US1078245A - Knockdown package. - Google Patents

Description

G. S. BOWMAN.

KNOGKDOWN PACKAGE.

APPLIGATION FILED 2213.19. 1913.

1,078,245. I Patented Nov. 11, 1913.

l l I I I I I s l I 1 I I I I GEORGE s. :eowiviAN, or LEBANON, PENNSYLVANIA.

KOCKD OWNA PACKAGE.

Speefificaig; ofL'terSPatent ,Y PatentedNov.11,1913.

Application filed February 19, 1913. Serial No. 749,298. f`

T0 all whom t may concern.'

Be it known that I, GEORGE S. BowMAN, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Lebanon, in the county of Lebanon and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Knockj down Packages, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in knockdown metallic packages, and the object of my invention is to furnish a package of this description which will be simple in construction, inexpensive to manufacture, and which will not be liable to serious injury in service.

Essentially my package consists of three parts, a body and two heads, the heads, however, may, if desired, be each constructed of two parts as hereinafter described.`

In the accompanying drawings forming part of this specification and in which similar letters of reference indicate similar parts throughout the several views: Figure 1, is a central longitudinal sectional View of my package the upper head being made in one piece and the lower head in two pieces; Fig. 2, a plan, partly broken away, of the blank from which the body is constructed, the sides of said blank being bent outwardly; Fig. 3, a section through a one piece head; Fig. 4, a section of Fig.y 1 on line A A; Fig. 5, a plan and Fig. 6, a transverse section through a two piece head; Fig. 7, a bottom plan of a two piece head.

1 is the body of my package which is formed from a fiat sheet of metal the opposite edges 2 3 of which are bent over outwardly to form a space or channel 4. At one end of the sheet its bent over portions are cut away, as at 5, so that when the sheet is bent cylindrically to form the body the channel 4 will be continuous. The heads 7 of the package may be formed from a single piece of metal, as shown in Figs. 1 and 3 or they may be formed from two pieces of metal as shown in Figs. 5 and 6. If they be formed from a single piece of metal its periphery is bent down, as at 8, then up forming a tongue 9. The tongue 9 is interrupted or split transversely at at least one point 10 and one of the ends thus formed is, preferably, bent slightly inward as shown at 11 to facilitate its entrance in the chan- A A`nel`4lf` If the head be made of two 'pieces the outer piece 12 would be similar in appearance to the one piece head already described wit-h its center cut out so as to leave a rim 13 between which and the ends of the body the circular sheet of metal 14 would liewhen the heads are in place. This circular sheet of metal may, of course, be corrugated or struck up radiallyor otherwiseas is usual to strengthensuch a structure.

The body having had its sides.` formed and having `been bentinto a cylindrical form as shown the Yheads are placed over its ends and turned when the bent in part of the tongue 9 will enter the channel formed between body 1 proper and its bent over sides. A complete turning of the head will result in the tongue 9 completely entering the channel 4. The heads are thus securely fastened to the body and insure the cylindrical .form of the latter being maintained.

j My construction precludes any liability of the heads being driven down inside the body and as the ends of the package are reinforced by the peculiar bending of the body to form the channels 4 and of the heads to form the tongues 9, giving at these points four thicknesses of metal, this, usually the weakest point of such structures, is in my construction the strongest, the importance of this will be apparent when it is remembered that in handling the edges of the ends are subjected to the hardest usage.

Having thus described my invention I claim as new and desire lto secure by Letters Patent:

1. In a package, in combination, a metallic body constructed from a flat sheet lof metal the ends of which are bent over outwardly to form channels and which is adapted to be bent to a cylindrical form, and heads constructed of sheet metal the peripheries of which are bent first downwardly and then interiorly upward to form a tongue which is cut and adapted, upon the turning of said head, to enter and occupy the channel formed by the bent over end of said body while the outer downwardly bent part of said heads surrounds the outwardly bent over ends ofsaid body.

2. The combination in a package, of a body the ends of vwhich are furnished with an outwardly downwardly bent projecting QV l Y 1,078,245

interrupted rim and a head furnished with downwardly projecting interrupted rim on a dtlvnwarcflly extending riinh bent up linsaid body. f

war y Vto orrn a tongue w ich is interrupted and adapted lupontbe turning of the GEORGE S' BOXVMAN head to interlock with the rim on said body, Witnesses:

thev downwardly bent part .of said rim on MARY H. BOWMAN,

said head surrounding the outer side of the HARRY A. WEIMAN.

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' Y i Washington, D. C.

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