US2167691A

US2167691A - Cover construction

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Publication number: US2167691A
Application number: US157476A
Authority: US
Inventors: Louis A Shoemaker; Andrew E Miller
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 1936-06-08
Filing date: 1937-08-05
Publication date: 1939-08-01
Anticipated expiration: 1956-08-01

Description

L. A. SHOEMAKER ET AL 2,%7,69K

COVER CONSTRUCT ION Aug 12 m ori inal Filed June 3,. 13%

arm/way Mal/er Patented Aug. 1, 1939 5 167,691

2,167,691 COVER. CONSTRUCTION Louis A. Shoemaker, Carleton, Mich, and Andrew E. Miller, Terre Haute, Ind.; said Miller assignor to said Shoemaker Original. application June 8, 1936, Serial No. 84,052. Divided and this application August 5, 1937, Serial No. 157,476

4 Claims. (Cl. 229-44) This invention relates to baby chick boxes, and together through the medium of the two downmore particularly to those that have a cover comwardly converging walls I! and [9, which latter posed of sections that can be opened and closed are integrally united at their lower edges, so that separately, so that the interior of the box can be the entire cover, comprising the two sections and divided into compartments, one or more of which the said partition wall, is formed from a single 5 can be opened without opening the others. Y blank, the free or swinging ends of the two cover This is a division of application Serial No. sections having upturned portions?! and 21 that 84,052, filed June 8, 1936, by L. A. Shoemaker and engage underneath the horizontal top wall 6 of A. E. Miller for Chick box. the body of the box, as shown more clearly in 10 Generally stated, the object of the invention Fig. 2 or the drawing, when the cover sections 10 is to provide a novel and improved construction are in closed position. whereby the cover of a chick box of this kind com- The interior of the boxhas a longitudinal parprises two sections that can be opened and closed tition wall 28, held in'place in .anyflsuitable or separately, but which are integral with each desired manner, and this wallis provided with other, through the niedium of a double thickness shoulders 3| to engage upstanding portions 21 16 partition in the body of the box, the edges of and 21, in the manner shown, thus maintaining the cover sections having bendable tabs to engage these portions of i the cover in vertical position. the side walls of the box, when the cover sections Each top wall'i has its middle portion provided are in closed position, thereby in efiect forming with a notch 8, at the inner edge of the top 20 notches for a binding wire or the like, to keep wall, so that two fingers can be inserted back of m the sections closed. either cover portion 21, with one finger at one Another object is to provide an improved conside, and the other finger at the other side of struction and arrangement whereby the said the partition wall 28, thereby to flex and bend cover sections have bendable tabs that can be the-portions 2'I outwardly from under the over- 5 bent down to hold the upper edges of the side hanging inner edges of the walls 6 and 6, which walls of the box against outward displacement. latter serve to hold the free or swinging ends of Another object is to provide a novel and imthe two cover sections in closed position. proved construction and arrangement whereby It will also be seen that the cover sections 25 the said cover sections are conveniently opened and 25 have their side edge Provided with bendby inserting two fingers under the free or swingable tabs 26 that can be bent down to in eflfect 30 ing ends of the cover sections, at the middle of provide notches to receive binding wires 'or other each end, with one finger at one side, and the flexible binding members by which to fasten the other finger at the other side of an interior parcover sections in closed position, after the box tition wall, thereby to disengage said ends from is filled and ready for shipment or transportation.

overhanging portions of the box. In addition, it will be seen that the two cover 35 It is also an object to provide

certain details sections

25 and 25 have bendable tabs 33 that of construction tending to increase the general can be bent down to hold the upper edges of the efllciency and desirability of a chick box cover side walls Il against outward displacement, construction of this particular character. whereby the cover construction contributes to the 40 To the foregoing and other useful ends, the strength and stiffness of the general construction 40 invention consists in matters hereinafter set forth of the box. and claimed and shown in the accompanying It will be seen that the tabs 25 and the tabs 33 drawing, in whichhave outer edges flush with the overhanging side Fig. 1 is a perspective of a chickbox having a edges of the two cover sections. The tabs 26 cover construction embodying the principles of form recesses, when pressed down, for the cords 45 the invention. 1 or wire, and in this way the tabs 25 prevent the Fig. 2 is a longitudinal section on line 2-2 in cords or wire from cutting into the upper edges l of the drawing. of the side walls. The tabs 33 are spaced apart Figs. 3, 4 and 5 are fragmentary views of cerat each side of the box, when pressed down, and

so tain portions of the cover construction, Fig. 3 it is their inner edges that cilectively engage the being a vertical section on line 3-3 in Fig. 1 of side walls. the drawing, and Fig. 5 being a vertical section on It will be seen that the projections 34 on the line 5--5 in Fig. 4 of the drawing. opposite ends of the transverse partition wall I9 As thus illustrated, the invention comprises and I9, which extend. through the side walls the

cover sections

25 and 25, integrally connected 0! the box, co-operate with the tabs 33 to hold 55 the cover sections in position, when the cover is closed, and that in this way a very effective and tight cover construction is provided. It is also obvious that the tabs 33 serve to hold the cover sections in place, relatively to the openings 8 and 8, so that the latter are centered over the longitudinal partition, thus again insuring accuracy of position of all parts of the cover when the latter is closed.

What we claim as our invention is:

1. In a baby chick box, or box for other purposes, means forming bottom and side and end walls for the body of the box, and a folding cover construction comprising two upwardly opening cover sections, the overhanging edges of the cover sections having corner tabs flush with the said edges of the sections that are depressible downwardly away from each other, at each side of the box, to engage with their inner edges the outer surface of the side wall sections, holding the upper middle portion of the latter against outward displacement, with a space between the two depressed tabs at each side of the box.

2. A structure as specified in claim 1, the two cover sections being connected together by an integral double partition wall dividing the box into two compartments, one under each cover section, and the ends of which partition wall are held against the side walls by said tabs.

3. A structure as specified in claim 1, comprising a transverse partition having end portions projecting through the side walls, co-operating with said tabs to hold said cover sections in place, when in closed position.

4. A structure as specified in claim 1, comprising top walls having openings in the inner edges thereof, at the longitudinal center of the box, with a longitudinal partition extending under said openings, said cover sections having upstanding openings by said tabs, when the cover is closed.

LOUIS A. SHOEMAKER. ANDREW E. MILLER.