US643628A - Kitchen-cabinet. - Google Patents

Description

T. J. BRUMBACK.

KITCHEN CABINET.

(Application filed Oct. 6, 1897.)

No. 643,628. Patented Feb. 20, I900.

(No Model.)

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

THOMAS J. BRUMBACK, OF MEMPHIS, MISSOURI, ASSIGNOR TO THE CLIMAX MANUFACTURING COMPANY, OF SAME PLACE.

KITCHEN-CABINET.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 643,628, dated February 20, 1900.

Afiplication filed October 6, 1897- TO all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, THOMAS J BRUMBAGK, a citizen of the United States, residing at Memphis, in the county of Scotland and State of Missouri, have invented a new and useful Kitchen-Cabinet, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to kitchen-cabinets, and particularly to a flour or meal bin; and the object in View is toprovide a self-supporting bin of the class named equipped with sifting devices and a receptacle for a mixing-pan or the equivalent thereof to exclude dust from the latter and, furthermore, to provide an improved construction of sifter and means for mounting the same whereby it may be readily removed from the cabinet for cleansing purposes.

Further objects and advantages of this invention will appear in the following description, and the novel features thereof will be particularly pointed out in the appended claim.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view of a kitchen-cabinet constructed in accordance with my invention. Fig. 2 is a central vertical section of the same, taken parallel' with the axis of the agitator.

Similar numerals of reference indicate corresponding parts in both figures of the drawings.

The cabinet embodying my invention consists of a rectangular hollow base or cupboard 1, having closed side and back walls and provided in its top and bottom walls with alined openings 2 and 3. The front wall is partly cutaway from a point flush with the upper surface of the bottom wall to form an opening to receive the front 4 of a drawer, having a bottom 5, which when the drawer is in place closes the opening in the bottom wall of the base or frame.

Seated upon the top of the base or frame is a cylinder 6 of larger diameter than the opening in said top wall and secured to the top wall by means of keepers 7 or their equivalents engaging the lower edge or rim of the cylinder. This cylinder constitutes a bin for flour or meal, and secured therein near its bottom is a funnel 8, forming the tapered bottom of the bin and extending below the plane Serial No. 654,308. (No model.)

of the lower edge of the cylinder and through said opening in the top wall of the base or frame. The upper end of the bin is closed by a removable cap or cover 9.

Arranged within the base or frame is a sifting device having a cylindrical shell 10, which is removably fitted at its upper end upon the lower extremity of the funnel and is provided with a forwardly-extending sleeve 11, which projects through an opening 12 in the front wall of the base or frame. This sleeve is partly closed at its front end to form a bearing for an agitator shaft or spindle 13, having an exposed terminal crank 14, and the said sleeve forms a handle for the sifting device when the latter is removed from the base or cover 1. The inner end of the sleeve is similarly closed to form a rear bearing for the agitator shaft or spindle, and carried by said shaft within the shell is an agitator 15, having a plurality of radial blades for contact with the inner surface of a wire-cloth or equivalent screen 16, which is arranged within the shell. In practice I prefer to construct the agitator of axially-alined hubs l7 and 18, from which radiate blades of wire of a shape adapted to conform with the interior of the screen, the front hub having a smooth opening 19 to allow the agitator shaft or spindle to pass loosely therethrough, and the other hub being provided with a threaded socket 20 to receive a threaded terminal portion at the rear end of the shaft. Also depending from the lower extremity of the funnel is a holding-strap 21,

extending to a point contiguous to the lower extremity of the shell of the agitator and folded thereunder to form a book 22, by which the rear side of the agitator-shell is held in operative position. The front of the sifter is supported by the engagement of said forwardlyextending sleeve 11 with the opening in the front wall of the base or frame. The sleeve 11 completely fills the opening 12 of the front of the frame or base, and when the sifting device is removed through the bottom of the frame or base the exteriorly-arranged crank-handle is adapted to be drawn through the opening 12.

