US1017337A - Means for wrapping and packing cakes. - Google Patents

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F. 0. STONE. MEANS OF WRAPPING AND PACKING CAKES. APPLICATION FILED JULY 18. 1910.

1,017,337. Patented Feb. 13,1912.

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MEANS OF WRAPPING AND PACKING CAKES.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FENN O. STONE, a citizen of the United States of Am rica, and resident of Cincinnati, county of flamilton, State of Ohio, have invented ce tain new and useful Means of rapping and Packing Cakes, of which the following is a specification.

Bakers cakes are frequently broken upon the edges in their transit between baker and consumer. Cakes which are iced suffer in various ways likewise in transit." C-akes likewise frequently become too hard in the cases of retailers. The margin of profit is so small that heretofore it has rendered the problem of wrapping and packing' cakes properly, to prevent the aforesaid injuries, one which was difficult of solution.

It is the object of my invention to provide a means which will effectually protect the edges of any cake, as well as the icing of iced cakes, and preserve the freshness of the cakes, at a cost which is not prohibitive. This object is attained by the meansillustrated in the drawings, in which- Figure 1 isa perspective view of abox of cakes wrapped and packed in accordance with my invention, parts of the package be ing broken away, for clearness of illustration. Fig. 2 is a similar view of a cake and one of my wrappers, the view being uponan enlarged scale. Fig. 3 is a perspective view of the card-board strip.

Referring to the parts :-A cake A is laid firstuponastrip of oiled card-board B, which is of a length equal .to the length of the cake, plus twice its height. The card-board B is transversely scored at b b, the scoring pc curring at a distance from each end equal to the height of the cake. When the cake is placed upon the card-board, it fits between the upturned ends, which abut against the ends of the cake. If it be an iced cake, a piece D of waxed paper of a width and length equal to the width'and the length of the cake is laid upon the top. The cake, the card-board and the waxed paper being thus assembled, are placed in a second enlarged piece of waxed paper E, which is wrapped the ends in a well known manner The pack- Speciflcation of Letters Patent.

Patented Feb. 13, 1912.

Application filed July. 18, 1910. Serial No. 572,479.

age is then placed on edge in a box F, sothat the card-board stands in vertical planes.

The cakes are cut preferably of a length equal to twice their height. ,Four of the cakes are placed with the bottom of one cake abutting against the top of an adjacent cake, and two of the cakes are placed at one end of the said four cakes, with their tops abutting against the ends of the four cakes. This/forms a layer of cakes, which are placed in box F, whose interior is of the shape of the periphery of the said layer of cakes. The second layer of cakes are arranged similarly to the first layer, but the two cakes of said second layer are placed at the opposite first layer. When the' cakes are so packed, the edges of the card-board strips of the second layer rest upon top of the edges of side of the box from the two cakes of the the card-board strips in the first layer, thus as effectually supporting the package, without the weight being brought upon the edges of the cakes, as though each cake were packed in an individual card-board box.

The cost' of the card-board strip'is but a small fraction of what the cost of a cardboardbox would be. The effect of using a separate waxed paper for the top of the iced cakes, in conjunction with an independent outside wrapper of oiled paper, is to. keep a layer of air between said waxed paper Therefore, the

packages being arranged in layers with the card-board strips standing in vertical planes, the individual packages of ad acent layers being so arranged that the weight thereof s carried by the card-board strips. around theassembled parts and folded in at.

ackage of cakes consisting of a se- "of the cake and a Wrapper envelopin the diyidual packages consisting of a cardboard placed at right angles to the iositioh of the strip in contact with the bottom and the ends packages in the s j acent layer.

cardboard strip and thecake, the indiv1dua1 STONE packages being arranged in layers with the Witnesses: cardboard strips standing in vertical planes, C. A. EARTH, and-the individual packagesof a layer being 7 .WALTER F. MURRAY.

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