An Improved Wrapper for Covering Vehicles during Shipment.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 2nd Mar., 1895-Accepted, 27th Apr., 1595
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Wrapper for Covering Vehicles during Shipment.
I, FRANCIS GORDON DAVIS, resident of Watertown, in the County of
Jefferson, and State of New York, United States of America, 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 :-
My said invention consists in an improved cover or wrapper to be placed and
secured about carriages or other vehicles preparatory to shipment of the same, for
the purpose of protecting them from dust, rain or defacement while in transit; and
relates especially to the shape of such covers, the method of folding and securing
the same in order to protect the inclosed vehicle, as well as to provide for
convenience in applying them and a certain amount of adjustability, adapting the
cover for use on vehicles of different sizes.
In shipping carriages it is customary to remove the wheels from the axles and to
disconnect the shafts or pole from the body of the vehicle, thus leaving the body
or box, the seat and also the top, in a compact and substantially cubical form
adapted to be easily crated. The top may also be disconnected from the body, if
desired. My improved cover is applied to the vehicle thus dismantled, before the
crating is put on. Such covers have heretofore been made in the form substantially
of a bag or houd closed on all sides and open only at one end, and intended to be
drawn over the vehicle. Such covers have been found very inconvenient in use,
difficult of application to the vehicle, and lacking in adjustability to vehicles of
different sizes. By my improved construction the cover may be applied easily,
quickly and without danger of tearing; and considerable variation in the size of
the vehicle to be protected is provided for.
In the drawings Fig. 1 represents my improved cover spread out flat. Fig. 2
represents the same after being applied to an ordinary top buggy, before the
crating has been put on.
The cover is made of any suitable inexpensive material, preferably of a stout,
waterproof paper. It consists of a central portion A, longitudinal extensions B, C,
and lateral Haps D, E. The whole cover may be cut from a single blank, but it is
more economical of material to secure the lateral flaps D, E, to the central and
longitudinal portions by means of pasted or glued seams along their lines of
junction with such portions. The central portion A is made of the proper size to
cover the top of the carriage to be packed. Creases are formed in the cover on
the lines, and g, g, extending across the spaces A, D and E, on which lines, ia
applying the cover, the extensions B, C, are folded down to cover the back, and front
respectively. The side flaps D, E, are folded down on their lines of junction with
the central portion A, to cover the sides of the carriage. Tucks k, k, are formed
at the points where the end portions d, e, of the lateral flaps D, E, join the
portions B, C; and the ends d, e, are then folded around upon the back B and the
front C. The portions d, e, are provided with eyelets, 1, 1, suitably reinforced,
along their edges, through which strings are tied or laced, firmly securing those
parts to the cover. The end portions b, c, of the extensions B, C, are then folded
under on the lines h, h, and i, i, respectively, to cover the bottom. Eyelets 1, 2,
are formed in the ends of parts b, and a, through which strings are tied or laced to
secure the said ends to each other under the vehicle, thus completing the adjustment
of the cover.

page_text: It will be observed that a cover thus constructed has a considerable range of
adaptation to vehicles of different sizes, or to different methods of packing; so that
if the vehicle is large in proportion to the cover the lacings in the eyelets can be
extended; and if small said lacings may be shortened; thus securing a cover easily
applied and fitting well under all circumstances.
Different sizes of my covers may of course be made, the proportions of the
various parts being varied according to the peculiarities of the vehicle they are
intended to fit.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is :-
A shipping-cover for vehicles having a central portion A adapted to cover the
top of the vehicle, longitudinal extensions, or end-flaps, B, C, b, c, adapted to be
folded down to cover the back, front and bottom, side-flaps D, E, adapted to be
folded down to cover the sides, extensions d, e, of said side flaps, adapted to
be folded around upon the end-flaps, and suitable fastenings for securing the
opposed edges of said extensions to each other and of said end-flaps to each other,
substantially as set forth.
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