US2259667A - Bottle carrier - Google Patents

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Oct. 21, 1941. SMITH 2,259,667

BOTTLE CARRIER Filed March 14, 1940 2 Sheets-Sheet l A itomey Oct. 21, 1941.

R'. P. SMITH V BOTTLE CARRIER Filed March 14, 1940 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 jiofirff? 5/77/77? By Ema/52M A tiorne y Patented Oct. 21, 1941 BOTTIE CARRIER Robert P. Smith, Crawfordsville, Ind., assignor to The Hoosier Crown Corporation, Crawfordsville, Ind.

Application March 14, 1940, Serial No. 323,967

1 Claim.

The present invention relates to bottle carriers,

of a type designed particularly for use in carrying bottles containing soft drinks and other beverages and has for its primary object to provide a wire bottle supporting member embodying a pair of pivoted upstanding wire members, shaped to conformably receive and support the bottles in a horizontal position and providing an interlocking handle connection at the free ends of said pivoted members.

An important object of the present invention is to provide a wire bottle carrier of this character which is bent to provide spacing means between a plurality of horizontally positioned vertical rows of bottles whereby to enable the bottles to be conveniently carried without danger of breakage through direct each other.

A still further object is to provide a device of this character of simple and practical construction which is strong and durable, relatively inexpensive to manufacture and otherwise well adapted for the purposes for which the same is intended.

Other objects and advantages reside in the details of construction and operation as more fully hereinafter described and claimed, reference being had to the accompanying drawings forming part hereof wherein like numerals refer to like parts throughout, and in which Figure 1 is a side elevational view of one form of the invention,

Figure 2 is an end elevational view thereof,

Figure 3 is a sectional view taken substantially on the line 3-3 of Figure 1,

Figure 4 is a side elevational view of a modified form of the invention, and

Figure 5 isan end elevational view thereof.

Referring now to the drawings in detail, and with particular reference to Figures 1 to 3 inclusive of the drawings, thenumerals 5 and 6 designate a pair of bottle supporting and clamping members, each of the members including spaced upstanding portions 1, the upper ends of the portions 1 of themember 5 being connected by a cross member 8 and the upper ends of the upstanding portion 1 of the member 6 terminating in vertical extensions 9 connected by a cross member Ill.

The bottom ends of the portions 1 of themembers 5 and 6 extend inwardly and are pivotally clamped in the bearings ll formed by rolling the opposite edges of a plate l2 inwardly upon itself and securing the intumed edges to the upper surcontact of the bottles withmembers 5 and 6 are thus pivotally connected to the plate l2 at their bottom portions.

face of the plate as by welding or the like. The

A U-shaped wire spacing member i3 has its end portions welded or otherwise secured to the upper surface of the plate l2, the spacing member extending perpendicularly between themembers 5 and 6. Each of the upstanding portions 1 of themembers 5 and 6 are bent inwardly at vertically spaced intervals to provide spacing members ll, the portions of the wire between said spacing members being curved outwardly to form recesses l5 adapted to conformably receive the bottles indicated by the dotted lines at l6, when the bottles are positioned horizontally as shown in Figures 1 and 2 of the drawings.

A U-shaped link member i6 has its end portions formed with eyes I! which are pivotally connected to the cross member 8, the bight portion of the link being coiled to provide an outwardly projecting finger grip Ila. A U-shaped handle I8 is formed at its end portions with eyes I 9 adapted for pivotal engagement with the cross member ID of the member 6.

The link I6 is of a width slightly in excess of the vertical extremities 9 and the handle it in order that the link may receive said extremity and handle portion in the manner as shown in Figures 1 and 2 of the drawings. the link may be moved into locking engagement with the upstanding extremities 9 to clamp themembers 5 and 8 against opposite sides of the rows of bottles l6, and when in such position the bottles may be conveniently carried by the handle I 8.

when it is desired to release the bottles the finger grip Ila is moved upwardly, the handle I8 is swung downwardly toward the left in Figure 2 and the link It may then be separated therefrom and the bottles removed.

In the form of the invention illustrated in Figures 4 and 5 the pair of upstanding bottle engaging and clamping members are designated at l9 and 20, respectively, the members, in this form of the invention, being directly pivotally connected to each other at their lower ends byproviding a cross member 2| at the bottom portion of the member l9 and coiling the lower ends of themember 20 to provideeyes 22 for pivotally receiving the cross member 2|.

Each of the members I!) and 20 include the upstanding spaced parallel portions 23 which are bent inwardly at spaced intervals to provide thespacing members 24, the portions between said spacing members being curved outwardly as Accordingly,

shown at 25 to provide the bottle accommodating recesses.

In this form of the invention a single row ofbottles 26 is adapted to be supported and clamped in position when arranged horizontally between the clamping members I! and 20 and the upper ends of the members I! and 20 are releasably secured in closed position by a conventional form of handle and locking construction indicated generally at 21.

It is believed the details of construction, and manner or operation and advantages of the device will be readily understood from the foregoing without further detailed explanation.

Having thus described the invention, what I claim is:

n a bottle carrier, a pair of metallic members each including parallel portions and a connecting ion, each parallel portion bent to provide spaced semi-circular shaped bottle receiving portions, a plate having the ends of said members hinged thereto whereby said members may be swung towards and from each other to permit bottles to be placed in and removed from the semi-circular shaped portions, said metallic members when positioned in bottle carrying position bringing the semi-circular shaped portions of one member opposite to the semi-circular shaped portions of the other member for the support of the bottles horizontally and in vertically arranged rows, a handle hinged on one of said connecting members, and a U-shaped member hinged on the other connecting member to pass over the handle for detachably connecting the metallic members against pivotal movement relative to each other, and a substantially U-shaped member fixed on said plate to lie between the rows'oi bottles.

ROBERT P. SMITH.

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