Year: 1886

page_text: Date of Application, 3rd Aug., 1886.
Complete Left, 1st June, 1887.
Complete Accepted, 5th July, 1887.
[Communicated from abroad by ROBERT HENRY THOMPSON, of 493, 3rd Street, and
HENRY DOLE NORRIS, of 502, 3rd Street, both in Brooklyn, New York, U.S.A.,
Manufacturers.]
I, HENRY HARRIS LAKE, of the firm of Haseltine, Lake & Co., Patent Agents,
Southampton Buildings in the County of Middlesex do hereby declare the nature of
this invention to be as follows :—
This invention consists of a packing for bottles and analogous articles made of a
strip or band of paper or like material corrugated or bossed so as to render it stiff and
yet elastic ;
and folded or creased so as to have a greater number of sections
than four.
It will be advantageous to permanently unite the ends of the band or strip to form
a completed wrapper, and in such cases I shall fold or crease, it so as to provide it
with an even number of sections, in order that it may be doubled or folded flat to
facilitate its transportation.
The paper or straw board of which the packing is made, will have the corrugations
therein, extending in the direction of the length of the packing, and the creases will
extend transversely to the lengths of the corrugations. It is advantageous also to
paste a sheet or strip of material on that side of the corrugated material which is
outermost when the packing is in use.
13000
HASELTINE, LAKE & Co.,
45, Southampton Buildings, London, W.C.,
Agents for the Applicant.

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements relating to Packing for Bottles and similar
Articles.
I HENRY HARRIS LAKE of the firm of Haseltine Lake & Co. Patent Agents
Southampton Buildings in the County of Middlesex 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 as communicated by
Robert Henry Thompson, Manufacturer, residing at 493 3rd Street in the City of
Brooklyn, and State of New York, and Henry Dale Norris, Manufacturer, residing
at 502 3rd Street, of the same place :-
Improvement in Packing for Bottles and analogous articles.
Our improvement consists in a packing for bottles and analogous articles made of a
strip or band of paper or like material corrugated or bossed so as to render it stiff and
yet elastic, and folded or creased so as to have a greater number of sections than four.
It will be advantageous to permanently unite the ends of the band or strip to form
a completed wrapper, and in such cases we shall fold or crease it, so as to provide it
with an even number of sections in order that it may be doubled or folded flat to
facilitate its transportation. The paper or straw-board of which the packing is made
will have the corrugations therein extending in the direction of the length of the
packing, and the creases will extend transversely to the lengths of the corrugations.
It is advantageous also to paste a sheet or strip of material on that side of the
corrugated material which is outermost when the packing is in use.
The accompanying drawing illustrates a packing embodying my improvement.
Figure 1 is a face view of a packing having its ends unconnected and being extended
out flat. Figure 2 is a face view of a packing having the ends connected to form a
completed wrapper, the wrapper being represented as being folded, doubled or pressed
out in a single flat plane. Figure 3 is a top or end view of a packing and a bottle
enclosed by it, the bottle being shown in dotted outline. Figure 4 is a top or end
view of a packing applied to a round or circular bottle. Figure 5 is an end view of
Figure 2. Similar letters of reference designate corresponding parts in all the
figures.
A designates my packing. It consists essentially of a piece of thick paper, straw-
board or like material. This is corrugated or bossed to render it stiff and yet elastic.
As shown it is corrugated over its entire surface and the corrugations run lengthwise
so that, when the packing is applied around a bottle or like article, they will extend
circumferentially around the same. At intervals the packing is folded or creased as
at a, in lines extending widthwise from edge to edge; and thus it is formed into a
number of sections b.
A piece B, of smooth paper will preferably be secured to the piece of material A by
mucilage, paste or other adhesive substance, and on that side which will be outermost
when the packing is in use.
The packing is to have a number of sections 6 in excess of the number of sides or
side surfaces of the bottle or other article with which it is to be used. The ends of
the material forming the packing are to be united by means of a strip C of paper

page_text: secured by mucilage, paste or other adhesive substance, or they may be united in any
other suitable manner. They may be united after the application of the packing or
before its application so as to render it a completed wrapper ready for use without
further preparation.
Owing to the existence in the packing of a greater number of sections than there
are sides or side surfaces to the bottle or article on which it is used, the packing will
not only extend away from the bottle or other article at the outward corrugations but
also at the corners or junctions of the sections. In fact the sections form springs
which through their resilience in the direction of their width protect the bottle or
other article.
Because of the resilience of the sections b, the packing is adapted to fit snugly on
bottles and articles varying considerably in size, for if applied to a small article, the
packing will assume nearly the form of a polygon having a number of sides
corresponding to the number of sections which the packing possesses, and if applied
to a large article it will depart more from the form just described and conform more
closely to the shape of the article. On a round bottle having only a single side
surface, the packing extends away from such surface at numerous points.
The folds or creases forming the sections of each packing which is to have the ends
united to form a completed wrapper preparatory to its use, are so disposed that at
least two will be opposite each other in order to admit of folding or pressing the
paper out flat as shown in Figure 2, to facilitate transportation. This construction has
advantages also for the packings which are not to be united before use.
Our packing is light, cheap and durable. It can be very easily transported. It
will prove a much greater protection for any article to which it may be applied, than
a corrugated or bossed packing which conforms closely to the contour of the article,
as the latter possesses only the elasticity due to its corrugations or bosses.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said invention
and in what manner the same is to be performed as communicated to me by my
foreign correspondents I declare that what I claim is
1. A packing for bottles and analogous articles, made of a strip or band of paper or
like material, corrugated or bossed so as to render it stiff and yet elastic, and folded
or creased so as to have a greater number of sections than the number of sides or
side surfaces possessed by the articles for which it is intended, substantially as
specified.
2. A packing for bottles and analogous articles made of an endless band of paper
or like material corrugated or bossed so as to render it stiff and yet elastic, and folded
or creased so as to have a greater number of sections than the number of sides or side
surfaces possessed by the articles for which it is intended, and withal so that it can be
flattened out, substantially as specified.
Dated this 1st day of June 1887
HASELTINE, LAKE & Co.,
45, Southampton Buildings, London, W.C..
Agents for the Applicant.