Improvements relating to the Packing of Cord, String, and the like, and to Boxes or Cases for holding the same.
Year: 1890

page_text: Date of Application, 18th Dec., 1890
Complete Specification Left, 13th Aug., 1891-Accepted, 19th Sept., 1891
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements relating to the Packing of Cord, String, and the like,
and to Boxes or Cases for holding the same.
1, EDWIN AUSTIN, of 8 and 9 Princes Street, Wilson Street, Finsbury, in the
County of London, Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention
to be as follows:-
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My invention relates to the packing of cord, string and the like and to boxes or
cases for holding the same, and is chiefly designed to provide for the packing of
such cord or string in a more compact and convenient form than heretofore, whilst
permitting the ready removal or withdrawal of the same when required.
"
For this purpose I wind the cord into suitable hanks or flattened coils cach con-
taining preferably about 72 yards thereof. Two of these coils or hanks are. then.
placed side by side in a card-board or other suitable box adapted to receive the.
same, the said box being provided with two eyelet holes formed in one end, pre-
ferably near the corners thereof. The inner ends of the coils or hanks are passed
through these holes and the cord can then be readily withdrawn through the same
as required, the folds of the flattened coil or hank unwinding readily from the
interior thereof as the cord is withdrawn.
By this means I am enabled to pack a given quantity of cord in a very small
space comparatively whilst permitting of the same being readily withdrawn. More-
over by reason of the flattened form of the coils or hanks the boxes. require to be
only of small depth in proportion to their length and breadth and are consequently
very firm and stable, and are not liable to be upset or moved bodily by the with-
drawal of the cord. They are moreover of a form very convenient for packing in
large quantities.
.It is obvious that the hanks instead of being placed side by side may be laid one
upon another, and that any number of the hanks or flattened coils may be arranged
side by side or one above another in the box or case without departing from the
nature of my said invention.
EDWIN AUSTIN.
Haseltine, Lake & Co.,
45, Southampton Buildings, London, Agents for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements relating to the Packing of Cord, String, and the like,
and to Boxes or Cases for holding the same.
1, EDWIN AUSTIN, of 8 and 9 Dysart Street (formerly Princes Street)
Finsbury in the County of London, Manufacturer, 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:-
My invention relates to the packing of blind cord and the like and to boxes or
cases for holding the same, and is chiefly designed to provide for the packing
of such cord in a more compact and convenient form than heretofore, whilst
permitting the ready removal or withdrawal of the cord, or the like when
required.
For this purpose I wind blind cord for example into suitable hanks or flattened
coils each containing preferably about 72 yards thereof. Two of these coils or
hanks are then placed side by side in a card-board or other suitable box adapted to

page_text: receive the same, the said box being provided with two eyelet holes formed in one
end, preferably near the corners, thereof. The inner end of the cord or the like
which forms each coil or hank is passed through these holes and the cord can then
be readily withdrawn through the same as required, the folds of the flattened coil
or hank unwinding readily from the interior thereof as the cord is withdrawn.
By this means I am. enabled to pack a given quantity of cord in a very small
space comparatively whilst permitting of the same being readily withdrawn.
Moreover by reason of the flattened form of the coils or hanks the boxes require
to be only of small depth in proportion to their length and breadth and are con-
sequently very firm and stable, and are not liable to be upset or moved bodily by the
withdrawal of the cord. They are moreover of a form very convenient for packing
in large quantities.
.
It is obvious that the hanks instead of being placed side by side may be laid
upon one another, and that any number of the hanks or flattened coils may be
arranged side by side or one above another in the box or case and a corresponding
number of eyelet holes provided in the end of the box or case without departing
from the nature of my said invention.
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 :-
:-
First. The herein described method of packing cord, or the like in boxes or
cases, consisting in winding the cord or the like in hanks or flattened coils, packing
two or more of such hanks or coils in the box or case and passing one end of each
hank or coil through an eyelet hole formed in one end of the box or case for the
purposes specified.
Second. A-box or case having two or more eyelet holes formed in one end
thereof and containing two or more hanks or flattened coils of cord, or the like
one end of each of which is passed through-the-corresponding eyelet hole, as; and
for the purpose, above specified
Dated this 12th day of August 1891.
HASELTINE, LAKE & Co.,
45, Southampton Buildings, London, W.C., Agents for the Applicant.