US119613A - Improvement in egg-packing boxes - Google Patents

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N. L. JANNEY. improvement in Egg Packing-Boxes. N0. 119,613', Paented Oct. 3,1871.

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NATHAN L. JANNEY, OEWILMINGTON, DELAWARE, ASSIGNOR TO HIMSELF AND WILLIAM L. GILBERT, OF SAME PLACE.

IMPROVEMENT IN EGG-PACKING BOXES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 119,613, dated October 3, 1871.

To all whom it may concern.:

Be it known that I, NATHAN L. JANNEY, of Wilmington, in the county of New Castle and State of Delaware, have invented a new and Iniproved Egg-Packing Box; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawing making a part of this specification, in which- Figure l is a transverse vertical section, and Fig. 2 is a top view ofthe box open.

This invention relates to an improved eggpacking case; and consists in the construction of a box and the arrangement within it of perforated shelves, egg-pouches, and vertical partitions, whereby I am enabled to secure advantages of cheapness and simplicity in the case itself, and also convenience in packing and unpacking, and safety in the transportation of eggs.

Referring to the drawing, a is the box; b, the parallel transverse partitions of the lower row, the same resting on the bottom of the box; c, the sheet-metal lower perforated shelf resting on the partitions I); b', the parallel transverse partitions of the second row, the same restin g on the shelf c,- o, the second shelf resting on the partitions b. All these partitions are kept in place by the vertical grooves e in the sides of the box.- The shelves must be so far apart that the eggs will not touch them at their lower ends, and the holes in the shelves must be so distant from each other that the eggs cannot touch sidewise. The bags j', into which the eggs enter a little more than half their length, are each composed of two oval pieces of flannel, muslin, or other suitable material sewed together at the edges, with a ring placed between them. When the pieces are sewed together the ring is turned crosswise of the bag and the latter is then doubled together,

one half lying within the other, forming the pouches fwith the rings at their open ends, which rings prevent the bags from dropping through when inserted in the holes in the shelves. After pouching the eggs and filling the holes in one shelf a piece, g, of cloth, should be spread over the eggs, and the partitions then inserted above the cloth g, which will then run zigzag over the eggs and under the partitions.

The pouches and cloths serve to keep the eggs dry, and the pouches suspend them in such a manner as to secure them against shocks in transportation.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The improved case for receiving or holding eggs, formed of the box a, provided with vertic al grooves, the series of vertical partitions b b', the horizontal perforated shelves c c', and the double egg-pouch and rin g, arranged in the manner shown and described.

NATHAN L. JANNEY.

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