Year: 1887

page_text: Date of Application, 18th Apr., 1887.
Complete Left, 3rd Sept., 1887.
Complete Accepted, 7th Oct., 1887.
I MATTHEW HENRY GLOVER of Albion House York Grove Peckham in the County
of Surrey Timber Merchant do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows
This invention relates to partitioned boxes or cases such as are used for the
transport of aërated waters or other liquids in bottles.
The object of the improvements is to secure the strength due to iron binding
without the disadvantages of employing ordinary hoop iron in the usual way or of
embedding the iron binding in the body of the wood of which the boxes or cases are
constructed.
With the ordinary hoop iron wrapped around the exterior of boxes or cases contact
with surfaces upon which such boxes or cases are moved is liable both to tear away
the hoop iron and to damage the article with which such contact is made.
With hoop iron or any form of iron binding embedded into the wood of which the
boxes or cases are constructed so as to be below the surface of the wood there is a
tendency for the wood forming the walls of the trench in which the iron binding is
embedded to break away especially when such binding occurs near the extremities of
the boxes or cases.
Such trenches also form receptacles in which water may lodge rotting the wood and
rusting the iron band or wire.
My invention consists in the employment of iron binding of special form which
may vary in cross section from half round to any smaller segment of a circle or may
be of a form crescent shaped in cross section. Before or after joining the parts of
which such boxes or cases are to be constructed I pass the boards over a rotary or a
fixed cutter or cutters of a shape to agree with the cross section of the iron binding to
be employed.
For the form of iron binding segmental in cross section I use a flat cutter which
makes a shallow channel sufficient only to protect the points of union of the chord and
circumference of the circle forming such segment. Thus the rounded portion alone
projects beyond the surfaces of the box or case with the result that the box or case

page_text: will slide freely over surfaces with which it comes in contact without damage while
the edges of the iron work are thoroughly protected by contact with the wood so as to
avoid contact with adjacent articles.
When employing iron binding of a form crescent shaped in cross section 1 employ
a cutter with a hollow part to leave a raised rounded surface over which the iron
binding is laid in such a manner that the upper rounded surface of the iron binding
protrudes beyond the level of the surface of the box or case to which it is applied
while the extremities of the crescent form are thoroughly protected by contact with
the wood with the same result as is obtained with the iron binding of segmental form
in cross section as herein before referred to.
The segmental or crescent shaped form of iron binding obviates the necessity of
making a deep channel and the box therefore practically retains its original strength
which is greatly increased by the iron binding especially as the form referred to
presents the maximum of binding surface to the wood while the rounded form of the
projecting part forms a good protection to the wood thereby reducing the wear and
tear to which such boxes or cases are subjected.
Instead of making the channel for receiving the iron band by means of rotary or
fixed cutters a band saw may be arranged to cut the necessary channel after the boxes
or cases are made or the required channel may be formed by means of pressure
suitably applied to a heated iron of the desired shape in which case the partial
charring of the wood where the iron binding to be fitted on will preserve the wood
from rot and decay.
Dated this 10th day of Annil 1907

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Partitioned Boxes or Cases for the Transport of
Liquids in Bottles.
I MATTHEW HENRY GLOVER of Albion House York Grove Peckham in the County
of Surrey Timber Merchant 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 partitioned boxes or cases such as are used for the
transport of aërated waters or other liquids in bottles which are bound round with
strengthening bands and the object of the invention is to secure the strength due to
the use of bands without the disadvantages incidental to the employment of bands
projecting from the surface of the wood and to those in which the band is inserted
into a groove or channel made in the wood.
In the first mentioned case the bands are liable to be torn away and also to damage
articles with which they come into contact. In the second case where the bands are
inserted into grooves or channels cut in the wood there is great liability of the wood
forming the outward walls of the grooves or channels near the extremities of the
boxes or cases breaking away.
The boxes or cases are also weakened by such grooves or channels. The holding
power of the nails which attach the bottom is diminished by the grooves or channels
which are cut along the nailing line, and a difficulty created in the proper driving
home of such nails, and further, the grooves or channels themselves collect and admit
of the continuous lodgment of water, which rapidly rots the wood around and under
the band, which is thus slackened, and also rusts and eats away the band itself.
My invention consists in the employment of metal bands of special form which
may vary in cross section from half round to any smaller segment of a circle,
but by preference I employ a form crescent shaped in cross section, and in preparing
a seating for these bands by slightly charring the wood where the bands are applied,
and in the case of using bands crescent shaped in cross section, in forming in the
wood a beading corresponding in shape to the underside of the bands which beading
may be formed by a rotary or other cutter with a hollow part to leave a raised rounded
surface or beading over which the bands are laid in such a manner that the upper
rounded surface of the band may protrude beyond the level of the surface of the box
or case to which it is applied while the edges of the band forming the extremities.of
the crescent in cross section are thoroughly protected by the wood so as to avoid
injury being done either to the box or to other articles by contact of the edges of the
band with other articles. Instead of employing cutters to prepare the boxes or cases
to receive the bands I may employ heated irons of the desired shape to be applied
under pressure to the wood of the box where the bands are to be applied and thus
produce a charred surface upon which to lay the bands if necessary at the same time
making the beading by the same charring operation.

page_text: When it is intended to employ bands varying in cross section from half round to
any smaller segment of a circle the heated irons need only be flat strips but to prepare
the boards for receiving bands of crescent shape in cross section it is necessary to
employ heated iron strips grooved longitudinally to form the beading as well as the
charred surface.
The rounded part of the bands of boxes or cases made as hereinbefore described
will slide freely over surfaces with which it comes into contact without damage to
themselves or to the said surfaces and will form rests for the box to stand on.
The slight charring of the wood where the bands are to be applied preserves the
wood from rot and decay to which uncharred wood is very liable at these parts from
constant exposure to and lodgement of rain as in van delivery boxes and also to the
continuous wetting inseparable from mineral water and other factories using
such boxes.
The accompanying drawing will make my Invention quite clear Fig. 1 is a
perspective view of a box shewing the bands at Fig. 2 is a portion of a box shewing
the charred surface at A and the strip B in process of being applied. Fig. 3 is a cross
section shewing a plain charred surface at A with the strip B applied thereto and
Fig. 4 shews a cross section with the charred surface formed as a beading to fit the
underside of the strip B and protect the edges thereof.
Having now described my said invention and in what manner the same is to be
performed I declare that what I claim is
1. In the manufacture of boxes or cases the employment of bands of crescent shape
in cross section applied to a beading prepared to receive the same either by means
of cutters or by heated irons applied with pressure substantially as hereinbefore
described.
2. In the manufacture of boxes or cases preparing the surface upon which the
bands are to be applied by charring the wood and then applying the bands over such
charred portions substantially as hereinbefore described.
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