US701970A - Package for grain products. - Google Patents

Description

No. 70l,970. Patented lune l0, I902.

T. F. WALES. 1

PACKAGE FOR GBAINPRODUCTS.

(Application filed Mar. 26, 1902.)

(No Model.)

I i UNITED-STATES PATENT OFFICE.

THEODORE F. WALES, CF BRIDGEPORT, CONNECTICUT.

PAC KAG E FoR e RAIN P-Ropuc s.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 701,970, dated June 1902- Application filed lll'arch 26 1 902. Serial No. 100,005. (No model.)

To all whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, THEODORE FRANCIS,

\VALEs,a citizen of the United States of America, residing aitjBridgeport, in the county of.

Fairfield and State of Connecticut have invented new and useful Improvements in Pack= ages for Grain Products, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to an im proved-mode products and like mateof packaging grain rials for shipment.

It is the common practice atpresenttoput up grain products for'shipmentfrom the mill to the dealer either in small packages,which are shipped in cases, or in bulk in barrels or other containers. The latter "mode necessitates repacking by the dealer according to the requirements of the consumer, and the first.-' named mode entails in most cases a charge for transportation, which; renders the business unprofitable, owing to the large bulk of the goods as compared with the weight thereof and the comparativelylow price'of the products, which are sold ona narrowniargin of profit. The convenience to the dealer of receiving goods packed in small parcels ready for delivery is so manifest thatthe mills'are to a constantly growing extent required to ship their goods in this manner, and they are therefore confronted with the problem of de-v vising a mode of packing for shipment which" will reduce the present cost of shipping these small parcels in cases and permit of the compression thereof into as small a bulk as possi I ble and at the same time provide a packagewhich may be handled easily in loading and unloading from the cars without damaging.

the contents thereof, and in so "constructing the packages that the contents may be'easily v 7 bands e, and this may be donebypunching out a lip h, as shown, passingthe wire'thereaccessible.

The object of my invention is to prodnceai package for grain products possessing the above-enumerated characteristics.

In thedrawings forming part of this application, Figure 1 is a perspective viewiof a being disposed, as shown, side by side. These parcels are arranged, as described on a piece of burlap'or analogous material, which-forms the covering for the twofiatsides of the package, this coveringbein g applied-in two pieces and indicated by .b and c in the drawings. The border of the package is covered, preferably, with, somematerial like roofing-paper,

placed therearound and indicated by (Z. The

parcels at having been arranged in the circular form described, theyare subjected to centripetal pressure, whereby they may be compressed into the smallestpracticable compass, and the bands e c are then applied thereto circu m ferentially and I their ends secured together in any desired'ihanner-as, for examplejby means of the hooks Jflforme'd on one end' of the bands, passing th'ropgh the slits madein the other end. These bands serve to hold the parcels in their'compressed form andserve alsoto bindj the end and side coverings of the package securely, the edges of possible, their ends being twisted together to In carrying outmy invention the material tobe packaged is first inclosed in paper or 'cloth bags, forming the small parcels a, and larrange-these small parcels-ina substantially circular form in concentric rows, they secure'these wires in place. While three wires are shown in the drawings, two cross- .ing thepackage at right angles may be used, or more, if desired.

I prefer to engage the wires 9 with the under, and then'haminering'thelip down on cured to the bandsf grain products packed in this manner than by the method of boxing now in common use or as separate parcels. The packages may be rolled into and out of the car, and the par the wire, or the Wires may be otherwise se i eels, usually consisting of scaled paper bags, are not liable to injury, whereby a loss of part of the contents is entailed, and the package occupies much less space than the same quantity would occupy if boxed. A further advantage is found in the fact that to open the package in disposing of its contents at retail the Wires g may be cut and the covering of one end cut away, when the center package may be easily withdrawn, owing to the fact that the constricting pressure of the bands 2 (2, applied to the concentric rows of parcels a, constitutes of the outer rows a series of circular arches, which prevents the parcels in the center of the package from being subjected to as great a pressure as would otherwise be possible. The center parcel being withdrawn, the others may be removed as required, and as the circumference of the package is reached, there being nosupport for the center, the outer rows are more easily loosened also. A package may thus be opened and the materials constituting it thrown away without necessitating the provision of storage-space required for empty cases.

lVhile the within described package has been herein described as adapted to grain products, it is obvious that it is equally applicable to other finely-comminuted materials.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States, is-

1. A cylindrical package of the class described comprising, in combination with the concentrically-disposed rows of parcels of equal length arranged side by side, flexible coverings fitting entirely over the opposite flat sides of the package, a flexible covering encircling the periphery of the package, and common binding means for binding the coverings and holding the packaged parcels under centripetal pressure.

2. A cylindrical package of the class described, comprising, in combination with concentrically-disposed rows of parcels of equal length arranged side by side, flexible coverings fitting entirely over the opposite flat sides of the package, a flexible covering encircling the periphery of the package, binders also encircling the periphery of the package and comprising common means for binding the coverings and holding the packaged parcels under centripetal pressure, and auxiliary binders extending diametrically about the package and engaging with the binders encircling the periphery thereof.

THEODORE F. \VALES.

Vitnesses:

THEODORE B. FORD, MICHAEL J. FLANAGAN.

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