Improvements relating to the racking of Fragile and MOTOR and to the Stuffing of Mattresses and the like.
Year: 1887

page_text: Date of Application, 31st Dec., 1887
Complete Specification Left, 29th Sept., 1888
Complete Specification Accepted, 2nd Nov, 1888
Improvements relating to the racking of Fragile and MOTOR
and to the Stuffing of Mattresses and the like.
I, LOUIS ARBEY, of 95 Boulevard Beaumarchais Paris France, Engineer do hereby
declare the nature of this invention to be as follows :-
My invention relates to the employment of wood shavings as packing and as filling
for mattresses and the like.
I will first examine the application of wood shavings to packing. The question of
packing is certainly one of those which are of most interest to the industrial and
commercial world. There is not in fact, a manufacturer or merchant of any
importance who does not require to expedite his products or merchandise either for
customers at home or for exportation. It is well known that the transport or
transhipment from the carriage, truck or boat, cause a considerable injury to the
goods by reason of the losses due to breakage, which losses sometimes reach the
enormous figure of forty per cent. in the case of the exportation of fragile goods such
as glass, porcelain and similar merchandise. It is therefore evident that the invention
of means for packing which remedies this serious inconvenience in a practical and
economic manner and consequently facilitates international transactions is of the
greatest value.
Up to the present many endeavours have been made to find a process of obtaining
packings answering the best conditions of their employment, but it has been specially
tried to find more or less complicated forms of boxes cases or wrappers, neglecting to
study in a sufficient manner, the nature of the materials designed to render immovable
the goods in these boxes or cases. It is however here, where, in my opinion the true
solution of the problem lies.
In taking up this new position I have found by experiments which I have made
that of all the materials now employed to be placed between the articles to be packed
and the sides of the boxes or other similar casings, none answers like wood shavings,
the multitudinous conditions of a good packing and yet up to the present time this
Jatter material bas never been utilized for this purpose.

page_text: The advantage of wood shavings over other materials for the purpose under
consideration are numerous and of the greatest importance.
In the first place wood, owing to the new mechanical means of the industry and
especially to the employment of the ingenious machine constructed by the Sté. Fd.
Arbey et fils, can be reduced to shavings of a variable degree of fineness. From this
it results that the shavings thus obtained are adapted equally well for packing the
most fragile wares and for packing the coarsest of products, and all the intermediate
products between these two extremes. This is an important property which no other
material possesses.
It is well to state also that the employment of the last named machines constructed
for the manufacture of wood shavings enables the industrial production of these
shavings at very low costs which defy the competition of any other materials now
employed for packing.
The suppleness and elasticity of the shavings are much greater than those of straw
or hay, and this ensures a greater safety against breakage, especially at the tranship-
ments in which the packages are subjected to shocks and concussions.
Wood shavings are moreover more unchangeable than straw, and they are not
susceptible of fermentation and rotting as hay. For this reason they present a great
value for packing substances that can be spoiled by mustiness or fermentation.
They can be used several times in succession for packing and constitute in this latter
case, when not in use, an excellent fuel.
As regards the application of wood shavings to bedding, the great value will be
easily understood. Mattresses made with this material possess advantages which
naturally spring from the properties of shavings which I have hereinbefore enumerated
in referring to packing. From the suppleness and unchangeableness of the shavings
this results that mattresses made with the same offer all the qualities of elasticity,
hygiene and cleanliness so indispensable for this new employment.
Dated this 31st day of December 1887
HASELTINE, LAKE & Co.,
45, Southampton Buildings,
Agents for the Applicant.

page_text: Improvements relating to the Packing of Fragile and other Articles
and to the Stuffing of Mattresses and the like.
I LOUIS ARBEY, of 95 Boulevard Beaumarchais Paris, France, 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:-
My invention relates to the employment of wood shavings as packing and as filling
for mattresses and the like.
I will first examine the application of wood shavings to packing. The question of
packing is certainly one of those which are of most interest to the industrial and
commercial world. There is not, in fact, a manufacturer or merchant of any
importance who does not require to expedite his products or merchandise either for
customers at home or for exportation.
It is well known that the transport or transshipment from the carriage, truck or boat
causes a considerable injury to the goods by reason of the losses due to breakage,
which losses sometimes reach the enormous figure of forty per cent in the case of
the exportation of fragile goods such as glass, porcelain and similar merchandise. It
is therefore evident that the invention of means for packing which remedies this
serious inconvenience in a practical and economic manner and consequently facilitates
international transactions is of the greatest value.
Up to the present many endeavours have been made to find a process of obtaining
packings answering the best conditions of their employment, but it has been specially
tried to find more or less complicated forms of boxes, cases or wrappers, neglecting to
study in a sufficient manner the nature of the materials designed to render immovable
the goods in these boxes or cases. It is however here that in my opinion the true
solution of the problem lies.
In taking up this new position I have found by experiments which I have made
that of all the materials now employed, to be placed between the articles to be packed
and the sides of the boxes or other similar casings none answers, like wood shavings,
the multitudinous conditions of a good packing, and yet up to the present time this
latter material has never been utilized for this purpose.
The advantages of wood shavings over other materials for the purpose under
consideration are numerous and of the greatest importance.
In the first place wood owing to the new mechanical means of the industry and
especially to the employment of the ingenious machine constructed by the Sté. Fd.
Arbey et fils, can be reduced to shavings of a variable degree of fineness. From this
it results that the shavings thus obtained are adapted equally well for packing the most
fragile wares and for packing the courest of products, and all the intermediate products
between these two extremes. This is an important property which no other material
possesses.

page_text: I is well to state also that the employment of the last named machines con-
structed for the manufacture of wood shavings enables the industrial production of
these shavings at very low costs which defy the competition of any other materials
now employed for packing.
The suppleness and elasticity of the shavings are much greater than those of straw
or hay, and this ensures a greater safety against breakage, especially at the trans-
shipments in which the packages are subjected to shocks and concussions.
Wood shavings are moreover more unchangeable than straw, and they are not
susceptible of fermentation and rotting as in the case with hay. For this reason they
present a great value for packing substances that can be spoiled by mustiness or
fermentation.
They can be used several times in succession for packing and constitute in this
latter case, when not in use, an excellent fuel.
As regards the application of wood shavings to bedding, the great value will be
easily understood. Mattresses made with this material possess advantages which
naturally spring from the properties of shavings which I have herein before enumerated
in referring to packing. By reason of the suppleness and unchangeableness of the
shavings, mattresses made with the same, offer all the qualities of elasticity, hygiene
and cleanliness so indispensable for this new employment.
Elaving 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 :
The novel application of wood shavings to packing and bedding as hereinbefore
described.
Dated this 29th day of September 1SSS
HASELTINE, LAKE & Co.,
45, Southampton Buildings, London,
Agents for the Applicant.