From the above description it will be seen that the bin consists of a cylindrical body portion which is positively seated at its lower end upon the top wall of the base or frame of hollow construction and that the reduced lower end thereof is formed by means of a funnel arranged interiorly of the cylinder and extending downwardly through the opening formed in the said top wall of the base, the base being adapted to be supported by a table, shelf, or equivalent device within convenient reach of the operator. Furthermore, it will be obvious from the foregoing description that the disengagement of the holdingstrap (preferably made of sheet metal, as tin) from the lower edge of the shell of the sifter, the disengagement of the upper edge of said shell from the lower extremity of the funnel, and the removal of the forwardly-extending sleeve 11 from the opening in the front wall of the base will release the sifting device for removal from the base after, however, the shaft or spindle of the agitator has been disengaged from the body portion of the agitator by turning the crank in a reverse direction to unscrew the threaded extremity thereof from the rear hub of the agitator and the forward removal of the shaft from the bearings of the said sleeve. After detachment the sifting device may be removed through the lower opening in the bottom wall of the base to expose its interior for cleansing purposes. The replacement of the sifting device may be accomplished with equal facility.

As above indicated, the removable drawer, which is fitted in the front opening in the base 01' frame, is adapted for containinga mixingpan, which is indicated in dotted lines in Fig. 2, said pan being thereby held under the sifting device and entirely inclosed, whereby flour or meal may be sifted thereinto without the exposure of the material to drafts of air. Also when not in use the mixing-pan is protected from accumulations of dust. It will be understood, furthermore, that by forming the opening 3 in the floor or bottom of the base or frame in alinement with the opening in the top wall thereof, and hence in alinement with the shell of the sifting device, the flour or other material may be discharged directly through the opening 3 into a receptacle disposed beneath the base or frame when the apparatus is suspended upon a wall or is otherwise supported above a table or horizontal stand. Thus the opening 3 provides for placing a receiving-pan either within the receptacle or below the same in order to catch the sifted flour, and therefore adds to the convenience of the apparatus in use. Also it will be seen that by providing the forwardly-projecting sleeve 11, having a terminal bearing for the agitator-spindle 13, I am enabled to provide spaced bearings for said spindle in front of the agitator-arms, or, in other words, to mount the agitator-spindle at spaced points between the agitator-arms and the crank-arm, and thus leave the rear end of the spindle free from a bearing. Hence the threads by which I form the connection between the rear end of the spindle and the rear hub of the agitator are not Worn by contact with a bearing, and the spindle may be disengaged from and reengaged with the agitator-hubs with facility. Thus the sleeve 11 performs the double function of a support for the front of the shell 10 and a front bearing for the agitator-spind le,and in addition thereto it is necessary only to provide the pliable strap 21, which is en gaged with the lower edge of the shell at its rear side, in order to maintain the sifting devices in operative relation with the bin. It is obvious that the strap 21 must be pliable in order that it may be disengaged from and reengaged with the shell by bending the upturned lower extremity 22 thereof.

Having described my invention, what I claim is- In a device of the class described, the combination of a hollow frame provided at its top and bottom with openings and having the opening 12 at its front, said frame being provided at a point below the opening 12 with a drawer, a bin mounted upon the frame and having a reduced portion extending through the opening of the top of the frame, a sifting device consisting of a cylindrical shell removably fitted upon the reduced portion of the bin and provided with a forwardly-extending sleeve fitting within the opening 12 and entirely filling the same, a sieve secured within the shell, an agitator arranged within the shell and provided with a spindle extending through and journaled in the sleeve, an exterior crank-handle 14 connected with the spindle and adapted to be drawn through the opening 12 when the sifting device is removed through the bottom of the frame, and the strap 21 located at the back of the sifting device, depending from the top of the frame and provided at its lower end with ahook detachably engaging the cylindrical shell, said strap and sleeve supporting the sifting device and retaining the same on the reduced portion of the bin, substantially as and for the purpose described.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereto affixed my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

THOMAS J. BRUMBAOK.

Witnesses:

P. H. BENNETT, JOHN D. SMOOT.

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