NO MORE BROKEN EGGS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XLVIII, Issue 4601, 3 July 1917, Page 3

NO MORE BROKEN EGGS.

NEW DEVICE TO SAVE £10,000,000. A YEAR.

It is estimated that the loss, owing to breakage of e go;s in transit, amount to no less than £10,000,000 annually m the United States. A package of eggs is now bound ng across the continent, however, to the Pacific coast, says the Inquirer, and if the hopes of the experimenters are fulfilled they will return to Philadelphia in an undamaged condition. They are packed in a new style of patented carton, which takes care of the eggs b v suspending them in little hammocks of paper, in which form they are secui’ed round a wire wheel: .

The eggs are, in fact, linked together like sausages. No matter how much the package is thrown about, the shock is taken up by the pdper suspension and the egg is saved. Further, the paper, being applied while wet. completely encircles the egg and clings to it so tenaciously that the air is effectively excluded. The wrappiri'g thus contributes in a great measure to the preservation of the egg. The wrapping machine is simplicity itself, while the wire reels are collapsible and designed for return to the sender.