US778736A - Shipping-case for bottles. - Google Patents

Description

PATENTED DEC. 27, 1904. D. H. BOWLIN & W. L. DOUBLE.

SHIPPING CASE FOR BOTTLES.

APPLIGATION FILED JUNE 29,1904.

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PATENT OFFICE.

DAVID H. BOIVLIN AND WILLIAM L. DOUDLE, OF COLUMBUS, MISSIS- SIPPI; SAID DOUDLE ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF HIS RIGHT TO SAID BOWLIN.

SHIPPING-CASE FOR BOTTLES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 778,736, dated December 27, 1904.

Application filed June 29, 1904. Serial No. 214,668.

To (477/ whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, DAVID H. BowLIN and IVILLIAM L. DOUDLE, citizens of the United States, residing at Columbus, in the county of Lowndes and State of Mississippi, have invented a new and useful Shipping-Case for Bottles, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to boxes or crates for shipping purposes, and more particularly to a box or crate especially designed for shipping or transporting bottles, jars, and similarv compartments and preventing accidental displacement of the bottles or other articles.

A still further object is to arrange the supporting-rods in one or more sets or series, the rods comprising each set or series being formed of a single length of wire, which engages the walls of the box in such a manner as to effectually reinforce and brace the latter.

The invention consists in the construction and novel combination and arrangement of parts hereinafter fully described, illustrated in the accompanying drawings, and pointed out in the claims hereto appended, it being understood that various changes in form, proportion, and minor details of construction may be resorted to without departing from the principle or sacrificing any of the advantages of this invention.

In the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, Figure 1 is a perspective view of a box or crate constructed in accordance with our invention. Fig. 2 is a transverse sectional view. Fig. 3 is a perspective view of the supporting-bars detached.

Similar numerals of reference indicate correspondingparts in all the figures of the drawings.

The box or crate, which may be of any desired shape and formed of wood or other suitable material, is preferably rectangular in form, as shown, and comprises the end walls 5 and 5, side walls 6 and 6, and base or bottom 7. The abutting edges of the end and side walls are preferably inclined or beveled to form miter-joints 8, and extending across the corners of the box at said joints are diagonal plates or braces 9.

Arranged within the box or crate at a point adjacent the bottom thereof are a plurality of supporting bars or rods, preferably disposed in pairs or sets, the upper and lower transverse rods 11 of one set being formed of a continuous length of wire, as shown, and the longitudinal rods 12 of the opposite set being also formed of a single length of wire which passes alternately under and over the transverse wires, thereby defining rectangular is secured in any suitable manner to the side wall 6 and passes transversely across the box through the alined openings 14 and is bent downward at right angles in contact with the exterior face of the opposite side wall 6, as indicated at 16. The wire is then inserted The wire forming the longitudinal supporting-rods is passed through the openings M and 15 in the end walls of the box in a similar manner, said longitudinal wires passing alternately under and over the transverse wires, as before stated.

As a means for preventing the longitudinal and transverse Wires from slipping should any particular one become accidentally severed during transit, we provide staples or similar fastening devices 17, which are driven into the end and side Walls of the box and engage the intermediate portions of the wires, as shown.

The box or crate is preferably provided with a hinged lid or cover 18, said cover being locked in closed position by a springcatch 19, which engages a keeper 20, secured to said lid.

By having the longitudinal and transverse rods formed of a continuous strand of wire threaded through the end and side Walls of the crate in the manner described said rods are securely retained in position without the use of auxiliary fastening devices, while by having the intermediate portions of said. wires bearing against the side and end walls of the box and extending across the grain of the material instead of with the grain said wires are effectually prevented from cutting through the walls of the box when the longitudinal and transverse rods are tightened. It will also be observed that the intermediate portions of the wires form a series of spaced vertical and diagonal braces which engage the vertical walls of the box, and thereby materially strengthen and reinforce the latter.

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed is 1. In a device of the class described, a receptacle provided with a plurality of longitudinal and transverse rods forming a series of compartments, the ends of said rods passing through openings in the vertical walls of the receptacle and extending across the grain of the material.

2. In a device of the class described, a receptacle provided with a plurality of longitudinal and transverse rods formed of a continuous piece of Wire and defining a series of compartments, the ends of said rods passing through openings in the vertical walls of the receptacle and extending across the grain of the material.

3. In a device of the class described, a receptacle provided with a plurality of longitudinal and transverse rods forming a series of compartments, said rods passing through openings in the vertical Walls of the receptacle and having their opposite ends bent at different angles and extended across the grain of the material.

4. In a device of the class described a receptacle provided with a plurality of longitudinal and transverse rods passing alternately under and over each other to form a series of compartments, the ends of said rods passing through openings in the vertical side walls of the receptacle and extending across the grain of the material.

5. In a device of the class described, areceptacle provided with a plurality of longitudinal and transverse rods forming a series of compartments, said rods being arranged. in pairs and passed through openings in the ver tical walls of the receptacle with the lower end of one rod of each pair extended across the grain of the material and connected to the end of the upper rod of the adjacent pair.

In testimony that we claim the foregoing as our own We have hereto afiixed our signatures in the presence of two witnesses.

DAVID H. BOW LIN. IVILLIAM L. DOUDLE.

Witnesses:

B. D. ERVIN, S. A. EGGLESTON.

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