US1494114A - Fastener for receptacle covers - Google Patents

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H. L. IKE

May 13 1924.

FASTENER FOR RECEPTACLE COVERS Filed Feb. 5. 1923 I atkozn e14 Patented May 13, 1924.

UNITED STATES 1,494,114 PATENT OFFICE.

HERMAN L. IKE, OF SIOUX FALLS, SOUTH DAKOTA, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF '10 EDWARD G. LIVINGSTON, OF NEWCASTLE, WYOMING.

FASTENER FOR BECEPTACLE COVERS.

Application filed February 5, 1923. Serial No. 616,989.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HERMAN L. IKE, a citizen of the United States, residing at Sioux Falls, in the county of Minnehaha and State of South Dakota, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Fasteners for Receptacle Covers, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

The object of this invention is to provide a fastener for the covers of receptacles such as grape baskets, peach baskets, and the like.

In applying most of the fasteners of this general character with which I am familiar, it is necessary to use a hammer or to use considerable pressure in order to firmly connect the fasteners with the baskets and covers, and hammering or the application of pressure to the containers of such produce as grapes, peaches, apples and the like tender fruits is injurious and is apt to crush and mar them and thus impair their value and spoil their appearance and marketability.

My fastener requires no hammering to apply it, nor is it necessary to use any appreciable amount of pressure, and hence the objections above mentioned are obviated.

' Furthermore, my fastener is of simple, cheap and durable construction, and, if desired, may be re-used, although owing to its cheapness, small economy would result from such re-use.

The invention consists in a fastener for receptacle covers comprising a pair of coverengaging members and a receptacle-engaging member, the whole formed of bendable material and adapted to be bent to fixedly unite the cover and receptacle, as I will proceed now to explain and finally claim.

In the accompanying drawings illustrating the invention, in the several figures of which like parts are similarly designated, Figure 1 is a perspective view of a grape basket and cover showing the application of my fasteners. Fig. 2 is an enlarged frag mentary section through one end of the hasket and cover with the fastener applied thereto. Fig. 3 is a plan view of the fastener before being applied to a basket and cover. Fig. 4: is a perspective view of the fastener detached but bent to the form assumed by it when applied to a basket and cover. Fig. 5 illustrates the method of manufacturing the fastener from a strip of sheet material without waste. Fig. 6 shows a modification wherein the fastener is formed of wire.

Referring more particularly to the drawings, the basket 1 is shown as provided with a cover of a type now in approved use and for which my fastener is particularly designed, this cover comprising a plurality, usually three, of longitudinal slats 2 connected at their ends by cross bars 3. i The cover is embraced atthe sides by the basket handle 4 and is thereby positioned upon the basket. The basket is provided with the usual outer and inner rim bands 5 and 6, respectively.

In the preferred form of the invention as illustrated in Figs. 1 to 5, the fastener is shown as formed from sheet metal such. as tin-plate, sheetiron, or other bendable, relatively strong material of such stiffness as to retain its shape when bent. The fasteners may be stamped from a strip of such material without waste as shown in Fig. 5, thereby lessening the cost of manufacture and eliminating scrap.

The fastener comprises a pair of coverengaging members 7 and a receptacle-engaging member 8, the cover-engaging mem bers adapted to be bent around and under the bar 3 and so disposed that one of them lies on each side of the centrally disposed longitudinal slat 2 and the receptacle-engaging member adapted to be inserted between the outer rim band 5 and the wall of the receptacle or basket 1 and to be bent around the lower edge of the band and flattened against its outer face, as shown in Fig. 1.

Covers of the type illustrated are made in standard sizes to fit standard sized baskets, and my fasteners will likewise be made in standard sizes to cooperate with the various sizes of covers. By this means the coverengaging members 7 may be so spaced apart as to more or less snugly engage the edges of the centrally disposed longitudinal slat 2.

By virtue of the arrangement of the members 7 engaging the bar 3 at each side of or straddling the central slat 2 the cover is prevented from sliding laterally of the top of the basket.

The fastener may be applied in either of two ways. The member 8 may be inserted between the wall of the basket'and the rim band 5 and bent around the band 5 as shown, and then the members 7 engaged with. and

bent around and under the bar 3 or the members 7 may be first engaged With and bent around. the member 3 and the memher 8 thereafter engaged with and bent around the rim band '5. The method of application is optional and is immaterial inasmuch as the result is the same with either method.

Although I prefer to form the fastener from sheet metal, it is obvious that it may be made also of Wire and is so shown in Fig. 6. hen made of Wire the device may be bent in various Ways to form the cover and receptacle engaging members 9 and 10 respectively, but it is essential that there be two cover-engaging members so disposed as to cooperate with the centrally disposed longitudinal slat 2 to prevent lateral movement of the cover relative to the basket.

I have herein shown and particularly described my fasteners as applied to a grape basket, but it is obvious that they may be used equally Well with any receptacle having a slatted cover with a member around Which the members 7 may be bent and a rim band With Which the member 8 may engage.

Various changes may be made in details of construction of the fasteners Without departing from the spirit of the invention or the scope'of the following claims.

What I claim is l. A fastener for receptacle covers, comprising a pair of spaced cover-engaging members adapted to straddle a part of the cover and a receptacle-engaging member adapted to engage a part of the receptacle, the Whole formed of bendable material and adapted to be bent to fixedly attach the cover to the receptacle.

2. A fastener for receptacle cove-rs, comprising a pair of spaced cover-engaging members adapted to straddle a part of the cover and a receptacle engaging member adapted to be bent aroundthe rim band of the receptacle, the Whole formed of bendable material and adapted when bent as specified to attach the cover to the receptacle.

3. A fastener for slatted receptacle covers, comprising a pair of cover-engaging members adapted to straddle one of the slats of said cover, and a receptacle-engaging member adapted to be bent around the rim band of the receptacle as specified, the Whole being formed of bendable material and adapted When bent to attach the cover to the re ceptacle and to prevent relative lateral movement between the cover and receptacle.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand this 25th day of January, 1923.

HERMAN L. IKE.

Witnesses ELLA C. SCHUERMANN, W. H. FrNoKEL, J r;

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