Improvements in or relating to Boxes and Receptacles for Reception and Transport of Eggs.
Year: 1899

page_text: Date of Application, 20th Mar., 1899
Complete Specification Left, 14th Apr., 1899-Accepted, 20th May, 1899
Improvements in or relating to Boxes and Receptacles for Reception
and Transport of Eggs.
1, MARY JOSEPHINE TALBOT, of Church Acre, Up Lyme, in the County of Devon,
Gentlewoman, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
According to my invention I construct the trays of boxes or receptacles for the
reception and transport of eggs as follows:-
The trays are preferably rectangular frames of wood of which the sides or ends
are of a height greater than the longer diameter of an egg, and the bottom of
each tray is made of a sheet of felt or the like. The divisions of the tray or some
of them are composed of wire over which felt is folded and preferably the longi-
tudinal divisions may be strips of wood fastened to the sides or ends and covered
with felt or the like while the transverse divisions are formed by wires stretched
across from side to side or end to end across the longitudinal divisions and
fastened down upon them by staples or otherwise. Over such wires strips of felt
are passed longitudinally and loosely so as to fall between the wires and form
pockets in which the eggs may be separately placed preferably on end.
The box contains a suitable number of such trays placed one upon the other
and resting one on the other on their higher sides or ends and over the upper-
most tray is placed a felted board.
Such receptacles are lighter than those in ordinary use and owing to the wire
divisions hold the eggs more firmly yet resiliently.
Dated this 20th day of March 1899.
HERBERT HADDAN & Co.,
Agents to Applicant.
Improvements in or relating to Boxes and Receptacles for Reception
and Transport of Eggs.
I, MARY JOSEPHINE TALBOT, of Church Acre, Up Lyme, in the County of Devon,
Gentlewoman, 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:-
According to my invention I construct the trays of boxes or receptacles for the
reception and transport of eggs as follows:-
The trays are preferably rectangular frames of wood of which the sides and
ends are of a height greater than the longer diameter of an egg, and the bottom of
each tray is made of a sheet of felt or the like. The divisions of the tray or some
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page_text: of them are composed of wire over which felt is folded. Over such wires strips
of felt are passed longitudinally and loosely so as to fall down between the wires
and form pockets in which the eggs are separately placed on end.
The box contains a suitable number of such trays placed one upon the other
and resting one on the other on their higher sides or ends and over the upper
most tray is placed a felted board.
The accompanying drawing illustrates one of the trays. Fig. 1 is a perspective
view thereof, Fig. 2 a plan. view and Fig. 3 a section on line 33 of Fig. 2.
A, A, are the wooden ends and B, B the wooden sides composing the framework
of each tray.
C, C are tabs or handles for use in lifting the tray from the box.
The bottom of the tray is formed of a sheet of felt I which may be nailed to the
under edges of the parts A, B. From end to end there are stretched wires E
for example three, approximately level with the upper edges of the side pieces B.
The ends of these wires are passed through the ends A, A, and turned and fastened
therein.
Over these wires E is passed a sheet of felt F having its edges nailed along the
sides, B, B, this sheet of felt falling loosely between the wires to divide the tray
into longitudinal compartments, for example, four in number.
Other wires Gare now passed through holes in the felt preferably immediately
beneath the wires E which cross them at right angles, the wires & being secured
at their ends to the sides B, B respectively for example, by twisting them around
nails H driven therein.
Strips of felt J for example four in number of suitable length are nailed at
their ends to the end pieces A as shown at K Fig. 1, and pass over the wires G
where they cross each longitudinal compartment and fall loosely between said
wires G as shown more particularly in Fig. 3 to divide the compartment into a
desired number of pockets in the manner illustrated.
Wires are preferable, since the tray is lighter when wires are used for both
longitudinal and transverse divisions and their resiliency adapts them to hold the
eggs more firmly and to give slightly as far as is necessary for accommodating
the slight varieties that occur in the sizes of different eggs.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is-
1) In a box or receptacle for the reception and transport of eggs, a tray having
its bottom composed of a felt sheet and divisions or some of them composed of
wire over which felt is folded to form pockets.
2) In a box or receptacle for the reception and transport of eggs, a tray having
its bottom composed of a felt sheet, longitudinal divisions formed by wires stretched
from end to end, a felt sheet folded over said wires and falling loosely between
them; transverse divisions formed by wires stretched from side to side, and felt
strips folded over said transverse wires and falling loosely between them for the
purpose set forth.
3). In a box or receptacle for the reception and transport of eggs, a tray consist-
ing of a frame, felt bottom and wire divisions with felt lining the whole constructed
substantially as hercin described and illustrated in the drawings.
Tatal his 144h.
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1000
HERBERT HADDAN & Co.,
Agents to Applicant,
18, Buckingham Street, Strand, London, W.C.
HERBERT HADDAN & Co.,
Agents to Applicant,
18, Buckingham Street, Strand, London, W.C.