US623472A

US623472A - Bottle-package

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Publication number: US623472A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1899-04-18
Anticipated expiration: 1916-04-18

Description

No. 623,472. Patented A'pr. I8, 1899 H. H. HIGHA B TT L E PA 6 (Application filed Mar.

(No Model.)

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A'IENT BOTTLE-PACKAGE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 623,472, dated April 18, 1899.

Application filed March 25,1898. serial No. 675,132. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, HOWARD H. HIGHAM, a citizen of the United States, residing in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, have inventedcertain Improvements in Bottle-Packages, of which the following is a specification.

The objects of my invention are to provide a bottle package which will be extremely strong and will protect the bottles not only from injury because of pressure due to the weight of the bottles themselves, but also from injury due to blows or shocks upon the package, each bottle, moreover, being relieved from the weight of the other bottles.

A further object is to provide a package composed of parts which when separated will constitute complete wrappings for the individual bottles and will thus renderitunnecessary for the retailer to rewrap the same.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a vertical sectional view of a bottle-package constructed in accordance with myinvention. Fig. 2 is a plan or top View of the same. Fig. 3 is a perspective view of one corner of the package, and Figs. 4 and 5 are views illustrating modifications of the invention.

There are two serious objections to bottlepackages now in use and with which I am familiar, the first of these objections being the danger of breakage, which is inseparable from all packages wherein the strength of the individual bottle is used to support the weight of bottles superposed upon it, this fault being common to all forms of loose packings, and also to those bottle-packages having division-partitions which have not within themselves sufficientstrength tosupport the weight of the bottles and their contents. Such packages are in their nature merely bottle-separators, the bottles alone sustaining the weight and the shocks due to careless handling. The second objection isthat the present packages fail to meet the demands of the retail trade for a package which Will render unnecessary the rewrapping of each individual bottle as taken from the package before it can be delivered to a customer. My invention overcomes both of these objections, and when the package is placed in a box, case, or other inclosure it renders unnecessary the use of supplementary packings in the form of end and side liners and top and bottom pads as now commonly employed, and not only this,

but it furnishes a package which can be,if desired, used without any inclosing box or case without risk of injury to or displacement of any of the bottles contained in it.

In carrying out my invention I provide a lar cells, to each of which is snugly fitted a cylindrical, oval, or other form of tubular casing 3 for containing a bottle, said tubular casing being of a length so much in excess of that of the bottle that provision is afforded for the use of top and bottom caps 4c and 5, let into each end of the casing and by preference securely cemented in place therein.

The tubular casings 3 are glued or otherwise secured in the cells of the rack formed by the

strips

1 and 2, so that they are not likely to he accidentally displaced while the structure is being handled or is in storage, without, however, having such a firm connection with the rack that they cannot be readily removed therefrom when desired. As each end cap of each tubular casing 3 is let into the same a projecting flange is formed beyond each cap, and it becomes impossible for either bottle in the package to exert its weight upon the bottle below it, the weight of each bottle being borne by the caps of its individual inclosing casing, and each tubular bottlecasing, with its end caps, when removed from the rack forms a package which can be delivered by the retailer to a customer without the necessity of any further wrapping.

The tubular casings and the rack afford each other mutual support, so that the power of the package to resist crushing strains is represented by the sum of the resistance of both elements of the package. Hence I have found that my improved package can be stored or transported with safety even when it is not packed in an inclosing boX or casing, or if the latter is used no side and end liners or top and bottom pads are necessary.

The end caps serve to strengthen the tubu lar casings 3 against transverse crushing strain, and they also stiffen the end portions of the casings, so as to prevent longitudinal crushing of the same when a number of the packages are piled one on top of another, and the crushing of the rack which contains the tubular casings is prevented by the projecting end portions 6 of the

strips

1 and 2, it being well known that a strip of pasteboard, such as is usually employed in the makingof these racks,opposes a'high resistance to crushing strain exerted in the direction of the length of the strip. This same object is attained if in place of the rack formed of the crossed and interlocked strips 1 and 2 I employ one or more strips 7, perforated for the reception of the tubular casings 3, as shown, for instance, in Fig. 4.

It will be manifest .that bottles contained in a package such as that forming the subject of myinvention are not subject to the direct shock of a blow delivered upon the package in any direction, and as the strength of the package is much greater than that necessary to resist the weight of the bottles carried therein the bottles themselves are not employed directly or indirectly in adding to the strength of the package, and their safety is consequently assured.

The end caps in the tubular casings 3 may be either dished washers, as shown in Fig. 1, or plain washers, as shown at at in Fig. 5, and where the structure employed is a mere provision for rapid packing the tubes may be made shorter and the top cap may be omitted, a packing-strip being laid upon the tops of the tubular casings in place of said upper caps, or in some cases both the upper and lower caps may be omitted from the easings and packing-strips both at top and bottom of said casings may be employed in lieu thereof.

Having thus described my invention, I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent 1. In a bottle-package, the combination of a series of tubular bottle-casings disposed side by side, with a separating structure having pockets or cells to the sides of which said bottle-casings are secured.

2. In a bottle-package, the combination of a series of tubular bottle-casings extending beyond the ends of the bottle and disposed side by side, with a separating structure having pockets or cells to the sides of which said bottle-casings are secured.

In a bottle-package, the combination of a series of tubular bottle-casings disposed side by side, with a separating structure having pockets or cells to the sides of which said bottle-casings are secured, and which structure extends laterally beyond the outermost casing of the series.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

HOWARD II. IIIGIIAM.

\Vitnesses:

CHAS. II. BANNARD, WILL. A. BARR.