US1494584A - Shipping drum or container - Google Patents

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May? zo 1924.

W. D. BRYSON SHIPPING DRUMOR CONTAINER Filed Sept. 19. 1921 /N VE N Tak w/ TNESS Patented May 20, 1924.

UNITED STATES PATENT A OFFICE.

WALTER D. BBYSON, OF BIIDLEYy PARK, PENNSYLVANIA,- .ASSIGNOB TO FIBRE CON- TAINER COMPANY, CORPORATION OF PENNSYLVANIA.

SHIPPING DRUM OR CONTAINER.

Application aigiseptemhr 1s, 1921. serial No. 501,678.

To all who/m t may concern.' Be it known thatI, WALTER D. BRYsoN, a citizen of the Unitedv States, and a resident of Ridley Park, county of Dela- 5 ware, and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Shi ping Drums or Containers, of which the fo owing is a specification, reference being had to the accompanying draw- .1D iy invention relates to shipping drums or containers and has for its pri cipal object the providing of adrum in W ich lightness of weight and strength are combined and i5 suitable for containin dry products, such as, for example, co ee, spices, and dry chemicals.

A further object of my invention is to provide a shi ping drum the walls and heads of whic may be formed of fibrous material and which provides ample protection to vthe contents from moisture and atmosphei'ic conditions.

A still further object of my invention is 85 to provide a shipping drum which, after being emptied, may be refilled and re shipped.. v

A still further object o f my invention is to provide asliipping drum which may be w manufactured at a comparatively small cost,

is durable and is attractive in appearance.

The invention further includes all of the other various objects and novel features of construction and arrangement hereinafter la more definitely specified and described.

It is highly desirable that drums or containers used in shipping goods and merchandise should combine strength, d'rability and lightness in wei lit and that the 4o body ortion or wall and eads of the drum shoul be as thin as possible consistent with essential strength for by making the drum light in Wei ht without sacrificing cubical capacity, the s ipping and hauling charges are w keptftoaminimum/ Ihave found thatasatisfactory container or drum which embodiesJ the desirable features above mentioned can be constructed of fibrous. material, such as paper stock; for example,-I. have made a satisfactory drum of six plies of fibre board or pulp board firmly secured together by an adhesive such as silicate of soda and having A 'jute liners on the exposed surfaces, the several plies or layers being formed into a cy-l lindrical shape to form the body portion in a manner well known in the art.

In the accom anying drawing, in which I like numerals esignate like parts in the different figures, F1 re 1 is a perspective view of a drum em odying my invention;

Fig. 2 is Aa vvertical longitudinal sectional 1 yiew of the drum shown in Fi 1; Fig. 3 is a sectional view taken on the dine 33 of Fig. 2 and Fig. 4 is a fragmentary detail view partly. in section showin tion of the device shown in Fig. 1.

The drum 1 has a wall 2 formed of fibrous material, such as pa er or any other suitable material, refera ly about one fourth inch in thic ess, and is generally made by superimposing a proper number of plies of paper stock fed from webs to a orming machine, the plies being rmly secured to each other by an adhesive such as silicate of soda, the making of this wall being by a method well known in the art. The heads of the lshipping drum are made by first cutting out from the fibrous material discs'3 of a diameter e ual tothe outside diameter of the body o a drum to form closures for the openings at the ends of the body of the drum; to each of the discs I then secure, b clinched nails 4, two wooden patteis 5 dou le mortised midway of their e wooden battens are referably suba modiicastantiall equal in length to t e insidediameter of t e 'body portion of the drum so that and t e edge of the disc is substantially -equal to the thickness of the wall, and in a drum having a capacity of about one hundred pounds, the battens mayl ybe substantially three-fourths of an inch in thickness and one and one quarter inches in width thus making a total thicknessthrough the head and battens of substantiall Aone inch, forming, when secured to theI ody portion of the drum, a closure of great stren h and rigidity. .Metal rin 6, having anges 7, are provided to assist, among other things, in retaining .the heads upon-the body of the drum and also to` provide protection for the ends of the drum when it is being handled or is in transit. A,

The heads of the drum are secured to the rtion in the following manner: The with the battens secured thereto4 is Y gin of the disc, and the band portion of the ring encircling the edge of the disc and the upper portion of the wall or body portion.

The metal ring, among other things, also forms a tight joint and prevents any siftin of the contents of the drum. After the meta ring has been placed position the nails 8 are driven therethrough and through the wall of the drum in'to the ends of the wooden battens, the nails being driven approximately three-eighths of an inch from the end of the drum, i. e., at a suicient space ytherefrom to prevent the nails from tearing free from the wall or body portion. It should be noted that it is alto ether preferable that the ain of the woo battens should run longitudinally thereof whereb the probability of splitting the wood w en the nails are driven into the battens is very much less than if the nails are driven across the grain. The heads of nails 4 indicate the locations of the battens so no diiculty arises in properly driving the nails 8.

The drum may be easily opened by withdrawing the nails 8 by any convenient too whereupon the metal ring is lifted and the head removed. Itwill be evident that the drum may, when desired, be refilled and reshipped a number of times inasmuch as none of the parts forming it are destroyed during the opening operation.

If desired, discs 9 of a fibrous or other suitable material, may be placed upon and supported by the battens thereby preventing contact between the wooden battens and the contained material when that is desirable l having for any reason and also forming air lating chambers between the discs 3 and 9 and the lbattens 5. If desired, sheets of flexible material may be used instead of the fibre discs 9.

It will be understood that minor variations and changes in athe details of con.- struction and arrangement of parts would readily suggest themselves to persons skilled in the art and fall within the spirit and scope of my invention. I do not desire, therefore, to be limited or restricted to the exact details of construction and arrangement shown and described.

Having thus described .my invention, I claim and desire to rotect by Letters Patent of the United tates:

1. In a shipping drum, the combination i with a cylindrical bod portion of fibrous material, of a head of brous material hav' ing wooden' battens secured thereto, said battens extending within said body portion, a metal band surroun an end of the drum, said band having a ange seated upon the peripheral margin of the head and nails passing through said band and said body portion into the ends of said battens.

2. In a shipping drum, the combination of a cylindrical body portion of fibrous material, a circular head for said body ortion seated upon an end thereof, wooden attens secured to'said head, the length of said battens being'substantially equal to the inside diameter of said body portion, a metal ring a flange engaging the outer surface of said head and having a band portion exten around an end of the drum to `a depth su antially equal to the thickness of the battens whereby nails may be driven through said band (gortion and said body portion into the en of the battens to securely hold said head.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand this 17th day of September, 1921.

WALTER n. BRYsoN.

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