US1246249A - Crate. - Google Patents

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CRATE.

- Application filed June 16, 1917. Serial No.'175,'228.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, WVALrnR A. ED-

wanns and TVILLIAM WV. VVHIPPLE, citizens.

of the United States, residing at Vinton, in the county of Benton, State of Iowa, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Crates; and we do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and

exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to crates for shipping live stock.

The object of the invention is to provide a shipping crate which is particularly adapted for the conveyance of hogs, in that the crate structure permits the ready and thorough cleaning of the parts thereof to prevent a secretion of hog cholera germs. In carrying out the invention, we also pro vide a crate which is designed to prevent the escape of hogs in shipment, thereby obviating a distinct disadvantage in those wooden crates which have been heretofore known to us.

WVith the above objects in View, and such others relating to the details of construction, as may hereinafter appear, our invention will now be fully set forth and described, reference being had to the accompanying drawings:

In the drawings Figure 1 is a perspective view of the crate, part of the side structure being broken away to more clearly disclose the assemblage of the device,

Fig. 2 is a section through the crate taken on line 22 of Fig. 1,

Fig. 3 is a section on line 33 of Fig. 1,

Fig. 4 is an enlarged detailed view of the closure device, and

Fig. 5 is a view of a blank used in the construction of our improved crate.

Referring more particularly to the drawings, 1 and 2 represent, respectively, the bottom and top frames of the crate structure. Each of the frames 1 and 2 being formed from a continuous length of angle iron, the blank shown in Fig. 5 being cut away as at 3 to permit the bar to be bent at right angles to form the corners of the frames. The frames 1 and 2 are connected by means of the vertical angle bar sections 4, whose ends are seated inside of the corners of the frames 1 and 2, and are secured Specification of Letters Patent.

than the others of the frame.

mated Nov. 13, 1917.

by means of the bolts 5. The bottom of the crate is formed preferably, by a' wooden board removably seated upon the angle iron frame 1, so that the bottom may be removed and cleaned at any time. The rectangular structure thus built up is covered by a wire fabric 6 of the proper weight, the ends of the strands being secured to the frames 1 and 2 and to the uprights 4, through which holes are bored to permit the insertion and twisting of the strands.

The entrance to the crate is through one end, and as a closure therefor, we have built up the frame shown in Fig. 4, consisting of the vertical bars 7 the upper and lower longitudinal bars 8 and the intermediate longitudinal bar 9. The bar 9 is of greater width The ends of the bar 9 extend beyond the sides of the crate, and are overturned at right angles to the frame so as to overlie the longitudinal sides of the uprights 4. Then, tabs 10 thus formed by the overturned ends of the bar 9 overlie the uprights 4, and are coincidentally drilled to receive a transverse rod 11, which extends entirely across the crate and has its free end threaded to receive a tail nut 12, by means of which the rod is tightened and the end piece secured in position. The upright bars 7 are slightly shorter than the height of the crate, so that their ends may be inserted behind the end pieces of the upper and lower frames 1 and 2, and when the openings through which the rod 11 is projected coincide, said ends of the bars 7 will be engaged behind the upper and lower frames. At all times, however, the extremities of the bars 8 lie upon the outsides of the uprights 4.

From the foregoing description, it will be apparent that we have provided an efficient crate for shipping live stock, and that the crate may be most effectively constructed in sizes to accommodate hogs. Furthermore, the crate is a highly sanitary device and for this reason also particularly adapted for the shipment of hogs, since it can be kept entirely free of cholera germs. Then the crate has been unloaded, and is to be returned to the point from which it was initially shipped, it may be takendown by removing the bolts 5 and tying the several parts together in contact form.

What we claim as out invention is A shipping crate, comprising in combination, rectangular frames of angle iron, the standards and the overturned ends of the inner faces of the angle iron structures the bar. being opposed, corner standards joining In testimony whereof, we aifix our signathe rectangular frames, a removable bottom tures in the presence of two Witnesses.

5 rested on the lower frame, Wire fabric cover- WALTER A EDWARDS ing the structure by leavin one end open and a latticed closure fitted to the open end: WVILLIAM WHIPPLE' said closure including a bar having its ends overturned to embrace the, adjacent corner 10 standards, and a locking bolt passed through lVitnesses:

J. E. MANETTA, J. W. SCHAEFLE.

Copies 0! this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents, Washington, D. O.

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