US2739754A - Reinforced carrier receptacle - Google Patents

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March 1956 w. G. ANDERSON, JR 2,739,754

REINFORCED CARRIER RECEPTACLE Filed Feb. 5, 1953 b INVENTOR.

ATTORNEY WILBUR Q. ANDERSON QB.

United States Patent REINFORCED CARRIER RECEPTACLE Wilbur G. Anderson, Jr., Grand Rapids, Mich., assignor to American Box Board Company, Grand Rapids, Mich., a corporation of Michigan Application February 5, 1953, Serial No. 335,315 3 Claims. (Cl. 229-49) The present invention relates to a reinforced carrier receptable, the sides, ends, and bottom of which may be of a paperboard material which, for carrying relatively heavy loads therewithin, is in my invention strongly reinforced so as to be able to sustain the duty to which subjected. The reinforced receptacle is manufactured at relatively low cost and may be used for carrying any merchandise therewithin for which adapted, though in practice it is designed for use and has been used in connection with bottled goods, such as soft drinks or the like, which are put in the carrier receptacles at a bottling works, thence on trucks, and the carriers with the bottles therein delivered to retailers.

It is a primary object and purpose of the present invention to provide a very practical, useful and novel carrier receptacle of the type stated, by means of which strength, sturdiness in structure, durability in use and simplicity and economy in manufacture is attained.

An understanding of the invention may be had from the following description, taken in connection with the accompanying drawing, in which,

Fig. 1 is a plan view of the blank from which the sides, ends and bottom of the carrier receptacle are made.

Fig. 2 is a perspective view of the wire rod reinforcing frame structure used therewith in the completed receptacle.

Fig. 3 is a perspective view showing the paperboard member of the structure in the act of being pushed downwardly over the frame with which it is assembled.

Fig. 4 is a perspective view showing the completed carrier receptacle, and

Fig. 5 is a vertical section taken lengthwise of the receptacle between its opposite sides, substantially upon the plane indicated at V-V in Fig. 4.

Like reference characters refer to like parts in the different figures of the drawing.

Each carrier receptacle is made of two members one of paperboard and the other of wire rod. The paper board blank is of a generally rectangular form which is scored transversely at three spaced lines, as shown in Fig. l, to provide the sides 1 and ends 2 of the receptacle. At the outer free edge of one of the ends 1 is a narrow flap 3 and at the opposite end of the sheet blank of paperboard material is a narrow projecting section 4.

At one of what will be the lower edges of the vertical sides 1 are bottom flaps 5 and, similarly, at the same edge of each of the ends 2 are the bottom flaps 6, which at their end edges are separated by relatively wide slots 7. They are folded inwardly on the scored lines shown between the inner portions of the slots 7, said slots at their inner closed ends extending a short distance inward from such scored lines substantially equal to the width of the slots 7. At the opposite edges of the sides 1 and 2 are other flaps 9, separated by slots 8, of the same width as the slots 7; and each of the flaps 9 is longitudinally scored a short distance inward from its outer free edge to provide a lip 10, parallel to but narrower in width 2,739,754 Patented Mar. 27, 1956 than the remainder of the flap 9 as shown in Fig. 1. Each of the end sections 2 adjacent the flaps 910 is provided with a rectangular hand hole 11. Such member of strong paperboard stock is folded first on the scored lines between the inner ends of the slots 7 and 8 into a rectangular form, the narrow flaps 3 coming within the narrow projection 4, to which it is stapled to make a permanent connection.

The other and the reinforcing member of the receptacle comprises two open end frames, each made of wire rod, of generally rectangular form, having a generally horizontal lower end section 13, from each end of which vertical sections 12 extend upwardly and are connected by an upper cross member 14, the intermediate portion of which is ofiset downwardly to provide a shorter section 15, parallel to the bottom rod 13. Such end frames are connected together by two pairs of parallel spaced horizontal rods 16 and 17. The upper rods 16 at their ends are welded or otherwise permanently connected to the upper corners of the end frames. The rods 17 below them are similarly welded at their ends to the vertical sections 12 of the end frames, being spaced from the upper rods 16 approximately the same distance that the intermediate portions 15 are below the end portions of the upper rods 14 of the end frames.

