US1264015A - Container. - Google Patents

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A. P. COCHRANE.

CONTAINER.

APPLICATION man MAR.21. 19m.

1 1 5 u Patented Apr. 23, 1918.

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CONTAINER.

APPLICATION FILED MAR-21,1917.

Patented Apr. 23, 1918.

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ALBERTFAUL GOGHRANE, OF BROOKLYN, NEW. YORK, ASSIGNQR T6 HERVEY, BARBER & MGKEE, OF NEW YORK, N. Y A FIRM GO-MPOiiED OF EVERETT P. HERVEY, ARTHUR. WILLIAM BARBER, AND LANIEE, VIECIKEEJ i i oonrrarnna.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Apr. as, rare.

Application filed March 21', 1917; Serial No. 156,245.

To all whom it may concern:

DB it known that I, ALBERT PAUL CooHnANn, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of the borough of Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and city and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Container, of which the following is a specification.

' The inven'tionis an improvement in containers and corner-pieces, more especially of the type disclosed in my ReissueFatent No. 14,294 of May effect simplification and to provide acorner fastener which can be operated from the outside and affords more room in the in ter1or.

In the accompanying drawings:

Figure 1 is a perspective View of the con.

tainerpartly assembled; Fig. 2 is an inside view of one of the corner fastenings; Fig. .3 isa side view of the same; Fig. 4: 1s a section on the bile 4% of Fig. 2; Fig.

6 is an outside perspective view of an assembled corner; Fig. 6 an inside perspective view of an assembled corner; Fig. 7 is a vertical section through a bottom corner, assembled; Figs. 8 and 9 are detail views of the inner member of a corner fastening; Fig. 10 is a perspective View of the box collapsed; Fig. 11 is a vertical longitudinal section through the same; Fig. 12 is a vertical section through a lower corner, illustrating a slight modification; Fig. 13 is a perspective view of a corner portion of one of the container sections formed as in a perspective view of an alternative form of end section; and Fig. 15 is a side view of a slightly different form of nut.

The container is a hollow parallelepiped built up of separate side or wall sections 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6, preferably ofsheet metal and having inturned edge flanges 7. For purposes of distinction the sections may be referred to as end sections 1 and 2, side sections 3 and 4, bottom section 5, and top or cover section 6. 'The flanges enable the sections to be mutually staying when erected and afford anchorage for the corner fastenings as in my prior patents.

The corner fa stenings here employed comprise outer and inner hollowvirtually pyramidal members 8 and 9, fitting the exterior and interior apical corners of the 1, 191.7, the objectbeing to container. Each inner member has an apical projection 10, in the present instance a screw stem formed. or united integrally with the member, and the outer member or cap has an apical opening or recess 11 to ltiCGlYG the stem. A ball nut 12 screwed onto the end of the stem and against a flat bearing face 13 on the cap constitutes both a means of applying clamping pres sure and a buffer and skid. This nut may have angular wrenclrreceiving faces 17 formed on a reduced neck, as shown in Figs. 3 and 4:, for example, or a clamping boss having less projection may he produced as shown in Fig. 15 by forming the wrench faces on one-half of the ball 12".

The extreme corners of the sectlons are provided with registering or complementary recesses forming openings 14' at the apical corners when the container is up, for

the stems 10 to pass through. In one or more of the sections, particularly the cover SQOblOll or the one last applied 111 the closing of the box the ends of the flan 'es ma 7 be separated byspaces or slots 15, constituting lateral entrances to such openings, capable of shdmg over the necks of the stems 10 of the inner members 9, which may thus be po sitioned before the cover is put on. During this operation and until the nuts are screwed on, the said inner members may be held in place by virtue of their stems being a. somewhat tight fit in the corner openings of the end and necks 16 of these stems may be slightly reduced to pass through the slot entrances, the outer portions of the stems being larger than the corner openings,so that the inner members are keyed in place before the nuts are put on. Wherever this construction is employed the slots 15 are required.

The sections are preferably so graduated in size that the two side sections 3 and 4- may nest one into the other in the collapsed condition, and both into the bottom section, while the end sections 1 and 2 nest into each other and both into the side sections, while the top section fits over all. This involves the end ceived inside the side sections when erected, as shown in Fig. 1.

Manifestly the order of nesting sizes of the sections and their side sections 1-4. Or, the a sections being restill retaining the principle of graduated sizes whereby all but one of the flanged sections nest successively together with their flanges all pointing in the same direction, the last section receiving all of them with its flanges pointing in the opposite direction.

Fig. 14: illustrates the fact that it is notnecessary for flanges to be provided on all the edges, as, for example, they may be omitted entirely from the end section, here designated 1.

As shown in Fig. 12 an even more unobstructed interior may be secured by forming the box sections with outwardly ofi'set seats for the corner fastenings, whereby the inner faces of the inner members are brought substantially flush with the interior wall faces of the receptacle. These oil-sets are preferably shaped to correspond to the form of the clamping members, as indicated at 18 in Fig. 13, and are further formed so as to fit into each other when the sections are erected, thereby in effect keying the sections together preparatory b0 the application of the fastenors, and contributing to the security of the structure as finally assembled.

It is to be understood that the term container is used generically and does not refer to particular use.

What I claim as new is:

1. A container comprising separate wall or side sections, inward projecting edge flanges thereon, the sections having recesses at the corners forming openings through the apical corners when the sections are set up Copies onus patent may be obtained for and one or more of the sections having entrances separating the ends of their flanges and leading to such openings, and corner fastenings comprising virtually pyramidal caps having apical recesses therein and inner members having diagonal projections adapted to extend through said openings into said recesses for connection with the caps.

2. A container comprising separate wall or side sections, inward projecting edge flanges thereon, the sections having recesses at the corners forming openings through the apical corners when the sections are set up, said recesses having lateral entrances between the ends of the flanges of the sections, and corner fastenings comprising virtually pyramidal caps having apical recesses therein, and inner members having diagonal projections adapted to pass through said openings into said recesses for connection with the caps, said projections being larger at their outer portions than said entrances and having reduced necks adapted to be accommodated therein in the assembling of the container,

3. In a container, the combination of separate wall or side sections, inward projecting marginal flanges thereon, and apical corner fastenings comprising inner and outer virtually pyramidal members with means for uniting them diagonally through the corners of the assembled container, the flanged sections having outwardly-offset mutually-engaging seats for said fastening members.

ALBERT PAUL COOHRANE.

five cents each, by addressing the "Commissioner of Iatents,

Washington, D. 0.

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