US334826A - tiptoe - Google Patents

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ePClFICATII forming part of Letters @atente No. :g-E28, daec'anuary'zs, 11886.

Application filed May 11, 1885. Serial No. 165,004. (No model.)

Tolail whom it may concern.:

-Beit known that I, NELSON F. Tieren, a Acitizen of the United States, residing at Bald win City, in the county of Douglas and ffl of Kansas, have invented certain new and i. ful Improvements in Egg-Trays, of which following is a specifcation,..reference had thereinto the accompanying drawin 'My invention relates to improveinWV in egg-'trays and in the means of packingtlie same in barrels or boxesv for shipping; and it consists of trays made of pasteboard, carel-board,- veneer, or other suitable material provided with a series of circular openings, and paper 'pockets secured therein, and so arranged that when said egg'trays are properlyvitted in a barrel orbox and their pockets, as well as the spaceabetneen saidmoelr etsare filled .with eggs they can readily be placed one on top of the other, and the eggs thusbe shipped to any distance. 1

The invention will first be`hereinafter described, and then specifically set forth in the claims. 1

Figure l`vrepresents a top view of my improved egg-trayfor usein a rectangular packing-box. Fig. 2 is a view ofthe same, showing the under egg-trays in dotted lines. Fig. 3 represents a top view of a circular egg-tray, to be used.in a barrel. Fig. 4 is avertical section on linex x, Fig. 2, of a portion ef a box and trays arranged as in Fig'. 2. Fig. 5 represents one of 'the blanks from which the egg-pockets are formed. Fig. 6 is a perspective view of one of the'blanks curled and .formed into a pocket, ready for use, and Fig.'

7 is a full-size pocket in section.

Like letters refer to like parts in the figures. In the drawings, A represents an egg-tray made of pasteboard, card-board, vencer, or

`any other suitable material, and composed of three parts. A and A2 represent the upper and lower sheets,having a series of circular perforations,

a, large enough to receive an egg. Said sheets can be made of different forms and sizes, rectangular'to :it in a box, and round to enter a barrel. The pockets B are formed of strong Manila paper bentin the form of a blunt cor-v nucopia, having its small end. out off' or perforated, and its rim flanged outwardly to rest p upon the lower sheet, and become secured between the two sheets A and A2 by means of paste or glue., while the body ofthe pockets passes through the perforatiens a. The pockets are made ont of a semicircnlar blank. (Represented in Fig. 5.) lt is slightly dampened and coiled into a cornucopia, v.and the rim b bent outwardly, as in Fig. 6. The surface ofthe sheet' vA3 is covered with glue, and the egg-pockets placed in the perforations a. Then the sheet A is placed upon the sheet A2, and united or com.-

dried or hardened the tray, is ready for use.v

The rectangular trays in Figs. l and 2 are represented as having narrow margins C and .pressed together, and when the glued has wide margins C' from its edges t'o the side of the pockets B, and the distances .between the pockets being all alike when 'the trays are filled' withveggs and properly placed in a box,

as shown in Figs and 4,' Vthe narrow" margins C are placed above the wide margins C', and' the wide margins C placed above the narrow margins C ofthe tray below. The bottom openf ings,b',of the pockets B of the upper tray thusAv rest upon the solid foundation C between four pockets of the tray below. Thus the points of the eggs in the upper tray are standing in the space termed by the butts of the eggs in the tray below, and as the spaces between the circular openings in the'pasteboard 1s re-en `forced; by the dange b of the vcups these openings can be made sofclose together'that each,

egg is protected by the adjoining cups, andI am enabled to pack more eggs in the same space than is done in egg-packers unprovided with paper pockets. Each egg is firmly held point and' butt lby the pockets in.the trays. The saine result is obtained with circular eggtrays for barrels, as shown in Fig. 3, by giving every alternate tray a quarter-revolution from the tray under it, thus placing the narrow margin C of the trays above'the-wide margin C of the, tray below until the box or barrel is filled: 4' n l am aware that egg-cells have been made of rubber, flannel, and cloth, land that eggtrays havebeen made of pasteboard, and of paperpulp properly pressed or molded, and, do not claim any of these materials.

claim--v l. in an egg-tray, the combination ofVA the sheets A and A2, provided with perforationsl 10o Having now fully described myinvent'on I a, with the pockets B, formed of paper coiled as a eornucopimend having a. anged rim, b, and opening b', substantially as and for the purpose described. r 5 2. In an egg-tray, the combination of the sheet A2, having perforations a, and pockets each consisting of conieally-coiled paper having its outer rim flanged `and cemented tothe sheet A2, substantiallyl'vas and for the purpose io described..

3. An egg cell consisting of paper conically coiled and molded, and having an opening in its small end and a flange, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I- afx my signature in I 5 presence of two witnesses.

NELSON F. TIPTON.

Vitness'es: j

A. G. PASLEY, MICHEL DYER.

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