting device or devices substantially as described.
3. The improved construction of trays for holding eggs or fragile articles during
transit substantially as described and illustrated in the drawings.
Dated this orth day of Mo 1900
PHILIP M. JUSTICE,
Chartered Patent Agent, 55 and 56, Chancery Lane, London,
For the Applicants.