Improvements in Boxes.
Year: 1897

page_text: Improvements in Boxes.
I, EDWIN DAVIES, of Dumbarton Villa, in the County Borough of Swansea,
Gentleman, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
1. A Bottle Carrier or box having a removable bottom and internal divider to rest
or be fixed horizontally at variable distances from each other.
2. The Carrier or box may be either of wood or of iron, tin, terne plate, copper,
steel, zinc or any other metallic substance and may be either painted glazed
enamelled galvanised or lacquered.
3. The Carrier or box whether made of wood iron tin terne plate or other
metallic substance can be used to store pack and carry mineral aerated or other
waters alcoholic or non-alcoholic drinks or beverages and all other liquids or
substances protected in bottles whether the bottles be made of glass, stone, clay,
china, earthenware or any other substance.
4. The Carrier or box may be of different sizes and either square oblong round
or of other shape or form.
5. The design and shape of the Carrier or box suitable for the storage package
and carriage of bottled mineral or aerated waters alcoholic and non-alcoholic
liquids and beverages of a kindred nature thereto is as follows:-
The Carrier or box whether made of wood or of iron tin terne plate copper steel
zinc or other metallic substance and of whatever shape and size has no fixed bottom
or divider.
In order to provide a rest for a removable bottom to the Carrier or box when
made of metallic material a slit or cut is made at the points "A" or any some other
convenient point in any side of the material used and a flap or flaps then bent or
pressed inwards to an angle of 45 or 90 or any other degree and on the opposite
side a similar slit or cut and flap or similar slits and flaps are made at similar
angles for the like purpose. On these inside projections a removable or tem-
porary bottom "B" either plain or with hole marks cut indented, wrought or
woven therein and either with flanges bent downwards or plain edges may rest
or be temporarily fixed as required or in the alternative a pressed indentation may
be made in the metallic material and extending inwards to a sufficient extent to
keep the removable bottom rigid. At points "C" or at other convenient points
similar slits or cuts and flaps or indentations as may be determined are made so
as to support the divider "D" which may be either plain perforated or with
holes to size required or with or without flanges at the discretion of manufac-
turers or in place of this topmost divider a wire netting divider with spaces of
sufficient sizes to allow bottles to pass through either round square or hexagonal
may rest.
Bottles whether placed bottom or top upwards may rest or be fixed between
these divisions and be packed or otherwise stored and carried at will. In order

page_text: to facilitate the handling carrying and conveyance of the Carrier or box perfora-
tions or holes E and F are made at the ends in the metallic material from
which the Carrier or box is constructed, sufficiently large for the hand to be in-
serted.
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6. When the Carrier or box is used for bottled beer stouts wines spirits liquids
or other substances the bottom or divider may be permanently fixed
by the aid of one or more bolts inserted either in the middle or at the sides of the
Carrier or box and fastened with a nut split pin or rivet as indicated at points "G"
so as to be removable at will and thereafter used unfixed as indicated when re-
quired for mineral or aerated waters protected in bottles.
7. The Carrier or box when made of wood, in order to fix a removable bottom
or divider may have either a wooden iron tin or other metal ledge or rest attached
and fixed internally at the points marked A and C respectively or at other
convenient points in lieu of the projection or indentation described when made of
a metallic substance and when required to be permanently fixed and fastened
may
have either a wooden or metal bolt inserted as described in Paragraph 6 hereof.
Dated this 4th day of February 1897.
I, EDWIN DAVIES, of Dumbarton Villa, Brynymor Road, in the County Borough
of Swansea, Gentleman, do hereby declare the nature of this invention, and in
what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascer
tained in and by the following statement:-
i. My invention consists of a Bottle Carrier or box having a removable
bottom and internal divider to rest or be fixed horizontally at variable distances
from each other.
2. The Carrier or box may be either of wood or of iron, tin, terne plate, copper,
steel, zinc, or any other metallic substance and may be either painted glazed
enamelled galvanised or lacquered.
3. The Carrier or box whether made of wood iron, tin, terne plate or other
metallic substance can be used to store pack and carry mineral aerated or other
waters alcoholic or non-alcoholic drinks or beverages and all other liquids or
substances protected in bottles whether the bottles be made of glass stone clay
china earthenware or any other substance.,
4. The Carrier or box may be of different sizes and either square oblong round
or of other shape or form.
5. The design and shape of the Carrier or box suitable for the storage package
and carriage of bottled mineral or aerated waters alcoholic and non-alcoholic
liquids and beverages of a kindred nature thereto is as follows:-
The Carrier or box whether made of wood or of iron tin terne plate copper steel
zinc or other metallic substance and of whatever shape and size has no fixed bottom
or divider.
In order to provide a rest for a removable bottom to the Carrier or box when
made of metallic material a slit or cut is made at the points"A"
or any some other
convenient point in any side of the material used and a flap or flaps then bent or
pressed inwards to an angle of 45 or 90 or any other degree and on the opposite
side a similar slit or cut and flap or similar slits and flaps are made at similar
angles for the like purpose. On these inside projections a removable or tem-
porary bottom "B" either plain or with hole marks cut, indented wrought or

page_text: woven therein and either with flanges bent downwards or plain edges may rest
or be temporarily fixed as required or in the alternative a pressed indentation may
be made in the metallic material used extending inwards to a sufficient extent to
keep the removable bottom rigid. At points "C" or at other convenient points
similar slits or cuts and flaps or indentations as may be determined are made so
as to support the divider D" which may be either plain perforated or with
holes to size required or with or without flanges at the discretion of manufac-
turers or in place of this topmost divider a wire netting divider with spaces of
sufficient sizes to allow bottles to pass through either round square or hexagonal
may rest.
Bottles whether placed bottom or top upwards may rest or be fixed between
these divisions and be packed or otherwise stored and carried at will. In order
to facilitate the handling carrying and conveyance of the Carrier or box perfora-
tions or holes "E" and "F are made at the ends in the metallic material from
which the Carrier or box is constructed sufficiently large for the hand to be in-
serted.
6. When the Carrier or box is used for bottled beer stouts wines spirits liquids,
aerated waters or other substances the bottom or divider may be permanently fixed
by the aid of one or more bolts inserted either in the middle or at the sides of the
Carrier or box and fastened with a nut split pin or rivet as indicated at points "G"
so as to be removable at will and thereafter used unfixed as indicated when re-
quired for mineral or aerated waters protected in bottles.
7. The Carrier or box when made of wood in order to fix a removable bottom
or divider may have either a wooden iron tin or other metal ledge or rest attached
and fixed internally at the points marked "A" and "C" respectively or at other
convenient points in lieu of the projection or indentation described when made of
a metallic substance and when required to be permanently fixed and fastened
may have either a wooden or metal bolt inserted as described in Paragraph 6 hereof.
The drawing left with the Provisional Specification I request shall constitute
and be the drawing for this my Complete Specification.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what
I claim is:.
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An improvement in boxes for packing and carrying bottles containing liquids,
as herein before described, consisting of a removable or fixed bottom either plain or
with holes cut therein through which holes the necks of the bottles to be carried
may be put, and a removable or fixed divider with holes cut therein to size re-
quired corresponding to the holes (if any) in the removable or fixed bottom and
through and by which holes the bottles may be passed and kept in position; the
bottom and divider, when removable, being supported either upon flanges bent
in from the sides of the box, or upon ledges, either indented in the sides of the
box or affixed thereto, and when fixed, fastened with a bolt, nut, split pin, or rivet
as hereinbefore described.
Dated this 4th day of November 1897