An Improved Box for Conveyance of Mineral-water and other Bottles.
Year: 1889

page_text: Date of Application, 14th Dec., 1889-Accepted, 18th Jan., 1890
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Box for Conveyance of Mineral-water and other Bottles.
I, FREDERICK WILLIE BROCK, of Albert Road, St. Philips, in the city and county
of Bristol, wholesale box manufacturer, 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, which relates to the construction of cases or boxes such are employed
for containing and carrying mineral-water and such like bottles, consists in the
employment, for the bottoms of such cases or boxes, of hars, either of wood or metal,
which are convex on one face and are placed at convenient distances apart. These
bars extend the whole length of the case or box, and are so fixed that the convex
faces are uppermost.
The bottles may be placed either way up in the box. If the neck be downwards,
the rim of the mouth rests at opposite points on the convex bars which are situated
sufficiently near to one another to prevent the mouth of the bottle or the stopper
therein from coming into contact with the surface on which the box may be
deposited. Above the convex bars are the usual compartments for the bottles, the
divisions being made by wooden partitions or by wires or by a combination of both,
or otherwise.
Referring to the accompanying sheet of illustrative drawings, Fig. 1 is an end
view; Fig. 2, a transverse section; Fig. 3, a side view, and Fig. 4 a longitudinal
section of a box, constructed, in accordance with this invention, for containing
mineral-water and like bottles. The bottom of the box is composed of a series of
bars a arranged in the form of an open grating. The bars are convex on that side
which is uppermost when fixed.
They are arranged parallel with each other and extend from one end of the box
to the other. When made of wood the bars, with the exception of those in
contact with the sides of the box, are secured at each end by a dovetail, as seen
at Fig. 1.
The bars in contact with the sides of the box are secured thereto by nails, spikes
or screws, or by other means. When the bars are made in metal they are preferably
secured by screws or bolts passed into them from the outside through the ends of
the box. As applied in this manner the bars may be fitted in existing boxes.
Above the bars a are the usual divisions of wire band wood c by which the
bottles are separated one from another. As indicated in Fig. 2, the bottles may be
inserted either reversed or not reversed.
When reversed, the rim of the mouth rests on the convex face of two of the
bars a.
The mouth and the stopper are thus preventing from coming into contact with
the floor or other surface on which the box stands. The bottom of the box being
in the form of a grating is readily cleansed by immersion in water.
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 :-
In a box or case for containing mineral water and other bottles, the use, for the
bottom thereof, of a grating of bars having the upper faces convex, the said bars
being arranged parallel with each other and secured to the box at each end by a
dovetail or otherwise, the space between each bar being regulated so that the month
of a reversed bottle rests at two points on the convex faces of two adjacent bars

page_text: and is thereby, together with the stopper, prevented from coming into contact with
the floor or other surface on which the box may be deposited, substantially as
herein before described with reference to the accompanying drawings.
101 1
1000
NICHOLAS WATTS,
Bristol Bank Buildings, Bristol, Agent.