IMPROVEMENTS IN PACKING BOTTLES AND SIMILAR ARTICLES
Year: 1868

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to John Perry, of Rathdowney Brewery, in the
Queen's County, Brewer, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN
PACKING BOTTLES AND SIMILAR ARTICLES."
Sealed the 15th December 1868, and dated the 19th June 1868.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said John Perry at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
19th June 1868.
I, JOHN PERRY, of Rathdowney Brewery, in the Queen's County,
Brewer, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "In-
PROVEMENTS IN PACKING BOTTLES AND SIMILAR ARTICLES," to be as follows:-
This Invention consists, firstly, in packing bottles and similar articles
in any suitable case or holder, whether intended for transport or simply
for storage, by passing alternately over and under the several bottles or
similar articles laid on their side in a horizontal row a strip of packing
paper, felt, clotl, sackcloth, or other suitable packing material of one or

page_text: more thicknesses. Another row of similarly packed bottles is then laid
in such a position that the bottle necks will intervene between those of
the first-described row, and a strip of paper or other suitable packing
material of one or more thicknesses is passed alternately under and over
the several necks of the two rows. Upon the tops of these two com-
pleted rows of bottles there are placed other strips of paper or layers of
packing material which are simply laid straight along, and upon the top
of these other rows of bottles or similar articles are laid and packed in a
precisely similar manner to those below, and so on to any convenient
number of rows, the bottles in one row being made to break joint with
those in another row for the sake of further security and economy of
space.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said John Perry in the Great Seal Patent Office on
the 18th December 1868.
ALL
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOHN
PERRY, of Rathdowney Brewery, in the Queen's County, Brewer, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Nineteenth day of June, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight, in the
thirty-first year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto me, the said John Perry, Her special license that
I, the said John Perry, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or
such others as I, the said John Perry, my executors, administrators,
or assigns, should at any time agree with, and no others, from time to
time and at all times thereafter during the term therein expressed,
should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend, within the
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel Islands,
and Isle of Man, an Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN PACKING BOTTLES
AND SIMILAR ARTICLES," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the
said John Perry, my executors or administrators, by an instrument in
writing under my hand and seal, should particularly describe and ascer-
tain the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the saine

page_text: was to be performed, and cause the same to be filed in the Great Seal
Patent Office within six calendar months next and immediately after
the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said John Perry, do hereby declare the
nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be
performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement, reference being had to the accompanying Drawings,
and to the letters and figures marked thereon, that is to say :-
My said Invention consists in packing bottles and similar articles in
any suitable case or holder, whether intended for transport or simply
for storage, by passing alternately over and under the several bottles or
similar articles laid on their side in a horizontal row a strip of packing
paper, pasteboard, felt, cloth, sackcloth, or other suitable packing
material of one or more thicknesses. If desired the strips may be of
tin, sheet iron, or other such pliable and thin metal bent so as to fit the
bottles. Another row of similarly packed bottles is then laid in such a
position that the bottle necks will intervene between those of the first
described row, and a strip of paper or other suitable packing material,
as described above, of one or more thicknesses is passed alternately under
and over the several necks of the two rows. This strip (under and over
the necks) may sometimes be dispensed with, but whether it be made
use of or not a layer of straw, hay, or some such soft material, or
simply a picce of wood so indented as to receive the necks of each
double row of bottles, may be placed between each double row of necks,
so as to hold the bottles firmly and prevent the necks from shaking up
and down, which they would otherwise have the power of doing if this
space were left void. Upon the tops of these two completed rows of
bottles there are placed other strips of paper, tin, sheet iron, or other
material, as before mentioned, or layers of packing material, which are
simply laid straight along upon the top of these; further rows of bottles
or similar articles are laid and packed in a precisely similar manner
to those below, and so on to any convenient number of rows, the bottles
in one row being made to break joint with those in another row for the
sake of further security and economy of space.
And in order that my said Invention may be fully understood, I shall
now proceed to describe the two Figures on the annexed Sheet of
Drawings, Figure 1 of which represents a sectional elevation of a two-
dozen packing case, wherein the bottles are shewn packed according

page_text: to my improved method, whilst Figure 2 represents a corresponding
sectional plan of the same.
A represents an ordinary packing case for transport, but I do not
confine myself to the use of a packing case, as my method of packing
is equally applicable to the packing of bottles in cellars or stores;
B, B, are the bottles laid horizontally in rows with their necks inter-
locking or breaking joint with each other, as shewn clearly in
Figure 2. The packing material C, colored red, and which may consist
of paper, felt, cloth, sackcloth, straw, hay, tin, sheet iron, or other
suitable packing material, as before described, is passed alternately
under and over the bodies of the bottles in each row, a layer of packing D
(colored blue) having been first laid on the bottom of the case.
A strip
of similar packing E (colored yellow) is then to be passed alternately
under and over the several necks of the two combined rows of bottles,
as shewn clearly in Figure 2. Upon each of these rows I then place a
layer of packing F (colored blue in the Drawings), and upon these I
deposit other rows of bottles, but so as to break joint with those below.
To these upper rows I apply packing alternately under and over the
bottles and their necks precisely as described with reference to the
bottom rows, and so on to any desired number of rows.
Having now described and particularly ascertained the nature of
my said Invention, and the manner in which the same is or may
be used or carried into effect, I would observe in conclusion that
what I consider to be novel and original, and therefore claim as the
Invention secured to me by the herein-before in part recited Letters
Patent is, the peculiar mode or method of packing bottles, as herein-
before described and illustrated by my Drawings.
In witness whereof, I, the said John Perry, have to this my Speci-
fication set my hand and scal, this Fifteenth day of December,
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight.