Year: 1897

page_text: I, JAMES ROBINSON, of Brooklands, Clitheroe, in the County of Lancaster, Cotton
Manufacturer and Merchant, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be
as follows:-
The invention is designed to provide a package or packing case for
eggs fruit
bottles or other glass articles, or other fragile articles in which each article will
be separately secured or held out of contact with the other.
In carrying out the invention I construct the interior of the box or case with a
number of compartments cells or spaces to receive the articles each row in both
directions overlapping the adjacent ones so as to pack the eggs or articles closer
together.
The cells or compartments may be made circular or curved or of hexagonal shape.
and may be made in any suitable way.
For circular or curved cells or compartments I corrugate or shape strips of paper.
cardboard or other suitable material and place a number of such strips together
fastening them where they touch by paste, glue, eyelets, rivets or other device,
and the spaces or interstices that remain I fill in with strips of the same material
cemented or otherwise affixed thereto. The flutes or corrugations may be made of
such a size and shape that no additional filling in pieces will be required.
For hexagonal cells I make or bend a number of strips of paper cardboard,
fabric or other suitable material to the desired form and bring two strips together
to form the cells the strips being connected where they touch by paste, gluc, eye-
lets, rivets or the like or by cutting slits or slots in the edges so that one will pass
over the other.
Cells of other shape such as oval or even rectangular may be made by shaping the
strips of paper or other material and attaching them together to enclose the cell
spaces.
In a modified method of construction the cells of the desired shape may be made
of pulp moulded or otherwise shaped to give the desired construction of cell circular
hexagonal or otherwise fitting into one another.
Two three or more layers of these cells may be arranged in one case with any
suitable soft packing material placed between against which the ends of the eggs
or other articles will rest.
I consider that a package constructed this way will be stronger and more service-
able and will enable a greater number of articles to be packed within a given space.
Dated this 4th day of March 1897.
WM. P. THOMPSON & Co.,
6, Bank Street, Manchester, Patent Agents.

page_text: I, JAMES ROBINSON, of Brooklands, Clitheroe, in the County of Lancaster, Cotton
Manufacturer and Merchant, 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:
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This invention is designed to provide a package or packing case or stand for eggs
or other fragile articles (such as fruits, bottles, lamps or other glass articles) in
which each egg or article will be separately held and out of contact with the others.
Hitherto in the construction of packages of this class it has been customary to
form cells or spaces by cutting slits in the edges of thin material and placing the
slits in one strip of material over the slits in the other, thus forming rectangular
spaces and at the same time greatly reducing the strength of the material.
The object of my invention is to avoid all cutting or slitting of the material, and
thus produce a much stronger and more durable package, and also at the same time
to arrange the cells or compartments hexagonally to economise space, as I can
thereby construct a greater number of cells in a given space.
I construct the compartments or cells from a number of strips of cardboard, thin
metal or similar material by creasing or bending each strip in a suitable machine,
and then securing such creased strips side by side where the corresponding sides
come into contact, thus forming between each strip the desired cell or compartment.
These cells are hexagonal in shape, and each row in both directions overlap the
adjacent ones, so as to utilize all the space and pack the eggs or articles more closely
together.
It will be fully described with reference to the accompanying drawings.
Fig. 1. Plan of packing case with cells or compartments A constructed in accord-
auce with my invention."
Fig. 2. Sectional elevation of same.
Fig. 3. Perspective view of single strip B of the creased cardboard or similar
material.
In carrying out the invention I take a strip B of cardboard, thin metal or other
-stiff material, and crease or bend it at intervals along the lines ab by means of a
machine with a reciprocating blade which descends upon it, and presses it into a
groove or by other suitable machine whereby the strip is formed into the shape
shown in Fig. 3 with a number of divisions O D forming sides of equal size. Two
or more of the strips are placed together, so that each alternate side I abuts against
or comes in contact with the corresponding side D of the adjacent strip of material,
and the sides C enclose hexagonal spaces forming the cells A.
The strips are securely attached together where the sides D come into contact by
paste or glue or by means of eyelets, rivets or other clips or fasteners.
The packages or stands may be made of a single set or layer of the cells or two,
three or more layers of these cells may be arranged in one packing case, stand or
package E with a piece of thin material F placed between, against which the ends
of the eggs or articles will rest to prevent one egg or article touching the one above
or below it.
A package constructed in this way will be much stronger and more serviceable,
and will enable a greater number of articles to be packed within a given space.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said in-
vention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is:-
1
A nacking case package or stand for ears or other fracile articles constructed

page_text: of a number of strips of suitable stiff material creased and bent at intervals, and
connected together by paste, glue, rivets or suitable fastening device, where two
sides come in contact or abut against each other, forming a number of hexagonal
cells or compartments, substantially as and for the purpose described.
2. A packing case, package or stand for eggs or other fragile articles constructed
and arranged, substantially as described and shown.
1004
WM. P. THOMPSON & Co.,
Manchester, Liverpool and Landon, Patent Agents.