US275013A

US275013A - Bottle-wrapper

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Publication number: US275013A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1883-04-03
Anticipated expiration: 1900-04-03

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(No Model.)

0. G. BIEDINGBR.

BOTTLE WRAPPER.

No. 275,013. Patented Apr.3,1883.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CHARLES G. BIEDINGER, OF CINCINNATI, OHIO.

BOTTLE-W RAPPER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 275,013, dated April 3, 1883.

Application filed February 26, 1683. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES G. BIEDIN- GER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Cincinnati, in the county of Hamilton and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Bottle-\Vrappers, of which the following is a specification.

The object ofv my invention is to furnish a cheap, simple, and readily-applied wrapper that will effectually prevent bottles being broken when packed in barrels, boxes, crates, or other shipping-receptacles. This wrapper is preferably com posed of two similar pieces of thick paper of the grade commonly known as felt, said pieces being cut so as to approximate the shape of the bottle to be inclosed. These pieces are then either stitched or cemented together near their edges, thereby forming a substantially cylindrical portion, that protects the body of the bottle, while the neck of the latter is surrounded with the tapering part of the wrapper, as hereinafter more fully described, and pointed out in the claims. In some cases, however, all the advantages of my wrapper may be obtained by making it of one piece of paper or felt bent back on itself at or near its mid-length and stitched or otherwise secured together at the edges, as hereinafter more fully described, and pointed out in the claims.

In the annexed drawings, Figure l is an elevation of the two component members of-my bottle-wrapper separated from each other. Fig. 2 is a perspective view, showing the complete wrapper distended preparatory to being slipped over a bottle. Fig. 3, is an elevation showing how the felt is cut when the wrapper is made of a single piece of paper. Fig. 4is avertical section, showing this form of wrapper applied to abottle.

Arepresents a piece of paper of any suitable shape and thickness, the upper portion thereof being cut away on its opposite edges, as at B, so as to cause said piece to approximate the form of a bottle to be inclosed, the part 0 of the felt serving to surround the neck of the same.

D represents another piece of paper of preends to meet, and the two pieces are then se-.

curely united by stitching F, as seen in Fig. 2; or these component members may be properly glued or cemented together at their edges; but the stitching is preferred; Whichever construction is adopted, it is evident there is a double thickness of material at the edges of the wrapper, thereby forming a pair of outwardly-projecting ribs, guards, or fenders, G, that add greatly to the security of the inclosed bottle or jar.

The wrapper is applied by simply distending or opening its lower end, as seen in Fig. 2, and then drawing itdown over the bottle as far as may be necessary, the lip or projecting end 61 of the member D affording a very convenient hold. All the advantages of myinvention may, however, be attained by making the wrapper of a single piece of paper or felt, as seen in Fig 3,thedottedlineH in said illustration indicating where the material is to be doubled, after which act said wrapper is to be stitched or cemented together near its edges in precisely the same manner as represented in Fig. 2. In Fig. 4cthis last form of the wrapper is shown applied to a bottle, and, as the envelope is made of a single piece of material without an opening at the upper end, it is evident that the cork is completely housed in and protected from injury.

The bottles, after being inclosed in either of the above-described wrappers, may be packed in a barrel, box, crate, or other ship 'iing-receptacle, so as to dispose the fenders G of the first bottle transversely of the box, the fenders of the second bottle longitudinally of the same, and so on until the'entire receptacle is filled. By this arrangement the fenders or seams G of one bottle will bear against the wrappers of the adjacent bottles, thereby affording the greatest possible security against breakage.

I claim as my inventionl. A wrapper composed of two paper or felt members, A O, D E, ofapproximately bottle shape, said members being united near their edges, as at F, thereby affording a pair of outwardly-projecting scams or fenders, G, of a double thickness of material, for the purpose I specified.

2. A wrapper composed of two paper or felt members, A U, D E, made of a single piece of material, and. of approximately bottle shape, said members being united near their edges, as at F, thereby affording a pair of outwardlyprojecting scams or fenders, G, of a doubie thickness of material, for the purpose specified.

In testimony whereofI aflix my signature in 1Q presence of two witnesses.

CHARLES G. BIEDING ER.

Witnesses:

JAMES H. LAYMAN, T. S. WooD.