US662424A - Egg-case filler. - Google Patents

Description

No. 662,424. Patented Nov. 27,1900.

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(No Modem eight points in the circumference, while in WILLIAM HENRY HANSELL, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

EGG-CASE FILLER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 662,424. dated November 27, 1900.

Application filed June 21, 1900.

T0 cir/ZZ whom, t may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAMHENRY HAN- SELL, of the city and county of Philadelphia, in the State of Pennsylvania, have invented an Improvementin Egg-Case Fillers, of which the following is a specification.

My invention has reference to egg-case fillers; and it consists of certain improvements which are fully set forth in the following specification and shown in the accompanying drawings, which form a part thereof.

My invention has for its object the construction of an egg-case filler of cardboard or similar material which shall be cheaply made in a condensed condition and which may be stretched out and form a substantially square or rectangular frame to produce a series of connected compartments of special shape,into which the eggs may be placed and packed for Shipment.

In carrying out my invention I form the ller of a series of superimposed strips of cardboard scored or weakened at intervals to insure bending at the proper places and in the proper directions, said series of cardboard strips being cemented or fastened at inter- Vals in such a manner that when the completed structure is stretched out the said strips of cardboard bend in such forms as to constitute a substantially square or rectangular cellular structure formed with a series of parallel rows of octagonal tubular compartments separated by the series of rows of tubular chambers having polygonal outlines of sub stantially rectangular form, with the two opposite sides thereof bent outward, forming a polygon of ten sides. This construction is such that the eggs are supported in the best possible manner to be shielded against breakage. In these compartments having the heX- agonal construction the egg is supported in the case of those having the ten sides the egg is supported at six points; but the points of support between the eggs of two adjacent rows diagonally considered are out of aliuement, so as to reduce the possibility of breakage by direct pressure of one egg upon the other.

My invention will be better understood by reference to the drawings, in which- Serial No. 21.030. (No model-l Figure 1 is a plan view of an egg-case filler embodyingmyimprovements. Fig.2isanend elevation of same. Fig. 3 is a plan view of the filler when collapsed. Fig. ais an yelevation of one of the strips of cardboard from which the filleris made. Fig. 5 is an edge View thereof. Fig. 6 is an enlarged View of a portion of Fig. l. Fig. 7 is aplan view ot'a modifled form of my invention, and Fig. S is an edge View of the cardboard employed in Fig. 7 for `one of the sections before being used in the process of complete construction.

The filler is designed to hold forty-two eggs7 though the capacity may oe increased or diminished to suit the desire of the manufacturer. Forty-two eggs, however, enable the case to be made square, and hence is the pre ferred number. rlhe liller is composed of a series of strips of pasteboard or other soft or iexible material connected in pairs, said strips being indicated at A Bin Fig. 3. These strips are scored or weakened transversely at points C C at on-e side and at D D on the other side;` They are united together by being pasted at intervals (indicated at ef) to connect, respectively, the parts marked E F. When this is done andthe two sides are spread apart, an octagonal-shaped compartment will be produced. Such a pair of cardboard. strips will produce four octagonal compartments or chambers connected by three walls F, made two-ply. A similar second pair of strips are arranged alongside of the first pair, and the two pairs are connected by having their walls I of the adjacent hexagonal compartments cemented or fastened at t'. This will produce in the completed structure eight octagonal compartments H and four polygonal com partments K, having irregular outlines composed of ten sides. By connecting siX of such pairs of strips together in the same manner and applying a single strip to the outside of the construction so formed we will have the construction illustrated in Fig. l, comprising a filler of forty-two compartments, in which there are twenty-four hexagonatshaped compartments and eighteen of the other polygonal structures.

In Fig. 5 the manner of scoring or weakening the cardboard is indicated at the points cent strip to which it is to be united.

Referring to Fig. 6, the dotted circles indicate the eggs, and it will be seen that the eggs in compartments K are kept considerably separated from the eggs in compartment H by virtue of the fact that the egg in compartment K is received upon the corners 7c of the cardboard, while the eggs in compartments H are supported bythe cardboard walls at h considerably to one side of or out of alinement with the corner 7c. In this manner there is considerable cushioning or elastic support, which greatly increases the safety of the transmission of the crated eggs. In those cases where the eggs are in two adjacent compartments I-I H and two adjacent compartments K K they are separated by walls of pasteboard of double thickness and are therefore in this manner protected against breakage. Any thrust of the eggs on the walls of their supporting-coinpartments which are not in a direct line from compartment H to compartment H or compartment K to compartment K will be more or less received by the elastic supporting-points 7o and h, which will reduce very largely the possibility ot' breakage even under the most disadvantageous conditions. l'

It will be seen from an examination of Fig. l. that the completed ller when stretched out is composed of a series oi' transverse cardboard strips united together at intervals in their length and produce thereby a series of rows of hexagonal-shaped 'compartments H, separated by a series of rows of polygonalshaped compartments having ten sides and producing the oppositely-directed corners 7c, pointing toward the interior of said ten-sided polygon compartments to directly support the eggs therein, the rows formed by the similar adjacent compartments being arranged at right angles to the length of the cardboard strips composing them.

In this construction the two strips A B when united and bent into shape constitute a section which will comprise a number of heX- agonal compartments connected by straight parts. When a number of these sections are connected, they produce the structure illustrated in'Fig. l.

In place of using two cardboard strips AB in pairs in building up the filler I may employ a series of longer cardboard strips, each folded over upon-itself and pasted together atintervals. condition is indicated in Fig. 8, and the hexagonal construction produced thereby is illustrated in Fig. 7, the compartments H and K in this instance being the saine as the correspending compartments in the construction shown in Fig. 1.

I. do not conne myself to the particular length or manner of connecting the strips employed to form the cellular structure so long as a structure of the character illustrated in Fig. l is produced. Therefore while I prefer the manner of building up the structure herein set out I do not conne myself to the minor details thereof.

Having now described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

l. An egg-.case ller formed of flexible material such as cardboard, comprising a series of strips cemented at intervals in their length weakened at intervals on both sides and bent transversely to their length to form a series of rows of clearly-defined octagonal compartments, and a series of interposed rows of clearlydefined polygonalshaped compartments having ten flat sides and inwardlyprojecting clearly-defined corners k as shown.

2. An egg-case filler consisting of a series of sections united together, each section being composed of a series of octagonal compartments connected together by spacingstrips and forming between them series of polygonal-shaped compartments having their side walls provided with inwardly-projecting corners diagonally arranged.

3. An egg-case filler consisting of a series of sections united together, each section being composed of a series of octagonal compartments connected together by spacingstrips, and forming between the octagonal compartments of two adjacent sections polygonal compartments each having four inwardly-projecting corners 7a formed at weakened portions of the strips and in which the distances between the corners diagonally measured are substantially equal.

t. An egg-case filler consisting of a series of sections forming octagonal compartments united together, each section consisting of two strips of flexible material superimposed and united together at the extreme ends and at intervals in the length between the ends on sides of the octagonal and in which the strips between the united parts are scored or weakened in opposite directions so that they may be separated or opened and bent outwardly at said parts to constitute octagonalshaped compartments with clearly-defined outward free corners and forming between them a series of polygonal-shaped compartments having their side walls provided with Such a cardboard strip in folded,

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inwardly-projecting corners diagonally ar- In testimony of which invention l have heren nto set my hand.

WM. HENRY HANSELL.

Witnesses;

R. M. HUNTER, R. M. KELLY.

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