US1330864A - Packaging of articles - Google Patents

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H. D. HAMILTON. PACKAGING OF ARTICLES. APPLICATION FILED MAY 21. 1919.

1,330,864. Patented Feb. 17,1920.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

HARRY D. HAMILTON, OF WINTHROP, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR TO UNITED SHOE MACHINERY CORPORATION, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS, A CORPORATION OF NEW JERSEY.

PACKAGING OF ARTICLES.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Feb. 17, 1920.

Application filed May 21, 1919. Serial No. 298,660.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HARRY D. HAMILTON, a citizen of the United States, residing at Winthrop, in the county of Suflolk and State of Massachusetts, have invented certain Improvements in the Packaging of Articles, of which the following description, in connection with the accompanying drawings, is a specification, like reference characters on the drawings indicating like parts in the several figures.

The present invention relates to the packaging of articles. For the purpose of illustration the invention is herein set forth with particular reference to its application to the packaging of articles such as rubber heels in individual pairs ready for attachment to shoes.

Rubber heels are usually provided with a plurality of partially or entirely formed nail holes to facilitate the attachment of the heels to the shoes and the required number of attaching devices, usually nails, are ordinarily included with each pair of heels, the nails being placed commonly in a separate envelop in the container for each pair of heels.

The present invention has for an object to improve the packaging of rubber heels to the end that the heels may be packaged together with their attaching devices more economically and carefully and received by the user with the attaching devices already assembled with each of the heels and in proper numbers and dispositions for the user to attach the'heels most conveniently and accurately.

With this object in view the invention provides a heel package comprising a pair of heels provided with nail receiving openings in one face of the heel and having heel attaching nails inserted in said openings and projecting outwardly beyond said face of the heel, the heels being arranged to cause the projecting parts ofthe nails of the two heels to extend oppositely between the heels, and means formed and arranged to hold the heels so positioned to prevent dislodgment of the nails. As herein illustrated, the at taching devices comprise a plurality of nails, the shanks of which are inserted in the partially formed holes in the heels and the heels are relatively positioned to cause each heel of the pair to serve as an abutment for the attaching devices carried by the other heel whereby the heels co-act to prevent dislodgment of the nails. The heels so prepared are then provided with means for holding the heels in relative position, the illustrated means being a paper boX.

As a result of so packaging rubber heels, more care will be exercised in furnishing the required number of nails for the attachment of the heel by the user than Where they are separately furnished and when the heels are to be attached to the shoes the nails will be all ready in proper locations for driving without the exercise of skill, the loss of time and inconvenience heretofore incident to the handling and locating of the nails in the heels. In the types of rubber heels wherein washers are embedded in the heels, for the purpose of coacting with the head of the attaching nail, the nails are preferably inserted a suflicient distance into the heels for their points to project through the washers with the result that the accurate driving of the nails by the user is assured.

Other objects and novel characteristics of the present invention will now be described in connection with the accompanying drawings illustrating a preferred embodiment of the invention and the invention will then be defined in the appended claims.

The drawing illustrates in perspective view, and partly in section, a pair of heels packaged according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention.

The heels 2, which may be of any of the usual types, are molded with a plurality of holes or apertures 4 by which the heels are to be attached to the shoe, the attaching devices 6 herein illustrated being nails. The requisite number of nails 6 to attach the heels are mounted in the heels 2 by having the shanks or pointed ends of the nails 6 inserted in the holes or apertures a. In the heels illustrated, washers 8 are embedded midway between the tread surfaces 10 and the heel seat surfaces 12 of the heel and preferably located at the termination of the holes 4 and the nails 6 are inserted in the holes i so that their points project slightly through the washers but not far enough for the points to project through the surface 12 of the heel. In this way the points of the nails 6 are lightly held frictionally by the material constituting the heels and ordinarily the holes 4 are sufficiently small for the walls of the holes also to engage the shank of the nail.

lationship with the heads ll of the nails '6 of each heel projecting so as to bear against or abutting thetread face '10 of theother'lieel of the pair and the two heels are then confined in this relationship in some suitable manner, as by slippingthem into'a-box or carton- 10 as illustrated.

WVith the two heels packaged as'thus described,' 'the attachingdevices or nails 6 are prevented from escaping from their mounted positions in the heels and when the" package is openedthe user finds the nails-not "only accurate as to number but also properlycon ditioned and positioned for driving. The advantage resulting from the attaching *devices being frictionally held is that'whenthe user opens-the package ands'eparates the two heels fromeach otherthe attaching devices are maintained in their driving positions in the heel while the heel'is being placed in position'fto beattachedto the boot or shoe.

VVhile the invention has been herein illustratedin connection with a'certain type of heel and tl1e ter1n"rubber used to describe the heely-itis to be understood'that neither the type'oi heel illustrated northe term rubber is to be construed as a limitation. Moreover, while a common form 'of'carton hasbeen'illustrated for acontainer for the pair'of'heels, it is'to bennderstoodthat I do not limit myselftheretobut inayemploy any equivalent means forholding the heel assembled in such relative positions that the attaching devicesmounted-"therein can not escape from their mounted positions.

* H'aving thus "described my invention, what I'claini as new and desire to secure by 'Let-.

ters Patent of the United States is:

'1. A 'lieelpackage comprising a pair of heelsprovided with nail receiving openings in one face of'the heel and having heel attaching nails insertedin' said" openings and projecting outwardly beyond said face of the heel, the heels being arranged to cause the projecting parts of the nails of the two "heels to extend oppositely between'the' heels,

and means formed and arranged'to hold the heels "so positioned to prevent dislodgment of the nails.

' 2; A'heel package comprisinga container anda pair of heels in said container, each of said heels being provided with nail receiving openings in one face of theheel-and havingheel attaching nails inserted in said openings and *pro'j ect-i-ng outwardly "beyond said face of the heelg the heels being arranged ':to cause the r'oj ect-i'ng partsof the nails of the two hee s to extend "oppositely betweenrthe heels',-and the container being formedand arranged to hold 'the heels so positioned 'to prevent dislodgment of the nails. V

3. A heel package comprising a'pair of heels provided "with nail "receiving openings in oiie face of the heel; and having. heel "attaching nails partially-inserted insaid openings in position-to be driven, the heels being arranged to causethe'projectingparts of the nails of the two heels 'to' extend oppositely between the heels, and means-"formed and arranged to 'hold'the heels s0 positioned "to prevent dislodgment oi'the nails from the heels duringtransportation of'the heels.

- 4. That improvement'in methodsofpacktwo heelsin *said position and prevent dis-

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