An Improvement in Boxes for Transporting and Packing Flower Pots.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 10th May, 1893
Complete Specification Left, 27th May, 1893-Accepted, 1st July, 1893
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improvement in Boxes for Transporting and Packing
Flower Pots.
I WILLIAM HENRY SMITH of 13 Church Road Bethnal Green E. Box and
Packing Case Maker do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
This my invention relates to an improvement in boxes for transporting and
packing flower pots and the object of my invention is to devise an improvement in
the said boxes to facilitate the packing and transport with greater security of pots
containing growing flowers.
Hitherto it has been customary to pack the said pots in shallow boxes the said
pots being arranged in rows having dried moss or other substance between each of
them so as to prevent an accident or injury to the said pots and consequent loss.
My invention consists in providing each of the said boxes with a tray or
horizontal partition having a series of holes formed therein adapted to receive the
said pots.
The said tray or horizontal partition is supported at a convenient height within
the said box.
By the adoption of my invention the pots are prevented from accidental displace-
ment and consequent injury and the loss frequently occasioned in this way will be
consequently prevented.
Dated this 10th day of May 1893.
HORN & SON,
Applicant's Agents.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improvement in Boxes for Transporting and Packing
Flower Pots.
I, WILLIAM HENRY SMITH, of 13 Church Road, Bethnal Green East, Box
and Packing Case Maker, 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 my invention relates to an improvement in boxes for transporting and
packing flower-pots, and the object of my invention is to devise an improvement in
the said boxes to facilitate the packing and transport with greater security of pots
containing growing flowers.
Hitherto it has been customary to pack the said pots in shallow boxes, the said
pots being arranged in rows having dried moss or other substance between each
pot so as to prevent an accident or injury to the said pots and consequent loss
thereby.
My invention consists in providing each of the said boxes with a tray or
horizontal partition having a series of holes formed therein adapted to receive said
pots, the said tray or horizontal partition is supported at a convenient height
within the said box.
In the accompanying drawing I have illustrated one of the said boxes with one
side thereof removed. A is the body of the box; B being the perforated tray
having the holes therein for the insertion of the flower pots, one of which is shown
at C. The tray is supported upon a cross bar d near each end.
The boxes may be cheaply constructed and by the use of them the pots are

page_text: prevented from accidental displacement, and consequent injury, and the loss
frequently occasioned in this way will be prevented. There is no labour entailed
in packing and all packing material is dispensed with.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, declare that what I
claim is :-
1. The manufacture and use of a box for holding, transporting and packing
flower pots, having a perforated tray supported therein for the reception of the
said pots, substantially as described and illustrated.
HORN & SON,
Applicant's Agents.
LOTAT TO
HORN & SON,
Applicant's Agents.