Improvements in Egg Carriers or Cases.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 31st. Mar., 1891-Accepted, 2nd May, 1891
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Egg Carriers or Cases.
TEC
I, THEODORE EDSON PERKINS, a Citizen of the United States of America,
residing at Tunkhannock, in the County of Wyoming, State of Pennsylvania
U.S.A., Voice Specialist, do hereby declare the nature of my invention and
in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and
ascertained in and by the following statement :-
This invention relates in general to packing cases for storing eggs, or for con-
veying them safely from the producer to the consumer, and more particularly to
that class of packing cases which are sub-divided into compartments or cells, one
for each egg, and its object is to provide means whereby the outer walls including
the top and bottom of the said cells may be protected from contact with the carriage
on which the said case rests and with other cases above, in order that a thin and
inexpensive material such as paste-board and wood shavings may constitute the case
without danger to the eggs contained.
To this end my invention consists in the construction and combination of parts
forming an egg carrier hereinafter described and claimed, reference being had to
the accompanying drawings, in which :
Figure 1 represents a longitudinal vertical section of an egg carrier according to
my invention.
Figure 2 represents a partition in side view.
Figure 3 represents either the top or bottom cut in proper form and dotted
where the corners are to be formed by bending.
Figure 4 is a perspective view of one of my egg carriers without the cover and
with one end piece swung open at the corner fold, and
Figure 5 represents a strip creased for. forming the sides and ends of the said
egg-carrier.
The carrier herein shown is adapted to carry one dozen eggs.
No. 6 represents the partitions having vertical slits 7, half way across each,
adapted to engage each other when crossed longitudinally and transversely in the
usual manner,
and each partition has a projecting end 8, beyond the outer crossing
partition adapted to rest against the sides 9 of the case so as to prevent the inden-
tation of a side far enough to endanger the adjacent egg. The corners of the
partitions are cut off at 10 leaving the ends 8 narrow at their bearing on the sides
to give greater elasticity to the sides within the danger limit. The sides 9 may
be formed of one continuous strip as shown in Figure 5 to be bent at the crease
marks 11 and secured at the corner in any suitable manner such as pasting or
wiring the end 12, to the corner tab 13.
The top and bottom are formed with flanged edges like common box covers, but
I proportion them to fit closely within the surrounding sides in an inverted position,
that is with the flange outward. This flange is to be secured to the contiguous side
by means of paste, nails, wire, or any other adequate means, either permanently or
removably, but so as to unite with the sides rigidly while in service, thus preventing
both top and bottom from coming in contact with any plane surface upon which the
case rests, or with superimposed cases, and at the same time preventing the said top
and bottom from being forced outward away from the sides by the weight of the
eggs, the flange of said top and bottom forming a rest for self support. If the sides
of the case projecting above and below the cells had the bottom and top fastened in
gainst the cells by separate pieces in place of the present flanges of the top and
bottom some of the advantages of my invention would be obtained.

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim as my invention is
:-
1. The combination in an egg carrier of a series of egg-carrying cells; box sides
surrounding the said cells and projecting above and below their level, and a top and
bottom each provided with a flange and adapted to fit within the said sides and to
be secured thereto, flange-outward, substantially as described.
2. The combination in an egg-carrier, of a series of cells adapted to closely
enclose one egg each; a top and a bottom therefor, and sides surrounding the said
cells top and bottom, and projecting above the body of the top and below the body
of the bottom and fastened to both, substantially as described.
Dated this 28th day of January 1891.
THEODORE E. PERKINS.