US1068304A - Box-section. - Google Patents

Description

H. D. BOKOP.

BOX SECTION.

APPLICATION Pimp AUG. 12, 1912.

1,068,304. Patented July 22, 1913.

Sia J/ Witnesses Attorneys HENRY D. BOKOP, OF DEFIANGE, OHIO.

BOX-SECTION.

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Specicaton of Letters Patent.

Patented July 22, 1913.

Application filed August 12, 1912. Serial No` 714,665.

To all fie/om it may conce/m 1 Be it known that l, HENRY D. llonor, a citizen of the United iitates, residing at Defiance, in the county of Defiance and State of hio, have invented a new and useful B0X-Section, of which the following is a specification.

The present invention relates to boxes, crates, and the like, particularly those which are constructed of sections.

lt the object of the present invention to provide a novel and improved section for the construction of boxes, crates and the like, which shall embody a frame and a panel in connection with a wire passing back and forth across the frame to reinforce the panel and engaged to the frame in a peculiar inanner.

lt is also the aim of the present invention to provide such a section, which shall be of utmost simplicity, which shall be inexpensive and substantial in construction, as well as convenient, and efficient in use.

liVith the foregoing and other objects in view which will. appear as the description proceeds, the invention resides in the tonibination and arrangement of parts and in the details of construction hereinafter described an d claimed, it being under-stood that changes in the precise embodiment of the invention herein disclosed, can be made within the scope of what is claimed, without departing from the spirit of the invention.

The invention has been illustrated in the accompanying drawings in its preferred embodiment, wherein like reference characters have been employed to denote corresponding parts, and wherein- Figure l is a perspective view of a box constructed of a number of sections according to the present invention, parts being broken away. F ig. Q is a side elevation of one of the sections, with the inner ply of the panel removed. Fig. 3 is a side elevation of the outside of the section. Fig. Ll is a transverse section. F ig. 5 is a sectional detail.

Referring specically to the drawings, each of the sections comprises a rectangular frame 6 constructed of wooden strips connected at the corners in any well known manner, such as by mortise and tenon joints. This frame is provided with a series o f transverse kerfs or notches 7 along the outer edge of each of its sides and ends in order to provide wire engaging means around the frame.

The frame may be of any preferred construction and in adapting the frame to the present inventioin it is only necessary to cut the kerfs 7 around the outer edges thereof. A wire of high tensile strength and of the smallest possible gage is then passed back and forth over the inner face of the frame G to provide the lateral and longitudinal strands 8 and the diagonal strands 9 at the corners of the frame, the wire heilig looped through the respective kerfs 7 and over the other face of the frame adj aeent the outer edges thereof, as indicated by the numeral l0. This wire is drawn taut when it is bent back and forth between the sides and ends of the frame and the ends of the wire may be secured to the frame by means of small tacks or other securing members. lt is also understood that several lengths of wire may be employed instead of one single length, if desired. The wire in thus being passed back and forth across the inner face of the frame provides a network or mesh, the diagonal corner strands 9 serving to brace the frame as well as coperating with the transverse and longitudinal strands 8 to provide the ineshwork.

The panel is secured as usual to the inner face of the frame, the panel being two plied7 one of the plies being secured to the inner face of the frame underneath the wire strands and having notches in its periphery registering with the kerfs 7, and the other ply being secured to the inner face of the frame over the. wire strands, so that the meshwork of wire is interposed or sandwiched between the two plies of the panel. The panel is thus reinforced and is not readily broken open or pressed out of position. The wire in being engaged to the frame by means of the kerfs 'l' is practically invisible, the loops l() being arranged along the outer edges of the frame so as not to encumber the frame or otherwise destroy the usual appearance thereof.

ln use, the box, crate or the like, is built up from a number of the sections, the sections being' provided in various sizes so that various sizes and forms of boxes, crates, and the like may be built up.

From the foregoing, taken in connection with the drawings, the advantages and capabilities of the present invention will be apparent, and it will be noted that the objects aimed at have been carried out in such a manner that the present device provides a desirable one for the purposes for which it is designed.

Having thus described lthe invention what is claimed as new is l. A box section embodying a frame provided with a series of transverse kerfs along the outer edge of each side and end, a panel secured to one face of the frame, and a wire passed back and forth over the said face of the frame to reinforce the panel and looped through the kerfs and over the other face of the frame.

2. A boX section comprising a rectangular frame provided with a series of transverse kerfs along the outer edges of each side and end, a panel secured to the inner face of the frame, and a wire passed back and forth over the said face of the frame to provide longitudinal and lateral strands and diagonal strands at the corners, the wire being looped through the lerfs and over the outer face of the frame and serving to reinforce the panel.

In testimony that I claim t-he foregoing as my own, l have hereto affixed my signature 25 Copies of this patent may be obtained for ve cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents.

Washington, D. C.

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