US699322A - Packaging sheet-metal sections. - Google Patents

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Patepted May 6, I902.

G. P. HOBBS.

PACKAGING SHEET METAL SECTIONS.

(Application filed Dec. 2, 1901.)

(No Model.)

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GEORGE P. HOBBS, OF NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA, ASSIGNOR OF. ONE-HALE TO THE 11. HALLER MANUFACTURING COMPANY, LIMITED, OF NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA. t

PACKAGING SHEET-M ETALSECTIONS.

SPECIFICATION f; 1; ing part of Letters Patent No. 699,322, dated May 6, 1902.

Application filed December 2,1901. Serial No. 84,332. (No model.)

To all whom it iii/my concern: same time. From this it follows that the Beitknown that I, GEORGE P. HOBBS, a citi whirls of the package are drawn very taut or zen of the United States, residing at New Orclose together and the package rendered very 55 leans, in the parish of Orleans and State of compact. The roll which I prefer to employ 5 Louisiana, have invented new and usofulImis of the collapsible type, this in order to faprovements in Packaging Sheet-Metal Seccilitate removal of the package subsequent tions, of which the followii'igisaspecification. to the tying thereof.

Myinvention relates to the nesting or pack- The improved package or bundle is very 6o aging of all sheet-metalarticles,stovepipc preexpeditiously produced in the manner de- 10 ferred, having previously turned or hooked scribed and is not only very compact but is cdges,whetherin the flat orpreviously formed also advantageous because the interlocked into circular or other shapes; and it consists complementary edge portions a b of the secin the peculiar and advantageous package or tions operate to protect each other-t'. 6., prebundle hereinafter described and claimed. vent each other being bent or pressed out of :5 In the accompanyingdrawings, Figure 1 is shape. Again, it will be observed that when apackage or bundle of sheet-metal stovepipethe package or bundle is untied the sections sections produced in accordance with inyinmay with facility be drawn or pushed endvention; Fig. 2, a detail edge elevation illuswise out of engagement or connection with trative of the manner in which the meeting each other.

2o edges of the sheet-metal sections are detach- While I have described the sheet-metal arably connected or interlocked in a hooked ticles as having complementary hook-shaped manner when in the flat; and Fig. 3, a per edge portions, which is the preferred equip-' spective view, on a reduced scale, of one of ment, I desire it distinctly understood that the sections as it appears when withdrawn my specification and claim are designed to 25 from the package or bundle. comprehend detachably connecting the arti- Similar letters of reference designate correcles edge to edge in any manner suitable to sponding parts in all of the views of the draw the purpose'of my invention. They are not, ings. however, intended to comprehend the idea In carrying out my invention the sheetof permanently connecting sections of sheet 0 metal articles, preferably stovepipes or stovemetal to form roofing-sheets and rolling the pipe-sections, (indicated by A,) are produced same up into a bundle and securing the bunand provided at opposite edges with oppodle, for I am well aware that this is old. sitely-disposed hook-shaped edge portions Having described my invention, what I a b in any suitable manner and by any apclaim, and desire to secure by Letters Pat- 5 proved means. They are then, whether in a cut, is

circular or other shape or in the flat, as shown The herein described package or bundle in Fig. 2, hooked together-2'. 6., the hookcomprisingaplurality of sheet-metal articles shaped portion a of one is engaged with the having hookshaped portions at opposite o portion 6 of the one which precedes it-so as edges; the said articles being loosely and de- 40 to make one continuous sheet of any desired tachably hooked one on the other to form a number of detachable pieces, and rolled into continuous sheet of detachably-connected ara package. When the package comprises ticles, and being rolledinto apackage or bunthe number of articles desired, it is secured dle, and means for securing the detachably- 9 5 against opening and the sections against casconnected articles in the form of a package 45 ual disconnection from each other byanysuitor bundle.

able means, such, for instance, as the tied In testimony whereof I have hereunto set wire band B. my hand in presence of two subscribing wit In the preferred embodiment of the invennesscs. tion the stovepipe is first formed into a circu- GEORGE P.- HOBBS. 5o lar shape and then hooked on a roll and rolled Witnesses:

up into any size roll desired, the pieces being JOHN F. A. HEBEL, hooked one on another and rolled up at the CHAS. CAIN.

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