Improvements in Receptacles for Transport of Fruit and for other purposes.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 11th Nov., 1892
Complete Specification Left, 11th Aug., 1893-Accepted, 16th Sept., 1893
PROVISIONAL
SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Receptacles for Transport of Fruit and for other
purposes.
I, WILLIAM ALEXANDER BOWIE of No. 26 Aberdeen Place, Maida Vale
in the County of Middlesex, Gentleman do hereby declare the nature of this
invention to be as follows:-
"
The object of this invention is to construct receptacles specially useful for
transport of butter and of strawberries and other fruit, such receptacles being
cheaper to construct than the present
"punnets
and capable of stowing in a
smaller space.
I make them of straw board or the like or of wood shaving like
the present strawberry punnets and of a triangular, square or polygonal form so
that they will pack closely without waste of space. To make the receptacles to
the greatest advantage I use strips of the material of such a width as to cut up two
rows of blanks, each blank forming a receptacle. To make hexagonal ones the
strip is divided along the middle by triangular or zigzag or undulating cuts so as
to divide the strip into two strips, each having on one side tongues of triangular or
other approximately triangular form. The strips I cut up into the required blanks
each having six such tongues and a half tongue at one end. Turning up these
tongues at right angles to the surface, after previous scoring or indenting along the
lines of bend or not and curling the blank up till the two ends overlap the tongues
from the bottom of the receptacle, and the other part forms the sides the corners
being scored or not; I then unite all the tongues by a wire fastener or other
suitable means, similarly I join the overlapping sides. According to the number of
triangular tongues so will be the number of the sides of the receptacle an extra
but half tongue being provided at one end. In this way not a particle of the sheet
material is wasted. The blanks may be cut out by machinery and delivered to
the consumer in a flat form for cheap transport and storing to be made up into
receptacles as required.
Dated this 11th day of November 1892.
JENSEN & SON,
77, Chancery Lane, London, W.C., Patent Agents.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Receptacles for Transport of Fruit and for other
purposes.
I, WILLIAM ALEXANDER BOWIE of No. 26 Aberdeen Place, Maida Vale in
the County of Middlesex, Gentleman 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 construct receptacles specially useful for
transport of strawberries and other fruits, and for butter and other goods, such
receptacles being cheaper to make than the present "punnets," and capable of
stowing in a smaller space. I make them of strawboard or the like, or of wood
shaving (like the present strawberry "punnets") and of a polygonal, square or
triangular form so that in some cases they can be packed closely without waste
of space.
To make say hexagonal receptacles I cut up the material in strips out of which
I form blanks of the required form. Fig. 1 shews the form of such a strip suitable
for making two puunet blanks. The strip is in the middle part cut into zigzag

page_text: tongues as shewn and then divided into two blanks by a straight line a a along the
middle. Each blank has six tongues 6 which are to form the bottom of the punnet
and a part c which is to form the six sides, that part having a tag c¹ at one end.
The tongue-parts are then turned up at right angles to the surface of the blank,
after previous scoring or indenting along the line d d or not, and I then curl the
blank up till the two ends of the part coverlap. The tongues b are made to partly
cover and interlock with each other forming the bottom of the punnet in the
manner shewn in the plan view Fig. 2 of the finished punnet, while the part c
forms the upstanding sides of the punnet as shewn in the side view Fig. 3, the
corners being scored or not. I then unite the overlapping ends of the part c by a
wire fastener of any suitable form or as I prefer it by a tongue e cut out of the
end part cand two slits forming a loop c³ in the opposite end part c.
Holes e may
be punched out of the sides if the punnets are used for fruit. The upper part of
the punnet may be formed round or approximately so while its lower part is
hexagonal, thus facilitating the convenient piling of the punnets upon one another
without injury to the fruit contained in them.
According to the number of tongues b so will be the number of the sides of the
receptacle, and by the mode indicated by Fig. 1 the sheet material is utilized with
minimum waste. The blanks may be cut out by machinery and delivered to the
consumer in the flat form Fig. 1 for cheap transport and storing to be made up
into receptacles as required.
Figure 4 shews a blank of a slightly different form in that it is provided with
tongues on the side opposite to that of the tongues b. The tongues are when
the receptacle is made up in the form shewn at Figure 5 doubled upon themselves
and bent inward so as to form a strong inwardly projecting rim. Tongues g may
also be cut out of the blank which as shewn in the vertical sectional view Fig. 6
are bent in under such rim made of two thicknesses.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is :-
1. Punnets or other receptacles made of blanks of cardboard or other suitable
sheet material provided with zigzag cut tongues along one side which tongues are
turned up at right angles and made to partly cover and interlock with each other
to form the bottom while the other part of the blank forms the sides or
circumference of the receptacle and has the ends fastened together all substantially
as set forth.
2. The constructions of receptacles shewn on the drawings.
August 199
JENSEN & SON,
77, Chancery Lane, London, W.C., Patent Agents.