US1344147A

US1344147A - Shipping-box

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Publication number: US1344147A
Application number: US79601A
Authority: US
Inventors: Earl C Potter
Original assignee: SEFTON Manufacturing CORP
Current assignee: SEFTON Manufacturing CORP
Priority date: 1916-02-21
Filing date: 1916-02-21
Publication date: 1920-06-22
Anticipated expiration: 1937-06-22

Description

E. C. POTTER.

SHIPPING BOX.

APPLICATION FILED FEB. 21. 1916.

Patented J une 22, 1920.

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SHIPPING BOX.

APPLICATION FILED FEB. 21, I916.

Patented June 22, 1920.

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E. C. POTTER.

SHIPPING BOX.

APPLICATION FILED FEB. 21, 1916.

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EARL C. POTTER, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR, BY MESNE ASSIGNMENTS, TO

PORATION OF NEW YORK.

SEFTON MANUFACTURING CORPORATION, OF MILLIBROOK, NEW YORK. A COR- To all whom it may concern: 7

Be it known that I, EARL J. Porrnn a citizen of the United States, residing at Clucago, Cook county, Illinois, have invented.

certain new and useful Improvements in Shipping-Boxes, of which the following is a s ecification. p

y invention relates to shipping .boxes made of relatively fragile material, such as the well-known article commercially termed corrugated paper board, and is des gned to provide a box made of such material sufficiently strong, and affordin sufiiclent protection to the inclosed fragile contents for which the package is designed, to enable the box to be shipped by frei ht w1th relatlvely small loss by breakage. he embodiment of my invention which will hereinafter be described is a box designed for shlpment of incandescent electric lamps, although it is obvious that b suitable modification of the proportions o the box and the inside con- The inside containers or fillers are likewise designed to have a cushioning action and to so suspend the lam s that the lamps in ad acent containers wil bear on separate card'- 'board partitions spaced a art a suflicient distance to avoid liability o the lamps bearing on each other through the partitions. My invention consists in the construction and -arrangement of cooperating structural members by which I'sec'ure the above and incidental advantages and attain the object hereinbefore stated, the essential elements thereof being recited in the appended claims.

.-In the drawings, Figure 1 is a erspective view of my box, with the cover aps of the outer shell opened out and the top cover of the inside shell removed; Fig. 2 is a similar view, but with the top cover mentioned removed; Fig. 3 is a perspectiveof Specification 01 Letters 1mm. t t Jun, 1920 Applicatitn'flled February 21, 1918. Serial No. 79,601.

the top cover alone; Fi 4' is a vertical section on the line 44'o Fig. 5; Fig. 5 is a llorlzontal section on-the line 5-5 of Fig.

4; Fig. 6 is a perspective of one of the in-- same parts in all the figures of the drawing.

The outer shell of my package, as before stated, is of ordinary construction, and comprises four side members, 1, 2, 3 and 4, and

end flaps

5, 6, 7, and 8, preferably formed of one rectangular sheet of material creased and folded to form a four-sided shell, a hinge strip 9 being provided to unite the meetin edges of the sides 1 and 4, and the cover aps being adapted to fold inwardly 0 form top and bottom walls closing the The inner shell consists of the four

sides

10, 11,12 and 13 hinged together to form a four-sided shell, the meeting edges of the sides 10 and 13 being secured together by a hinging strip 14. The sides, as shown, are cut away to leave projecting ton ues or tenons 15, both at top and bottom, t e ends of the box being of the same construction. The ends or top and bottom cover members of the inner box consist ofrectangular sheets of material 16 of such-size as to fit snugly within the sides of the outer box and are formed with slots or mortises 17 to receive the tenons -before mentioned. The edges of the cover are provided with spacing flanges 18 which are of such heights as to contact the innermost cover flaps of the outer shell when the cover is firmly seated on the lower line of the cut away portions of the sides of the inner shell intermediate its tenons, and the tenons themselves are of such length as to also contact the sides, this construction providing an inner chamber or receptacle strongly supported at the edges of the top and bottom of the package, its most vulnerable points.

