An Improved Package in which to Preserve and Transport Butter and other Alimentary Substances.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 28th July, 1892-Accepted, 17th Sept., 1892
COMT DUID
An Improved Package in which to Preserve and Transport Butter
and other Alimentary Substances.
We RICHARD BLAMIRE SEWELL of Victoria Terrace, Rowan Street, Bendigo
in the Colony of Victoria Locomotive Inspector for Victorian Railways WILLIAM
HENRY SEWELL of Webster Street Ballarat in the Colony of Victoria Commercial
Traveller ARTHUR EDGAR SEWELL of Melbourne in the Colony of Victoria
Accountant FRANK BLAMIRE SEWELL of Victoria Terrace Rowan Street Bendigo
in the Colony of Victoria Pattern Maker and EMMA SEWELL of Bendigo aforesaid
wife of the above named Richard Blamire Sewell 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 has been designed for the purpose of providing a package in
which butter and other alimentary substances may be easily and cheaply preserved
and transported.
It consists of an inner cage or skeleton casing contained within, and by preference
concentric with an outer casing so as to leave a space between the inner and the
outer one for the reception of the brine or other preservative agent. We prefer to
make our package in the shape of a slightly tapering cylinder surrounded with
hoops and having a head and bottom, as is usual with casks, but we wish it to be
distinctly understood that they can be made square, octagonal, or any other
convenient shape if desired. Within this outer casing we place our cage or inner
skeleton casing, which must be of such a size as to leave a space of say half an inch
or an inch all round, and at either end for the reception of the brine or other
preservative agent. In order to keep this inner cage or skeleton casing in position,
we sometimes fix distance pieces on the inside of the outer casing at the top and
at the bottom, the latter being fixtures and the former being preferably removable,
and we sometimes secure said inner casing to the outer one by screws
otherwise. We provide this cage or inner skeleton casing with a perforated
bottom and top, the latter being retained in its position thereon by small
outwardly projecting lugs arranged to engage in recesses formed in the sides of
some of the bars of said inner cage and provided with a fastening, such as a
button, to admit of its being opened and its contents removed, and also to admit
of its being again refilled and the lid fastened down as occasion requires.
The top and bottom of this inner casing is perforated in order to admit of the
preservative agent having access to the substance to be preserved, and therefore
any construction of these parts which will admit of this will answer the purpose.
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This inner casing may be entirely disconnected from the outer casing, or it may
be attached thereto at any part so as to be a fixture until disconnected. And
further, a considerable portion of the vertical bars of this inner casing may he
dispensed with, and if so preferred, they may be permanently attached to the inner
side of the outer casing, as in either of these cases the object sought would be
accomplished, viz., to leave a space around the substance to be preserved for the
presence of the preservative agent.
The inner skeleton casing above described can be made of wood, enamelled ware,
agate, or other preferred material as will be well understood.

page_text: Referring to the accompanying drawings-
Figure 1 is a vertical central section of a package, constructed according to our
invention.
Figure 2 is a side elevation of the inner cage or casing alone.
Figure 3 is a horizontal section on line 3-3, Figure 1.
Figure 4 is a plan of a perforated removable lid or cover of the inner skeletou
casing.
Figure 5 is a similar view to Figure 1, but showing an alternative arrangement of
the inner skeleton casing.
Figure 6 is a horizontal section on line 6-6, Figure 5.
Figure 7 is a horizontal section on line 7-7, Figure 5, and
Figure 8 is a detached plan of the perforated lid of the inner skeleton frame or
casing, shown in Figures 5, 6, and 7.
The same letters of reference indicate the same or corresponding parts in all
the figures.
A represents the inner cage or skeleton casing made of upright or longitudinal
bars aa, fitted with a perforated top B and a perforated bottom C, which latter may
have the bars a secured to it by screws or nails c, as shown, whilst the former may
bé provided with outwardly projecting lugs beach adapted to fit into a recess or
notch in one of the bars a, a space being left between two of such bars to allow
of said lugs passing down between them and then turned into engagement with
said recesses, as shown in Figures 1, 3, 5, and 6, after which a button may be
turned so as to engage with the opposite bar, as shown in said figures, so as to
prevent the lugs b from coming out of the recesses and thus retain the lid or top
in position.
It will be obvious that the inner cage or casing A. may be made of any less
number of bars than are shown in Figure 2, as may be seen on reference to
Figures 5, 6, and 7, where there are only six bars. And further, said bars may
be secured by screws or otherwise to the sides of the outer casing D instead
of being bound together at their upper ends by means of a hoop a', as shown in
Figures 1 and 2, in which case they need not be secured to the inside of the outer
casing, and therefore the inner cage or casing is entirely free and can be removed
at, will to enable the butter or other alimentary substance it contains to be readily
turned out of it.
E represents a small bag of charcoal which may be secured to the underside of
the inner cage A, as shown in Figure 1, to keep the preservative liquid as sweet as
possible.
Frepresents a lid which may be fitted upon and secured to the top of the outer
casing in any convenient manner.
:
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what we
claim is :-
First. A package in which to preserve and transport butter and other alimentary
substances having an inner cage or skeleton casing contained within an outer
casing so as to leave a space between said inner and outer casings, substantially as
and for the purposes herein described and explained and as illustrated in Figures 1
to 4 of the accompanying drawings.
Second. The modification of our package in which to preserve and transport
butter and other alimentary substances, substantially as herein described and
explained and as illustrated in Figures 5, 6, 7, and 8 of the accompanying
drawings.
Third. In a package in which to preserve and transport butter and other
alimentary substances, the combination with an inner cage or skeleton casing
(such as A) of a perforated lid or cover (such as B) having outwardly projecting
lugs (such as b) adapted to be fitted into recesses (such as 61) in the bars forming
aid cage, a button (such as 62) being used to prevent said lugs from again coming

page_text: out of engagement with said recesses, substantially as and for the purposes herein
described and explained, and as illustrated in the accompanying drawings.
Dated this Fourth day of June One thousand eight hundred and ninety-two.
Dated this Fourth day of June One thousand eight hundred and ninety-two.
R. B. SEWELL.
WM. H. SEWELL.
A. E. SEWELL.
F. B. SEWELL.
EMMA SEWELL.
Bottomley & Liddle,
154, St. Vincent Street, Glasgow, Applicants' Agents.