US778143A

US778143A - Egg-case.

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Publication number: US778143A
Application number: US19893204A
Authority: US
Inventors: Orie Phillips
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 1904-03-19
Filing date: 1904-03-19
Publication date: 1904-12-20
Anticipated expiration: 1921-12-20

Description

PATENTED DEC. 20, 1904.

I 0. PHILLIPS.

, EGG CASE.

APPLIUATIQN FILED MAR. 19, 1904. I

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Patented December 20,1904.

PATENT Orricn.

EGG-CASE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 778,143, dated December 20, 1904.

' Application filed March 19, 1904. s mi No. 198,932.

T or whom it may cancer-m Be it known that I, ORIE PHILLIrs, acitizen of the United States, residing at Madisonville, in the county or- Hopkins and State of Kentucky, have invented certain new and-use ful Improvements in Egg-Cases; and I do declare the'following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the lettersof reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

This invention relates to new and useful improvements in shipping-crates for eggs; and the object of the invention is to produce a device of this character which will besimple in construction and provided for effectually shipping eggs, in which provisionis made for 'protecting the same from breakage and affording means for protecting the eggs 1n cold weather and affording sufficient ventilation.

The invention consists in various details of construction and combinations and arrangements of parts, which will, be hereinafter fully described, and then specifically defined'in the appended claims.

My invention is clearly illustrated in the accompanying drawings, which, with the letters of reference marked thereon, form a part of this application, and in which drawings in the views, in which Figure 1 is a'longitudinal sectional View through my improved eg -crate, parts being shown in elevation. Fig. 2 is a cross-sectional view on. line 2 2 of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a perspective View of one of the sections of the crate removed, and Fig. 4 is a detail perspective view showing one of the sets of eg holding members.

Reference now being had to the details of the drawings by letter, A designates the frame of a crate having a cover B hinged-thereto. 1 C designates an outside covering to the frame of the crate and may be made of wire or porous canvas or any other suitable material which will allow for perfect ventilation ofthe contents of the crate.

similar letters of reference indicate like parts D designates vertical posts which are disposed at intervals between the longitudinal strips E of the crate, and the inner faces of each of said posis has a groove 1). of said posts project inward from the under faces of said longitudinal strips E, and each pair of posts which are oppositely disposed is adapted to receive an egg-holding section, a

perspective View of which is shown in the drawings. The edges of each of said posts are also grooved, as at F, to receive sheets Gr of cardboard or other suitable material which may be inserted in place if it is desired to protect the contents of the crate from cold-or for other purposes. These sheets ofcardboard Portions are easily removed and replaced when desired.

Each of the egg-containing sections of the crate is made up of a frame having crosspieces N and N, intermediate which are the end or uprightposts M and the intermediate posts O. Said end posts M have tongues M upon their outer edges, adapted to enter the grooves D in the posts D, and the crosspieces N project over the opposite faces of the upright posts M and O, and when an eggcontaining section is inserted in the crate said overhanging projections of the cross- 1 pieces'N are adapted to contact with the up.

per ends of the posts D and support the same. Projecting from the edges of said posts M and and O are pins'm, to which the egg-containing clamping members are attached. Referring to the detail views of the drawings, it will be seen that each tier of eggs is held by four flexible clamping members, (designated in the drawings by letters Q,) said clamping members being made of two pieces of wire, the clamping members upon one side of the posts being formed by bending the wire to form a loop with the shank portion of the wire bent about said pins in the manner illustrated. By this arrangement of the flexible the entire space of the crate will be occupied by the clamping members holding the eggs in tiers and with sufficient air-space about the same to allow for satisfaetory ventilation.

5 While I have shown a particular form of apparatus embodying my invention, it will be understood that I may alter the same, if desired, as to details without in any way departing from the spirit of the invention.

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

An egg-shipping crate comprising a casing having vertieally grooved posts, a series of S eggsupporting racks, each comprising a ORlE PHILLLPS.

WVitnesses:

Ln'ronnn R. Fox, V. H. RUDER.