Improvements in Cases or Carriers for Bottles.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 8th Dec., 1893-Accepted, 13th Jan., 1884
Improvements in Cases or Carriers for Bottles.
We, EBENEZER CHAMBERLAIN of 69, Livingstone Road, Southampton,
Gentleman, and CLAUDE WILLIAM BUCKLE of 20, Cambridge Road, Southampton,
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 :-
This invention relates to an improved construction of case or carrier for wine,
mineral water and other bottles, and has for its object to provide an arrangement
which will be less expensive and more easily manufactured that the ordinary cases,
with economy in space, while serving the purpose equally well.
The case is formed from an ordinary plain box of wood or other material of the
usual shape for such cases, without the divisions or compartments commonly
employed. Instead of dividing the box into compartments we form the recesses or
supports for the bottles from sheet metal. A sheet of size and shape corresponding
to the size of the box in plan, is taken, and a number of holes is stamped from
it, equal to that of the bottles the case is required to hold. A rim is also formed
around the edges by which it can be fixed to the sides of the box inside. In
stamping the holes the parts removed may, instead of being cut away, be turned
down on each side forming projecting tongues. Thus in stamping the hole the
metal would be cut radially from the centre to the corners, the hole being of
regular geometrical form such as triangular, square or polygonal, leaving tongues
which are turned down as mentioned. These may bear a little inwards, so as to
grip the bottle slightly when they are inserted, the tongues in that case pointing
downwards, or if the position of the plate be reversed, the tongue can be turned
out, so as to guide the bottles into their places.
This arrangement is especially applicable to the carrying of triangular bottles, a
shape which is used in order to lessen the space required, and consequently the size
of the cases.
In order that the invention may be more clearly understood, reference is had to
the accompanying drawings, in which
Fig. 1 is a vertical section of the complete case, and
Figs. 2 and 3 & 4 are plans of the stamped metal sheet to be fixed in the boxes,
three different shapes of perforation being shown.
A is the box of wood forming the body of the case in which the metal plate or
sheets B & B are fixed, one, B, near the bottom and the other, B¹, at the upper
part, near the shoulders of the bottles. These plates are formed with the rim 6 to
allow them to be fixed in the box A, and are perforated at C to allow the bottles D
to be inserted. B is shown with tongues o which have been stamped out and turned
down or up in forming the perforation, while in B' the holes have been stamped out
plain.
The perforations shown in Figs. 1, 2, & 3 are of triangular shape to take the
specially shaped bottles while those of B Fig. 4 are octagonal and are suitable for
circular bottles. It is obvious that the shape of the perforation may be altered to
suit convenience and may in some cases be circular if the holes are stamped out
without projecting tongues.
In Fig. I the upper plate B' is flat and the lower one B has the tongues pro-
jecting upwardly, and turned slightly outwards, so that the bottles will be guided
into the holes. In Fig. 2 the holes are of equilateral triangular shape placed in
alternate directions, so as to take up as little room as possible. In Fig. 3 the
perforations are also triangular but of semi square shape so that two adjacent ones

page_text: will form a rectangle, thus leaving no corners which are not utilized. The forms of
the bottles must of course correspond to these holes.
Cases of this description can be made in a very inexpensive manner, and lighter
than those of ordinary construction with equal strength.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what we
claim is :-
(1.) A case for carrying wine, mineral water and other bottles, formed from a
box having a plate or plates of sheet metal fixed inside, with stamped perforations
to receive the bottles, substantially as described.
(2.) A case for carrying wine, mineral water and other bottles, formed from a
box having a plate or plates of sheet metal fixed inside, with stamped perforations,
the stamped portions being turned down from the sides, substantially as and for
the purposes specified.
(3.) A case for wine mineral water and other bottles formed from a wooden box,
having a plate or plates of sheet metal fixed inside by means of a rim or ledge
around the edges, the plate having perforations stamped from it substantially as
described and shown and for the purposes specified.
Dated this 8th day of December 1893.
GEO. H. RAYNER,
37, Chancery Lane, London, Agent for the Applicants.
GEO. H. RAYNER,
37, Chancery Lane, London, Agent for the Applicants.