IMPROVEMENTS IN PACKING CASES FOR BOTTLES OR SIMILAR VESSELS
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by William Robert Lake at the Office of
the Commissioners of Patents on the 3rd August 1883. Communicated to
him from abroad by Joseph Henry Livermore and Charles Lewis Heermann do
Hundermark, both of Paris, France.
WILLIAM ROBERT LAKE, of the firm of Haseltine, Lake, and Co., Patent Agents,
Southampton Buildings, London, "IMPROVEMENTS IN PACKING CASES FOR
BOTTLES OR SIMILAR VESSELS"-[A communication to him from abroad by Joseph
Henry Livermore and Charles Lewis Heermann do Hundermark, both of Paris,
France.]
This invention relates to packing cases or boxes for bottles, flasks, and the like.
The chief object of the said invention is to provide means for ensuring the safe
transit of these various articles, which are generally made of glass or other fragile
material, and which according to this invention are protected from all risk of
breakage during the different manipulations to which they must be subjected in
transit.
The result is attained in a very economical manner not necessitating the use of
straw, hay, wood shavings saw dust or other material heretofore employed for
packing purposes, the packing case or box being provided with bars or brackets,
some fixed and the others sliding, and which, by reason of their shape and arrange-
ment, permit the bottles contained in the case to be firmly held, thus preventing
them from knocking against one another during their transit.
The bottles are preferably wrapped up in a piece of paper in order to avoid their
immediate contact, and are placed symmetrically in such a manner that the bottoms
of the bottles rest against the extremities of the case and the necks thereof overlap
each other in the middle of the case being held fast by means of bars cut out in
such a manner as to prevent the lateral movement of the bottle although permitting
a slight longitudinal movement. The said bars are movable in order to facilitate
the packing and unpacking of the bottles, and they aro, for this purpose, simply held
between two brackets or pieces nailed to the sides of the case. The bottoms of the
bottles are held by means of bars which are also cut out to suit the diameter of the
bottles or other vessels for which the case is designed, which bars are also movable
and are held in place by means of brackets or picces nailed to the sides of the case.
Upon the lid of the case or box which may be provided with hinges, are nailed two

page_text: brackets which rest upon the bottoms of the bottles and hold the same in place so
as to prevent lateral movement thereof. Upon the bottom of the case or box are
nailed small brackets designed to support the bottoms of the bottles which are thus
caused to rest in a more uniform manner than they would upon the bottom of the
said case or box.
Instead of placing the bottles exactly one above another they may be placed so
that the bottles in one row are above the spaces between the bottles in the
subjacent row, this arrangement occupying less room than that above described.
To avoid the labour necessary in cutting out the above mentioned bars to hold
the bottoms and necks of the said bottles I manufacture them preferably of
moulded cardboard, in such a manner that they are ready to be placed between
their respective brackets at the time of packing, the shape and size of the circular
portions removed being similar and uniform by reason of the bars being cast in the
saine mould.
The dimensions of the above described packing cases or boxes may be varied
according to the number of bottles which they are to contain, the interior arrange-
ment of the said cases not being altered in any manner. The said cases or boxes
may be made either of solid boards or of strips of wood.