US2537299A - Bottle case - Google Patents

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Jan. 9, 1951 R. H. BRADY ET AL BOTTLE CASE 2 Sheets-Sheet 1 Filed May 1, 1947 INVENTO ROBERT H. BRA

EMIL O. BIRKNER BY 1951 R. H. BRADY ET AL 2,537,299

BOTTLE CASE Filed May 1, 1947 2 SheetsSheet 2 INVENTORS- ROBERT H. BRADY EMIL OBIRKNER ATTORNEY Patented Jan. 9, 1951 UNITED STATES A'T ENT oFFicE BOTTLE CASE Application May 1, 1947, SerialNofi' lillO 6 Claims.

fThis'inventi'on'r'elates to a certain new and use- {i111 improvement in cases for the shipping and handling. of beer bottles, soda-water bottles, and the like.

'Our'invention has for its chief object the provision of a bottle-case or the like uniquely constructed for enabling separation quickly, con-- venie'ntly, and with little labor of the contained bottles and -case.

our invention has for another object the provision of a bottle-case or the like having a solid r'emovabl'ebottom member for normally supporting contained bottle's'and shiftable for bottle-registration for enabling ready removal of the case from about such bottles.

(Bur invention has for a further object the provision of a bottle-case of the type and for the purpose stated which is simple in structure, which may be easily and cheaply constructed, and which is efficient in the performance of its intended. functions.

And with the above and other objects in view, our invention resides in the novel features of form, construction, arrangement, and combination of parts presently described and pointed out in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings (two sheets) Figure 1 En top 'perspectiveview of a bottlecase embodying our invention;

Figures 2 and 3 are bottom perspective views respectively showing the case with the removable bottom in place and removed; I

Figure 4 is a perspective view of the removable bottom member;

Figures 5 and 6 are sectional views of the case taken approximately on the respective line 5-5 of Figure 1, respectively showing the case with the removable bottom member in place and partially removed;

Figure '7 is a sectional view of the case taken approximately on the line 1-1 of Figure 5;

Figure 8 is a detail sectional view taken approximately on the line 88 of Figure 1; and

Figure 9 is an enlarged fragmentary sectional view of a bottle-case of our invention, illustrating the interlocking engagement between the removable bottom member and the bottom-retaining ways.

Referring now more in detail and by'reference characters to the drawings, which illustrate a preferred embodiment of our invention, the case A is generally in the form of a rectangular-oblong box-like structure or shell and includes spaced parallel rigid companion side walls I, spaced parallel rigid companion end walls I, and a plu- 2 ra-lity-oif interlocked "grid-forming partitions 2 of Wood or other suitable material-permanentlyfixed together in any suitable manner.

Extending flatwise along the lower marginal portion of the outer face of, and suitably fixed to, the side walls 'I are metallic strips or sections 3, 3, which are of such size or dimensions as to extend below the plane of the lower margin of the side walls I and. end walls I" and for lateral marginal bendin'g'to*provide righvangular end- flanges 4, 4, and right-angular sideo'r bottom- flanges 5, 5, providing a pair of opposing open-end slide-ways -6, 6, for slidably receiving a'pre'ferably solid bottom-member "-1 provided with linger holes I and having a thickness substantially smaller than the vertical height of the ways '6. Rigidly secured upon the opposite endsof the way-forming flanges 5, 5, are stopblocks .8 having a height substantially smaller than the height of the ways, the space between the top surface of the'blocks'fi and the downwardly presented edgeface of the side walls it being somewhat greater than the thickness of the bottom'member .1.

