IMPROVEMENTS IN CASES OR RECEPTACLES FOR BOTTLES AND SIMILAR ARTICLES
Year: 1867

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to George Withy and Joseph Francis Cotterell, both
of Bath, in the County of Somerset, Soda Water Manufacturers, for the
Juvention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN CASES OR RECEPTACLES FOR BOTTLES AND
SIMILAR ARTICLES."
Sealed the 27th August 1867, and dated the 5th March 1867.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said George Withy and
Joseph Francis Cotterell at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents,
with their Petition, on the 5th March 1867.
We, GEORGE WITHY and JOSEPH FRANCIS COTTERELL, both of Bath, in the
County of Somerset, Soda Water Manufacturers, do hereby declare the
nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN CASES OR RECEPTACLES FOR
BOTTLES AND SIMILAR ARTICLES," to be as follows:-
This Invention relates to a peculiar internal arrangement of boxes or cases
intended for the storage or carriage of bottles containing soda water and other
aerated or other liquids, whereby such bottles can be safely stored and packed.
for transit without the aid of straw or other like packing.
According to this Invention it is proposed to place inside an ordinary box
or case two frames or partitions of trellis work composed of wire, cane,
wooden rods, or willows, or other suitable material disposed parallel to the
top and bottom or front and back of the box, and at a convenient distance

page_text: therefrom, the meshes of the trellis wirework being each of suitable size for
the introduction or suspension therein of a bottle, so that no two bottles will
be in contact with each other, and all the bottles will be held firm and steady
during transit or whilst in store; hence the risk of breakage will be con-
siderably reduced, whilst at the same time greater expedition in packing is
ensured.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said George Withy and Joseph Francis Cotterell in the Great
Seal Patent Office on the 30th August 1867.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, GEORGE
WITHY and JOSEPH FRANCIS COTTERELL, both of Bath, in the County of
Somerset, Soda Water Manufacturers, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Fifth day of March, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven, in the thirtieth year of Her reign,
did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto us, the said
George Withy and Joseph Francis Cotterell, Her special license that we, the
said George Withy and Joseph Francis Cotterell, our executors, adminis-
trators, and assigns, or such others as we, the said George Withy and Joseph
Francis Cotterell, our executors, administrators, or assigns, should at
any time agree with, and no others, from time to time and all times
thereafter during the term therein expressed should and lawfully might make,
use, exercise, and vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and
Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "Iк-
PROVEMENTS IN CASES OR RECEPTACLES FOR BOTTLES AND SIMILAR ARTICLES," upon
the condition (amongst others) that we, the said George Withy and Joseph
Francis Cotterell, our executors or administrators, by an instrument in
writing under our hands and seals, or under the hand and seal of one of them,
should particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the said Invention,
and in what manner the same was to be performed, and cause the same to
be filed in the Great Seal Patent Office within six calendar months next and
immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that we, the said George Withy and Joseph Francis
Cotterell, do hereby declare the nature of our said Invention, and in what
manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and

page_text: ascertained in and by the following statement, reference being, had to the
accompanying Drawings and to the letters and figures marked thereon, that is,
to say:-
Our said Invention relates to a peculiar internal arrangement of boxes or
cases intended for the storage or carriage of bottles containing soda water and
other aerated or other liquids, whereby such bottles can be safely stored and
packed for transit without the aid of straw or other like packing.
According to this Invention it is proposed to place inside an ordinary box
or case two frames or partitions of trellis work composed of wire, disposed
parallel to the top and bottom or front and back of the box, and at a con-
venient distance therefrom, the meshes of the trellis wirework being each of
suitable size for the introduction or suspension therein of a bottle, so that no
two bottles will be in contact with each other, and all the bottles will be held
firm and steady during transit or whilst in store; hence the risk of breakage
will be considerably reduced, whilst at the same time greater expedition in
packing is ensured.
And in order that our said Invention may be fully understood we shall now
proceed more particularly to describe the same, and for that purpose shall
refer to the several Figures on the annexed Sheet of Drawings, the samo
letters of reference indicating corresponding parts in both the Figures.
Figure 1 of our Drawings represents a perspective elevation of one form
of receptacle for bottles constructed according to our said Invention, and
Figure 2 is a sectional plan of the same shewing more clearly the internal
trellis work frames.
A is the receptacle which is here represented as laid on its side as a seat,
the door or lid B opening in front; within the receptacle are fitted the
two trellis work frames C, C, herein-before referred to, the cross wires
a, a, serving as supports for each individual bottle b, b, placed therein.
It is obvious that various forms of boxes or receptacles, either for the
storage or transport of bottles containing liquids, may be fitted with our
improvements, and therefore the Drawing annexed is only an example of one
mode by which our said Invention may be carried out.
Having now described and particularly ascertained the nature of our said
Invention, and the manner in which the same is or may be used or carried
into effect, we would observe in conclusion that what we consider to be novel
and original, and therefore claim as the Invention secured to us by the
herein-before in part recited Letters Patent is, the application and use to and
in the interior of boxes or receptacles for the storage or transport of bottles

page_text: containing liquids, of frames of wirework so disposed that the bottles intro-
duced therein are kept in their places and are prevented from coming into
actual contact with each other.
In witness whereof, I, the said Joseph Francis Cotterell, for myself and
on behalf of the said George Witby, have to this our Specification
set my hand and seal, the Thirtieth day of August, One thousand
eight hundred and sixty-seven.
J. FRANCIS COTTERELL. (L.S.)
J. FRANCIS COTTERELL. (L.S.)