An Improved Crate or Case.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 21st Apr., 1894
Complete Specification Left, 21st Jan., 1895-Accepted, 23rd Feb., 1895
We, FELIX TARANT HOWELL of 26th Street South, Birmingham, Jefferson
County, Alabama, U.S.A., Machinist, and JOHN CARLL GOTTLIEB SCHULZ of
Awouelala Village in the same county, Painter, do hereby declare the nature of
this invention to be as follows:-
It
The crate or case of this invention is designed to be taken to pieces after being
emptied and to be used repeatedly for packing goods and until worn out.
consists of laths or wood strips held at certain distances apart by cleats or binding
pieces so that no portion of any one of the sides or ends can fall apart. The ends
are held inside and by the cleats of the other four sides and these latter clamped
together at each end by wrought iron bars or thick hoop iron engaging each other
by hooks and eyes formed on their ends.
Dated this 21st day of Avril 1894
THOMAS R. SHILLITO,
89, Chancery Lane, London, W.C., Agent for the Applicants.
An Improved Crate or Case.
We, FELIX TARANT HOWELL of 26th Street, South, Birmingham, Jefferson
County, Alabama, U.S.A., Machinist, and JOHN CARLL GOTTLIEB SCHULZ of
Awonelala Village in the same county, Painter, do hereby declare the nature of
this invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly
described and ascertained in and by the following statement :-
The crate or case of this invention is designed to be taken to pieces after being
emptied, to be set up again without the use of nails and to be usedl repeatedly until
worn out, for packing goods.
In the drawing
Fig. 1 is a perspective view of the crate when set up.
Fig. 2 an inside view of one of the ends.
Fig. 3 a top view of the part forming the bottom.
Fig. 4 an inside view of one of the sides.
Fig. 5 an detail front and side view of one of the rear side clamps.
Fig. 6 an enlarged detail front and side view of one of the front side clamps.
The bottom A is made of two or more laths or wood strips held together at
both ends by cleats or binding pieces B. On the inside of cleats B are secured
iron clamps C made of thick hoop iron and having formed on their ends eyes D, D'.
The bottom is also provided with cleats E, E', secured to the ends of the same and
holding the ends of the crate in place and keeping them from slipping out when
the crate is being set up. F is the rear side made of two or more laths or wood
strips but can also be niade solid and has secured to it on the inner side even with
the ends, two cleats G, G' and adjacent to these, two additional cleats H, II',
leaving recesses I, I¹, between them for the ends to rest in. On the outer side are

page_text: secured iron clamps J, J', having curved or hooked ends K, K, at the bottom and
eyes L, L, at the top end. M is the front side made like the rear side with
the exception that the clamps J, J, having curved ends K, K on the
bottom are provided with hooks N on the top ends said hooks having a hole O for
securing them by a lock or seal if desired. The ends P and Q are made like the
sides, of laths, slats, or wood strips and are provided on the outside with two
cleats R, R', secured firmly thereto. The top S is made in a similar way the
bottom side of the same being cleated and the outside provided with wrought iron
clamps C, C, with at one end curved or hooked ends T and at the opposite end
eyes of the form shewn at L in Fig. 5.
To set the crate up, the bottom is placed as shewn in Fig. 3, the ends placed on
the bottom inside the cleats E, E¹, the curved or hooked ends of the clamps on the
sides placed in the eyes of the bottom clamps and the sides drawn into place resting
against the ends. The curved ends of the top clamps are then placed in the clamp
eyes at the rear side of the crate and the top shut down until it locks on the hooks
formed on the upper end of the front clamps.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what we
claim, is:
A crate or case consisting of a bottom with cleats E, E, on its ends, metal clamps
secured on the outside having eyes D, D', formed on both ends, a front and back
with cleats H, H', and G, G' at the ends, and with a recesses 1, I', between the
cleats, the back having metallic clamps on the outside with curved or hooked
bottom ends K, K', and eyes L, L', on the top ends, the front of the crate having
metal clamps on the outside with hooks at both ends, the top of the crate having
metal clamps on the outside with hooks at the back ends and at the front ends,
eyes to close and lock over the hooks on the front side, two ends to fit into the
recesses I between the cleats on the front and back, the metal clamps binding the
parts of the crate together, substantially as described and shewn.
Dated this 21st day of January 1894.
THOMAS R. SHILLITO,
89, Chancery Lane, London, W.C., Agent for the Applicants.