US1313337A - Erich sghinscholl - Google Patents

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E. scHlNscHoLL.

ELECTRIC LAMP CARRIER. l ATI FILED MAY 29, 191s.

APPL C 1,313,337. Patented Aug. 19 1919.

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ERICH SCHINSCHOLL, 0F SHLALND, NEW HAMPSHIRE, ASSIGNOR TO GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY, A CORPORATION OF`NEW YORK.

ELECTRIC-LAMP CARRIER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

yPatented Aug. 19, 1919.

Application mea may 29, 191s. serial No. 100,511.

To all 'whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, ERLCH SoHrNseHoLL, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Ashland, in the county ofGrafton and State of New Hampshire, have invented certain new and useful Improvements 1n Electric-Lamp Carriers, of which the following is a. specification.

This invention relates to eleetrlc lamp carriers and -has for its object to provldea device of the class specified simlple 1n construction and elicient for securely protecting its contents against breakage in transit. Other and more detailed featuresof usefulness .and econo-my will appear later herein.

To these .ends my improvements comprise in their preferred embodiment a strip of cardboard or other suitable material having several transverse creases thereacross and a hole therethrough near each end thereof.

In the accompanying drawing Figure 1 illustrates a plurality of. my improved car- {riers fwith ordinary incandescent electric lamps therein, assembled within -a shipping case or container. Fig. 2 is a cross-sectional elevation on line 2--2 of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is an isometric view of my improved carrier folded into the form in which it is used but with the lamp omitted. Fig. 4 is a plan view v of what is shown in Fig. 3 but with the carrier laid out iat and in suitable condition for stacking with others of its kind for shipping, in the least .possi-ble space, to the point of use. F ig. 5 is a fragmentary plan view similar to a yportion of what is shown in 'i Fig. 4 but illustrating -a modification thereof.

In lamps of the character illustrated that portion ofv greatest weakness and least resistance to jars andublows is the point of the bulb as 18, where the l-amp is sealed as a final step in its construction. Heretofore in lamp carriers provision has been made to aiord point protection by supports or p aeking around or directly against the points.

In my improved carrier I protect the point as 18 of lamp 12 byisolation, thereby oibviating the common danger of damage from supports in contact with said points.

Referring now more' particularly to the figures of the drawing, 2 represents a strip of sheet material, which may be of ordinary pasteboard of suitable thickness and relatively narrow as compared with its length. Such strip 2 should have a width slightly greater than the maximum.v diameter of the lamp lamp to .be carried thereby. Oppositely disposed, near and equidistant from the middle lengthwise saidv strip, I form two creases 4, 5 thereacross, and near the opposite ends two other similar creases 3, 6 on which to fold the strips uniformly. My improved strip is'thereby divided lengthwise into five zones to wit; a relatively n-arrow central head-piece 15, two side walls 16, 17 of greater length, and two end fia- ps 9, 10 each of a length preferably somewhat greater than that of head piece l5 but materially shorter th-an side Walls 16, 17. Side walls 16, 17 are of suflicient length to maintain head piece 15 clear of point 18 of the lamp when my improved carrier is assembled on the lamp. In flaps 9, l0 between creases 3, 6 and the ends of the strips respectively I form holes 7, 8, preferably circular in contour, of a size adapted to fit snugly over and grip the threaded metal shank:v 11 of the In the modification of Fig. 5 I have shown opening as 8 of Fig. A4 in the form of a slot 24. inreaching from the end of the strip 2. The distance between side walls 25, 26. of said slot isa-preferably slightly less than the diameter of its circular portion whereby a narrow entrance to said slot is provided.

My improved carrier is applied to the lamp by buttoning one of the end flaps as 10 by its hole 8 over shank 11 of the lamp 12, then folding said strip 2 endwise around the body of the lamp and buttoning the other end iap 9 of the strip, by its hole 7 onto said lamp shank 11. In this process of folding the strip 2 about the lamp as described and illustrated said strip naturally bends in the creases provided therefor, Viirst increase 6, then in sequence in creases 5, 4 and 3. The distances' of creases 3, 6 from the centers of holes 7, 8 respectively, is suiicient to provide, when assembled on the lamp, open spaces 13, 14 between the side walls 16, 17 ofthe container and the slop- ,away from point 18 of the lamp when said side walls are folded .about the lamp and in contact with the sides of the hemispherical head thereof, whereby point 18 is isolated v and free of all contact or danger* of contact with the carrier, except under a destructive crushing of the carrier or containing carton.

Furthermore said lamp 12 is maintained centrally, with reference to the opposite edges'19, 20, Fig. 2, of the carrier by means of the double -support afforded shank 11 by the two flaps 9, 10. By this arrangement breakage ofthe lamp bulb by possible con- -tact with the bottom or top (not shown) of the container is prevented.

In assembling a plurality of my improved carriers having lamps therein, within a container as 21, I preferably arrange said carriers side by side, alternately in opposite positions, the first. with head 15 against side wall 22 of container 21 and the next with lamp base 11 against said side wall 22 and so forth. By this arrangement the hemispherical portion of the lamp bulb is in each instance adjacent one of the spring side walls of its next adjoining carrier, whereby even though a blow be struck the container, as for instance at 23, directly adjoining the lamp bulb, said bulb would, because of its yieldable support 'by the adjoining carrier, be able to sustain the blow without damage.

I claim: l

1. The combination of a lamp and a protective carrier therefor comprising a strip of sheet material, means near each end of said strip for gripping the lamp shank when said strip 'is wrapped en'dwise around the lamp, said strip being provided with a fiat portionmidway its length and maintained, whenth'estrip is in place on the lamp,- in a position" relatively remote from the point of the lamp.

The wmbinationof a lamp and a protective carrier therefor comprising a strip of sheet material wider than theY major diameter. of said lamp, means near each end.

and with the end of the bulb and point thereon free of contact with said carrier.

4. The combination of a lamp and a protective carrier therefor comprising a strip of sheetmaterial having means for supporting the lamp by its shank in two transverse planes and with the lamp bulb free of said carrier except atyopposite portions, of its greatest diameter, said lamp containing carrier being adapted when arranged side by side with others of its kind and with the lamp shanks pointing alternately in opposite directions, to preserve at all points an'open space between adjacent lamp bulbs.

Signed at New York,-- in the county'o New York and State of New York, this 27th day of May, 1916, before two subscribing witnesses. j ERICH SCHINSCHOLL. Witnesses: i

EnwAiiD B. SAGENDORF,

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