A New or Improved Case for Packing or Preserving Eggs.
Year: 1889

page_text: Date of Application, 25th Oct., 1889-Accepted, 30th Nov.,
1889
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
A New or Improved Case for Packing or Preserving Eggs.
1, THOMAS JENSON of Cedar Villa Upper Stoke, Coventry in the County of
Warwick Gentleman do hereby declare the nature of my said invention, and in what
manner the same is to be performed to be particularly described and ascertained in
and by the following statement:-
My invention has for its object a new or improved case for packing or preserving
eggs by which eggs may be preserved in comparative freshness for a long time and
with very little trouble. By this means eggs may be purchased in large quantities
when they are cheap and used when they become too dear to buy in small quantities.
These cases are well adapted for the wholesale transit of eggs and the wholesale
storage but they are specially adapted for home use when say a gross or so would be
consumed each month. These cases may however be made of any size and capacity
and of any strength to suit the particular use for which they are intended and they
may be made quite ornamental so as to stand in any room of a house or of common
timber for a larder or cellar.
In order that my invention may be clearly understood and more easily carried
into practice I have appended hereunto a double sized sheet of drawings upon which
one complete example is shewn of such a box as would contain about ten dozen eggs
being suitable for a small family and for-say the larder-this example will however
be quite sufficient to make known the principle and by the help of which I shall be
able to explain the wider application to larger cases.
Figure 1 is a perspective view shewing a storage case mounted upon its stand all
complete except in lid.
Figure 2 shews a lid suitable for the case illustrated by Figure 1 but the kind of
lid and the mode of connection to the case may be greatly varied.
Figure 3 is an end elevation shewing more clearly how the case A is mounted,
Figure 4 is a part cross sectional elevation through the case A and shewing part of
one stand C in elevation.
Figure 5 is a perspective view of one of the frames K which fit inside the case as
will be more fully explained hereafter.
Figure 6 is a lid used to cover the frame K and which also serves as a bottom to
the case immediately above it.
Figure is a broken off side elevation shewing the case A held in its normal
position by the pins upon the standards C.
It will be seen that the box A may be made of any timber or other material and
the parts either nailed dovetailed or screwed together or in addition to any of these
may be hooped to increase the strength I prefer a square box for convenience of the
internal arrangements though it is quite possible to make it round or other shape.
This box A is fitted internally with any number of frames K which are constructed of
the cross bars 3 and the longitudinal bars and they may also have an independent
bottom but usually the lid answers as both lid to one frame and bottom to the other.
These frames lift loosely out of the box A. In the cross section Figure 4 these
frames K are clearly seen with the eggs E packed therein. In addition to these
frames the whole may be filled up with saw-dust bran or other substance for the more
thorough preservation of the eggs. The lid a figure 2 under the edge m² of the hoop
iron M, and is locked in the other end by the lock a but other modes may be adopted
for attaching the lids. There may be in larger cases two or more lids top and bottom,
and a division half the way down the box & so that the eggs can be unpacked from
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both sides. A recessed handle aª may be attached to the main lid or lids a'.
inside lids ka piece of string is quite enough for a handle to lift it by and these
lids as well as the frame K will be quite strong enough made from paste board of

page_text: any kind or other similar material or composition. Handles a³ may be fitted to the box
for convenience of lifting. The boxes are lifted with pivot plates a' by which they
are hung upon the standards C in the pivot recesses so that the box A may be
turned say once or twice each week-more or less according to the necessities of the
surrounding circumstances. The pins of which there may be one or two or more
serve to keep the box steady, and they are of course drawn back before the box can
be turned. The standards C are mounted by the screws c upon the base board or
plate B. These stands would remain in one place while the box A could be sent away
to be refilled. Two such boxes and two stands would be all that is necessary for one
family as one case would be filled while the other is in use. In the case of wholesale
storeage there may of course be any number of frames in the store and any number
of boxes.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is:-
The new or improved case for packing or preserving eggs consisting of the case A
fitted as set forth and capable of being turned periodically substantially as herein set
forth, and as shewn upon the drawings.
Dated this 24th day of October 1889.
GEORGE BARKER,
77, Colmore Row. Birmingham, Agent for Applicant.