US1478194A - Separable-compartment container - Google Patents

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G X WENDLING SEPARABLE "COMPARTMENT CONTAINER Filed Feb. 1'7

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Patented Dec. l 1923.

UNTTEE STATE GEORGE X. WENDLING, OF SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA.

SEPARABLE-GOMPARTMENT CONTAINER.

Application filed February 17, 1923. Serial 1V0. 619,602.

, To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, Gnonon XWVENDLING, a citizen of the United States, residing at city and county of San Francisco, and State of California, have invented certain. new and useful Improvements in separable-Compartment Containers,of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to a typeof receptacle provided with compartments and which for shipping purposes is capable of transporting as a single unit, but when the contents thereof is sold, is capable of dividing into a plurality of closed containers. The

container is particularly adapted for use in the marketing of cherries, grapes, tomatoes, or in fact, any commodity the shipper desires to market cheaply and without damage to the same occasioned by the opening of the container when it is desired to seal a portion of the quantity of the entire unit. complished without opening the. orlg'ina package or in any manner disturbing the contents thereof but by simply cutting the walls enabling the separation of the compartments into separate independent packa es.

With the above mentioned and other objects in View, the invention consists in the novel construction and combination of parts hereinafter described, illustrated in the accompanying drawings, and set forth in the claims hereto appended, it being understood that various changes in the form, proportion, size and minor details of construction within the scope of the claims may be resorted to without departing from the spirit or sacrificing any of the advantages of the invention.

To more fully comprehend the invention, reference is directed to the drawings wherein:

Figure 1 is a perspective view of the container having duplicate braces to which the overlapping wall forming flaps are secured, affording an end wall for the separated units when the same are detached.

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

Fig. 3 is a view similar to Fig. 1 but illustrating the flap edges overlapping in superimposed relation.

Fig. 4 is a sectional view on line 4-4 of Fig. 3.

In the embodiment of my invention illustrated, the numeral 1 indicates preferably The object of 'my invention is aca strip of veneer, the ends of which are united together so that said strip forms a rectangular open frame structure as illustrated. The end walls 2 and 8 of this frame structure are united in their center by the longitudinally separable brace 4. This brace is preferably constructed of two pieces of material contacting on their meeting surface 5-and each piece extending the full width between the top and bottom edges of the walls 2 and 3. The pieces are secured at their ends to the respective walls by nails, tacks, or other securing means 6.

Secured in any manner to the inner faces of opposing side walls 7 of the frame are the sheets 8 of a width co-extensive with the length of the side wall, and of a length slightly greater than twice the width of the frame, plus the depth of the side wall. These respective sheets are secured in position by any suitable means as for example, an adhesive, and at points adjacent the longi- 1 .tudinal edges of the side walls 7 The sheets are bent as at 9 forming closure flaps 10 and 11, these flaps each being of a length slightly greater than one-half the width of the completed carton or receptacle, so that when folded down in contact with the upper edge of the dividing brace l, their free ends will overlap as at 11 in Figs. 3 and 4 of the drawing. After being folded down and overlapped to retain the contents of the re ceptacle therein the edges of the flaps are secured to the respective braces t by nails or other securing means 12 driven therethrough, the means 12 being arranged in parallel rows as in the drawing.

In Fig. 1, the free edges of the members 10 and 11 do not overlap in superimposed relation but the same are scalloped or cut to overlap the upper surface of the brace a in interlocking relation providing a smooth surface without a center ridge for the receptacle. In this construction the nails for securing each flap to each separable portion of the brace, are employed. To afiord a handle for carrying the container or the individual separated parts, I have provided in the flaps 10 and 11 parallel finger receiving slots 14 separated by a grip portion 15.

When it is desired to divide a container of this present type, it is only necessary to cut through the closure flaps and end walls 2 and 3 at a point in alignment with the meeting surfaces 5 of the members l. This perunits of the separating of the contai e to 7 two parts without in any manner disturbing the eonten'ts'of' either comparti'nen't. It Will be observe'd that each portion of the longitudinally separable brace affords a Wall for each compartment-When"the original package is divided. It will be also observed that the brace aflords a strengthening means centrally of the package, enabling the same if desired to be constructed o'f extremely light Weight material thus affording a material saving in'the construction of the package and reducing its Weight'and therebyaffording a saving in transportation cost.

' I claim:

1. A shipping container comprising connected side'and end walls forming'a rectangular all structure, complementary top and 7 bottom closure forming membershinged' at corresponding edge's'qf said side vvalls to enable complementary members to fold tovvai'd each'other, and the front edges tdoverlap', a longitudinallyseparable brace Within said rectangular structure dividing the same into separate compartments, one face 'of'each f Whichis closed byone ofsa'idpoinplementary members, and means "for securing the'overlappin'g edges of said corresponding top and bottom closure inemfbers to each sep- 'arate portion of the brace and thestriic't'ure end'walls to the ends of theres'pective separable portion of the brace \vher'ebyon the .cutting'of the overlapping portions of the closure forming members and the end 'Wa'lls,

' said container is"' c'a p ble of dividing'into two closed compartments;

'2. A container fincluding'connected side and see a ede e f pe i ee and end" "Walls 'fada "War-(leach Qth form a substantially rectangular frame, top and bottonffwall forming flaps hinged at one edge with their'free edges free to fold toward each other'in overlapping relation, a pair of'adjacent -parallel parts extending across th e interior of the frame and secured at their opp osit e ends to opposing Wall meinhers, said overlapping edges of said flaps each adapted for securing to corresponding edges of each part, whereby onthe severing of said flaps and end '.walls at a point be tween their points of attachment to the respective parts, said container is capable of g in'overlappin'g relation, one of [said ,fiapspirovided with parallel separated out "portions afiording between them a hand' 'grlpping' portion providing a handle, a pairof adj'acefntparallel parts extending across theinterior of the frame and secured at their opposite ends to'op'posingwall' members, said overlpping edges of said flaps each adapted for securing' 'to corresponding edges ofe'ach pa t, viihereby'on the' severing I of aid flaps and'endwallsat a point heween their points of attachment to the respective parts said container is eapablefof dividing into tvvoclose'df "arts,

r In testimony whereof- GEORGE X. WENDLING.

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