US312421A - Packing-case - Google Patents

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J. 0. BAUER. PACKING CASE.

. Patented Feb. 17, 18.85.

PATENT Price.

JACOB O. BAUER, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

PACKING-CASE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 312,421, dated February 17, 1885.

Application filed January 12, 1885. (No model.)

Z0 all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, JACOB O. BAUER, a citizen of the United States, and a resident, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania,haveinvented certain Improvements in Packing-Gases, of which the following is a specification.

My invention consists of a paper box, constructed substantially in the manner described and claimed hereinafter, for thetransportation and storing of eggs, and for the delivery of the same by retailers to purchasers inpackages containing a given number.

In the accompanying drawings, Figurel is a perspective view of the blank for forming the bottom, sides, and ends of the box proper; Fig. 2. a perspective 'view of thecellular portion of the box; Fig. 3, a view illustrating the mode of fitting together the strips which form the said cellular portion; Fig. 4, aperspective view of the box proper and its partitions; Fig. 5, a perspective view of the quadrangular band by which the several parts of the box proper are retained in place; Fig. 6, a perspective view of the outer easing of the box; and Figs. 7, 8, 9, and 10, views showing the condition in which the different parts of the box will be when transported from the manufacturer to the purchaser.

The box proper, without its outer coverings, consists of the blank A, Fig. 1, and the cellular portion B, Fig. 2. The blank A has two projections, cm, and two projections, b I), and is scored on the dotted lines 0 c and d d, so that the projections a a, when turned up as shown in Fig. 3, will form the opposite sides of the box, the opposite ends being formed by the turned-up projections b b.

The cellular part B of the box consists of a series of longitudinal strips.'h., and transverse strips 73, the strips being slotted where they have to cross each other, as shown in Fig. 3, so that all the strips can be fitted together to form partitions. This cellular portion of the box is placed on the blank A, and the projections a a and b b turned up against the ends of the partition-strips, as shown in Fig. 4; and in order to maintain the above-mentioned parts in position the quadrangular band D is fitted over the structure, so that there can be no outer displacement of the upturned sides and ends, the band being composed of a long strip scored at four points and united at the ends.

I prefer to score the projections to a. and b b of the blank on the dotted lines as, so that the outer portions,f, of the several projections can be placed over the partition -strips, as shown in Fig. 3. The structure is now ready to receive the eggs, one of which is deposited in each cell, there being twelve cells in the present instance, and the whole is finally pushed into the outer casing,G, Fig. 5, which is a simple quadrangular box, open at its opposite ends only, and this completes the package. A number of these boxes filled with eggs may be packed in large crates for transportation to the retailer, who can remove the boxes as they are required by purchasers; or the retailer can obtain a supply of boxes and till them as required by customers.

I prefer to form in the central part of the blank A two openings, on m, adjoining each other, two similar openings being made in each projection of the blank, and corresponding openings in the quadrangular band D and in the top. bottom, and sides of the outer casing. All these openings of the several parts coincide with each othergand afford opportunities for seizing the boxes between the linger and thumb when they have to be with drawn from a crate.

The several parts of the box can be pushed into comparatively small compass. Thus the outer casing, G, may be kept in the flattened condition shown in Fig. 7, the quadrangular band being also flattened out, as shown in Fig.

8, the partition-strips folded overeach other, as

shown in Fig. 9, and the blank A retained in its open condition, and the several parts can be readily put together when a completed box is required.

1. The within-deseribed box, the same (3011- the box, each having openings on m, those of sisting of the blank A, formed and creased one part corresponding with those of the other as set forth, the cellular portion B, and the parts, as set forth. quadrangular band D, all being combinedl Intestimonywhereoflhavesigned my name I 5 5 substantially as specified. to this specification in the presence of two 2. The combination of the parts A, B, and subscribing Witnesses. D of the box with the outer casing, G, as set forth J A0013 0. BAUER.

3. The combination of the part A of the box YVitnesses: 10 and its edge folds, f, with the parts B and D. HENRY BossERT,

4. The combination of the several parts of HARRY SMITH.

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