US919798A - Packing case or box for motor-cars. - Google Patents

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E. WEINAGHT.

PACKING CASE 0R BOX FOR MOTOR CARS.

. APPLICATION FILED FEB. 28, 1908. 4 9 1 9 ,798. Patented Apr. 27, 1909.

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No. 919,798. I V Specification oflietters Patent. Patented April 27, 1909.

' Application filed February 28, 1908. Serial No. 418,406. v

To all whom it may concern: i timbers 3, 3, with the flooring 4 secured Be it known that I, EDWARD WEINAGHT, a thereto by screws or in an preferred manner. citizen of the United States, and resident of Upon the flooring or the rigid base there Elizabeth, county of Union, and State of for and at each end thereof at the proper New Jersey, have made a new and useful 111- s aced distances to accommodate machines vention in Packing Cases or Boxes for Motordifferent relative wheel bases are secured Cars, of which the following is a specification. four strong standards 5, 5, having longitudi My invention is directed particularly'to innal end extensions or feet, 6, 6, provided with closing cases designed for use in the packing slots 7, 7, the arrangement being such that and shipment of motor vehicles,- and it has. they may be adjustably secured directly to 65 for its object, to devise such a casing as will and through the flooring and the longitudinal possess great strength and permit of the shiptimbers'l, 1 by detachable bolts 8, 8. The ment of such vehicles from point .to point upper ends of these standards are notched or without danger of damage thereto, or, to the grooved, as shown at 9, 9, in such manner as pneumatic or e uivalent flexible tires with to adapt them-to receive the outer ends of 7 which such vehic es are'usually rovided, and I the hubs of a carv 18, and each is provided will be fully understood by re erring to the with a strong metal strap 10 adapted to be accompanying drawings, in which, 7 secured to the standard by bolts or screws- F'gure 1-is a longitudinal sectional, view after the hubs are in place, each hub being taken through my improved packing casing surrounded with one or more yielding cush- 75 on the broken line XX, Fig. 2, and as seen ions 11, 11, preferably of rubber, and the ar looking thereat from left to right in the direcrangement such that when the car is secured tion of the arrows, a motor car being's'hown in place in the manner shown the tires of all therein in side elevational view. 'Fig. 2 is an four of the wheels of the car are out of conend elevational view as seen looking at Fig. 1 tact with the flooring 4. After the car is go fromright to left with one of the ends of the thus secured. one or more adjustable braces i packingcasing removed. composed of two parts 12 and 13 fastened v Inth-e shipment of motor cars from point together at their adjacent ends by a turn to point, it is important that the same be buckle 1'6 and having stepped ends, as shown rigidly secured in a casing or on a base in at 14, 15, are secured-against the'i'nner vand, such manner as to remove all possibility of up'er faces of the transverse timbers 3, 3, strain upon the wheels thereof, and to avoid and the front and rear axles 199i the car, the any damage whatever to the same either by turn buckles being rotated sufficiently to r g: reason of persons maliciously marring the idly-'lock the car in position, as shown, w th 35 body thereof or by careless handling on the the tires 20 of the wheels out of contact with part of the shippers, articularly-whcre such the floor, all of said parts thus. constitut ng cars are transported fi'om one country to an: means for rigidly securing the car against other on board yessels, the handlin of such movement upon the floor ase. inclosed cars being often'necessitate tlirou h 21, 21 are'vertical-timbers and 22, 22, two 46 the agency of cranes onthe vesselsor on the longitudinal timbers secured theret oby- "docks. It'is also important in the transmisscrews, as shown, said parts r gidly sion'of vehicles of this type which are usually braced in the manner shown Fig,- 1 and provided with pneumatic tires that the enconstituting an individual frame to wh ch tire-weight thereof be sustained by other the tongueand grooved planks of the siding 45 means than the wheels and the tires them- 23 are secured. 2 24, 24, 24, r pr s selves, and in the application of such means cross timbers to whichthe top 25 is rigidly is found one of the essential'features of my secured and the two sides and tops are se-. invention. I cured together by screws and to the longi- For a full and clear understandin of my tudinal timbers 1, 1-, H1 the manner shown.

