US2349364A - Chick shipping box - Google Patents

Description

May 23, 1944.

R. c. MARSHALL, JR

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signor to Crook Paper Box Company, North Kansas City, Mo., a corporation of Missouri Application June 12, 1942, Serial No. 446,727

1 Claim.

This invention relates to collapsible contain era and particularly to cartons known in the trade as shipping boxes for chicks and has for a pary object to provide a strong, durle and safe shipping box that is selfsupportand interlocked in an unique manner.

a the invention has for one of its primary obiects to provide a shipping box for live, baby chicks or the like, the inter-engaging side walls whereof are provided with integral locking elets in the general nature of a loop, which loop circumscribes a portion of one of the walls and is held in operative position without the use of staples, brads or other conventional metallic fastening means.

This invention has for another object to provide a partitioned shippin box of the aforementioned type, said partitions being'interlocked with the side walls of the box section through the medium of a specially designed tongue, the form of which assumes the character of a loop completely circumscribing a portion of the side walls of the box set off between specially arranged slots.

This invention has for a still further aim to provide a shipp box for chicks or the like, the parts of which are securely interlocked by integral extensions provided on certain of the side walls and on the partitions thereof. all of which permits the employment of corrugated box board or relatively thin chip board for the manufacture of the box.

A yet further object of this invention is to provide a shipping box for live, baby chicks that may be transported to the point of use in a flat, knocked-down condition and there set up without the employment of special stitching means or the like, which box when assembled, will be strong, self-supporting and without objectionable proiections likely to damage the live chicks as the same are transported.

Minor objects of the invention are important and include specific details of construction, all of which will appear during the course of the following specification, referring to the accompanying drawing wherein:

Fig. 1 is a perspective view of a shipping box section made in accordance with the present invention.

Fig. 2 is an enlarged fragmentary stretch-out view of the parts forming one corner of the tray- Fig. 4 is a fragmentary stretch-out view of one end of the partition; and

Fig. 5 is a fragmentary sectional view taken on line V-V of Fig. 1.

That portion of a. complete shipping box embodying this invention is clearly shown in Fig. l to be a tray-like section 6, having a bottom 8, side walls i0, and end walls l2.

The ends of side walls ID are specially formed as shown in Fig. 2, to present an extension beyond scoring I that comprises a flap l6 and a tongue I8.

Flap i6 is the same width as the height of wall ill, of which it is a part. and in the blank form, extends'longitudinally from the end of the wall where flap and tongue l6 and I8 may cooperate with the adjacent end of wall l2 when section 8 is to be assembled.

A scoring 20 is provided between flap and tongue 16 and I8 and a slot 22 is cut in wall It parallel to scoring I4 and in a position with respect to flap and tongue l6 and 18 as illustrated in Fig. 2. A slot 24 in end wall I2 is parallel to the end of said wall and spaced inwardly a distance substantially the same as the width of flap It. The distance between slot 22 and scoring ll is substantially the thickness of the material from which wall I2 is made. The length of tongue I8 is slightly greater than the distance from the end of wall I2 to slot 24. When such relation 01 parts is established, the interlocking operation will leave the free end of tongue ll projecting through slot 22 a very short distance, as illustrated in Figs. 1 and 3.

A loop is formed of flap l6 and tongue l8 when said tongue is folded back upon flap It with the marginal portion of wall l2 circumscribed as seen in Fig. 3. Each corner of section 6 is constructed as above specified, and when assembled, the-walls l0 and I2 are rigidly interlocked and a strengthened corner is presented.

Corrugated stock may be used when parts are made as described, and no locking elements other than the parts l6, I8, 22 and 24 are needed.

Partitions 28 within section 6 divide the latter into a number of stalls. In the illustrated embodiment, section 6 is sub-divided into four stalls and partitions 26 are each slotted inwardly at a point intermediate their ends to cross as at 28. The end of each partition 26 is specially formed as detailed in Fig. 4. v

A tongue 30 is fashioned by cutting away a part of the stock on each side thereof. A tapered portion 32 is immediately adjacent to the end oi partition 26 and separated therefrom by a scoring 8 An opening Sit provided in the end of partition 26 is parallel to scoring 38 and is spaced inwardly from said scoring a distance substantlally the same as the thickness of the stock from which sides ill and I! are made. A transverse scoring 88 divides tapered portion 32 from the free end portion of tongue 36. The tapered portion 32 has inclined edges 40 which converge from points on the edge of partition 26 as they approach the free end area of tongue 30. Shoulders 42 are thereby established between the points of connection of tongue 30 and the end of partition 2b.

Each wall l and II respectively has a slot 44 and 8 respectively. punched therethrough. Slot 4 is substantially the same length as the distance between the points of connection of edges 40 with shoulders 2. Slot 4! is shorter than slot 44 and of a length slightly greater than the width of tongue 30.

When partitions 26 are moved to place, tongue 30 is first extended through the relatively long slot 44, thence is bent along scoring 34 toward slot 46. The tongue is then bent along scoring 38 and the free end 01' said tongue is moved through slot 46 to the inside of the section, from whence the end of tongue 30 is moved toward and into opening 36 to create a loop as distinctly shown in Fig. 5. The end of tongue 30 projects slightly beyond the face of partition 26 when the parts are assembled, as indicated, and when partitions 26 have the ends interlocked with walls iii and I2, as the case may be, a rigid Joint is set up. These partitions preclude outward bulging of walls It and I2, hold the partitions in an upright condition, and generally strengthen the entire section to As above set down, the material from which the section, as well as the partitions is constructed, may be corrugated stock of relatively thin character but-due to the rigidity inherent in the novel type 01 joints, the entire section is rigid and will withstand hard usage when employed as a shipping box.

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed as new and desired to be secured by Letters Patent is:

In a shipping box of the character described, a tray-like section having a bottom and side walls, each of the latter being provided with a pair of slots in parallel relation, one slot of each pair being longer than the other slot; a partition in the section to divide the same into a number of stalls, said partition having an opening near the end thereof; and a tongue on the partition, extending outwardly through the longer slot in the proximal side wall, thence inwardly through the shorter slot to secure the partition in place, said tongue being extended through the opening in the partition, said tongue having a tapered portion diverging from a point spaced from the free end of the tongue to a line of meeting of the tongue with the partition to create a portion of substantially greater width than the length of said opening in the partition.

' RICHARD C. MARSHALL, JR.

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