US173826A - Improvement in egg-carriers - Google Patents

Description

UNITEDSTATES PATENT @Friet 8500., OF`SAME PLAGE.

'.IM'PRovEMl-:NT IN EGG-CARRiERs.

`Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 173,826, dated February 22, 181e; application ined 'June 12, 1875.

To all whom it may concern;

, Be it known that I, JOHN L. S'LEVENS,`of Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Egg-Carriers, ofwhich improvement the following is a full, clear, and exact description, which will enable others skilled in the art to which my invention appertains to make and use the said improvement, referencebeing had tothe accompanying'drawing,

forming a part hereof, and in which- Flgure l is atop or pian view of a series of leggLseparating compartments, embodying my invention Fig. 2, a side elevation o f one side thereof; and Fig. 3, an elevation of another the eggsduring transportation.

Herctofore the egg separating compartments have been made of strips ot' straw-board or other similar or suitable material, notched or cut in such a manner that a series of strips would be so interlaced as to all lie in the same plane. An example of egg-carriers thus constructed is shown and described in Letters` Patent No. 62,378, for improvements in eggcarriers, issued to myself and George W. Stevens, jointly, `the 26th day ot' February, 1867. These strips have subsequently been interlockedin various ways, so that in seizing anyone or more, for the purpose of removing` the tiers of compartments, no stripwould be liable to be detached. These strips have also since' been arranged so as to support the eggs independently of the diaphragms above re- The object of this invention is to so improve the construction shown and described in the Letters Patent hereinabove referred to as to prevent the accidental detachment ofthe strips from the case. i

In the drawing, A represents a long narrow -strip made, preferably, of straw-board. This strip, when 4standing vertically on one ot' its longitudinaledges, exceedsa little in height the longer diameter of La hens egg. ot a are notches or cuts sunken into one ot' the longitudinal edges of the-strip, and extending about halfway across it. a ct are like notches or cuts sunken into the opposite edge of the strip, and arranged near the ends. The distance between each of the cuts is about equal to the shorter diameter of an egg.-

B is also a strip, the same in material and size as the strip A, and c e are cuts or notches, sunken. about half-wayacross itfrom one of its longitudinal edges, and c e are like cuts sunken into its opposite edge. The notches e 'and c alternate with each other ,as shown, and. are the same distance apartas the notches a a.

In order to construct the compartments, I arrangea `number of strips,"`A A, parallelly, as represented, each alternate strip ot' this se ries having the notches t a arranged downward, and each other alternate one having them 'arranged upward, thus also alternating the position of the notches a' a. I then arrange anumber of strips, B B, paralleli y to each other, and transversely with relation to the strips A A, andso that the notches c and e' will receive the latter strips and the notches a. and a.' receivethe strips B B, thus allowing each series to nterlace the other, and both to occupy the same plane.

When constructed and arranged in. this manner, the strips ibrming the compartments are firmly locked together, so that none of them will be liable to be drawn from the series accidentally while the compartments are being The strips, however, lnay be detached from each other when desirable. The compartments are capable of bcingfolded compactly, and are intended to be used in connection with separating diaphragms in the usual manner.

I am aware that compartments of .this class have heretofore been so constructed as to preduring the act of removing-the compartments removed from the case, or at any other time.

v ent the accidental separation of' the strips from the series to which they belong, and I do not lhere'clain'l such, broadly; but,

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

lThe series of egg-separating compartments, consisting` of the strips A A, having in one longitudinal edge the notches or cuts a a,

and in the opposite edge, near each end, the

notches or .cuts a a/and of' thel strips B B, having Vthe notches or cuts ee in one longitud'- inal edge, alternating with the notches' e e in the other, all combined and arranged substantially as shown and described and' for the purposes 'set forth.

JOHN L. STEVENS. -Witnesses N. C. GRIDLEY, F. F. WARNER.

Images