Packing for Glass Bottles and other Breakable Articles.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 11th Nov., 1892
Complete Specification Left, 8th Aug., 1893-Accepted, 9th Sept., 1893
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Packing for Glass Bottles and other Breakable Articles.
We GUSTAV STRÜWER and WILLY WOHLRABE both Merchants in Halle,
Germany, Bahnhofs-Strasse 222 do hereby declare the nature of this invention
to be as follows:-
The object of the present invention is a substitute for the costly straw packing.
with which each bottle has to be wrapped up separately.
Two open frames are used which are covered inside with a possibly thick straw―
or cocoa-mat..
The bottles are placed close together on one mat, the second mat being placed
with the other frame on the top of all bottles. Through then tightening the two
frames firmly together by means of screws or chains, the heads and bottoms of the
bottles so firmly are pressed into the mats that a lateral yielding or damage of the
bottles during transport seems impossible. As will be noticed at a glance, this way
of packing requires less space than the usual way, because the sides of the bottles
touch each other.
Dated this 9th day of November 1802
GUSTAV STRÜWER.
WILLY WOHLRABE.
COMPLETE
SPECIFICATION.
Packing for Glass Bottles and other Breakable Articles.
We, GUSTAV STRÜWER and WILLY WOHLRABE, of Brackwede, in the
Kingdom of Prussia, late of 22 Bahnhofs-Strasse, Halle, in the Empire of Germany
Merchants, 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 :-
The usual method of packing glass bottles and other fragile objects for transport
with straw or other similar material is troublesome and costly, since each separate
article must be severally encased for the purpose. The result of this is that the
amount of cubic space required for packing has to be unnecessarily great.
Our invention has for object to overcome these objections and it consists in
placing the bottles or other objects close together between two cases adapted to slide
one over the other, the necks and bottoms of the bottles being pressed into a yielding
or elastic bed, such as a straw mat at either end, by means of a suitable pressing
mechanism applied to the two cases.
In the accompanying drawing,-
Figure 1 is a perspective view partly in section illustrating the packing of a single
tier of bottles according to our invention; and,
Figure 2 is a similar view illustrating the packing of several tiers of bottles one
above the other.
a, a', Figure 1, are the two cases adapted to slide one over the other and d, d are
the yielding or elastic beds made as thick as possible and preferably consisting of
straw or cocoa nut fibre mats. The glass bottles or similar vessels are placed
closely side by side upon the mat d placed in the case a' and the case a also
provided with a mat which rests upon the necks of all the bottles is then placed
over the whole. The two cases a, a¹ are then pressed tightly together whereby the
necks and bottoms of the bottles are so tightly pressed into the mats d that it is
rendered quite impossible for the flasks to shift laterally or to be injured during
their transport.

page_text: Since the several bottles are placed close together laterally, much less room is
taken up than in the straw packing at present in use.
Means of various kinds can
be used to press the two cases together.
In the example shewn in Figure 1 of the drawing, hooked levers and chains c
are used for this purpose. The ends of the chains are fastened to the bottom of one
case a whilst the hooked levers are jointed to the other case a. By hooking the
chains at a proper point on the hooks of the hooked levers, and pressing these
latter down upon the case a, the required pressure is exerted to press the necks and
bottoms of all the bottles tightly into the corresponding mats or other yielding
beds d. The ends of the levers 6, when the latter are pressed down, are secured
upon the case a by means of a bolt e.
An ordinary case lid and bottom will answer equally well for pressing down the
bottles in place of the two cases a and a¹.
Glass bottles, full or empty, and other fragile objects may very advantageously.
be packed in this way for transport by railway, ship, or road.
Safety against breakage, and great economy of labour in packing are thereby
attained. The cases can be safely closed for every kind of carriage with little
handling. The constantly recurring expense of material for packing is got rid of,
and the consignee can easily and quickly unpack the objects packed as described
without being obliged to remove the packing material, straw or the like.
It will be obvious that as shewn in Figure 2 several tiers of bottles can be packed
in this manner, a mat d being placed between cach tier of bottles as well as in the
bottoms of the cases a, a¹.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature our said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what we
claim is :-
A packing for glass bottles, and other fragile articles, characterized by the fact
that the bottles or other articles are placed close together and provided above and
below with a yielding or elastic bed preferably of straw matting or cocoa but fibre
matting between two cases adapted to slide one upon the other and serving as a
packing case, or between a case lid and bottom, the whole being subjected to pressure
by means of a pressing arrangement such as that hereinbefore described with the
object of pressing the necks and bottoms of all the flasks or other articles into the
yielding or elastic beds which thereby form seatings which prevent any lateral
shifting of the articles substantially as set forth.
Dated this 8th day of August 1893.
1
G. F. REDFERN & Co.,
4, South Street, Finsbury, London, Agents for the Applicants.