Improvements in Machinery or Apparatus for Making Bottle Packing Cases.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 17th Sept., 1892
Complete Specification Left. 17th June. 1893-Accepted. 15th July, 1893
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Machinery or Apparatus for Making Bottle
Packing Cases.
We, PETER STUART BROWN of Egremont, Cambuslang in the County of
Lanark, Manufacturer, and JAMES BARR of the Firm of John McDowall &
Sons, Walkinshaw Foundry, Johnstone in the County of Renfrew, Engineers, do
hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to machinery or apparatus for making bottle packing
cases of the class described in the Specifications filed under Letters Patent
No. 3566 A.D. 1891 granted to John Shaw Turnbull and under the Letters
Patent No. 9177 A.D. 1891 granted to William Phaup Lowrie, Robert Barr and
George Scott and it has for its object to provide means for expeditiously forming
the recesses into which the bottoms of the bottles are inserted in the ends, bottoms
or sides of such cases and also to expeditiously form the holes or openings in the
diaphragms or partitions inserted within the cases to support the shoulders and
necks of the bottles.
The improved machine consists of a double acting multiple borer which is
composed of a table provided with slides on its upper surface. Two boring heads
each furnished with a number of tools corresponding to the number of recesses or
holes desired to be made are carried by these slides which are capable of movement
towards and from each other being threaded upon right and left hand screws
respectively or furnished with equivalent means for effecting such movements.
When the machine is employed in boring diaphragms or partitions two boards of
the size of the diaphragm are fed in vertically between the two sets of tools and
held in position by skeleton cramps through which the tools pass. The boards
may be fed by hand or they may be filled into a hopper above the cramps the said
hopper having divisions to keep the pieces in the same line or level apart until they
descend by their own weight and meet in the cramp where they are acted upon
simultaneously back to back by the boring tools advanced by the screws to
produce holes of the requisite shape to receive the shoulder and the root of the
neck of the bottles which being effected the tools retire and the cramps are
automatically or by hand caused to release the boards which drop down below the
table of the machine leaving the mechanism free for another operation.
The same procedure is followed in making recesses or countersinks to receive
the bottoms of the bottles the boards which are to constitute the sides ends or
bottoms of the cases being passed through in pairs and acted on by suitable tools.
Instead of first cutting the boards to their finished or approximately finished
lengths and feeding them from above they may be taken in long lengths of wood
and fed into the cramps from one side in which case a gauge is or may be provided
in conjunction with the cramp to prevent the lengths of wood being fed too far and
a cross cut saw operated from the machine or otherwise is also employed to cut off
the required lengths whilst the wood is held by the cramp and the holes or recesses
are being made.
The boring tools for making the recesses in the sides ends or bottom of the case
preferably consist each of a circular disc of a diameter rather less than the recess
to be cut out the said disc having a lance cutter on its periphery which circum-
scribes the circle of the recess and a plane iron on its face which cuts out the
interior wood.
The borer for making the holes in the diaphragms or partitions has at its
extreme forward end a similar disc lance cutter and plane iron behind which the

page_text: head of the tool is bellied out to the shape of the shoulder of the bottle and carries
another plane iron or both plane irons may be made in one-piece.
Dated this Sixteenth day of September 1892.
CRUIKSHANK & FAIRWEATHER,
62, St. Vincent Street, Glasgow, Agents.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Machinery or Apparatus for Making Bottle
Packing Cases.
We, PETER STUART BROWN of Egremont, Cambuslang in the County of
Lanark, Manufacturer, and JAMES BARR of the Firm of John McDowall &
Sons, Walkinshaw Foundry, Johnstone, in the County of Renfrew, Engineers, 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 machinery or apparatus for making_bottle packing
cases of the class described in the Specification filed under Letters Patent
No. 3566 A.D. 1891, granted to John Shaw Turnbull and under the Letters
Patent No. 9177 A.D. 1891 granted to William Phaup Lowrie. Robert Barr and
George Scott and it has for its object to provide means for expeditiously forming
the recesses into which the bottoms of the bottles are inserted in the ends, bottoms
or sides of such cases and also to expeditiously form the holes or openings in the
diaphragms or partitions inserted within the cases to supports the shoulders and
necks of the bottles.
