US254899A - Shipping-case for jars and bottles - Google Patents

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- (MOdL) B. S. ATWOOD.

SHIPPING CASE FOR JARS AND BOTTLES No. 254,899. Patented Mar. 14,1882.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

BENJAMIN S. ATVVOOD, OF SOUTH ABINGTON STATION, MASSACHUSETTS.

SHIPPING-CASE FOR :JARS AND BOTTLES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters'Patent No. 254,899, dated March 14, 11882. Application filetl July 30, 1881. (Model) To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, BENJAMIN S. Arvvoon, acitizen of the United States, residingat South Abington Station, in the county of Plymouth and State ot'Massachusetts, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Shipping- Oases for Jars and Bottles; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being bad to the accompanying drawings, and to letters or figures of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

The present invention relates to that class of packing-boxes or shipping-cases having racks or cells for receiving and retaining bottles, jars, or other objects.

The object of the invention is to simplify the construction of the box, so as to better adapt it for retaining the strips or bars constituting the rack and permit the latter to be easily removed for cleaning the box.

Another object is to strengthen the ends of the box and render the same air-tight by 10- cating a covering-piece on the inside of the customary hand-holes or openings.

To these ends the invention consists in the,

construction and combination of parts, which will hereinafter be more fully described, and then set forth in the claims.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a longitudinal section of a packing-box embodying my improvements. Fig. 2 is a transverse section of the same. Fig. 3 is an end elevation representing the hand-hole closed at its inner side. Fig. 4: is a detail top view of the end of the box.

The sides of the box are preferablyconstructed of a bottom board, A, and a thinner top board, B, so as to cause said bottom board to project beyond the upper one at the inside of the box, as is clearly shown in the drawings. Vertical grooves or gains a are cut in the face of the projecting portion of the bottom board for receiving the ends of crossstrips O, which, in connection with the longitudinal strips D, lct into the same, constitute a rack or a series of cells.

The sides of the box, instead of being made of two boards, may each be formed of a single board or panel, which is cut so as to have its bottom thicker than its top portion for the above-mentioned object.

The heads or ends of the box are constructed of an outside board, E, an interior board, F, and vertical pieces G at the sides of the latter. The outside board, E, is generally cut so as to form a projecting portion, H, on its inner side, in which are cut the vertical grooves 01 for receiving the ends of the longitudinal strips D. The interior board, F, rests upon the ledge formed by the projecting portion H of the board E, and the vertical pieces G, located at the sides of the board F, extend from the top to the bottom of the box, and its inner surface is flush with the surface of the board F.

The vertical pieces are cut so as to have the grain of the wood run crosswise or contrary to the grain of the boards E F, and in this Way I attain increased strength at the ends of the box. A hand-hole, K, cut in each end board, E, has its edges beveled or rounded off, and at the top edge of said hand-hole the board E is out out or reduced in thickness, so as to permit the fingers of the person to enter the space or recess formed between said end board and the inside or covering board, F. The latter is hollowed out or provided with a cavity, I, opposite the opening in the inner board, E, the upper portion of said cavity being the deepest, so as to afford space for the introduction of the hand.

It will be manifest that the ends of the box are perfectly air-tight, or, in other words, air cannot pass through the hand-holes, and for this reason the contents of the box are kept warmer in winter and eooler in summer, the consumption of ice being also less than if the ends were left open. The main object of having the interior bottom portion of the sides and ends of the box project beyond the upper ting the strips forming said rack to be easily inserted and removed. Hence the box can be cleaned with greater facility than boxes provided with racks secured in the ordinary way. The cover J of the box is secured or locked by any approved fastening device.

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

end heads, consisting of an outside apertured the lower interior portion of its sides and ends board, two vertical strips or bars, and a smallprojecting inwardly beyond said upper porer interior board having a cavity, with the side tion and provided with vertical grooves, in boards, the cover, and the rack let into the 5 combination with the strips of the rack, del side boards and end heads, as and for the purtachably fitted in said grooves, substantially pose set forth.

1. A packing-box or shipping-case having as herein set forth. In testimony whereofI affix my signature in 2. The box-head having a hand-hole, and an presence of two Witnesses. interior covering-board provided with a cavity B. S. ATWOOD.

10 located opposite said hand-hole, as and for the I Witnesses:

purpose set forth. E. W. COBB,

3. In a packing-box, the combination of the A. R. PRATT.

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