US1407191A - Egg candling and handling device - Google Patents

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' w. DAVIS. EGG CANDLING AND HANDLING DEVl'CE.

APPLlCATlON FILED MAY 23. 1921.

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' Specification of Letters'Iiatentf 21 219 272 Application filed ma 23, 1921. Serial No. 47;,899.

TQa-ZZ who n z't may co /poem, Be it known that I, WILBURDAVIS, a citizenot the United States, and a resident of Collins, in the county of Story and State-of Iowa, have invented a certain new and 11seful Egg Candling and Handling Device, of which the following is a specification.

The object of my invention is to provide anegg. candling and handling, device of simple, durable and inexpensiveconstruction.

More particularly, it is my object to pro-,

vide such a device whereby an entire filler containingthirty-six eggs (the usual num- A further object is to provi .tion with such a filler holder or support, a

case 'at'onetime, inverted and placed in a .ca-ndling device with the transparentgmemher: down, sothat the entire thirty-s1xeggs may be; examined 'in thefiller;

de in connectransparent member, having fingers held thereon by resilient gripping elements.

I Still a further object is to provide such a device including the filler holder and an egg 7 caSe, having two adjacent sides mounted-to bemoved out ofthe-way during the candling operation.

v Withtheseand .otherobje'cts in view, my

invention consists in the construction, arrangement and combination of the various parts ofwmy device, whereby the objects contemplated are attained, as hereinafter more fully set forth, pointed out in 'my claims, and illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which: I

Figure 1 shows a perspective view of theegg case.

Figure 2 shows a vertical, transverse, sectional view through the same and through the filler engaging and holding member, the latter being in its inverted position.

Figure 3 shows a detailed, sectional view taken on the line 3-3 of Figure 2.

Figure 4: shows a perspective view of the resilient fingers device; and

Figure 5- shows a perspective view of the candling mechanism with the filler support in position thereon.

It has heretofore been quite diflicult to candle a considerable numberjof eggs atria t me in a satisfaetory way. 11; has therefore been my purpose inworking outimy present dev ce to provi zm ans wh r by anentire nller, hold ngfor lnstance'three dozen eggs,

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maybe removed from a case in aneasy and convenient way and supported; oniatrans f parent holder or support injsuch aj waythat the ent re three dozen eggs received in the fillermay be candledin' oneoperation,

In accomplishing such a purpose,., it is necessary to have a case,--two,sidesvof which (or atop and one side) maybe swung'open sov as .to allow access to the fillers and also to provide a transparent-holder. having fingers or the like adapted to be readily. and eas ly sl1d between the edges of the flats and the caseg, g In the accompanying drawings, I have used the reference numeral 10 to indicate generally an eggicase having a top 11,-which ,1;

may; be hinged at oneendor removable, and having a side; 12,: which is also either hinged or removable. The case shown has a central transverse partition;'13'. '7

the tiers of fillers 14: separated by flats 15. r

J On the oppositersides ofQthe partition are InFigure 5, I have shown a candlingd'e vice comprising :a .;su;pporting casing; 16,

which is designed to have an electric light bulbfor other source of light mounted'therein. The casingrlfi ha'sia shelter the-like 17 shown dotted lines around the walls thereof on, the inside, and one wall fisopened above the shelf.

I provide a special transparent tor.

supporting a filler, full of eggs, which comprises a transparent. sheet v on pane ,18, which s longerat one side, and is designed-to be of suffi'cient width to fit snugly within one-half of the egg case 10 with one end projecting therefrom. The projecting end of the transparent plate 18 forms a handle. At the end of the plate 18 opposite the loo handle is a series of engaging fingers 19,

preferably, of fiat sheet metal or the like, secured to a resilient channel 20. The chan nel 20 has its sidewalls so arranged that they tend to spring together, and in the construction of my device the end of the plate 18 opposite the handle end is slipped etween the walls of the-channel 20, as

shown in Figure 2, with the plate snugly and trictionally gripped between the walls of said channel, and with the fingers 19 projectlng at right angles from the plate.

At each side of the plate 18, I provide one or more fingers 22, which are frictionally held on the plate 18 by means of resilient gripping fingers 23.

In the practical use of my device, after after the fiat above-the filler'has been removed. The fingers 1 9 are slipped behind thev filler and the fingers 22 slide alongside the filler-between the walls of the case 10 and the filler.

- The filler with the eggs therein and with the neXtlo-wermost fiat is then pulled, out a short distance, whereupon the operator grasps the fiat, so as to hold the eggs against falling out, and pulls out the filler with the flat below it.

' The filler and plate 18'are then turned over-with thefiller up and the fiat is removed from the top of the filler, whereupon the plate 18 may be slid onto the shelf 17 in the candling device 16, and the eggs in the filler may "then be examined in the usual W X- i fter the eggs have been examined, the

plate 18 is removed fromthe casing 16, the Hat is placed on top of the filler, and the filler and fiat and the plate 18 are then inverted again, and the filler full of eggs with "the plate thereunder may be slippedinto the egg case 10. I The fingers 22may be adjusted longitudinally of the plate 18 by sliding the gripping fingers 23, and will be held in any adjusted position. i

It is obvious that'in order to make the device properly operative, the'fingers 22 and that by means of it, eggs can be candled in the fillers very rapidly and without danger of breakage.

I have found by testing that a transparent plate 18 is much better than one which has a series of holes therein. A transparent plate also has a flat surface, so that there is less movement of the eggs inthe filler,-where mydevice is used, than where a plate having holes is employed;

Some changes may be-made in the construction and arrangement of the various parts of my device, and it is my intention to cover by my claims, any modified forms of structure, or use of mechanical equivalents, which may be reasonably included within their scope.

- I claim as my invention:

1; In a device of the class described, the combination of an egg case, having two sides capable of being removed for permittingac-' cess to the interior of the case with a transparent plate longer than the egg filler used in such case, said (plate having at one end and at its sides fingers projecting at right angles from the plate and adapted to be inserted at the three sides of the filler between thefiller and the walls of said case by a movement directly downwardly in the case from the top toward the bottom thereof.

2. In a device of the class described, the combination of an egg case, having two sides capable of beingremoved for permitting access to the interior of the case,

egg filler used in such case, said plate having at one end and at its sides, fingers with a transparent plate'longerthankthe-' adapted to be inserted at'the three sides of the filler between the filler and the walls of said case by a" movement directly downwardly in the case from the top toward the Des Moines, Iowa, May 12, 1921. I

WILBUR DAVIS.

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