Improvements in the Mode of Packing Fragile or other Goods.
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 14th Feb., 1896-Accepted, 28th Mar., 1896
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Mode of Packing Fragile or other Goods.
We, JOHANN FISCHER and EDUARD HEUSINGER, both of Hildburghausen, in
the Empire of Germany, Manufacturers, do hereby declare the nature of this inven
tion 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 a more convenient safe and elegant mode of packing.
fragile and other goods than that at present in use and it consists in packing such
objects in suitable receptacles formed in or between sheets or layers of suitable
plastic material which shall form or have formed therein cavities and elevations
embracing such objects or their salient points.
These improvements render possible a quick, secure, cheap, and elegant packing
of objects easily breakable or sensitive to pressure, friction, shocks etc., or which
want for any reason casing or covering; for instance, for, china, glass, gypsum, papier
maché goods and toys and other objects of such kind of materials.
Such goods have hitherto been generally first packed in paper and then in hay,.
wood-wool or similar material; or especially for goods in mass such as china, forms.
of paste board or wood boards were cut or punched out the openings of which.
corresponded to the form of the objects to be packed so that the objects placed into
these openings were carried freely and protected against moving sidewards, such a
form being put in made of paste board and held by pieces bent in a right angle to
the form at the right distance from the bottom or sides whilst the space between
the cover and the object was filled with packing material.
These latter proceedings needed besides these forins a special packing material
which took much time and was not clean also it often happened that small objects
fell through the openings between the form and bottom and arrived broken. The
improvements replace these forms by layers of appropriate material which allow
and give such cavities and elevations that the objects to be packed are lying in or
between such layers. These sheets or layers of the desired number being put into
boxes or other receptacles.
In the annexed drawings the improvements are shown in an example where the
packing of a jug and a bowl is supposed, the under figure shows a plan and the
upper a section.
By means of appropriate forms the sheet or layers A. B. are embossed punched
or molded as the under layer A for the object C and D, and made of loofah, felt,
cellulose, paste-board, caoutchouc, or other suitable materials.
The cavities of this under layer A receive the goods in such a manner that the
objects can neither be displaced nor fall through, on the contrary they are fitted in
the layer. Over the objects is then put a correspondingly formed, or plain sheet
or layer B which sometimes may be dispensed with or replaced in another manner.
The necessary cavities in the layers can also be punched or cut out and in the
openings the necessary cavities or elevations can be placed..
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed we declare that what we
claim is :-
The improvements in packing fragile objects of different shapes and materials by.
forming cavities and elevations in or out of layers or sheets of appropriate stuff,

page_text: such cavities being adapted to wholly or partly receive hold and cover the objects
so packed put in separately or in numbers into cases or receptacles, substantially as
described and set forth.
Dated this 14th day of February 1896.
HERBERT HADDAN & Co.,
18, Buckingham Street, Strand, London, W.C., Agents to Applicants.