Improvements in Packages or Cases Applicable for Fruit, Vegetables, or other Perishable Goods.
Year: 1889

page_text: Date of Application, 6th Mar., 1889
Complete Specification Left, 6th Dec., 1889-Accepted, 18th Jan., 1890
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Packages or Cases Applicable for Fruit,
Vegetables, or other Perishable Goods.
A communication from abroad by RICHARD R. BLANDY, of Las Palmas, Grand
Canary, Wine Grower and Shipper.
I, WILLIAM PHILLIPS THOMPSON F.C.S., M.I.M.E., of the Agency for Foreign
Patent Solicitors, 6, Lord Street, Liverpool, and 6, Bank Street, Manchester both in
the County of Lancaster, and 323, High Holborn in the County of Middlesex, Civil
Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
The invention has for its object a package or case for holding fruit, vegetables
or other like goods of a perishable nature.
The package which I propose to provide for bananas or other similar fruits is
constructed of corrugated metal preferably very thin and bent into the form of a
cylinder. It may be made in two halves, or in one piece, and cut longitudinally
The over-
so that it can be expanded to facilitate the goods being drawn cut.
lapping edges are fastened together by bolts or pins passed through the cavities or
convexities of the corrugations and secured in place by wires or split pins inserted
through a hole in the end of the pin, and bent over so that they do not drop out.
Instead of holts or pins, wires may be provided, passed through holes made in
the sides of the corrugations so as to hold the overlapping edges of the cylinder
together, and bent over at the ends to prevent them falling out.
The ends of the package may be formed of wires passed from side to side so as to
make a sort of network. They can be passed through holes in the metal and bent up
so as not to fall out. Perforated metal, gauze, or their equivalents may be employed
if preferred.
The fruit is suitably wrapped and placed within the casing. Straw or other
material may be placed at each end, and when the ends are closed as above described,
the package is ready for transit. Air can easily pass through the ends, and have
access to the goods. To open the package, the wires may be cut and discarded, and
the goods drawn or caused to drop out.
The above description must only be taken as an illustration of the invention, and
not as confining it to any exact arrangement. Corrugated paper or other material
might be employed instead of metal, and the package may be of any suitable shape.
Dated this 5th day of March 1889.
WM. P. THOMPSON & Co.,
Agents for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Packages or Cases Applicable for Fruit,
Vegetables, or other Perishable Goods.
A communication from abroad by RICHARD R. BLANDY, of Las Palmas, Grand
Canary, Wine Grower and Shipper.
I, WILLIAM PHILLIPS THOMPSON F.C.S., M.I.M.E., of the Agency for Foreign
Patent Solicitors, 6, Lord Street, Liverpool, and 6, Bank Street, Manchester, both
in the County of Lancaster, and 323, High Holborn in the County of Middlesex,
Civil Engineer, 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 :-
The invention has for its object a package or case for holding fruit, vegetables or
other like goods of a perishable nature.

page_text: In the accompanying drawings :-
Figure 1 is an elevation of the improved package or case adapted for packing
bananas; the sides of which are made in two parts,
Figure 2 a sectional elevation through the overlapping edges of the sides,
Figure 3 a horizontal section through a package in which the sides are in one piece
and joined together at their overlapping edges.
In these, the package is constructed of corrugated metal preferably very thin, and
bent into the form of a cylinder or other suitable shape. As here shown, the sides are
made in two parts A A and their overlapping edges are fastened together by bolts and
nuts 02 (Figure 3), split pins C³ (Figure 1), or by bolts or pins secured in place by a
wire or split pin, or in any other suitable manner. Pins or wires C, Figure 2, may
be employed if desired, inserted through holes in the overlapping edges of the sides,
and bent over at their ends to prevent them falling out.
be made in one piece B (Figure 3) and bent in a suitable shape so that it can be
If preferred, the sides may
expanded to facilitate packing or unpacking of the goods.
The ends may be formed of wires D, (Figure 1), passed from side to side and
crossing one another at intervals, so as to make a kind of network, or they may
be formed of wire gauze, or of perforated metal D¹ (Figure 2) secured to the sides
by bent wires such as C.
The fruit is suitably wrapped and placed within the casing. Straw or other
material may be placed at each end, and when the ends are closed as above described,
the package is ready for transit. Air can easily pass through the ends and have,
access to the goods. To open the package when constructed as shown in Figure 1,
the wires may be cut and discarded, and the goods drawn or caused to drop out.
When constructed as shown in Figure 2, the end C of the fastening wires C are bent
straight, the fastening taken out, and one or both ends removed.
The material of which the package is constructed may be altered to suit require-
ments. Corrugated paper or mill board might be employed instead of metal.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said
invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, as communicated to
me by my foreign correspondent I declare that what I claim is :-
1. As an improved article of manufacture a package for perishable goods, consisting
of an expansible cylindrical wall of thin material corrugated peripherally, secured at
its overlapping edges by suitable removable fastening devices and of removable open
work ends, substantially as and for the purpose described.
2. As an improved article of manufacture, a package for perishable goods, composed
of a cylindrical corrugated casing formed in two approximately equal halves A with
their overlapping edges fastened together as described, and of openwork ends secured
to opposite extremities of said casing through which air can freely percolate, sub-
stantially as described.
Dated this 5th day of Decombon 1000
WM. P. THOMPSON & Co.,
Agents for the Applicant.