Improvements in Packing Eggs and other Small Articles for Transport.
Year: 1890

page_text: Date of Application, 1st May, 1890
Complete Specification Left, 24th Feb., 1891-Accepted, 11th Apr., 1891
PROVISIONAL SPE
ICATION.
Improvements in Packing Eggs and other Small Articles for
Transport.
I, FRANCIS HABGOOD FREETH, of Victoria Tin Works, 72 & 74, Wandsworth
Road, Vauxhall, in the County of Surrey, Manufacturer of Dairy Appliances, do
hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
The object of my invention is to provide a method of packing eggs and other
fragile articles which will protect them from breakage during transport.
My method consists of one or more pieces of felt or other suitable material
folded or fastened together by eyelets, wire or other suitable material in such a
manner as to form a number of pockets in which the eggs are placed. These
pockets containing the eggs or other articles are then packed tightly in a box made
of wood or other inaterial suitable for the purpose and the eggs & other fragile
articles may then be carried without fear of breakage.
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COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Packing Eggs and other Small Articles for
Transport.
I, FRANCIS HABGOOD FREETH, of Victoria Tin Works, 72 & 74, Wandsworth
Road, Vauxhall, in the County of Surrey, Manufacturer of Dairy Appliances, 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 object of my invention is to provide an improved package so that small
fragile articles may be less liable to breakage in transport than at present.
take a sheet of soft flexible material such as felt or other suitable material and
cut it into suitable shapes. I then loop up one or more pieces of the material and
fasten them together by any suitable means such as with eyelets wire, or sewing
them together in such a manner as to make a number of pockets, each pocket about
the right size to contain the egg or other small fragile article.
I then pack the pockets, when filled with the articles it is desired to pack, in a
basket, barrel, case or other package in such a manner that there is no room for the
pockets, when filled, to move about in the case or other package.
The risk of breakage to fragile articles so packed is then much reduced.
In order to show more clearly the way in which my invention is carried into
effect for packing eggs 1 furnish drawings in which similar letters represent
corresponding parts throughout.
Fig. 1. shows a piece of felt looped up into pockets.
Fig. 2. shows a box with the pockets packed inside.
The pockets containing eggs are marked A.
B. is a board lined with a soft material & lies on top of the pockets cantaining
eggs & fixes them firmly in the box.
C. is the lid of the box.
Having now particularly described & ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion, & in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
clain is :-
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page_text: up of one or more pieces of felt or other soft flexible material substantially aB
described for the purpose of enveloping small fragile articles & so protecting them
from breakage inside cases or other packages during transit.
Dated this 23rd day of February 1891.
FRANCIS H. FREETIT.