50 invention such as ,will enable others s illed in 26, 26 represent vertical timbers to which the art to construct and use the same, ref the end's27, 27 of the casing are secured,'a11

' erence is now had tothe drawingsin de tail in? of these parts constituting respectively the which a rilgidv supporting base entire is'j"illus-' sides top and ends secured together and to g trated as eing constructed of stro'nglongizthe flooring preferably by screws, as shown, 55 ' tudinal timbers 1, 1,2, 2, and transverseend although the ends may, if preferred, be 11 preferred, the sidesand to hi ed in each instance to one of the vertical tim ers 21 so as to constitute doors and be rovided at their edges with necessary padocks for securing the same in such manner 5 as to be accessible only to authorized persons.

I do not limit my invention to the especial ,details of construction shown in the drawingsaas I believe it is broadly new with me to provide a motor car packing casin or box in which the car is'rigidly detachab y secured upon a rigid base through the agency of standards which support the same directly by its hubs and with the-inflated tires out of 4 contact with the flooring or base, and to combine therewith detachable sides, top and ends constituting the inclosing-casing; or,if may constitute a rigid part of the base an the ends may be detachable or-hinged thereto as hereinbeforc.

"stated. I believe it is also new with meto combine with such a. structural device 'adjfust'able end braces between the'base or floord the axles of the car, the same acting in such manner as to rigidlysecure it to the 2 'fioor or base at a number of points, substantially as shown in the drawings.

It is obvious that for the shipment of mo tor cars on board railway c'ars the inclosing casing, embracing the top, sides and ends,

may be done away with and the entire car covered with a tarpaulin in the ordinary way, the rigid base, supporting standards and braces constituting t e means by which safe transportation 18 efl'ected, and, my

'35 claims include all such uses without relation to the described inclosing casing. I also con template locating the four standards 5, 5, upon the base in such manner that their upper ends 'may sustain the car by the outer 40 ends of the axles, and I regard my invention as 'beingof such scope as to include all such obvious means of support.

I am aware that a packing boxhas heretofore been devised for transporting carriages or light vehicles and of such a nature that the axles thereof are s u ported by four laterally adjustable standar s secured to the bottom ofthe box, while the wheels are removed and securedto the inner'walls of said box, and I make no claim hereinafter to include such a structural device, my invention being particularly directed to a novel packing casing or box of great strength for. conveyin heavy motor vehicles having flexible or -mflated- 5 5 tires, andin such manner that it is not necessary. to remove the Wheels from the vehicles when the same are'inclosed within the casing readyior transportation.

I Witnesses:

- Having thusdescribed my invention what I claim and desire to seciire by Letters.

Patent of the United States 1s 1. Means for transporting a motor car embracinga rigid base and four standards semeans for securely binding thehubs to the upper ends of the standards, substantially as described.

3. Means for transporting a motor car em bracing a rigid base .and a flooring secured thereon; in combination with four standards adjustably secured to said (flooring and base, the upper ends of said standards being rovided with notches or grooves adapte to receive the hubs ofthe car; together with yielding means surrounding the hubs, andv additional means for securing the yielding means and the hubs in position, substantially as described. 4. Means for transporting a motor car embracing a rigidbase and standards secured thereto adapted tosugport the car by the hubs thereon; in com lnation with adjustable braces adapted to brace the car endwise,

between the axles and the base; together with detachable means adaptedto secure the hubs in position in the upper ends of the standards, substantially as described.

5. Means for transporting a motor car embracing a rigid base and standards secured thereto adapted to su ort the ear b the hubs thereon; in com ination with a just-' able braces adapted to brace the car endwise between the axles and the base; together with detachable means adapted to secure the hubs in position in the upper endsof the standards and an inclosing casing detachably secured to the base, substantlally as described.

\ In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

EDWARD WEINACHT.

v O. J. KINTNER,

. M. F Knx'rme.

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