An Improvement in Butter and Margarine Packages.
Year: 1889

page_text: Date of Application, 10th Oct., 1889
Complete Specification Left, 26th Apr., 1890-Accepted, 31st May, 1890
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improvement in Butter and Margarine Packages.
JOHN STABLES Grocer 482 Stockport Road Manchester Lancashire in the County
of Lancaster RICHARD HAWORTH Merchant 26 Hanging Ditch Manchester Lancashire
in the County of Lancaster. We do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be
as follows:-
For the purpose of making easy the sampling of butters and margarine instead of
taking out the end of each package we purpose to make a hole large enough to take
out samples, this hole to be covered with wood or any other suitable material the same
to be made secure by screws or nails or other convenient fastenings and hinged for.
the purpose of opening.
Dated this Eighth day of October 1889.
JOHN STABLES.
RICHARD HAWORTH.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improvement in Butter and Margarine Packages.
We JOHN STABLES, of 482, Stockport Road, Grocer, and RICHARD HAWORTH, of
26, Hanging Ditch, Agent, both in Manchester, in the County of Lancaster, 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 :-
Our invention relates to an improvement in butter and margarine packages and has
for its purpose to easy the sampling of butter and margarine.
Instead of taking out the end of each package, we purpose to make a hole large
enough to take out samples. This hole to be covered with wood or any other suitable
material which is made secure by screws or nails or other convenient fastening and
hinged for the purpose of opening.
And in order that our invention may be more fully understood we have caused to be
appended hereunto one sheet of drawings marked with letters of reference indicating
like parts in the various figures.
Figs. 1 & 3 are cross sections and Figs. 2, 4, 5 & 6, plans of butter or margarine
packages or tubs, showing various forms of our invention.
In carrying out our invention and referring to the figures generally we form in the
end a of the package or tub b a hole c, of any suitable size or shape, preferably round,
with a bevelled or straight edge. This hole c may be formed at any suitable part in
the end a, preferably near the body of the package or tub b, as shown in the drawings.
In order to permit of an air tight closing and ready opening of the said hole c and
facilitate the taking of samples, we cover the hole c by means of a disc, flap or
slide d, attached to the package or tub end a, so as to be readily secured in position
in or over the hole c or removed therefrom by means of nails or screws e.
Figs. 1 & 2, show the disc d attached to the package or tub end a by means of a
hinge and formed with a bevelled edge, fitting tightly into the hole c formed with a
corresponding edge.
Figs. 3 & 4, show the disc d attached to the package or tub end a by means of a
pivot g on which it is permitted to be moved over the hole c or into the position shown
in dotted lines in Fig. and thus expose the hole c.
Fig. 5, shows the hole c covered by means of a flap d, hinged to the package or tub
end a and Fig. 6 by means of a slide d made movable in grooves h adapted to or
formed in the package or tub end a.

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this invention and
in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what we claim, is :-
"In butter or margarine packages."
1st. The formation of a hole c in the end a adapted to permit of taking samples
through the same, substantially as and for the purpose-specified.
2nd. The hole c formed in the end a in combination with a disc, flap or slide d
adapted to cover or uncover the said hole c, substantially.as and for the purpose
specified.
:
Pated this 25th day of April 1890.
F. BOSSHARDT & Co.,
4, Corporation Street, Manchester, Agents to Applicants.