The bottom member "I :normally complements the case side and end walls I, l" ,'fits'more or less :snug'lywithinthe ways 6, as best seen in Figures "5, 6, and 7, "being 'complementarilycut out at its four corners, 'as'at f9,rfor fitting around the stop 'blockslii; and being thereby *removablyaor shiftably confined in closure-forming position within the ways 6. When the bottom member 1 is in such normal position, the bottles B, for which the particular case is designed, rest on, and are supported in the case by, the bottom member I, as best seen in Figures 5 and 6. The case may then be employed in shipping and handling as conveniently and efiiciently as present-day solid, permanent bottom cases, removal of its contained bottles B or accidental displacement of the bottom member 1 bein obviated by the stop blocks 8. One or more or all of the contained bottles B may be removed upwardly from the case for consumption of the contents thereof. To remove all the several contained bottles B, filled or empty, the filled or partially filled case is placed upon a table, conveyor, or other place of support, as at l0, Figure 6, and the bottom member I manually tilted and endwise shifted to ride over a pair of the end blocks 8, permitting the bottles B to drop down and rest upon the support ll, whereupon the case may be bodily elevated, as indicated in dotted lines in Figure 6, from about the bottles B. The bottom member I may be readily returned to normal, seated position and the emptied case is ready for refilling,

The case fulfills in every respect the objects stated, and it is to be understood that changes and modifications in the form, construction, arrangement, and combination of the several parts of the case may be made and substituted for those herein shown and described without departing from the nature and principle of our invention.

Having thus described our invention, what we claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

1. In a bottle-case, an open-topped and hottomed box-like shell including connected side and end walls, means comprising a rail joined to each of said walls and marginally flanged in the provision of a slide-way, a rectangular bottom panel slidably and removably mounted in said ways and being cut out in at least one of its corners in the formation of a recess, and means rigidly mounted on at least one of the ways for optionally interlocking with said recess to prevent unauthorized removal of the bottom panel.

2. In a bottle-case, an open-topped and bottomed box-like shell including connected side and end walls, means comprising a rail joined to each of said walls and marginally flanged in the provision of a slide-way, a rectangular bottom panel slidably and removably mounted in said Ways and being cut out on its four corners in the formation of a recess, and means rigidly mounted in the ways for optionally interlocking with said recess to prevent unauthorized removal of the bottom panel.

3. In a bottle-case, an open-topped and bottomed box-like shell including connected side and end walls, means comprising a rail joined to each of said walls and marginally flanged in the provision of a slide-way, block members mounted in the ends of the slide-way, a bottom panel slidably and removably mounted in said slide-Way and being cut out on each of the four corners in the formation of a recess for interlocking co-operation with said block members to prevent unauthorized removal of the bottom panel.

4. In a bottle-case, an open-topped and bottomed box-like shell including connected side and end walls, means comprising a rail joined to each of said side Walls and marginally flanged in the provision of a slide, a block member mounted at each end of each slide, the upper face of said block being spaced from the underside of the side walls, a rectangular bottom panel having a thick ness less than the distance between the upper face of the block and the underside of the side walls, said bottom panel being slidably and removably mounted in said slides and being cut out on each of its four corners in the formation of a recess for optionally interlocking co-operation with the blocks to prevent unauthorized removal of the bottom panel.

5. In a bottle-case, an open topped and bottomed box-like shell including connected side and end walls, means comprising a rail joined to each of said walls and marginally flanged in the provision of a slide-way, a rectangular bottom panel slidably and removably mounted in said ways and being cut out on at least two corners in the formation of recesses, and means rigidly mounted in the ways for optionally interlocking with said recesses to prevent unauthorized removal of the bottom panel.

6. In a bottle-case, an open-topped and bottomed box-like shell including connected side and end walls, means comprising a rail joined to each of said Walls and marginally flanged in the provision of a slide-way, a rectangular bottom panel slidably and removably mounted in said ways and being cut out on its four corners in the formation of a recess at each such corner, and means rigidly mounted in the ways for optionally interlocking with said recesses to prevent unauthorized removal of the bottom panel.

ROBERT H. BRADY. EMIL O. BIRKNER.

REFERENCES CITED The following references are of record in the file of this patent:

UNITED STATES PATENTS Great Britain June 8, 1895

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