As represented in the accompanying drawings in end and side elevations at
Figures 1 and 2 and in detail at Figures 3, 4 and 5, the improved machine consists
of a double acting multiple borer which is composed of a table A provided with
slides B, B, on its upper surface. Two boring heads C, C each furnished with a
number of tools D, D, (shown at Figures 4 and 5) corresponding to the number of
recesses or holes desired to be made are carried by these slides B, B, and are
capable of movement towards and from each other being either threaded upon right
and left hand screws respectively, or as represented in the drawings being connected
by links E to weighted levers F operated by cams G on rotating shafts H; or the
boring heads may be furnished with other equivalent means for effecting such
movements. When the machine is employed in boring diaphragms or partitions a
board of the size of the diaphragm is fed in vertically between the two sets of
tools D, D and held in position by skeleton cramps I through which the tools pass.
The boards may be fed by hand or they may be filled into a hopper or through a
slide J above the cramps I, the said boards being passed through a guide K carried
on a pin or stud k on the top of the cramp so as to be oscillated by means of a
rod L acted on by a cam M on a rotating shaft N, the effect of the oscillating
movement thus imparted to the guide K being to regulate the feed so that one
board passes through at a time into position for being operated on by the boring
tools which are advanced by the cams G to produce holes of the requisite shape to
receive the shoulder and the root of the neck of the bottles which being effected
the tools retire and one or both of the cramps is or are automatically or by hand
caused to release the boards which drop down below the table of the machine
leaving the mechanism free for another operation.
As shown in the drawing one of the cramps I is movable and is actuated by a
link connected to one of the bell crank levers F and moves in unison with the
heads C. The boards after passing through the guide K drop on to a projecting
sliding table O which is moved out of the path of the board and allows it to drop,
after each boring operation is completed, by means of a lever o actuated by a cam o¹
on the shaft N. The board is further held whilst being aeted on by the boring

page_text: tools by a finger or fingers P centred on a bracket fixed to the movable cramp I
and operated through a lever p and rod p' from a cam on the shaft N. The
movable cramp 1 the table O and finger P hold and release the board simultaneously.
The same procedure is followed in making recesses to receive the bottoms of the
bottles the boards which are to constitute the sides, ends or bottoms of the cases
being passed through in pairs and acted on by suitable tools back to back.
Instead of first cutting the boards to their finished or approximately finished
lengths and feeding them from above they may be taken in long lengths of wood
and fed into the cramps from one side in which case a gauge is or may be provided
in conjunction with the cramp to prevent the lengths of wood being fed too far and
a cross cut saw operated from the machine or otherwise is also employed to cut off
the required lengths whilst the wood is held by the cramp and the holes or recesses
are being made.
The boring tools for making the recesses in the sides, ends or bottoms of the case
preferably consist each of a circular disc D of a diameter rather less than the
recess to be cut out the said disc having a lance cutter d on its periphery which
circumscribes the circle of the recess and a plane iron d' on its face which cuts out
the interior wood.
The borer for making the holes in the diaphragms or partitions has at its
extreme forward end a similar disc lance cutter and plane iron behind which the
head of the tool is bellied out to the shape of the shoulder of the bottle and carries
another plane iron or both plane irons may be made in one piece.
The boring tools in one head as shown at Figures 1 and 3 are staggered in
relation to those of the opposite head to permit of boring simultaneously from
both sides.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what we
claim is :-
A machine for boring boards for use in making bottle packing cases having its
operative parts arranged and combined substantially as hereinbefore described.
Dated this 16th day of June 1893.
CRUIKSHANK & FAIRWEATHER,
62, St. Vincent Street, Glasgow, Agents.