US343493A

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Publication number: US343493A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1886-06-08
Anticipated expiration: 1903-06-08

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I. H. RICHARDS.

BUTTON FASTENEB. PACKING OAS-E. No. 343,493 Patented June 8, 1886.

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FRANCIS H. RICHARDS, OF SPRINGFIELD, MASS, ASSIGNOR TO THE AMERI- CAN BUTTON FASTENER COMPANY, OF NEWV BRITAIN, CONN.

BUTTON-FASTENER PACKING-CASE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 343,493, dated June 8, 1886.

Application filed August 6, 1885.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, FRANCIS H. RICHARDS, of the city of Springfield, in the county of Hampden, State of Massachusetts, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Button-Fastener Packing-Cases, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to packing cases for the one prong button fasteners (and ethers similar thereto) which are shown and described in United States Patent No. 3l4,68t, dated March 31, 1885, the object being to furnish a case adapted to hold them in a row, and from which they may be conveniently discharged into the magazine of a button fastenersetting machine.

To this end the invention consists in theimpro'vements hereinafterdescribed and claimed.

in the drawings accompanying and forminga part of this specification, Figure l is a per spective view of a packingcase embodying my improvements. Fig. 2 isa crosssectional view of the case filled with fasteners. Fig. 3 is aside view, partially in section, otthe same. Fig. 4 illustrates the manner of breaking the preferred form of case to discharge the fasteners therefrom into magazine M of a buttonfastener-setting machine.

Similar characters designate like parts in all the figures.

The fasteners above specified, (designated by F,) being T-shaped,substantially as shown, are adapted to be held by their three points viz., the point of the prong 2 and the two Accordingly I make the case of a triangular cross-sectional form, its three angles 5, 6, and 7 corresponding to the aforesaid three points ofthe fastener. The upper wall of the case (see Figs. 2, 3, and 4) has a central longitudinal under cut or score, 8, dividing it into two parts, 11 12, the side walls, 13 let, being joined to the opposite edges of the upper one, and their lower edges brought together at 5. A thin cover, 15, is

then pasted over said lower edges or entirely Serial No. 173,776. (No model.)

around the walls to temporarily hold them together, and when it is filled over the ends of the case, as at l(5,Fig. 3, thereby completing it. Ordinarily the walls are made of common strawboard, reduced in thickness by a scoring out where they join, and the cover ofsome kind of thin colored paper usually used for covering paper boxes.

To discharge the fasteners into magazine M or elsewhere, the operator takes the case by the corners l5 and 7 and presses down the middle of the upper wall, asin Fig. 4. This forces prongs 2 downward and breaks open angle 5, which allows side walls, 13 14, to separate and the fasteners to fall.

It will be understood that the covering 15 is used merely as a convenient means for temporarily securing together walls 18 14 at angle 5. \Vhen so employed, said covering need not extend the whole length of the case, but at the ends only. Neither isit essentialthata paper pasted on should be used, as a rubber band, asindicated at 18, Fig. 1, placed over the ends will serve about as well. In this event, however, a separate end stop must be used. This may be ashort block inserted and secured into the end of the case, as I have shown inanother application.

Having thus described my invention, I claim The improved button-fastener packing-case herein described, it comprising an upper wall corresponding in width to the length of a fastener-head, and partially divided by a longitudinal cut on its inner side, two side walls joined to said upper Wall by a reduced thickness and brought together at the fastenerpoint, and means, substantially as described, for detachably holdingsaid side walls together at their unjoined edges, substantially as set forth, and for the purpose specified.

FRANCIS H. RICHARDS. lVitnesses:

FRANK H. PIERPONI, ROBERT L. PEGK.