Year: 1887

page_text: THOMAS BATES BLOW Welwyn Hertfordshire Manufacturer of Bee Keeping
Appliances do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
Two cases (Fig. 1) of Straw or Card board or other suitable material each case with
four sides of Straw or Card board (A) one side of glass (B) and the remaining side
open. The Sectional Super Boxes have one of these glass fronted cases placed on
each side so that they meet in the centre of the Sectional Super Box (C).
A gummed or pasted slip of paper (D) is then affixed all round and covers the joint
formed by the two glass fronted cases and thus the Honey is completely sealed up.
A section through the cases when filled is shown at Fig. 2. Card or Straw board (A)
Glass Fronts (B) Wood sides of Sectional Super Box (C) Slip of paper (D) Honey
Comb (E).

page_text: I THOMAS BATES BLOW, Welwyn, Hertfordshire, Manufacturer of Bee Keeping
Appliances, 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 object of this invention is to provide.convenient cases for containing and
exhibiting section boxes containing Comb Honey.
Section boxes are rectangular frames of wood to hold a sheet or diaphragm of wax
called a comb foundation, on either side of which the bees form the coinb to be filled
with honey.
When the section boxes.are taken from the hive full of honey, they require to be
enclosed in something, and hermetically sealed in order to preserve the honey for the
market. At the same time, it is necessary that the honey should be exposed to view,
so that the buyers may see what they are purchasing.
The enclosing has hitherto been effected by securing a glass on either side of the
.section box, by means of strips. of paper, but this has not been found to fully answer
the purpose, as the boxes.are made with. notches or recesses in the edge to form Bee-
ways, and it often happens that paper gets. loose or broken at. these parts.
In carrying out.my invention, I make my case. in two parts, each of which consists
of side pieces of card, mill or similar board, and a bottom of glass. The sides are
covered externally with some. fancy paper, which serves to hold them together,. and
this paper is made to overlap, so that it may be folded down onto the glass, and thus
secure it in position as well. This overlap may be covered with a strip of embossed
or other ornamental paper to give a finish to the case. The filled section box is placed
in one of these cases, the depth of which will be about one half of that of the box, and
a-second case is put over the other side of the box. At the butt joint formed by the
two cases, I paste or gum a strip of paper which serves to hermetically seal the joint
and prevent the entrance of air, which would be detrimental to the proper preservation
of the honey.
For better the understanding of my invention, I would refer to the drawing I filed
with my application for Patent, in which Fig. 1 is a perspective view of an
enclosing case constructed according to my invention, and Fig. 2 is a section through
a case containing a section box filled with comb.

page_text: A is the cardboard forming sides of the case, and B the glass.-C is the joint
between the two cases, and D is the strip covering the joint.-E in Fig. 2 represents
the Honey Comb.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said Inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is
Constructing cases for enclosing and exhibiting section boxes containing Comb Honey
in the manner herein shown and described.