Improvements in Packing-boxes for Bottles.
Year: 1890

page_text: Date of Application, 28th Nov., 1890
Complete Specification Left, 2nd Jan., 1891-Accepted, 7th Feb., 1891
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Packing-boxes for Bottles.
We, JAMES WATT TORRANCE, of Muirhouse Saw Mills, Maxwell Road,
Glasgow, in the County of Lanark, North Britain, Timber Merchant, and JAMES
BAIN FRASER, 105 St. Andrew's Road, Pollokshields, in the County of Renfrew,
North Britain, Saw Mill Manager, do hereby declare the nature of this invention
to be as follows, that is to say :-
This invention has for its object to construct packing boxes for holding and
conveying bottles, in an improved manner and so as to diminish the liability to
breakage of the bottles even when the boxes may be subjected to rough usage.
The improved boxes may be constructed for holding any convenient number of
bottles each; but in carrying out the invention in the case for example of a box for
a dozen bottles, the box made of wood is arranged for three rows of four bottles
each. Partition ribs of small depth are arranged on the bottom so as to cross it
lengthways and transversely and similar strips are also arranged at the bottom
along the sides and ends. The bottoms of the bottles are held in the square seats
formed by the ribs and the strips the upper body parts of the bottles being
prevented from touching each other, and the strips preventing the bottles from.
touching the sides or ends of the box. For holding the necks of the bottles a
movable frame or board is provided fitting within the box, and to be placed over
the bottles after these are put in, being made with suitably sized holes or apertures
through which the necks project. The board does not however rest on the shoulders
of the bottles but is supported clear of them by one or more wooden struts extending
up from the bottom, or the frame or board may be supported by pieces fixed to the
sides or ends or in any other convenient way.
Dated this Twenty-seventh day of November 1890.
EDMUND HUNT,
Applicants' Agent.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Packing-boxes for Bottles.
We, JAMES WATT TORRANCE, of Muirhouse Saw Mills, Maxwell Road,
Glasgow, in the County of Lanark, North Britain, Timber Merchant, and JAMES
BAIN FRASER, of 105, St. Andrew's Road, Pollokshields, in the County of
Renfrew, North Britain, Saw Mill Manager, 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, that is to say :-
This invention has for its object to construct packing boxes or packages for
holding and conveying bottles, in an improved manner, and so as to diminish the
liability to breakage of the bottles even when the boxes may be subjected to rough
usage.
The improved boxes may be constructed of any convenient form, and for holding
any convenient number of bottles each; but on an accompanying sheet of explanatory
drawings there is delineated by way of example a box as made according to one
modification of our invention for holding a dozen bottles.
Figure 1, of the drawings is a plan of a top frame which is put in after the
bottles have been placed in the box.
Figure, 2, is a plan of a bottom frame which may be fixed in the bottom of the
box or be fitted tightly therein.

page_text: Figure, 3, is a vertical section of the box with bottles and other parts in position.
Figures, 4, and 5, are an edge view and a face view of a strut piece provided for
resisting a crushing force.
In these drawings the same. reference letters are used to mark the same or like
parts wherever they are repeated.
The box, A, which may be made of wood or other suitable material is of an
ordinary rectangular form adapted for holding the bottles, B, in three rows of four
bottles in each row. The bottles, B, are placed with their bottoms in square seats
formed by a bottom frame, C, made up of longitudinal and transverse bars of wood
half-checked into each other.
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The bottles, B, are not only separated from each other by parts of the bottom
frame, C, but they are also kept from contact with the sides of the box, A, by the
outer bars of the bottom frame, C. The most easily fractured parts of the
bottles, B, are the shoulders or upper parts of the bodies; and one important
feature of the improved construction of packing box is the arrangement by which
those parts are kept from touching each other or the sides of the box. Instead of
employing a removable bottom frame, C, ribs to separate the bottles from each
other and from the sides of the box may be fixed to the box: or a board with holes
formed in it for the bottoms of the bottles may be substituted for the bottom
frame, C.
When the bottles, B, have been placed in the box, there is put in a strut piece, D,
shown separately in Figures, 4, and 5. This piece, D, rests with its bottom edge
upon the middle transverse bar of the bottom frame, C, and it serves to support an
upper frame, E, which is put in afterwards. This upper frame, E, is represented as
made of longitudinal and transverse bars half-checked into each other and arranged
to leave suitable spaces for the necks of the bottles, B. A board with holes in it
for the bottle necks may be substituted for the upper frame, E, and it may be loose,
or it may be fixed to the box lid, F. The box lid, F, fits close down upon the
upper frame, E, and the combination of these parts with the strut piece, D, and the
bottom frame, C, forms a strong rigid structure well adapted to resist a powerful
concussive or crushing force. If considered desirable in any case, strut pieces like
the one, D, may be applied at other parts instead of or in addition to the one shown
in the drawings.
The boxes or packages may be made to contain two or more tiers of bottles each
tier having a bottom frame or equivalent one or more intermediate strut pieces and
a top frame or equivalent.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed we declare that what we
claim is
1. Constructing packing boxes or packages for bottles in the improved manner
substantially as hereinbefore described and shown in the accompanying drawings.
2. In packing boxes or packages for bottles combining a bottom removable or
fixed frame or its equivalent with one or more strut pieces and an upper removable
frame or its equivalent substantially in the manner and for the purposes herein before
described.
Dated this Thirty-first day of December 1890.
EDMUND HUNT,
Applicants' Agent..