US2774475A - Valve package - Google Patents

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Dec. 18, 1956 C. H. MORKEN VALVE PACKAGE Filed Jan. 24, 1955 .77 a 7%., 10 8 0 b 0: FIG. 4

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United States Patent VALVE PACKAGE Carl H. Morken, West Elmira, N. Y., assignor to The Kennedy Valve Mfg. Co., Elmira, N. Y., a corporation of New York Application January 24, 1955, Serial No. 483,726

3 Claims. (Cl. 206-65) This invention relates to a package for storing and shipping valves, and more particularly to the construction of corrugated board sheets for positioning the valves within an outer carton or other container.

The customary practice has been to storage valves loose in bins prior to packaging and shipping, but this frequently led to the entry of dirt into the valve casings, damage to the valve wheels and lettering or legends on the valves, and injury to the threads of screw end valves or to the fragile ends of valves intended for soldered connections to tubing. The counting of valves stored in bins required considerable time when inventories were to be taken, and the handling of the valves during that operation frequently resulted in damage to the valves.

Objects of the present invention are to provide packages for valves which will eliminate these disadvantages during storage and which will protect the valves during shipping and other handling. An object is to provide a package for a number of valves which holds them in place individually to prevent rubbing and marring, and which eliminates the temporary end closures which have been employed to prevent the entrance of dirt into the valve casings. Another object is to provide a package which protects from damage the fragile ends of valve casings into which tubes are to be inserted and soldered.

These and other objects and the advantages of the invention will be apparent from the following specification when taken with the accompanying drawing in which:

Fig. 1 is a fragmentary perspective View of an inner liner and outer positioning member of corrugated board supporting a valve, as contemplated by the invention;

Fig. 2 is an end view of the same;

Fig. 3 is a fragmentary elevation of a valve package embodying the invention, as seen in section on a plane outside of the outer surface of a supporting member in which a plurality of valves are arranged, and prior to the closing of the package; and

Fig. 4 is a fragmentary side View of an inner liner for use with screwed end valves.

In Figs. 1 and 2 of the drawing, the reference numeral 1 identifies the casing of a globe valve having oppositely extending tubular portions 2, 2 to which pipe connections are to be made. A hollow sleeve 3 extends upwardly from the casing and is closed by a gland nut 4 through which valve stem 5 extends and carries a handwheel 6. The internal construction of the valve may follow any known or desired design and the connection ends 2 of the valve casing may be smooth walled tubes, as shown, when the valve is to be soldered to the associated tubing, or may be threaded for screw connection to pipes.

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In accordance with the invention, I provide an inner lined comprising a sheet 7 of corrugated board provided with parallel score lines a, a for facilitating the bending of the sheet to substantially U-form with the flanges 8 substantially normal to the web 9 and provided with alined sets of spaced openings 10, 10 for receiving the ends of the tubular extensions 2 when the valve casings 1 are seated against the web 9. The positioning member which cooperates with the inner liner to maintain the valves in spaced parallel relation comprises a larger sheet 11 of corrugated board provided with four parallel score lines a to facilitate bending, as indicated in Figs. 1 and 2, into hollow rectangular form snugly enclosing the liner 7 in its central portion. The opposite edge portions 12, 12' of sheet 11 are provided with complementary notches 13, 13' for receiving the stems 5 of the valves when the sheet is bent to overlap the edge portions to seat edge portion 12 against the outer face of the gland nut 4 and seat edge portion 12 against the inner face of the handwheel 6.

An assembly of valves in a liner and positioning member may be packaged in an individual carton or receptacle, preferably of corrugated paper, or a large carton may be provided for a number of assemblies, In either case, the cartons have oppositely arranged parallel walls against which the outer surfaces of the handwheels 6 and the base of the positioning member 11 are seated. In the case of a single assembly package, the outer carton has parallel side walls, not shown, between which the opposite sides of the positioning member 11 snugly fit, and a bottom wall 14 spaced from a closure wall 15 which folds down on the score line 16 to seat on the handwheels 6 when the base of member 11 is seated on the bottom wall 14.

In the case of packages for valves with threaded lateral extensions, the flanges 8a of the inner liners 7a are provided with hexagonal openings 19a, see Fig. 4, for snugly receiving the correspondingly shaped ends of the lateral extensions of the valve casings.

The valves are firmly held in spaced relation in the described package, and will not be damaged during storage or shipment. The same unit number of valves, say five or six, is preferably placed in each package to facilitate the taking of inventories when, as preferred, the valves are packaged as soon as inspected after manufacture. Less than unit packages are readily prepared for shipping by cutting through the corrugated board of the outer receptacle and the inner sheets which support the valves.

I claim:

1. A valve package comprising a plurality of valves of roughly T-form with a casing having oppositely extending portions to which pipe connections may be made and a stem portion to which is secured a gland nut through which a valve stem extends, a U-shaped inner liner of corrugated board having a web portion and flanges substantially normal thereto, said flanges having spaced sets of aligned apertures in the opposite sides thereof to receive the ends of the oppositely extending portions of the respective valves with the web portion of said liner adjacent the under portion of said valves, and a positioning member of corrugated board bent to hollow rectangular form snugly fitted about said liner and having overlapping end portions with spaced sets of aligned slots therein embracing said valve stems.

2. A valve package as defined in claim 1 wherein a hand- Wheel is secured to said valve stem and said overlapped portions of said positioning member are seated on one side against the upper face of said gland nut and on the other side against the lower face of said handwheel.

3. A valve package comprising a valve of roughly T- form with a casing having oppositely extending portions to which pipe connections may be made and a stem portion to which istsecured a gland nut through which a valve stem extends, a U-shaped inner liner of corrugated board having a web portion and flanges substantially normal thereto, said flanges having aligned apertures therein to receive the ends of the oppositely extending portions'ot the valve with the Web portion of said liner adjacent the under portion of said valve, and a positioning member of corrugated board bent to hollow rectangular form snugly fitted about said liner and having overlapping end portions with aligned slots therein embracing said valve stem.

References Cited in the file of this patent UNITED STATES PATENTS Lewis June 8, 1948

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