US1411815A - Bottle crate - Google Patents

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T. V. THOMALL.

BOTTLE CRATE.

APPLICATION FILED MAR. 18, 192:.

1,41 1,81 5. Patented p 4, 1922.

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TIMOTHY V. THOMALL, 01E CHICAGO, ILLINOIS. ASSIGNOR T0 MILK BOTTLE CRATE COMPANY, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, A CORPORATION OF ILLINOIS.

BOTTLE' Application filed March 18,

I '0 all whom it may 0012067 7 Be it known that I, Tnu-u'rI-IY V. 'lHoMALL, a citizen of the United States residing at Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Bottle Crates, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to novel improvements in bottle crates and it has for its object to provide a strong and substantial construction and arrangement of parts which will effectively withstand the rough usage to which these articles are often subjected.

A further object of the invention is to dispose and support the wires which support the bottles in the crate so that they will always be held taut and rigid in their proper spaced relation to hold the bottles in the crate in any position in which they may be placed therein.

Referring to the drawings:

Fig. 1 is a bottom plan view of a crate embodying my invention.

Fig. 2 is a sectional view on the line 2-2 of Fig. 1.

Fig. 3 is a detail view showing a modification.

I may embody the invention in a conven-. tional form as shown in the drawings, which comprises a rectangular frame 3 having a plurality of crossed spacing strips t an ranged therein to form cells or pockets for the bottles. When these crates are filled with bottles of milk, for example, they are quite heavy and they are often handled roughly and thrown about when filled as when they are unfilled. The crates are sometimes filled with empty bottles in an inverted position and placed in bottle washing machines for washing the bottles.

It is desired. and in fact essential. that the supports for the bottles should be of a strong and substantial character and always maintained in proper spaced relation so that they will not only support the bottles properly but will also space them, especially when inverted, in proper position in the crate. For this purpose I provide it with one or more transverse strips 5 which are suitably secured in opposite walls of the crate. One way of doing this effectively is to slot or kerf the walls as indicated by the dotted lines 6 in Fig. 1 to permit insertion of the ends of the transverse support 5 after the box has been made. Then nails 7 are driven Specification of Letters Patent.

CRATE.

Patent-ed Apr. 4, 1922.

1921. Serial No. 453,535.

through the walls and the end oi the strip 5 to secure the strip in the box. This strip is provided with a slot 8 for each 'cell and the bottle supporting wires 9 are seated in oft-sets 10 at the ends of the walls. The wires are preferably formed of a continuous strip of wire bent to extend in parallel lines and secured at its ends in the walls of the box by engagement with pins 11 or other suitable means. The supporting strip 5 and the wires may be assembled and then inserted in the box, in which case the wires will of course be threaded through the several slots in the strip and the strip will be engaged with the box as heretofore described. But the strip may first be secured in the box and the wires arranged in place afterward and for this purpose I provide an opening 12 preferably through the upper edge of the strip to enable the parts to be assembled. In Fig. 2 I have shown two closed slots and one open slot and it will be understood that they may be used thusly in combination or the strip may have all closed slots or all open slots as desired.

Instead of using wires as the bottle supporting means I may arrange flat strips 13 in the slots 14 of the strip 15 as shown in Fig. 8.

My improved crate is strong and substantial in construction, it can be readily made at comparatively low cost and the bottle supporting means is highly efficient and capable of withstanding the ordinary rough usage to which such crates are subjected. lVhere wires are employed as shown in Figs. 1 and 2 the construction of the walls forms a spacing means whereby the wires are always held in their proper spaced relation. To insure this I prefer to depress the upper wall of the slot as shown at 16 to prevent the walls from becoming displaced from the oii eet ends in which they are seated.

I reserve the right to change the con struction and arrangement of parts in so far as the same may be done without sacri- {icing the advantages of my invention and within the scope of the following claims:

I claim:

1. A bottle crate having a plurality of cells therein, a plurality of. wires extending across the crate adjacent the bottom thereof, and a transverse strip arranged on edge and having horizontal slots in its upper edge With offset ends to receiveand hold said wires. f

2. A bottle crate having a plurality of cells therein, a plurality of parallel wires extending across the crate adjacent the bottom thereof, a transverse strip secured to the sides of the crate and having slots therein with oif-set ends to receive and hold and space the Wires, one wall of said slots between said off-set ends being' upset to hold the Wires in said ends.

A bottle crate having a plurality of cells therein, a plurality of Wires extendingv across the crate at the bottom thereof to support bottles therein, and a transverse strip supported on edge in the crate and having slots to receive said wires and retain them in proper spaced relation, said slots opening through the upper edge of said strip and a Wall of each slot being bent to confine 20 the Wires in lace.

'l IMOTHY V. THOMALL.

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