US347835A

US347835A - John shibley

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Publication number: US347835A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1886-08-24
Anticipated expiration: 1903-08-24

Description

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BGG CARRIER.

Patented Au @Niro STATES PATENT @Erica JoHN sHIBLEY, or NEW YORK, N. Y.

EGG-CARRIER.

EPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N0. 347,835, dated August 24, 1886.

Application filed January 1G, 1886. Serial No. 189,351.

v to hold the eggs, and usually made of pasteiro board or other thin material. Heretofore the cells of such egg-carriers have been made rigid, and held rigidlyin the frame or tray that surrounds theiu. rIhis is objectionable, as the walls composing the cells are thus made so firm that the eggs are liable to be broken from contact with them, and the eggs, being held between unyielding'walls, are subjected to such motion and jar in transportation as is liable to injure the quality of the eggs.

The object of my invention is to overcome this difficulty; and to this end my invention consists, principally, in constructing the carrier to permit the cells to yield to the weight of the eggs.

Another object is to strengthen the construction of the carrier, which is accomplished by securing the cells'in the tray by folding the upper edge of the latter over the outer rows ot' cells, thus forming a stiffening or strengthening rim about the upper edges of the carrier.

The invention also consists of the special construction of the tray and cells, all as hereinafter described'and claimed.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure lis a perspective view of my new and improved egg-carrier. Fig. 2 is a sectional elevation of the same; and Fig. 3 is a detailed perspective view showing the preferred construction of the cells.

A representsa shallow boX or tray, made by preference of pasteboard, and BB represent a series of cells, of suitable size to hold eggs, located within the tray A. Between the cells and the tray is a space, C, to permit the cells to yield slightly as the weight of the eggs shifts in the cells, so the eggs will not break, and so they will not be subjected to sudden (No model.)

' jar or motion, but will be cushioned, as. it

were, in the cells. In order to form the spaces C, I form the tray A with its side walls, a, inclined inward and the cells with Vertical walls. The cells are formed ofthe parallel strips b b b2 and, the opposite strips,c c c2, oppositely slotted, as shown at d d', to be locked together at right angles to each other. rIhe whole are held in place in the tray A by the tongues e, formed at the upper edges of the walls a of the tray A, being folded over and secured to the upper edges of the outer strips, b b'Z and e e2, composing the cells. In this manner the cells are held in the tray only at their upper edges, as the lower edges of the walls composing them are not attached to the bottom of the tray, but are free to move in either direction, which the spaces G permit. The walls b b`l and e e in this manner, being bound at their upper edges and free at their lower edges, and unsupported at their outer surfaces, ac t as cushions or springs to all the eggs place..L l.. the cells, so they will be reliev ed from all sudden j ar and danger of being broken with ordinary handling. The walls a being inclined inward forni a very firm and strong tray, and the tongues e, being made integral with the side walls and folded over the outer strips of the cells, form a kind of lrim at the top ofthe carrier, which greatly increases its rigidity and durability. The ends of the strips or opposite partitions, b c, composing the cells, at their ends where they reach beyond the outer walls, bl c c2, are folded flat against the said walls and pasted down, asshown in Fig. 3, so that all of the strips composing the cells are thus united, and the outer walls act to cushion all the eggs in the carrier.

Having thus fully described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- 1. In an egg-carrier, the cells B B, having yielding side walls, in combination with the tray A, constructed to form a space, C, about the cells, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

2. The tray gA, having inwardly-inclined side walls, a, in combination with a series of cells, B, formed in the tray, substantially as IOO 3. The tray A, formed with tongues e, in with the strips forming thc cells placed verconlbination with the cells B, the tongues botically 'in the tray and held by bhetongues e, ing folded over the outer strips composing the substantially as described.

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