US1946808A

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Publication number: US1946808A
Application number: US491342A
Authority: US
Inventors: Ralph S Peirce
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 1930-10-27
Filing date: 1930-10-27
Publication date: 1934-02-13
Anticipated expiration: 1951-02-13

Description

Feb. 13, 1934. R. s. PEIRCE 1,946,808

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6 Claims.

This invention relates to packages more particularly for articles having separable parts such as expansion bolts, and aims to provide an improved package which may be conveniently and economically assembled and which has relatively great strength and rigidity, while at the same time permitting the separable parts to be arranged in a manner facilitating ready use of the articles.

Among other objects, the invention permits of separating the nuts for the bolts from the shanks of expansion bolts and segregating these parts during shipment, thus effecting a saving in labor which would otherwise be required first, by the manufacturer, to place the nuts on the shank, and later, by the customer, to remove the nuts from the shanks before the bolts could be used. As a further object, the invention provides for assembling the bolt shanks and the separable expansion members in units without the nuts, and maintaining the shanks and separable expansion members in. normal assembly during shipment and until the bolts are used and the nuts applied, thus effecting great convenience and a further saving in labor.

The invention contemplates further an orderly assembly of the article units and the maintaining of said units and their separable parts in substantially fixed relationship during shipment, so as to minimize movement of the articles within the package. By means of the substantial rigidity thus attained, the articles may be shipped in a relatively light carton, without objectionable rattling or danger of breaking the carton, since the mass of the articles maintains its original volume without shaking down as usually occurs with articles packed in a mass at random. Such shaking down is highly objectionable since it renders difficult the choosing of the correct size of carton for a given num ber of articles, and when the articles have been shaken down and thus occupy less space, the carton tends to become broken both bythe thrusts of the articles upon the interior of the carton and the pressure of other packages upon the now partially empty carton. My'invention obviates this and permits a number of packages to be juxtaposed and the strains distributed equally throughout the entire mass.

The invention will be explained more fully by reference to the illustrative embodiment thereof shown in the accompanying drawing, in which the invention is applied to expansion bolts.

In the drawing, Fig. 1 is a plan view of a pack age embodying my invention, the cover of the package being omitted and the other parts being broken away for convenience of description; Fig. 2 is a section taken on the line 22 of Fig. 1, but with the cover in place; Fig. 3 is a section taken on the line 3-3 of Fig. 2; Fig. 4 is 1930. Serial No. 491,342

a perspective view of the parts shown in Fig. 1, broken away for convenience; and Fig. 5 is an exploded view of the separable parts of an expansion bolt.

Since my invention finds particular utility in the packaging of expansion bolts, I have illustrated one such bolt which frequently consists of a shank l and separable expansion members such as the conical member 2, the cylindrical member 3, and the washer 4. When the conical member 2 and the cylindrical member 3 are slid upon the shank 1, as shown in Fig. 3, the

members

2 and 3 being bored concentrically with the shank, the conical member 2 contacts with the cone-like head In of the shank and the cylindrical member 3 contacts with the conical member 2. If the washer 4, which is of relatively hard metal, be then placed upon the shank to contact with the cylindrical member 3 and a blow be dealt to the washer upon its entire face, the cone-like head 1a will spread laterally the conical member 2, which is of softer metal than the head, and the conical member 2 will spread laterally the cylindrical member 3 which is of still softer metal than the conical member 2. The washer is desirably of larger diameter than the softer parts to prevent the softer metal from flowing up around the washer when the latter is struck. Thus if the bolt be located in a recess drilled in concrete, for example, the lateral expansion of the

members

2 and 3 will lock the bolt to the concrete and pre vent its withdrawal from the recess. An object may then be secured to the bolt by means of the nut 5.

Obviously, until the bolts have been put into use as just described, when the nut 5 is off the bolt, the

parts

2, 3 and 4 are in slidable separable relation with respect to the shank 1. In order to save labor of the user, the

parts

1, 2, 3 and 4 should desirably be assembled at the factory and shipped in assembled condition.

If the nut 5 also be applied to the shank of the bolt however, to retain the other parts in assembled condition, the nut would have to be removed before the bolt could be used, and the labor thus involved would offset any saving in labor to the user by having the parts shipped to him in assembled condition. My invention permits of shipping the parts in assembled condition without the necessity of applying the nuts to hold the other parts together.

I have shown a box such as the carton 6 adapted to receive a quantity of bolts in parallel rows with the heads of the bolts resting on the bottom of the carton. The carton has the usual cover '7 which may conveniently telescope upon the carton 6. The upper ends of the bolts desirably terminate short of the upper ends of the carton 6 to provide a space between the bolts and the cover 7 for a container such as the envelope 8 in.

which may be placed the nuts 5 for the bolts. The envelope may then be sealed if desired.

It will be observed that the separable parts of the bolts as here shown, with the exception of the nuts, are in normal assembly in the carton 6. These parts are maintained in said normal assembly during shipment by means next described.

