Improvements in Appliances for Packing Bottles or other Vessels or Articles of Glass or other Fragile Material.
Year: 1897

page_text: Improvements in Appliances for Packing Bottles or other Vessels or
Articles of Glass or other Fragile Material.
I, HENRY BOWIE ROXBURGH, 82, Eastwood Avenue, Shawlands, in the County of
Renfrew, North Britain, Clerk, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to
be as follows, that is to say:-
My said invention has for its object the packing of bottles and other fragile
articles in an improved manner and so that whilst they are prevented from being
in immediate contact or striking each other, a number of them are made to occupy
an extremely small space and thereby save expense in carriage or freight.
In carrying out my invention in the case of single bottles for example, the bottles
may be provided with separate packings, to be afterwards combined in any number;
or sets of two or more bottles may be arranged together with combined packings.
For a single bottle the packings consist of two or more rings for the body part of
the bottle and a smaller ring or collar for the neck. The rings are cords, loops,
or bands, made of cord, string, or tape, of a suitable soft or compressible
material, made to fit tightly on the different parts of the bottle, the ring or collar
for the neck being made broad enough to prevent the neck ends of one row of
bottles from touching the shoulders of a reversed row of bottles. For combining
two bottles loops are formed large enough for the two bottles and each has a half
twist given it to form a figure, 8 the two bottles being entered one into each of the
openings thus formed. Similarly loops may be formed for three, four or more
bottles such loops being twisted at suitable parts to form separate openings for the
several bottles. The rings for the bottles necks may similarly consist of loops half
twisted to form separate openings for the several bottle necks, the twisted part
between any two bottle necks serving to keep the reversed bottle neck end off the
bottle shoulders.
The parts of a loop between two bottles may be fixed together or connected in any
convenient way and with or without a half twist at each part. The several rings of
a bottle may be connected by cords or bands arranged lengthways of the bottle;
and when the packings are formed from loops made with two or more openings as
described, there may be any sufficient number of the lengthways connections for
each set of combined bottles.

page_text: Improvements in Appliances for Packing Bottles or other Vessels or
Articles of Glass or other Fragile Material.
I, HENRY BOWIE ROXBURGH, 82, Eastwood Avenue, Shawlands, in the County of
Renfrew, North Britain, Clerk, 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:—
My said invention has for its object the packing of bottles and other fragile
articles in an improved manner and so that whilst they are prevented from being
in immediate contact or striking each other, a number of them are made to occupy
an extremely small space and thereby save expense in carriage or freight.
In carrying out my invention in the case of single bottles, for example, the bottles
may be provided with separate packings to be afterwards combined in any number;
or sets of two or more bottles may be arranged together with combined packings.
And in order that my said invention and the manner of performing the same
may be properly understood I hereunto append a sheet of explanatory drawings
to be hereinafter referred to and showing, by way of example, three modifications
of my combined packings as applied to bottles.
Figure, 1, on the accompanying sheet of drawings is an elevation showing a modi-
fication of my improved combined packing as applied to bottles. Figure, 2, is a
plan showing part of my improved packing without the bottles. Figure, 3, is a plan,
and Figure 4, an elevation of a second modification. Figure 5, is an elevation
showing the application of my combined packing as applied to bottles of a larger
size than those shown in the previous modifications. in these drawings the same
reference letters are used to mark the same or like parts wherever they are repeated.
As shown in Figures 1, and 2, of the drawings the part of the improved packing
for the body part of the bottles, A, consists of two rings or loops, B, of cord, string,
tape, or other suitable soft or compressible material, large enough for the bottles, A,
the loops B, being crossed at suitable parts so as to form a figure 8, and fastened
together at these parts by small metal clips C. The bottles A, are entered one into
each of the openings thus formed. A ring or collar, D, for the bottle necks, E, is also
provided, this ring, D, being constructed in a similar manner to the loops, B, for
the body part of the bottles, the parts crossed over and fastened with the clips, C,
serving to keep the ends of the necks, E, of one row of bottles, A, from touching
the shoulders and necks of a reversed row of bottles.
In the modification shown in Figures, 3, and 4, the rings or loops, B, are of a
size to form openings into which three bottles are inserted; and the ring or
collar, D, for the bottle necks, E, consists of a piece of cocoa nut fibre or other
suitable woven fabric made with slits or openings at suitable parts into which the
bottle necks, E, are inserted, the fabric being made broad enough to prevent the
ends of the necks, E, of one row of bottles, A, from touching the shoulders and necks
of a reversed row of bottles.
The modification shown in Figure 5, is applicable where the bottles are of a
larger size than those shown in the previous modifications herein before described
as the bottle necks, E, of one row of bottles can extend between the body parts
of a reversed row of bottles, and thus save a certain amount of space. In this
modification the packings, F, G, are each formed so as to have separate openings
into which the body part of one bottle and the neck of an inverted bottle are
alternately entered. The loops of the packing, H, surrounds the shoulders of the
bottles, A, and the loops of the packing, B, the bottoms of the body part of the
bottles. In this modification the loops of the packings, B, H, are shown as being

page_text: formed by opening the strands of one part of the cord and passing the other part
through the opening thus formed. Similarly loops may be formed for any number
of articles and the parts of a loop between two articles may be fixed together or
connected simply by a half twist or in any convenient way. The several rings of
a bottle may be connected by cords or bands arranged lengthways of the bottle;
and when the packings are formed from loops made with two or more openings
as described, there may be any sufficient number of the lengthways connections for
each set of combined bottles.
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:-
1. Appliances for packing bottles or other vessels or articles of glass or other
fragile material consisting of rings or loops of cord, string, tape, or other suitable
soft or compressible material of a size to fit tightly on one, two, or more of the
articles the said loops being crossed for two or more articles and fastened with
clips or otherwise to form separate openings for the several articles substantially
as hereinbefore described.
2. Appliances for packing bottles or other vessels or articles of glass or other
fragile material consisting of rings or loops of cord, string, tape, or other suitable
soft or compressible material of a size to fit tightly on the body part of one, two or
more articles, the said loops being crossed for two or more articles and fastened
with clips or otherwise to form separate openings for the several articles. in com-
bination with a collar or ring of woven material with openings for the necks of the
articles substantially as herein before described.
Dated this Fifteenth day of July 1898