US869334A - Receptacle. - Google Patents

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No, 869,334 PATENTED OCT. 29, 1907. L. J. SHEPERD.

REGEPTAGLB.

APPLICATION FILED APR.11,1906.

W wuentoc TuE rmrcnn pzrzns 40., WASIHNGION. nv c LOUIS .THON SHEIERD, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

RECEPTACLE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Oct. 29, 1907.

Application fi ed April 11 1906. Serial No. 311.171.

to protect sueh receptacles from injury throne-h the rough handling they l'et-eive in shipping or otherwise moving them trom plaee to lllZlLQ. To this end in invenlion is embodied in preterahle form in the devil-e hereinat'terdescribed and illustrated in 1he at-t-ompan viug drawings.

in these drawings l igure l is an exterior view in elevation ot' a metalliv oan having mv improvements applied thereto and Fig. through the deviee.

Referring to these drawings, l. is a ret-eplat-le whioh is shown in the form ol a metallit- (:lll ol' the slvie ordinarily used for milk vans or [or other purposes. tending vertit-ally of this t-an is a rih 2 havingat its upper end a. plate I} riveted to the upper part oi the (all and earryi 11 at its lower end a downwardly projet-tine hood 4 \Vlll('ll has a shoulder heari11ea 3ainst the side of the ean so that the hood is held some distant-e from the surl'aeeol' the lat ter, wherehv :1 revess ti is l'ormotl lietween the (an and the inner lave ol' the hood -l.

2 is a vertit-al. ('(llll'tll seetion 'lhe hood t is provided with an interior projei-tin g' pin 7 with \Yllit'll is adapted to engage the vertit'al slot 8 of a plate 9 forming" a ri1n(--.1rr ving momherand riveted or otherwise firmly seemed to a supplemental rim It) extending eirt-nmlereutiallv around the hottom ol the The usual rim of the llottom ol' the (an is denoted by ]l, and the supplemental rim it) is adapted to projett l OlOW the same as is shown in the drawings. and l'orm a protecting tlOVit'O therefor sur-u as will revolve the tort-e of contact when the van is moved around and plated I l'oreihly upon its bottom, thus taking up the shoek and jar usually imparted directly to the hotly ot' the (-1111.

it will he seen that by reason ol the slot and pin eonnet-tion between the supplemental rim it) and the l)()tl ol the van that said rim will he permitted a vertital movement with respect to the :an-hody. in order to eushion the supplemental rim in this movement and prevent the jar ol' hlows heing imparted to the (-anhody. a (-ushioning memher l2. \\'llit.'ll may be a eireuml'erent ial hand oi ruliher as is shown in the drawings. is plated in the reeess ti hetween the supplemental rim and the upper part of the hood i.

it will he seen that. with this (lOVit'O the can may he suhjet'ted to the usual rough handling net'essary in shippingor otherwise transporting the same without injury to the hottom or hody ot' the van. and thus a large saving); in repairs and a prolongation of the life of the reeeptat-le are obtained it is t-lear that various ehanges in the details of the tl(,\'lt't may he made without departing l'rom the prineipleol'mv invemion.

ll;l\'ill thus deserihed my invention what I elaim is:

l. reeoptaelthaving a supplemental rim. rim carrying meinhers set-ured thereto. said members having vertit-altv elone'a1ed slots. and pins on said receptacle engaged by said slots, snhslautially as deserihetl.

.3. [u t'omhlnation with a metallic shipping can, a movahlo rlh set'ured thereto, said rih having a hood projection at the lower end thereol'. a movahle supplenn-ntal rim. :1 pin and vertically olongated'slot, in said parts tor-min :1 eonneetlngr means between said rim and said hood, wherohy a loose movement of the rim with respot-t to the hotly oi the van is permitted and a enshionina' Illtllllltl' contined hetweon said supplemental rim. the hody ol' the can and the hood. snhslmitlall as deset'ilu-d.

in testimony whereot I have signed my name to this spet-itit'ation in the present-e of two subscribing \\"1tntn sesv LOUIS .lllllX Sllllll lllll.

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