Improvements in or relating to Boxes for Mineral Water and other Bottles.
Year: 1899

page_text: Date of Application, 26th Jan., 1899
Complete Sonnifination Loft 27th Nov 1800. Accented 30th Dec
1899
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or relating to Boxes for Mineral Water and other
Bottles.
I, WILLIAM ROBINSON, of Uplands, Hendon, in the County of Middlesex, Manu-
facturer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
My invention relates to an improvement in the construction of wooden boxes
such as are used by mineral water manufacturers, beer bottlers, medicine
vendors, and any other like trades, especially for holding bottles in an upright
position.
These boxes are necessarily constructed with the sides and ends each of a
single piece of wood, and they are usually subdivided internally so as to pro-
vide a separate place or cell for each bottle. When the bottles, however, are
of the sizes usual in the mineral water and the other like trades, this construction
involves the use of very broad planks, in order to attain the requisite depth of
box without the use of two pieces of wood, thus adding considerably to the cost
of construction.
I find that if it were possible to slightly decrease the depth of side required
in these boxes, a corresponding diminution in the width of the planks required
for the sides and ends can be made, and their dimensions thus reduced to a
stock size, which very materially cheapens the cost of production.
As the excess height of the bottles does not as a rule exceed from one quarter
to one half of an inch, I have devised a method of obtaining the requisite depth
with a somewhat decreased height of side wall as follows:-
I construct the bottom of the box of a piece of wood somewhat thicker than
the wood usually used for the purpose, and I cut recesses in the said bottom piece
in such positions that the ends of the bottles stand therein, and thus are pre-
vented from projecting above the top of the box. These recesses are cut in
such a manner that their sides and ends are sloping at an angle of about 45°,
and between each recess there is a ridge left uncut corresponding to the division
in the box. Further, the ends of the recesses corresponding to the side of the
box are not cut through, but a sufficiently wide piece of uncut material is left,
so that the side of the box rests upon it, and the nails securing the side to the
bottom pass through the said uncut portion. There is therefore no appearance
of any recessing or counter-sinking apparent on the outside of the box. The
size and width of these counter-sunk recesses may of course be varied according
to the purposes in view, and in most cases provision should be made for the
drainage of any moisture which may accumulate therein.
Although I have described my invention as applicable to mineral water boxes,
beer boxes, and the like, it is obviously not limited in its application to these
specific purposes, but the construction is adapted to many descriptions of boxes
in which a number of bottles are to be placed. Under certain circumstances, I
may also recess the lid of the box in like manner to that described in relation
to the bottom thereof.
The improved box of my manufacture is fully as strong and durable as that

page_text: constructed in the ordinary manner. It will hold the standard bottles in the
same manner as the ordinary box without causing them to project above the
sides, whilst the reduction in width of the sides and ends rendered possible by
my improved construction, gives great economy in manufacture.
Dated this Orth day of Louvory 1800
Improvements in or relating to Boxes for Mineral Water and other
Bottles.
I, WILLIAM ROBINSON, formerly residing at Uplands, Hendon, in the County
of Aliddlesex, but now of Norfolk House, Chadwick Road, Leytonstone, in the
County of Essex, 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 an improvement in the construction of wooden boxes
such as are used by mineral water manufacturers, beer bottlers, medicine
vendors, and any other like trades, especially for holding bottles in an upright
position.
These boxes are necessarily constructed with the sides and ends each of a
single piece of wood, and they are usually subdivided internally so as to pro-
vide a separate place or cell for each bottle. When the bottles, however, are
of the sizes usual in the mineral water and other like trades, this construction
involves the use of very broad planks, in order to attain the requisite depth of
box without the use of two pieces of wood, thus adding considerably to the cost
of construction.
I find that if it were possible to slightly decrease the depth of side required
in these boxes, a corresponding diminution in the width of the planks required
for the sides and ends can be made, and, their dimensions thus reduced to a
stock size, which very materially cheapens the cost of production.
As the excess height of the bottles does not as a rule exceed from one quarter
to one half of an inch, I have devised a method of obtaining the requisite depth
with a somewhat decreased height of side wall as follows:
I construct the bottom of the box of a piece of wood somewhat thicker than
the wood usually used for the purpose, and 1 cut recesses in the said bottom piece
in such positions that the ends of the bottles stand therein, and thus are pre-
vented from projecting above the top of the box. These recesses are cut in
such a manner that their sides and ends are sloping at an angle of about 45°,
and between each recess there is a ridge left uncut corresponding to the division
in the box. Turther, the ends of the recesses corresponding to the side of the
box are not cut through, but a sufficiently wide piece of uncut material is left,
so that the side of the box rests upon it, and the nails securing the side to the
bottom pass through the said uncut portion. There is therefore no appearance
of any recessing or counter-sinking apparent on the outside of the box. The
size and width of these counter-sunk recesses may of course be varied according
to the purposes in view and in most cases provision should be made for the
drainage of any moisture which may accumulate therein.
Although I have described my invention as applicable to mineral water boxes,

page_text: beer boxes, and the like, it is obviously not limited in its application to these
specific purposes, but the construction is adapted to many descriptions of boxes
in which a number of bottles are to be placed. Under certain circumstances, I
may also recess the lid of the box in like manner to that described in relation
to the bottom thereof.
The improved box of my manufacture is fully as strong and durable as that
constructed in the ordinary manner. It will hold the standard bottles in the
same manner as the ordinary box without causing them to project above the
sides, whilst the reduction in width of the sides and ends rendered possible by
any improved construction, gives great economy in manufacture.
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 :-
1. A box for containing bottles and the like having the bottom or lid or both
recessed, substantially as described.
2. In boxes for mineral water bottles and the like a top or bottom plank or
planks having a series of recesses and ridges surrounding each recess, substantially
as and for the purpose described.
W. P. THOMPSON & Co.,
Of London, Liverpool, Manchester, and Birmingham.
Agents for the Applicant.