US190099A - Improvement in spool show-boxes - Google Patents

Description

R. TRAUTMANN. sPooLsHoW Box.

No. 190,099. Patented Apri1z4,1e77.

IIIHIHIIIIHIIII Witnesses;

N.F\.TES, PHOTG-LITHDGRAPHER. WASHINGTON, D. C.'

RALPH TRAUTMANN, or New YORK,

N. Y.,Ass1eNort 'ro' HIMsELF vAND `drohen J. -Bnowua or SAME PLACE.

IM PRovEM ENT IN spool.V `sHow-Boxss.

Speciiication forming part of Letters Patent No. 190,099, datedl April 24, 1877 application tiled Y March 12,1877. f

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, RALPH TRAUTMANN, of New York city, in the county and State of New York, have invented a new and Improved Spool-Cotton Box, of which the following is a specii fication:

This invention has for its object to produce a box for economically and properly packing a series of spools `containing cotton or other thread or yarn; and consists, first, in forming the box with in wardly-projecting ledges, which contract the opening` and serve to hold the spools in place without preventing their convenient removal; secondly, in combining, with a box having semi-cylindrical front and back, a lid which has a curved lap that extends downward to partly overlap the lower part of the curved front; and, thirdly, in applying a catch to the lower part of such curved lid, all as hereinafter more clearly pointed out.

In the accompanying drawing, Figure l represents atop view of myimproved spool-cotton box, showingits lid thrown open. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal section of the box on the plane of the line c c, Fig. l. Fig. 3 is across-section of the same on the plane of the line la la, Fig. l.

Similar letters of reference indicate corre spondin g parts in all the figures.

The letter A represents the body of the boxj B, its lid or cover. The box is intended to hold twelve spools, C C, of equal size, preferably in three rows, four spools in each row, as indicated in Fig. l. The body ot' the box is of a height equaling in its interior the diameter of the spools of an inner length equaling the length of four spools, and three times as wide as it is high. Its front a and back b are of semi-cylindrical form, as clearly shown in Fig. 3, to t the outer rows of spools C, and avoid waste of material in the box and hold the spools snugly in place. The box has an opening, d, on top for the insertion andremoval of the spools, but this opening is contracted lengthwise by overhanging ledges ee, which project inwardly from the ends f f of the box. As to width, the opening is also less extensive than the full width of the box, owing to the rounded form ofthe back and front of the box. vThus it is that when the box is lled all but two of the twelve spools will be partly covered by the body of the box, as the three spools at each end of the box are partly beneath the ledges e c, and the four spools in front and the four at the back partly covered by the upward curves of the front a and back b, all as clearly indicated in Fig. 1 and in the other ligures.

By thus confining the spools beneath the ledges e and parts ab, they are properly retained within the box, and notas liable to roll out, even if the lid be opened and the box tilted, the two uncovered spools being retained sufficiently by the frctional contact with the six spools adjoining them. The lid B is jointed at g to the upper edge of the back b, and has a curved front lap, h, in front for lapping over and beyond the middle of the front a. A suitable catch, t', applied to the front a beneath the middle of its height, may be used to lock the lid in manner indicated in Fig. 3. By placing the catchi under the middle of the front it is prevented from projecting into contact with a box that may be placed close to the box described, as indicated by dotted lines in Fig. 3, andIthus have a box which can be closely packed with other boxes, and without danger of injuring one another by any pro-1 jecting parts of the catches thereon.

The body of the lid B is depressed in line with the opening d to form a down wardly-projecting part, j, as indicated in Figs. 2 and 8. This depressed part j enters between the ledges e c, and between the edges of the front a and back b, coming into close contact with said edges and ledges. as shown, and produces thus a joint suflciently tight to prevent dust from reaching the spools when the lid is closed. Spool-cotton has heretofore been packed by the dozen spools in paper wrappers, which the retail dealer had to tear in case he wished to expose the contents for inspect-ion, or for selling a few of the spools. The. spools remaining in the torn wrapper were thereupon freely exposed to dust and injury, and the wrapper presented, moreover, an unsightly appearance. But my improved box can be freely opened to allow the inspection or partial removal of its con tents, and will, when reclosed, properly protect the remaining contents, and never change its shape. The box may be made of semi-cylindrical front and back, With the lid B, having the curved front lap h, substantially as Aherein shown and described.

3. The combination of the box A,havng semi-cylindrical front and back, with thel lid B having curved 'front lap h, and With the catch 11, which is attached to thelower part of the curved front, substantially as herein shown and described.

The foregoing description' of my invention signed by methis 2d day of March, 1877.

RALPH TRAUTMANN.

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ERNEST C. WEBB, F; v. BBrEsEN.

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