US374612A - Crate - Google Patents

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L. MASON 8v G. B. SHAFER.

CRATE. No. 374,612. Y Patented Dec. 13, 1887. 'K`

WITNESSES y INVENTUM Y' .Attorney UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

LovANE MAsoN AND oHARLEs B.v sHAEEn, or eAsroRr, NEW YORK.

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 374.612. dated December 13| 1887- Applicatiou filed September 3, 1887. Serial No. 248,720.

To all whom iz? may concern:

Be it known that we, LOVANE MASON and CHARLES B. SHAFER, citizens ot the United States, residing at Gasport, in the county of Niagara and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvementsin Crates; and we do 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 had to the accompanying drawy ings, and to the letters and figures of reference marked thereon,which form apart of this specitioation.

The object of our invention is to provide a light crate for the transportation of fruit, 85e., said crate being suliciently strong and constructed at such small cost as to be given away by the shipper.

The nature ofour invention will be described below, and pointed out in the claims.

In the drawings, Figure l is a perspective, the cover removed. Fig. 2 is a plan view, the cover removed. Fig. 3 is a broken perspective of the cover. Fig. 4 is alongitudinal vertical section, the cover removed.

Like letters refer to like parts.

The material used is wooden stripping about oneeighth of an inch thick, and basswood will answer the purpose well. Vhere said stripping turns a. corner, it is cut or scored nearly through, so as to bend easily without breaking or splitting, and where there are two or more thicknesses they are held together by tacks, the points of which may be bent in.

A crate may be made up as follows: ll'he strip a forms a part of an end, A, of the box, is then bent at right angles and forinsaside, B, and is again bent at right angles and extends half across the other end, A', of the box. Under the last-mentioned .bend of a the strip b extends entirely across the end A of the box, is then bent at right angles and'forms side B',

Y and is then bent again at right angles to overlap the iirstrnentioned bend of t and form a portion of the end A of the box. The bottom C is formed thus: Take a single strip equal to the length of the bottom and the height of the two ends, cut the strip nearly through in two places,which will form three sections, (see Fig.

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4,) bend the end sections to a vertical position, and insert the whole inside of a and b. The middle section will then form abottom proper, C, and the end sections inside linings, cl c, for the ends A A.

Below the center a wide re-eiiforcing-strip, D, extends down one side under the bottom and partly up the other side, the free ends of this strip being held by a wooden strapping, d, which also extends entirely around the crate. The cover Eis made of two strips, e e', one placed inside the other, the parts c2 ci being bent down to form sides and ends. The said strips aretacked together and the free ends are held in place by inside and outside wooden straps, ff.

A crate constructed as above will have two thicknesses at each end and an overlap from the side strip extending vabout one-half across each end, which will give to a portion of said ends three thicknesses. The sides below the ss.v

strap d are double, also the bottom, on account of strip D. The cover has a double top and single sides and ends. Though the crate will be light it will have ample strength, and at the places where itis most needed. When the cover is fastened with basket-hooks or strings, it makes aperfect handle to carryT by. The trade demands a gift-crate,77 and our device meets the demand andatthe same time furnishes a crate strong enough to transport fruit, e., to any distance. It will be understood that the crate is filled with wooden shelves and boxes, but it is not necessary to show them.

Having fully described our invention,what we claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent is 1. Thecombination, with the strippings a and b, each comprising an end and side portion, both side portions being horizontally overlapped, in full width upon opposite end portions to cover aboutone-half the width of the latter, of the stripping C, comprising a bottom portion and also two end portions extending upward inside of the endl portions of a and b, and of a width substantially equal to that of the said end portions of a and 1J, as set forth.

2. In a crate, the combination, with the IOO strips a and b, bent to form the ends and sides In testimony-Whereofwe affix our signatures and terminating in end overlaps at opposite in presence of two Witnesses.

corners, of the bottom-forming strips C, hav- LOVANE MASON.

ing Vertical extensions or end linings, c, the CHARLES B. SHAFER. 5 re-enforce or double bottom D, and the wooden Witnesses:

strap d, extending around the crate, as set DAN E. CHAPIN, forth. SAML. MEsLER.

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