US769025A - Separator-follower for packages, boxes, or the like. - Google Patents

Description

PATENTED AUG. 30, 1904.

P. E. SAGENDORPHJD & B. J. STEINBERG. SEPARATOR FOLLOWER FOR PACKAGES, BOXES, OR THE LIKE.

APPLICATION II-LED FEB. 3. 1904.

10 MODEL.

ITO-769,025.

UNITE ,STATES Patented August 30, 1904.

PATENT OFFICE.

FRANK E. SAGENDORPH, 21), AND BERN HARD J.-STEINBERG, OF PHILADEL- PHIA, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNORS TO AMERICAN METAL STAMPING COMPANY, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA, A CORPORATION OF DELAWARE.

SEPARATOR-FOLLOWER FOR PACKAGES, BOXES, OR THE LIKE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 769,025, dated August 30, 1904.

Application filed February 3, 1904. Serial No. 191,881. (No model.) I

To all whom, it may concern:

Be it known that we, FRANK E. SAGENDORPH, 2d, and BERNHARD J. STEINBERG, citizens of the United States, and residents of Philadel- 5 phia, Pennsylvania, have invented certain Improvements in Separator- Followers for Packages, Boxes, or the Like, of which the following is a specification.

Our invention relates to certain improve- I ments in devices for separating from each other objects which were they allowed to come into contact would probably injure themselves; and it consists more particularly in a novel form of separator for keeping apart reflectors.

The object of the invention is to provide a separator for introduction between the individual ones of a series of reflectors packed in a crate or box for preventing motion of said reflectors as well as possible contact of said reflectors one with the other.

This object we attain as hereinafter set forth, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, in which- 5 Figure 1 is a plan View of our improved separator. Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the separator shown in Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a sectional elevation of a box, showing a number of reflectors in position therein and separators 30f' our novel construction placed between them; and Figs. 4: and 5 are sectional elevations of special forms of our improved separator.

In shipping reflectors of the type particularly described and claimed in United States Letters Patent N o. 7 14,6392, dated November 17 1903, we have found it absolutely necessary to provide some simple and inexpensive means for preventing motion of the reflectors; 4 otherwise the enamel with which they are coated becomes scratched and otherwise injured. We have employed for this purpose barrels containing excelsior or other packing material, but have found that in addition toa relatively highcost such packing material in-' variably collected and retained moisture,

which caused discoloration and other injury to the enamel and paint of the reflectors. Again, the reflectors were packed in boxes and held in place by cleats; but this was not only found to be expensive, but also invariably permitted more or less'motion of the reflectors, so that, as before, injury was done to the enamel or paint.

- In order to overcome the above-mentioned objections, we have devised the separator shown in the above drawings, in which A and A are two pieces of wood held together'in the same plane and at right angles to one another, as shown in Fig. 1. Upon each of these pieces we nail or otherwise permanently fix two cleats a, whose inneror adjacent faces are equidistant from a point which is. thecenter of a circle tangent to the ends of the pieces A and A. Upon the face of said crosspieces opposite to that having cleats a we fasten a flat piece of felt, fabric, or other soft material, preferably in the position shown, and in utilizing the separators we provide a box (indicated at B) in which the reflectors and separators are packed. On the bottom of this we place a reflector with a separator under it, if desired, as indicated diagrammatically at b. This reflector is conical in shape, being made with a collar 6 at its central portion and so assembled that the lower edge of said collar is preferably in the same plane as the outer edge of the reflector, although this is not necessarily the case. In packing said reflectors, therefore, our improved form of separator is placed with the felt or paper a in contact with or resting upon the top edge of the collar a the cleats a being uppermost. The box B is of such size that the wooden pieces A and A fit in it tightly, it being understood that the reflectors themselves are circular in form.

When a reflector is placed upon a separator,

obvious that the cleats may be outside of the collar, or they may be placed as illustrated at a in Fig. 4:, so as to contact with the inner surface of the collar.

From the above description and illustrations it Will be seen that we have provided an inexpensive and simple device for preventing injury to reflectors hitherto resulting in considerable loss, in addition to Which it Will be noted that the labor required, both for packing and unpacking the reflectors, is considerably lessened by the use of the device in question.

We claim as our invention- 1. A separator including a plurality of cross-arms, means adjacent to the center of said arms for retaining a collar in position and a sheet of relatively soft material on the face of said arms opposite to that having said retaining means, substantially as described.

2. A separator including a plurality of arms united to each other, cleats attached to the arms adjacent to their point of junction with each other and a sheet of relatively soft ma: terial on the face of said arms opposite to that having the cleats, substantially as described.

3. A separator including a plurality of arms connected together at an angle to each other and of substantially equal lengths from their point of junction, said arms lying in the same plane and having cleats on one face, said cleats being placed adjacent to said point of junction and each having a portion for engaging the collar supported by the separator, substantially as described.

4. A separator consisting-of a pair of arms lyingin the same plane and connected to each other substantially at right angles, said arms each having upon it a pair of cleats adjacent to the center of a circle tangent to the ends of the arms, with a sheet of relatively soft material on the face of said arms opposite to that having the cleats, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof we have signed our names to this specification in the presence of two subscribing Witnesses.

FRANK E. SAGENDORPH, 21). BERNHARD J. STELNBERG. Witnesses:

WILLIAM E. BRADLEY, J os. H. KLEIN.

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