Improvements in or relating to Packing Cases for containing Bottles and the like.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 19th Dec., 1891
Complete Specification Left, 2nd Mar., 1392--Accepted, 2nd Apr., 1892.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or relating to Packing Cases for containing
Bottles and the like.
I, WILLIAM CUMMINGS of 9 Murano Place, Edinburgh in the County of
Edinburgh, Packing Box Maker, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to.
be as follows:-
This invention relates to boxes or cases for carrying bottles containing liquids
during transit and it has for its object to furnish in an ordinary wooden box means
whereby the usual straw packing envelopes are dispensed with their functions being
performed by light trays or frames of wood so arranged as to afford support to each
bottle at the neck and at or near the bottom. The lower frame or tray which rests.
on the bottom of the box consists of two longitudinal bars or strips of wood, metal
or other material and it has at distances apart corresponding to the distances desired
to be maintained between the bottles in the lower layer a series of semicircular.
openings cut in the upper side of each bar or strip the openings to receive the necks
being smaller than those to receive the bodies of the bottles. The frame is of the
full length of the interior of the box and it is prevented from shifting sideward by
cross bars which bind the two members of the frame together and whose ends bear.
against the sides of the box. On the lower frame or tray another similarly con-.
structed frame or tray is superposed the longitudinal bars of the said second frame
having semicircular or curvilinear slots made both on its upper and lower parts and
corresponding with those in the lower frame or tray. The under series of slots fit.
over the bottles rested in the lower frame or tray so locking the bottles in position,
whilst in the upper series of slots in the second frame another layer of bottles is.
rested the second layer being similarly locked in position by a third frame super-.
posed upon
the second frame and so on until the desired number of bottles has been
packed into the box.
The top of the upper frame or tray is flat and level or about level with the top
edge of the box so that when the lid has been nailed in position the frames besides
being prevented by the cross bars from shifting horizontally are by the lid and
bottom prevented from moving in the direction of the depth of the box.
Dated this Eighteenth day of December 1891.
CRUIKSHANK & FAIRWEATHER,
62, St. Vincent Street, Glasgow, Agents..
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or relating to Packing Cases for containing
Bottles and the like.
I, WILLIAM CUMMINGS of 9 Murano Place, Edinburgh, in the County of
Edinburgh Packing Box Maker 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 boxes or cases for carrying bottles containing liquids.
during transit and it has for its object to furnish in an ordinary wooden box means
whereby the usual straw packing envelopes are dispensed with their functions being-
performed by light trays or frames of wood so arranged as to afford support to each
bottle at the neck and at or near the bottom.

page_text: The method of carrying out the invention is illustrated by the several figures on
the accompanying drawings
Figure 1 being a plan of an ordinary packing box shewing one of the trays or
frames in position;
Figure 2 is a side elevation of the trays looking from A;
Figure 3 a side elevation looking from B Figure 1 whilst
Figure 4 is a cross section ou the line a.
The lower frame or tray which rests on the bottom of the box consists of two
longitudinal bars or strips ab of wood metal or other material and it has at distances
apart corresponding to the distances desired to be maintained between the bottles
in the lower layer a series of semi-circular openings ed cut in the upper side of
each bar or strip the openings e to receive the necks being smaller than those d to
receive the bodies of the bottles. The frame is of the full length of the interior
of the box and it is prevented from shifting sideward by cross bars e which bind
the two members ab of the frame together and whose ends bear against the sides f
of the box. On the lower frame or tray another similarly constructed frame or
tray is superposed the longitudinal bar a' of the said second frame having semi-
circular or curvilinear openings el made on its lower edge and corresponding with
the openings c in the upper edge of the member a of the lower frame or tray whilst
the member has openings d' on the lower edge or it may have such openings also
on its upper edge corresponding with the openings d in the member of the lower
frame. The openings c d fit over the bottles rested in the lower frame or tray so
locking the lower tier of bottles in position. The upper tier of bottles have their
necks rested in openings made in the upper edge of the member a of the
second frame the bottles being similarly locked in position by a third frame a² 6²
superposed upon the second frame and so on until the desired number of layers of
hottles has been packed into the box.
The top of the upper frame or tray is flat and level or about level with the top
edge of the box so that when the lid has been nailed in position the frames besides
being prevented by the cross bars a from shifting horizontally are by the lid and
bottom prevented from moving in the direction of the depth of the box.
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 :-
In conjunction with ordinary wooden cases for bottles packing frames or trays
arranged and constructed substantially as described with reference to the accom-
panying drawings.
Dated this First day of March 1892.
CRUIKSHANK & FAIRWEATHER,
62, St. Vincent Street, Glasgow, Agents.