US1196991A - Shipping-receptacle. - Google Patents

Description

C. R. SMITH.

SHIPPING RECEPTACLE.

APPLICATION FILED NOV. 6. 1915.

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CHARLESREDFIELD SMITH, OF TOLEDO, OHIO;

SHIPPING-RECEPTACLE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Sept. 5, 1916.

Application filed November 6, 1915. Serial No. 59,978.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, CHARLES B. SMITH, a citizen of the United States, residing at T0- ledo, in the county of Lucas and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Shipping-Receptacles, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to receptacles, such as pails, buckets, drums, and the like, used for shipping products, generally dry products, and involves certain improvements on the invention disclosed in Letters Patent issued to me on January 12, 1915, No. 1,124,-

669, though the improvements may be embodied in receptacles differently constructed.

The object of the present invention is the substitution for the ordinary lapped joint at the ends of the blank forming the body of the receptacle, of a secure and satisfactory butt joint or seam.

The invention consists in certain novelties of construction and combinations of parts as herein set forth and claimed.

The accompanying drawing illustratesan example of the embodiment of the improvement constructed according to the best mode of procedure I have so far devised for the purpose.

Figure 1 is a view in perspective of a fiber paper pail or drum embodying the improvement. Fig. 2 is a plan view of the blank from which the body of the receptacle or pail is made. Fig. 3 is a section on line 33 of Fig. 1 with the bottom and cover of the pail removed. Fig. 4 is an enlarged section of Fig. 1 on line 4-4. Fig. 5 is a view in.

perspective of the metallic clamp or bar which unites the ends of the blank where they abut.

The clamp A shown by Fig. 5 consists of a strip of ductile sheet steel or other suitable metal or composition of metal which can be bent without breaking, fashioned to have prongs or points P integral therewith and burs 0 between the prongs extending a suitable distance and formed by turning the edge of the clamp or blank from which the clamp is formed at substantially right angles or oblique to the base of the metal. This clamp is slightly crowned or concavoconvex in cross section to fit the exterior curved surface of the pail.

The main body of the pail or receptacle, consisting preferably of suitable fibrous material, though metal may sometimes be used, is fashioned by bending the cut fibrous blank D to a circular shape so that the edges E E abut, and uniting them by the metallic clamp Athe clamp being applied to the outer surfaces, lapping the abutting edges, the prongs driven through the fibrous material and the burs C slightly embedded therein, and finally turning over the prongs slightly into the material, as shown by Fig. 4. This makes a very strong and cheaply constructed butt joint or seam air and water-tight and prevents the sifting through of any powdered or granulated merchandise, such as pepper, sugar, etc. There is also a saving of some two inches of fiber on each end of the blank, the cement and rivets when replacing the common lapped joint or seam, and at the same time the clamp can be easily and quickly applied.

From the foregoing description taken in onnection with the drawing it becomes evident that I have provided an improved butt or seam for shipping receptacles, especially those of fibrous material.

What I claim is:

1. A shipping receptacle having a body with a butt joint or seam formed by the abutting edges of a blank and a metallic clamp provided with prongs at the opposite longitudinal edges thereof, the clamp being lapped over the edges of the blank, the prongs pressed through the material and turned over in contact with the material on the inner surface of the receptacle.

2. A shipping receptacle having a body with a butt joint or seam formed by the abutting edges of a blank and a concavo-convex metallic clamp provided with prongs and burs at the edges thereof, the clamp being lapped over the edges of the blank, the prongs passed through the material and turned over in contact with the material on the inner surface of the receptacle and the burs engaging the outer surface of the material.

3. A shipping receptacle of fibrous matein contact With the inner surface and the 10 rial having a body With a butt joint or seam burs slightly embedded Within the fiber upon formed by the abutting edges of a blank the outside of the receptacle.

and a metallic clamp provided With prongs In testimony whereof I affiX my signature and burs at the edges thereof, the prongs in presence of tWo Witnesses.

being in line With and extending from the CHARLES REDFIELD SMITH. line of burs, and the clamp being lapped Witnesses:

over the edges of the blank, the prongs FRANK E. MILLER,

passed through the material and turned over STUART S. WALL.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents, Washington, D. C.

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