IMPROVEMENTS IN BOTTLE ENVELOPES OR APPLIANCES FOR PROTECTING GLASS BOTTLES FROM INJURY WHEN PACKED n FOR CARRIAGE AND IN SECURING THE SAID ENVELOPES TO BOTTLES PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION
Year: 1882

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Addison Willis Abrahams of Notting Hill in the county
of Middlesex for an Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN BOTTLE ENVELOPES
OR APPLIANCES FOR PROTECTING GLASS BOTTLES FROM INJURY WHEN PACKED
n
FOR CARRIAGE AND IN SECURING THE SAID ENVELOPES TO BOTTLES
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Addison Willis Abrahams
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 27th October 1882.
__ADDISON WILLIS ABRAHAMS of Notting Hill in the County of Middlesex
"IMPROVEMENTS IN BOTTLE ENVELOPES OR APPLIANCES FOR PROTECTING GLASS
BOTTLES FROM INJURY WHEN PACKED FOR CARRIAGE AND IN SECURING THE SAID
ENVELOPES TO BOTTLES
"
The object of my invention is to provide a bottle envelope which will occupy
less space and be capable of more ready application than the ordinary straw
envelopes.
According to my said Invention I take a thin sheet of wood or a sheet of
paste board or other suitable flexible and yielding material of a length about equal
to the length of the bottle for which it is intended and of a breadth rather greater
than the circumference of the bottle and I cut out from one end of the said sheet
and in the direction of its length slips or strips of a length about equal to the
height of the neck and shoulders of the bottle leaving uncut a length about equal
to the length of the cylindrical part of the bottle thus forming at one end of the
said sheet a number of parallel tongues which when the envelope is in place on
the bottle can be pressed around its neck and shoulders and made to lie close
thereto. Having thus prepared the sheet of wood or pasteboard I wrap it around
the bottle and secure it to the bottle by coiling or binding a piece of cord spirally
over it that end of the cord which is nearest the bottom of the bottle being secured
under one of the coils and that end of the cord nearest the mouth of the bottle
being secured by passing it between the tongues hereinbefore referred to which
tongues surround the neck and shoulders of the bottle and are pressed into contact

page_text: therewith by means of the coils of cord. Although I prefer to secure the ends of
the cord as herein before described they may be otherwise secured.
The said cord besides serving as a means for securing the envelope around the
bottle also constitutes an additional protection to the bottle by keeping the
envelopes from contact with each other when a number of bottles are packed
together in a case or barrel.
If preferred the said cord may be dispensed with and the envelope may be
secured around the cylindrical part of the bottle by means of tongues formed at
the edge of one side of the sheet of wood or pasteboard and engaged with slots
formed near the opposite edge and the upper part of the envelope may be secured
around the neck of the bottle by a ring or tube or band or rings or tubes or bands
of suitable material passed over the envelope at that part. Or the envelope may
be secured around the bottle by means of rings tubes or bands passed over or
around both the neck part and the cylindrical part of the envelope. Or the envelope
may be secured in any other convenient manner

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed
by the said Addison Willis Abrahams in the Great Seal Patent Office on
the 27th April 1883.
ADDISON WILLIS ABRAHAMS of Notting Hill in the County of Middlesex
"IMPROVEMENTS IN BOTTLE ENVELOPES OR APPLIANCES FOR PROTECTING GLASS
BOTTLES FROM INJURY WHEN PACKED FOR CARRIAGE AND IN SECURING THE SAID
ENVELOPES TO BOTTLES
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The object of my invention is to provide a bottle envelope which will occupy
less space and be capable of more ready application than the ordinary straw
envelopes.
According to my said Invention I take a thin sheet of wood or a sheet of
pasteboard or other suitable flexible and yielding material of a length about equal
to the length of the bottle for which it is intended and of a breadth rather greater
than the circumference of the bottle and I cut out from one end of the said sheet
and in the direction of its length slips or strips of a length about equal to the
height of the neck and shoulders of the bottle leaving uncut a length about equal
to the length of the cylindrical part of the bottle thus forming at one end of the
said sheet a number of parallel tongues which when the envelope is in place on
the bottle can be pressed around its neck and shoulders and made to lie close
thereto. Having thus prepared the sheet of wood or pasteboard. I wrap it around
the bottle and secure it to the bottle by coiling or binding a piece of cord spirally
over it that end of the cord which is nearest the bottom of the bottle being secured
under one of the coils and that end of the cord nearest the mouth of the bottle
being secured by passing it between the tongues herein before referred to which
tongues surround the neck and shoulders of the bottle and are pressed into contact
therewith by means of the coils of cord.
Figure 1 of the accompanying drawing is an illustration of a bottle envelope
formed as herein before described and Figure 2 of the said drawing is an elevation
of the said envelope wrapped around a bottle and secured thereto by cord as
herein before described. The same letters and figures of reference indicate the
same parts in each Figure of the drawing.
a is the sheet of wood or pasteboard constituting the envelope b b are the
tongues c is the cord by which the said envelope is bound to the bottle the lower
end of the said cord being secured under the first coil at c¹ and the upper end
being secured by passing it between and twisting it round one of the tongues at c².
In order to prevent the cord from slipping upward over the shoulder of the bottle
the said cord may be passed under a tongue a¹ (see Figure 3) formed by punching
up a portion of the envelope.
The said cord besides serving as a means for securing the envelope around
the bottle also constitutes an additional protection to the bottle by keeping the
envelopes from contact with each other when a number of bottles are packed
together in a case or barrel.
If preferred the said cord may be dispensed with and the envelope may be
secured around the bottle by means of rings or bands of suitable material passed
over the said envelope
Figure 3 of the accompanying drawings is an elevation of an envelope secured
around a bottle by means of metal rings split or cut to admit of their opening
or expanding when being passed over the envelope. The said rings which are
shown separately in plan and edge view in Figures 4 and 5 are marked de.
They may be made from steel or any suitable metal baving sufficient elasticity to

page_text: cause them when slightly expanded to press on the envelopes with sufficient force
to keep the said envelopes in place.
Instead of the rings herein before described rings or bands of india rubber or
other suitable material may be used.
Having thus described my invention of "Improvements in bottle envelopes or
appliances for protecting glass bottles from injury when packed for carriage and
in securing the said envelopes to bottles" I wish it to be understood that I claim
as the said invention." A bottle envelope consisting of a sheet of wood paste board
or other suitable flexible and yielding material so formed as to be capable of being
pressed into contact with the body and shoulders and neck of a bottle the said
envelope being bound around the bottle to which it is applied by means of a cord
or by means of bands or rings substantially as hereinbefore described and illustrated
in the accompanying drawing
In witness whereof I the said Addison Willis Abrahams have hereunto set
my hand and seal this twenty-fourth day of April in the year of our Lord
one thousand eight hundred and eighty three