In the assembly, the paperboard member, after'the flap 3 is stapled to the narrow and long projection 4, so that the paperboard box member is of rectangular form is slid downwardly over the upper end of the frame until an intermediate position between the lower and upper portions of the end frames is reached, sufficiently high that the bottom flaps 6 may be turned inwardly toward each other, prior to which the bottom flaps 5 extending downwardly from the sides 1 are turned inwardly. Thus when the flaps 6, connected at the lower edges of the ends 2, are turned inwardly such flaps are underneath the flaps 5 as shown in Fig. 3. Thereafter the paperboard walls 1 and 2 of the receptacle are forced farther downward until stopped by flaps 6 coming against the bottom sections 13 of the end frames. The assembly of the box is then completed by folding the upper flaps 9 inwardly over the wire 16, thence downwardly underneath the wires 17 with the terminal lips it) forced and pressed upwardly between the upper edge portions of the sides and ends l and 2, and the rods 17 at the sides of the receptacle, and the downwardly extending horizontal portions 15 of the upper sections of the end frames. This interlocks the flaps 9-10 with the upper wire rods 15, 16 and 17 the bottom flaps 6 being held against the lower or bottom sections 13 of such and frames.

The carrier receptacle thus constructed uses a minimum of paperboard material, the waste in connection therewith being negligible. The blanks in the form shown in Fig. l are fabricated at the factory and are shipped in flat form to their destinations, the stapling of the parts 3 and 4 being done at such destinations when the receptacles are assembled. The metal reinforcing member consisting of the several rods or rod sections may be produced, if desired, at a plant equipped for manufacturing the same, relatively closely adjacent the destination or destinations to which the paperboard blanks are sent. The assembly, when finished, provides a complete receptacle which may be reinforced as to the bottom when desired in any of the numerous ways. For example, a rectangular sheet of heavy paperboard may be inserted in the receptacle to bear upon the upper 5, it being understood that the several flaps 5 and 6 at the bottom of the receptacle are located with respect to each other so as to be adapted for sealing in usual and well known manners. In a companion application, filed herewith, there is disclosed a reinforcing bottom of specific form which is of particular utility and advantage in using such receptacles for receiving and transporting side of the flaps bottled goods. However, the present invention is not restricted or limited to the one use; and the reinforced carrier shown, and described herein is a complete article of manufacture in itself whether or not other accessories are added to and used therewith.

The invention is defined in the appended claims and is to be considered comprehensive of all forms of structure coming within their scope.

I claim:

1. In a reinforced carrier receptacle, a reinforcing member comprising two spaced, vertical, open, metallic, generally rectangular end frames, each having a horizontal bottom section, and horizontal metallic side members connecting said end frames, secured thereto at the upper portions thereof, and an enclosure comprising connected vertical sides and ends telescoping over said reinforcing member and having bottom flaps, one connected to each side and each end of said enclosure at the lower edges thereof, the end connected flaps being located above the bottom sections of said end frames of the reinforcing member, and the side connected flaps over said end connected flaps, and means connecting the sides and ends of said enclosure adjacent their upper edge portions to said reinforcing member.

2. A carrier receptacle comprising, a reinforcing member having two spaced, open, vertical end frames of generally rectangular form, having vertical sides, horizontal bottom and generally horizontal upper sides of metal rod material, and horizontal metal rods between said end frames adjacent the upper ends and at each side thereof permanently secured to said end frames, paperboard vertical sides and ends connected together at adjacent vertical edges located outside the sidesand ends of said reinforcing member, and flaps connected one at the lower edge of each of said sides and ends extending inwardly toward each other, with the end connected flaps over and against the horizontal bottoms of end frames, and the side connected flaps above said end connected flaps.

3. A carrier receptacle comprising, an enclosure having spaced vertical sides and ends of paper stock material connected together at adjacent vertical edge portions, each side and. end having a lower edge connected flap, said end and side connectedflaps extending horizontally toward each other, an open rectangular frame having spaced vertical sides, horizontal bottom and upper sections between the sides located, except said bottom sections, at the inner sides of the ends of said enclosure, said end connected flaps being located above adjacent bottom sections of said frames, and said side connected flaps being above the end connected flaps, and means for securing said frames to associated ends of said enclosure.

References Cited in the file of this patent UNITED STATES PATENTS 594,562 Royer Nov. 30, 1897 615,729 Lane Dec. 14, 1898 2,004,197 Ethridge June 11, 1935 2,160,183 Weltrner May 30, 1939 2,173,283 Williams Aug. 22, 1939 2,470,174 Lewis May 17, 1949 FOREIGN PATENTS 541,013 Great Britain Nov. 10, 1941

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