Improvements in Packing Cases for Bottles.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 1st June, 1891
Complete Specification Left, 29th Jan., 1892—Accepted, 5th Mar., 1892
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Packing Cases for Bottles.
We, WILLIAM PHAUP LOWRIE and ROBERT BARR of the firm of
W. P. Lowrie & Co., Bonded Warehouse Keepers and GEORGE SCOTT Foreman
all of 45 Hope Street in the City of Glasgow, do hereby declare the nature of this
invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to packing cases for bottles such as are used for holding
wines and spirits and it has for its object to ensure greater security from breakage
in transport whilst providing special facility for packing and for displaying the
bottles when the case is opened.
The improved case consists of a wooden box at each end of which is secured to
the inside a board having circular or other holes adapted to hold the bases of the
bottles which are laid horizontally or in a slightly inclined position neck to neck.
At the mid length of the case is fitted a vertical partition in orifices in which the
necks or shoulders of the bottles rest. the partition being made in sections and
divided across the orifices so that in packing, the bottles, which are placed in
horizontal layers, are rested at the neck in semicircular recesses in the lower section
of the partition and held in place by dropping over them the next section of the
partition whilst the bases of the bottles rest in the orifices.formed in the end boards.
Between these end boards and the ends proper of the case a layer of felt, cardboard
or other soft or resilient material is or may be placed to serve as a cushioning for
the bases of the bottles and such cushioning material may have paps or pro-
tuberances formed on it by pressing or embossing to project through the orifices in
the end boards and engage the hollow parts formed in the base of the bottles.
Caps or rings of rubber or other cushioning material may be fitted over the necks
of the bottles to protect them from breakage and cords or bands of webbing attached
to the inside of the case or pasteboard in the form of advertisement cards may be
placed between the several layers of bottles to further protect them against risk of
breakage.
Dated this Thirtieth day of May 1891
'CRUIKSHANK & FAIRWEATHER,
62, St. Vincent Street, Glasgow, Agents.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Packing Cases for Bottles.
We, WILLIAM PHAUP LOWRIE, and ROBERT BARR, of the firm of
W. P. Lowrie & Co., Bonded Warehouse Keepers, and GEORGE SCOTT, Foreman,
all of 45 Hope Street in the City of Glasgow, 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 packing cases for bottles such as are used for holding
wines and spirits and it has for its object to ensure greater security from breakage
in transport whilst providing special facility for packing and for displaying the
bottles when the case is opened.
The improved case which is represented in the accompanying drawings in vertical
sections taken at right angles to each other at Figures 1 and
and in a modified
form in longitudinal section at Figure 3, consists of a wooden box A at each end
of which is secured to the inside a board B having circular or other holes adapted
to hold the bases of the bottles C which are laid horizontally or in a slightly
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page_text: inclined position neck to neck. At the mid length of the case is fitted a vertical
partition D in orifices D' in which the necks or shoulders of the bottles rest the
partition being made in sections and divided across the orifices D¹ so that in
packing, the bottles, which are placed in horizontal layers, are rested at the neck in
semicircular recesses in the lower section of the partition D and held in place by
dropping over them the next section of the partition; whilst the bases of the
bottles Crest in the orifices formed in the end boards B. Between these end
boards and the ends proper of the case A a layer E of felt, cardboard or other soft
or resilient material is or may be placed to serve as a cushioning for the bases of
the bottles and such cushioning material may have paps or protuberances as e
formed on it by pressing or embossing to project through the orifices in the end
boards and engage the hollow parts formed in the base of the bottles. Caps or
rings of rubber or other cushioning material, .not shewn in the drawings, may be
fitted over the necks of the bottles to protect them from breakage and cords or
bands of webbing attached to the inside of the case or pasteboard in the form of
advertisement cards may be placed between the several layers of bottles to further
protect them against risk of breakage.
For use with long bottles as shewn at Figure 3 a long case A may be used
having two partitions D constructed and fitted as above described.
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 :-
1. A packing case constructed and furnished substantially as described with
reference to the drawings annexed.
2. In a packing case for bottles a movable partition made in sections and formed
with recesses to support the bottle necks substantially as described.
Dated this Twenty-eighth day of January 1892.
CRUIKSHANK & FAIRWEATHER,
62, St. Vincent Street, Glasgow, Agents.