NEW BUTTER BOX.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXI, Issue 8700, 8 January 1907, Page 3

NEW BUTTER BOX.

A Useful invention. Messrs Sutton and Sons, of Eongopeal: have recently received the patent rights covering an invention that will Jje welcomed by dairy companies throughout the world. Considerable difficulty has been ex[loricnced in getting suitable wood at a jw cost for making butter boxes. The iaventors claim to hare found a means of doing away with wooden boxes altogether, using in their stead a stamped sectional cardboard box, glazed inside and out. This box will be lighter and cheaper, will do away with the necessity of having to place parchment paper inside the box when packing the butter. The name of the factory can be embossed on each end of the box when it is being stamped out. This will have the dual advantage of showing the purchaser the name of the factory at which the butter was made, and at the same time protect him against the brand being altered, because the'imprint of the brand will also show on the' butter itself when, the box is Relied. ’ Another advantage in favour of the pew box is the improved facilities for shipping. In the case of wooden boxes the shipping companies have to provide air space between the boxes. This is done by laying laths between the boxes, thereby taking up considerable space, equal to 10 per cent. Provision has been made in the manufacture of the new box to do away with the laths altogether, the air space being provided by means of half-inch corrugations in the cardboard, which leave the space of an inch between the boxes on their being packed on top of each other. The box is covered by a blocked overlapping. lid, held in position by two steel bands, fastened by a spring catch. These bands will be embedded in the d'orrugations, and thereby ■ shielded hgaittst friction during transit. A.' lid ‘qr this’ description gives increased facilitils to inspectors and butter ktaders, as well as the purchaser, who can, by'raleasing two springs, examine the article before them.

Another obvious advantage to tl;p jfyjry |n storing the boxes before using. The pew box will only need one-twelfth of |.he space of the wooden ones, Messrs gutfon and Song hope to have the new box on the market at an early date, and ftre to lie commended on their enterprise in introducing an article that will £0 materially benefit the butter industry,