US1160815A - Collapsible container. - Google Patents

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E. M. ANDERSON COLLAPSIBLE CONTAINER.

APPLICATION FILED JAN-16.1915- Patented Nov. 16, 1915.

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WITNESSES:

"OLUMBXA PLANOGRAPH co., WASHINGTON, D. C.

UNTTED @ATd ELIHU MVANDERSON, OF HOISINGTON, KANSAS.

COLLAPSIBLE CONTAINER.

Application filed January 16, 1915.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, ELIHU M. ANDERSON, a citizen of the United States, residing at Hoisington, in the county of Barton and State of Kansas, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Collapsible Containers, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in collapsible containers.

It is adapted for containers in which the ends are detachable from the other members.

One of the objects of my invention is to provide novel means for lacing the end members of a box to the other members.

A further object of my invention is to provide novel means for lacing the end members to the other members of a box in such a manner that the laces will be subjected to a minimum of wear during the use of the box.

The novel features of my invention are hereinafter fully described and claimed.

In the accompanying drawing, which illustrates the preferred embodiment of my invention, Figure 1 is a perspective view of a box provided with my improvement, the cover being shown in the open position. Fig. 2 is a cross section of the box, the cover being shown in the closed position and the ends of the lace secured together. Fig. 3 is a perspective view of one of the end members of the box. Fig. t is a plan view of the side, bottom and cover members shown stretched out and flexibly connected to each other.

Similar reference characters designate similar parts in the different views.

1 and 2 designate respectively the front and rear members, 3 designates the bottom member, and 4 the cover member. Each of said members is provided adjacent to each of its ends with a row of perforations 5, the perforations in each row being, preferably, of an even number for the reasons hereinafter set forth. 7

As shown in Fig. 4, the members 2 and 3 may be flexibly connected with each other and with the members and 1 respectively.

The two end members of the box comprise each a body 6 to the outer side of which are secured adjacent to the respective edges of the body, cleats 7 which are provided with transverse holes or perforations 8 which re- Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Nov. re, rein.

Serial No. 2,592.

spectively register with the adjacent perforation-s 5 of the members adjacent to said cleats.

The end members are adapted to be detachably mounted between the other members of the box or container, as shown in Figs. 1 and 2.

For releasably securing the end members to the other members, I provide two laces 9 which are respectively interlaced with the end members and with the other members of the box.

In assembling the parts for use, the end members 6 are placed between the members 1, 2 and 3, in the position shown in Fig. 1. Each lace 9 is then extended through certain of the perforations 5 and 8, preferably in the following manner. One end of the lace 9 which is to be inserted is provided with a loop 10. The other end is passed outwardly through the uppermost hole 8 in the right cleat 7, as shown in Fig. 2, and through the perforation 5 which registers therewith in the front member 1. The free end of the lace 9 is then inserted from the outside inwardly through the perforations 5 and 8 next below, after which the free end of the lace is passed outwardly through the perforations 8 and 5 below those which were last named. This manner of interlacing is proceeded with until the lace will have been extended to each of the perforations 8 in the right hand cleat 7, as viewed in Fig. 2. If the number of perforations 8 in the right hand cleat 7 and in the front 1 are of an even number, the lace will be passed inwardly through the lowermost perforation 8 in the right hand cleat 7, as viewed in Fig. 2. The free end of the lace is then passed downwardly and outwardly through the right hand opening 8 in the bottom cleat 7 and through the perforation 5 which registers therewith in the bottom member 3. The lace is then interwoven or interlaced t irough the remaining openings 8 of the bottom cleat 7 and through the openings 8 of the left hand cleat 7, as viewed in Fig. 2, and the openings 5 which register therewith. If the openings in the cleats just referred to are of even number, the lace will pass from the bottom cleat to the left hand cleat at the inner edges thereof, and will be extended from the outside inwardly through the uppermost open- Fig. 2. The other lace 9 is then interlaced with the cleats 7 of the opposite end memher and with the members 1, 3 and 2 in the same manner as has been described with reference to the first lace. Both laces are then tightly drawn, so as to securely fasten the end members to the front, bottom and back members. The box may then be packed with the, goods which it is to contain, after which the cover 4 is swung to the closed position shown in Fig. 2, following which the laces are-passed upwardly respectively through the left hand perforatlons 8 1n the top cleats 7 and through the perforations 5 firmly secure the cover in the closed position.

The ends of each lace 9 may then be tied together, as shown in Fig. 2.

'VVhen it is desired to open the box or container and collapse it, this may be efi'ected by untying the laces 9, after which they may be withdrawn from the perforations 8 and 5 through which they extend. The end members may then be detached and the box or container collapsed.

I do not limit my invention to the structure shown and described, as modification, within the scope ofthe appended claims, may be made without departing from the spirit of my invention.

.What I claim is 1. A collapsible container comprising perforated members, each having adjacent to each of its ends a row of perforations of an even number, two end members adapted for being releasably mounted between said other members, each end member having on one side cleats disposed respectively adjacent to its edges, said cleats being provided with perforations respectively registering with the perforations in the adjacent first named members, and two laces extended respectively through the perforations in the cleats of said two end members and through the adjacent perforations in the first named members, the interlacing of said laces being so arranged that each lace will extend between adjacent cleats at the inner sides thereof.

2. A collapsible container comprising longitudinal members each having at one of its ends an even number of perforations, a member disposed transversely between the longitudinal members and having perforations adapted to respectively register with the perforations of the longitudinal members, and a lace interlaced through the perforations of said longitudinal and trans verse members, and extending inwardly from each longitudinal member through the transverse member and thence outwardly through the transverse member and an adjacent longitudinal member.

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

ELIHU M. ANDERSON. lVitnesses lVARRnN D. HOUSE, E. B. Housn.

Copies of this patent may be obtained .for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents, Washington, D. C.

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