US698061A - Banana-shipping case. - Google Patents

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No. 698,06l. Patented Apr. 22, l902- F. scHmTz. I I BANANA SHIPPING CASE.

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BANANA SHIPPING CASE.

(Application filed Oct. 8, 1900.)

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

. FRANK SCHMITZ, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

BANANA-SHIPPI NG CASE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N 0. 698,061, dated April 22, 1902.

V Applicationfiled October 8, 1900. Serial No. 32,3 18. (No model.) I

T0 at whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FRANK SOHMITZ, a citizen of the United States of America, residing at Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Banana-Shipping Cases, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to certain improvements in banana-shipping cases of the class in which a flexible bag or sack is supported within and preferably out of contact with a comparatively rigid but somewhat elastic crate, so as to avoid bruising the fruit contained in the sack.

More particularly the presentinvention has to do with the construction of the sack and the means by which the same is hung within the crate, the object being to strengthen the case and at the same time economize in material.

To such end the invention consists in certain novel features,'which will be described and defined below.

The invention is illustrated in the drawings by means of the figures, of which Figure 1 is a perspective of a com pletecase. Fig. 2 is a sectional perspective showing the interior of a portion of the crate and sack to illustrate the means by which the sack is fastened to the crate. Fig. 3 is a plan view of the blank from which the bottom'of the sack is constructed. Fig. 4 is a view similar to Fig. 1, showing an additional improvement. Fig. 5 is a broken sectional detail showing the bottom of the outer. covering. Fig. 6 is a perspective of the banana-case inverted to show the entire bottom, and Fig. 7 is ahorizontal section in plane 7 7 of Fig. at.

Referring to these figures, A is the crate,

made up of a series of hoops B, secured together by longitudinal slats C, two hoops being preferably provided at the bottom, and all of these parts being of such material and size as to give the crate a certain amount of elasticity. Within the crate is hung a sack D, secured to the crate by means of cords E- The main portion of the sack is made by sewing a rectangular piece of material-as, for instance, bnrlapinto cylindrical form by means of a longitudinal seam d and sewing around the bottom of the same by means of a seam d a bottom D, formed from a piece form a cone, the cone being then sewed to the bottom portion by means of the seam-d,

which secures the circular edge of the bo'ttom to the upper portion of the sack. produces a sack with the minimum amount of material, and in fastening the same to the crate the cord (shown at e in Fig. 2) is passed inward on one side of the seam'd and back on the other side, then over one of the hoops, then inward below the seam d and on one side of the seam d then outward on the other side of the seam d and below the seam d, and'secured to the opposite end of the cord outside of the hoop. This gives the cord at this point a hold upon both sides of the longitudinal seam and both sides of the circular seam, relieving the threads of said seams from any strain which might be put upon them by the cord. In other portions of the crate the same method is followed, except that at noother place do the longitudinal and circular seams intersect, so' that the advantage of the method is only gained to the extent of the opportunity offered by the conditions at each place. v

- In the additional improvement illustrated in Figs. t to '7 an outer bottom X is stretched across the lower hoop B, as seen in Fig. 5, and an outer covering Y stretched over the entire crate and secured to the same, preferably by turning it inward at top and bottom "tion..

. I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patentl. The combination with a surrounding crate and a sack hung within the same, having a circumferential seam and an intersecting longitudinal seam, of a cord passing inward on one side of the longitudinal seam,

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outward on the other side of the longitudinal seam about the crate, inward again on the otherside of the circumferential seam, thence across the longitudinal seam and outward on the same sideon the circumferential seam and secured to the crate so that the cord engages and supports all four corners of the sack about the intersecting seams; substantially as described.

2. In a shipping-case, the combination with a surrounding crate, of a bag hung within the same consisting of a cylindrical portion and a conical portion formed from asemicircular piece of material by sewing the portions of the straight edge on opposite sides of the middle together, and the circular edge to the one end of the cylindrical portion; substantially as described.

3. In a banana-shipping case, the combination with a suitable crate, composed of longitudinal slats and connecting-hoops, of a sack hung in said crate and securely fastened in place out of contact therewith, an outer bottom, X, fastened to the lower hoop and an outer covering suitably secured to the outside of the crate, and inclosing said crate; substantially as described.

4:. In a banana-shipping case, the combination with a suitable crate, composed of longitudinal slats and connecting-hoops, of a sack hung within the said crate and securely fastened in place out of contact therewith, an outer bottom, X, fastened to the lower hoop and an outer covering suitably secured to the top and bottom hoops of the crate and inclosing said crate; substantially as described.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand, at Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, this 24th day of September, A. D. 1900.

FRANK SOHMITZ.

Witnesses:

CHAS. O. SHERVEY, S. Brass.

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