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UNITED STATESPATENT OFFICE.
WARREN H. HINES, OF PORT ARTHUR, TEXAS, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF
TO JOHN MORIARTY, OF PORT ARTHUR, TEXAS.
CRATE OR BOX.No. 800,577.
To all whom it 7mza7 comoerm,:
Be it known that I, WARREN H. HINEs, a
citizen of the United States, residing at Port
Arthur, in the county of Jefferson and State
5 of Texas, have invented certain new and use-
ful Improvements in Crates or Boxes, of which
the following is a full, clear, and exact de-
scription, reference being had to the accom-
panying drawings, forming part of this speci-
10 fication.
My invention relates to a crate or box of
"knockdown" form, the invention, briefly
stated, consisting of a crate or box made of
separable sections and bound together by wires
15 and stay-bolts that are loosely set into the
sections.
The object of the invention is to utilize strips
of wood or odds and ends of lumber that would
otherwise be wasted-such as edgings, pieces of
20 boards, or pieces of veneering-and, further,
to utilize as lumber for crate or box construc-
tion branches of trees that usually are reduced
to fuel.
Figurelisaperspective view of my crate or
25 box. Fig. 11 is a cross-section taken on line
11 II, Fig. I. Fig. III is a cross-section taken
on line III III, Fig. I. Fig. IV is an enlarged
section taken through a portion of the crate
or box with one of the binding-wires shown
30 in loosened condition. Fig. V is an enlarged
view, partly in elevation and partly in verti-
cal section, of a portion of the crate or box
with one of the tie-wires shown in loosened
condition. Fig. VI is an enlarged cross-sec-
35 tion through one corner of the crate or box,
taken on line VI VI, Fig. 1, with one of the
stay-bolts in receded position. Fig. VII is a
side or end elevation of the crate or box.
Fig. VIII is a perspective view of the crate
40 or box in a knocked-down condition.
The sections of my crate or box each con-
sists, primarily, of crate-frames, composed of
border-strips 1 and crossing-strips 2 located
within said border-strips, thereby producing
45 a framework of skeleton form that consti-
tutes the walls--namely, the bottom, sides,
ends, and top-of the receptacle. These skele-
ton frameworks may be assembled in their
skeleton form to produce a crate; but where
50 it is desired to utilize the article as a box lin-
ing-boards 3 are placed against the inside of
the frameworks, as seen in Figs. I, II, and
VIII.
For the sake of convenience in descriptionPatented Sept. 26, 1905.
I will designate the bottom section of the 55
crate or box by A, the end sections by B, the
side sections by C, and the top section by D.
In assembling my crate or box the side and
end sections are mounted on edge on the bot-
tom section A, the end sections being inter- 6o
posed between the side sections, and the top
section D rests upon the upper edges of the
end and side sections. Extending vertically
through the bottom and top sections A and D
are bolt-holes that receive hooked stay-bolts 65
4, equipped with nuts 4', the hook ends of
which are adapted to pass through slots or en-
largements 5 of said bolt-holes of sufficient di-
mensions for their passage. The outer ends
of the slots 5 terminate in pockets 6, extend- 70
ing longitudinally of the border-strips of the
sections. (See Figs. I, III, IV, V, and VIII.)
The threaded ends of the stay - bolts 4 pass
loosely through the top and bottom border-
strips 1 of the end and side sections B and C 75
of the crate or box in which they always re-
main seated. Stay-bolts 4, similar to those in
the top and bottom border-strips of the end
sections B, also pass through the upright bor-
der-strips of said sections from edge to edge 8o
thereof, and their hooked ends are adapted to
pass through slots in the upright border-strips
of the side sections C in a manner similar to
their passage through the bottom and top sec-
tions, the said slots terminating in pockets 6, 85
similar to those previously mentioned.
7 designates binding - wires that extend
across the bottom section of the crate or box
beneath each end section B and in line with
the stay-bolts that pass through the lower 90
strips of said end sections. From the bottom
section these binding-wires extend upwardly
in line with the stay-bolts that pass through
the upright border-strips of the end sections
and the upright border-strips of the side sec- 95
tions C. The upper ends of the binding-
wires 7are then bent across the top section D
in line with the bolts in the upper border-
strip 1 of the end sections, the terminals of
the wires being provided with eyes 8. 100
9 designates tie-wires that are located at the
top and bottom of the crate or box and which
are looped around the binding-wires 7, their
ends being returned from said binding-wires
and provided with eyes 10, that are so located 105
as to occupy positions corresponding to the
locations of the stay-bolts that pass through
the top and bottom border-strips of the sideSpecification of Letters Patent.
Application filed November 14, 1904. Serial No, 232,705.
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Hines, Warren H. Crate or Box., patent, September 26, 1905; [Washington D.C.]. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth512720/m1/3/?q=%22%22~1: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting UNT Libraries Government Documents Department.