To conveniently define parallel rows of the bolts, I place thin division strips 9 made of cardboard or other suitable inexpensive material in the carton 6, said division strips being disposed between and contacting with the slidable members here shown as the conical member 2 and the cylindrical member 3, but not extending above the outer ends of said members. For instance, the division strips 9 may conveniently terminate below the washer 4, as shown in Figs. 2, 3 and 4.

To keep the separable parts of the bolt on the shank 1, I provide a filler between the separable members and the end of the bolt which is opposite the head la, and means maintaining said filler in position to prevent the separable parts from sliding off or otherwise becoming removed from the shank. In the illustrative construction, the filler strips 10 contact with the washers 4. These filler strips extend across the carton 6 and are desirably transverse to the division strips 9, thus contributing strength to the package. There is a filler strip between each two adjacent rows of bolts and the filler strip is of sufficient thickness to prevent the separable parts of both rows of bolts from passing the filler strip. To maintain the filler strips in position, I have shown a keeper sheet 11 transverse to the bolts and to the filler strips. As illustrated in this instance, the filler strips 10 extend above the threaded ends of the bolts and the keeper sheet 11 contacts with the filler strips. The keeper sheet is maintained in position by means contacting with the cover of the box. As shown, the envelope 8, already referred to as a container for the nuts 5, is disposed upon the keeper sheet 11. Thus, when the cover 7 is upon the carton 6, as shown in Figs. 2 and 3, and secured in position by any suitable means (not here shown) the parts are maintained in assembly. The package has great strength and rigidity, rattling of the parts is minimized, and a relatively light carton suffices for carrying a relatively heavy weight without danger of breakage of the carton.

When the cover is removed by the user, the parts of the bolts with the exception of the nuts, are in normal assembly for ready use and the nuts are conveniently segregated.

Such changes be made as fall within the scope of the following claims without departing from the invention.

Having thus described my invention I claim:

1. A package for expansion bolts including a plurality of bolts arranged in parallel rows in a box; a separable member disposed on the shank of each or said bolts and contacting with the head of each of said bolts; thin division strips between said separable members, said division strips defining said parallel rows; parallel filler strips transverse to thin strips and contacting with the separable members, said filler strips disposed between the portions of the shanks of said bolts not occupied by the separable members; a keeper sheet transverse to said bolts and contacting with said iiller strips; and a container for the nuts of said bolts contacting with said keeper sheet and with the cover for said box.

2. A package for expansion bolts including a plurality of bolts arranged in parallel rows; separable members disposed on the shanks of said bolts and in contact with the heads of said bolts; filler strips between the portions of the shanks of said bolts not occupied by said separable members, said filler strips defining said parallel rows and contacting with said separable members to maintain said separable members in contact with the heads of said bolts; a keeper sheet transverse to said bolts and contacting with said filler strips; and means for maintaining all of said contacts.

3. A package for expansion bolts including a plurality of bolts arranged abreast; slidable members disposed on the shanks of said bolts; filler strips between the portions or" the shanks of said bolts not occupied by said slidable members, said filer strips preventing movement of said slidable members off said shanks; a keeper sheet transverse to said bolts and said filler strips to prevent displacement of said filler strips from between said bolts; and a container for the nuts of said bolts contacting with said keeper sheet.

4. A package for having a separable member including a plurality of bolts arranged in parallel rows in a box, the heads of said bolts being in the same plane and each of said bolts having a separable member disposed upon the shank of said bolt and in contact with each of said heads; th sion strips between said separable said parallel rows; filler strips at c said thin strips and contacting members, said filler s I the pcrtions of the shanks or" bolts not occupied by said separable members; a keeper sheet transverse to said bolts and said filler strips to prevent displacement of said filler strips from between said bolts.

5. A method of packaging expansion bolts which comprises asser cling the shanks of said belts with the expansion pr ducing members of said bolts on said shanks, arranging said bolts in upright position in parallel rows in a box, the heads of said bolts contact i; with the bottom of said box, placing thin division strips between said rows, said division s terminating short of the portions of said shanks not occupied by said expansion producing members, inserting relatively thick filler strips between the portions of said shanks not occupied by said expansion producing members, said filler strips being at right angles to said division strips and contacting with the upper ends of said expansion producing members, placing a keeper sheet 0 the upper ends of said shanks to prevent displacement of said filler strips, placing the nuts for said bolts in a separate container, disposing said container upon said keeper sheet, placing cover on said box to contact with said container, and securing said cover.

6. A package for an article having a head and a shank and having a separable member thereon slidably receiving the shank therethrough and abutting the head, said siidable 1 ember terminating short of the end of the shank, and comprising a container having two parallel portions receiving a plurality of the articles with the separable members thcreon therebetween, one of said portions abutting the heads of the articles; a filler abutting the separable members and extending along the shan between the separable members and the parallel portion of the container opposite the portion abutting the heads, whereby the separable members are maintained in abutment with the said heads.

RALPH S. PEIRCE.