PROTECTING ROD TADS AND
Year: 1882

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to James Moreton Thorpe and Joseph Antonio Belloli, of
San José, County of Santa Clara, State of California, United States of
America, Gentlemen. for an Invention of "PROTECTING ROD
TADS AND
"
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION filed by the said James Moreton Thorpe and
Joseph Antonio Belloli at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the
17th January 1882.
JAMES MORETON THORPE and JOSEPH ANTONIO BELLOLI, of San José, County
of Santa Clara, State of California, United States of America, Gentlemen.
PROTECTING BOTTLES, JARS, AND SIMILAR VESSELS FROM BREAKAGE EITHER IN
PACKING OR HANDLING."
cushion
Our Invention relates to a new and useful device which we call
protector for bottles and jars, and it consists in forming said bottles and jars with
circumferential grooves or with beads or with a series thereof, and providing rings
or bands of rubber or other suitable elastic material which fit said grooves or said
beads and forms cushions, therefore said cushions being adjustable on account of
the series of grooves or beads, all of which will hereinafter more fully appear.
Referring to the accompanying Drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view of our
Invention, Figure 2 is a section, and Figure 3 shews its application to a jar.
The object of our Invention is to obtain greater security and safety in the packing
and storing of bottles and jars than has heretofore been obtained.
These are made of a material which by being brittle is liable to be readily broken
in handling; more especially when packed closely for economy in space is this
danger liable, for their surfaces are contiguous and being of equal hardness they
are easily injured by one another.
Let. A represent a glass bottle; upon its surface a little below its neck are made
circumferential grooves a, shown here as three in number, though this is not a
fixed number, the purpose hereinafter set forth showing that a series of any
suitable number may be used.

page_text: Near the bottom of the bottle is another series of three grooves a¹; in these
grooves are fitted rubber or elastic rings b. We have shown one ring in the
middle groove of the upper series, and the other similarly situated in the lower.
These rings lie loosely in these grooves and can be moved from one to the other of
said grooves.
This adjustment constitutes an important feature of our Invention as its object
will show. In packing bottles it does not always happen that the same relative
portion of the surface in each is required for a bearing surface. If the cushion
were permanent either on account of being fixed to the bottle or because it had
but one groove, it might not be in position to act as a bearing surface, but by
having a number of grooves, as shown, the rings may be moved up or down to suit
the particular case of each bottle in packing or storing. Upon the same principle I
could use several rings upon each surface, if the case demanded it, and thus form a
broader cushion.
In Figure
we show a jar B, which instead of having grooves, as shown in
preceding Figures, has a series of beads c, c', and over these are fitted cushion rings
or bands d, the inner side of which are concaved agreeably to the convex outer
surface of the beads. The same principle governs both, and the same advantages
flow from each. It may however be found more economical to form the bottles
or jars in one way rather than another and therefore I show both. The cushion
rings I describe as rubber though other suitable material might be employed.
We are aware that devices have been employed to protect bottles and jars, the
principle of which was the provision of an elastic cushion therefor, but as far as we
know they have all been complete coverings or casements, fitting the bottle like a
jacket and entirely enclosing it.
We do not claim broadly a cushion protecter for bottles, but what we do claim as
new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is,―
1. A bottle or jar having rubber or elastic rings fitted around it, substantially as
and for the purpose described.
2. A bottle or jar provided with a series of suitable cushion seats as shown in
combination with elastic rings or bands fitting said seats, substantially as and for
the purpose herein described.
3. A bottle A having the series of circumferential grooves a, a¹, in combination
with the elastic rings or cushions b, substantially as and for the purpose herein
described.
4. The jar B having the series of circumferential beads c, c¹, in combination with
the cushion rings or bands d, substantially as and for the purpose described.
In witness whereof, we, the said James Moreton Thorpe and Joseph Antonio
Belloli, have hereunto set our hands and seals, this 22nd day of December,
A.D. One thousand eight hundred and eighty one. .
In the presence_of_
WILLIAM F. BOOTH.
S. H. NOURSE.
JAMES MORETON THORPE.
(L.S.)
JOSEPH ANTONIO BELLOLI. (L.S.)