Year: 1886

page_text: Date of Application, 23rd Oct., 1886.
Complete Left, 23rd July, 1887.
Complete Accepted, 23rd Aug., 1887.
I FREDERICK FOSTER of Niagara Works Eagle Wharf Road Hoxton London in
the County of Middlesex do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
This invention relates to the manufacture of boxes for the transport of aërated
waters or other bottled liquids and the object is to attain greater strength than by the
use of hoop iron as heretofore without increasing the cost of manufacture.
For this purpose I manufacture the wooden box in the usual manner either dove
tailed or not and instead of using hoop iron, which invariably buckles or becomes
detached when the wood shrinks, I make special iron angle plates as shown at A A'
in the accompanying drawing and apply them to the ends of the box in such a manner
as to make one continuous tray of the two ends and the bottom, not depending upon
the nails by which the iron plates are attached to the box.
The iron brackets together with the bottom of the box carry the whole weight of
the contents and as one end of each iron plate is carried under the bottom and the
other end is carried within the handle holes, the nails used need only hold the iron
brackets in position. The wood is cut away at each end of the pieces forming the
bottom of the box so as to avoid any impediment to drawing the box along as would
be the case if the iron brackets projected beyond the bottom of the box.
Dated this 2nd day of October 1886

page_text: I FREDERICK FOSTER of Niagara Works Eagle Wharf Road Hoxton in the
County of Middlesex Engineer 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 the manufacture of boxes for the transport of aërated
waters or other bottled liquids and the object is to attain greater strength than by the
use of hoop iron as heretofore without increasing the cost of manufacture.
For this purpose I manufacture the wood box in the usual manner either dove
tailed or not and instead of using hoop iron, which invariably buckles or becomes
detached when the wood shrinks, I make special iron angle plates as shown at A. A¹
in the drawing accompanying my provisional specification and apply them to the ends
of the box in such a manner as to make one continuous tray of the two ends and the
bottom, not depending upon the nails by which the iron plates are attached to the box.
The iron brackets together with the bottom of the box carry the whole weight of
the contents and as one end of each iron plate is carried under the bottom and the
other end is carried within the handle holes, the nails used need only hold the iron
brackets in position. The wood is cut away at each end of the pieces forming the
bottom of the box so as to avoid any impediment to drawing the box along as would
be the case if the iron brackets projected beyond the bottom of the box.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said invention
and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I claim is.
The construction of boxes for the transport of liquids in bottles with the angle
plate A whereby the bottom of the box is suspended from the sides substantially as
herein before described and illustrated by the accompanying drawing.
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