Improvements in Appliances or Apparatus for Packing Bottles and the like.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 21st Nov., 1893
Complete Specification Left, 20th Aug., 1894-Accepted, 22nd Sept., 1894
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Appliances or Apparatus for Packing Bottles and
the like.
We, JAMES WATT TORRANCE, and ALEXANDER WATT TORRANCE, of
Muirhouse Sawmills, Maxwell Road, Glasgow, in the County of Lanark, North
Britain, Sawmillers and Boxmakers, do hereby declare the nature of this invention
to be as follows, that is to say :-
Our said invention has for its object the packing of bottles and the like in boxes
or receptacles in an improved, safe, and economical manner; and it consists
mainly in interposing between the bottles or articles, and between them and the
sides of the box or receptacle, metallic appliances formed so as to be spring-like or
elastic, whilst they are durable and can be used over and over again. The improved
packing appliances are arranged so as to prevent end-on movements and contacts
of bottles when arranged in reversed sets, or with the necks of one set entered
between those of the other set.
In carrying out our invention according to some modifications, the packing
appliances consist of sheets of thin elastic metal corrugated or crimped and bended
so as to encircle the bodies of the bottles, necks being in some cases encircled in
separate smaller corrugated or crimped pieces or other analogous appliances.
When bottles are to be packed in reversed sets the body encircling pieces are
made of such sizes that those of one set meet those of the reversed set, or they
may be made shorter and so that those of one set of bottles meet the shoulders of
the reversed set of bottles. Or parts of the body pieces may be bended inwards
upon the bottle shoulders. Instead of a body piece extending the full length of.
the bottle body it may consist of end encircling parts connected by one or more
longitudinal pieces, without or with intermediate encircling parts. Or a com-
paratively narrow band or strip may be arranged helically without or with
longitudinal connections.
According to other modifications collar and bottom disks of thin metal are
formed so as to be elastic or spring-like, being puuched or embossed, the collars
with a central flanged opening for the bottle neck and with a reversed flange at
the edge to embrace the bottle shoulder, and the bottom disk with a flange at the
edge to embrace the bottom, whilst both disks are formed with parts projecting
sufficiently to keep bottles from touching adjacent bottles or the sides or other
parts of the boxes or receptacles. When the bottles are packed in reversed,sets
the collars may be arranged to interlock with each other and so as to prevent end on
movements.
Instead of the packing appliances being made of sheet metal they may be
formed of helical or crimped spring wire, the body part consisting of two or
more rings connected by longitudinal pieces, or of a helix of the helical or crimped
wire coiled round the body, without or with longitudinal connections. Similar
wire parts may be applied to the bottle necks and either connected to or separate.
from the body parts.
Dated this Twentieth day of November 1893.
EDMUND HUNT
Applicants' Agent.

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Appliances or Apparatus for Packing Bottles and
the like.
We, JAMES WATT TORRANCE, and ALEXANDER WATT TORRANCE, of
Muirhouse Sawmills, Maxwell Road, in the County of the City of Glasgow,
North Britain, Sawmillers and Boxmakers, 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, that is to say :-
Our said invention has for its object the packing of bottles and the like in
boxes or receptacles in an improved, safe, and economical manner; and it consists
mainly in interposing between the bottles, or articles, and between them and the
sides of the box or receptacle, metallic appliances or packings formed so as to be
spring-like or elastic, whilst they are durable and can be used over and over again.
The improved packing appliances may be arranged so as to prevent end-on
movements and contacts of bottles when arranged in reversed sets, or with the necks
of one set entered between those of the other set.
And in order that our said invention and the manner of performing the same
may be properly understood, we hereunto append a sheet of explanatory drawings
to be hereinafter referred to, and showing examples of our improved appliances or
apparatus for packing bottles and the like.
Figure, 1, is a horizontal section, and Figure, 2, is an elevation of one modifica-
tion of the improved appliances, Figures, 3, and, 4, being similar views of a second
modification.
Figure, 5, is a vertical section of a third modification as applied to several
bottles..
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Figures, 6, 7, 8, 9, and, 10, are elevations of five bottles with different
modifications of the apparatus applied.
In these drawings the same reference letters are used to mark the same or like
parts wherever they are repeated.
In carrying out our invention according to the modifications shown in Figures, 1,
2, 3, and, 4, the packing appliances or packings consist of sheets, A, of thin elastic
metal corrugated or crimped, and bended so as to encircle the bodies of the bottles,
the necks of the bottles being in some cases encircled in separate smaller
corrugated or crimped packings, B, or it might be other analogous appliances. In
the first modification the corrugations in the packings are vertical and in the
second modification horizontal. Instead of the packing sheets being entirely
corrugated as shown the corrugations may be confined to portions of the sheets.
When bottles are to be packed in reversed sets as shown in Figure, 5, the body
encircling packings, A, are made of such sizes that the ends of the necks of one
set of bottles meet the packings, A., of the reversed set, or they may be made so
that those of one set of bottles meet the shoulders of the reversed set of bottles
the bottles being placed further apart to allow the necks of one set to project
between the bodies of the other set. Or parts of the body packings, A, may be
bended inwards upon the bottle shoulders as shown in Figures, 2, and, 4. When
the bottles are arranged in reversed sets the neck packings (B) may be used or
omitted as may be preferred. Instead of a packing extending the full length
of the bottle body, C, it may consist as shown in Figure, 6, of end encircling
parts, D, and, E, connected by one or more longitudinal pieces, G, without or with
an intermediate encircling part, H, as indicated by dotted lines. Or a comparatively
narrow band or strip, J, may as shown in Figure, 7, be arranged helically without
or with longitudinal connections (G).
According to another modification shown in Figure, 8, collar and bottom disks, D.
and, E, of thin metal are formed so as to be elastic or spring-like, being punched

page_text: or embossed, the collars with a central flanged opening for the bottle neck and
with a reverse flange at the edge to embrace the bottle shoulder, and the bottom
disk with a flange at the edge to embrace the bottom, whilst both disks are formed
with parts, K, corrugated or otherwise projecting sufficiently to keep the bottles, C,
from touching adjacent bottles or the sides or other parts of the boxes or
sets the collars, D,
receptacles. When the bottles, C, are packed in reverse
may be arranged to interlock with each other, and so as to prevent end-on
movements.
Instead of the packings being made of sheet metal they may be formed as
shown in Figure, 9, of helical or crimped spring wire, the body parts consisting
of two or more rings, L, connected by longitudinal pieces, M, or (as shown in
Figure, 10,) of a helix, N, of the helical or crimped wire coiled round the body
without or with longitudinal connections. Similar wire parts may be applied to
the bottle necks and either connected to or separate from the body parts.
The various modifications of metallic bottle packings are, by preference, made
so as to require opening out to a small extent when being put on the bottles, and
80 as by their spring action to tend to cling to the bottles.
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 :-
:-
For packing bottles and the like, the application of elastic metallic packings,
formed of crimped or corrugated sheet metal, or of crimped or helical wire, to
be interposed between the bottles or other articles, substantially as and for the
purposes herein before described.
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EDMUND HUNT,
Applicants' Agent.