The containers 'or fillers in which the lamps are contained in small lots, in the Freferpresent instance in lots of five, are

rial, a suitable material for the purpose being thin but tou h manila cardboard. This container (see Figs. 6, 7 and 8) comprises four

sides

19, 20, 21 and 22, and flaps forming top and bottom closures which are of similar, though not identical construction. The side 21, it may be here explained, is provided with a hinge flap 23 by which it is secured to the side 20, the other sides and flaps being formed by creased foldin lines which permit the parts to be folde and arranged in the manner illustrated and herein explained. At the top of. the front side wall 19 of the container is hinged the side flange 24 of a depressed or sunken partition 25, which is formed with

side flanges

24 and 26, and

end flanges

27, 28. The partition 25 is formed with a series of properly spaced holes of two sizes, the holes of one size being each adapted to receive the reduced end of the neck of an incandescent lamp, and the other and smaller holes being each adapted to receivethe end of the glass bulb of the lamp. The

end side walls

20 and 22 are provided with hinged supporting fiaps 29 adapted to be folded inwardly above the partition 25, in which position'their bases will afford considerable support to the sides of the cover flap 30, which flap is hinged to the rear side wall 21. At its front the cover is provided with a fastening tab 31- adapted to be inserted in a slit 32, cut to receive it in the front wall 19, and a pair of spacing and supporting flanges 3232 adapted to fold down adjacent the flanges 24 and rest upon the top of the partition 25. The bottom closure of the container is formed in the same manner as the top, differing only in the arrangement of the holes to receive the lamps, which must be reversed in respect to the two sizes inorder to provide for the arrangement of the lamps with the bases alternately up and down as illustrated; and in the provision of a locking flap or tab 33 which will resist disengagement hinged to the bottom cover 34 instead of the readily disengageable tab 31 used at the top of the container. It is, however, obvious that the bottom of the container may be permanently closed by pastin adjacent parts together, if desired.

he containers are designed to be placed upright in tiers in the package,-that is, with the closures of the containers and outer shell of the box all in parallel planes, as indicated in Figs. 4 and 5. The package having been closed, the

cover flaps

5 and 7 of the outer shell are folded inwardly over the topsof the tenons of the inner shell, and the flaps 6 and 8 next folded down, in which position their edges meet tightly. A strong sealing tab is then pasted along said edges and down upon the sides of the box, so that it is practically hermetically sealed. The result of this construction is that the inner shell and its containers are pneumatically cushioned to a considerable extent. It may further be noted that the joints around the flanged sides of the cover and the mortise joints are practically air tight, dividing the space between the outer and inner shells into three separate air tight compartments, the intermediate one of which extends entirely around the container chamber of the inner shell. j

I claim:

1. A shipping box comprising an outer rectangular shell, an inner shell consisting of four side walls hinged together, spaced from the outer shell, a cover member arranged adjacent and parallel with one of the walls of the outer shell and adapted to fit snugly within the four surrounding walls of such outer shell, said cover member being arranged to interlock with the ends of the sides of the inner shell and form a closur for the same.

2. A shipping box comprising an outer rectangularshell, an inner shell having the free ends of its sides formed with tenons and spaced from the outer shell consisting of four side walls hinged together and a cover member arranged adjacent and parallel with one of the walls of the outer shell and adapted to fit snu ly within the four surrounding walls of t e same, said cover member being formed with mortise openings to receive said tenons and constituting a closure for said inner shell. V

3. A shipping box comprising an outer rectangular shell, an inner shell spaced from the outer shell consisting of four side walls hinged together, a flanged cover member arranged adjacent and parallel with one of the walls of the outer shell and having its flanges arranged to bear against such wall, said cover member being adapted to fit snugly Within the four surrounding walls of the outer shell and interlock with the ends of the sides of. the inner shell to form a closure for the same.

EARL C. POTTER.

Witnesses:

LOUIS B. ERWIN, ROBERT DOBBERMAN.