US764280A - Display-cabinet. - Google Patents

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No. 764,280. PATENTED JULY 5, 1904.

' 0. E. DUERR & 0-. A. MORTLAND.

DISPLAY CABINET.

UNITED STATES Patented July 5, 190a.

PATENT O EIc OTTO E. DUERR AND OLETUS A. MORTLAND, OF lVlLKINSBURGr, PENNSYLVANIA.

DlSPLA Y-CAB|NET.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 764,280, dated July 5, 1904. Application filed December '7, 1903i Serial No. 184,044. (No model.)

To all whom it "Inn/y concern:

Be it known that we, O'r'ro E. DUERR and Crimes A. MoR'rLAND, citizens of the United States of America, residing at Wilkinsburg, in the county of Allegheny and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Display-Cabinets, of which the following is a specification, reference be ing had therein to the accompanying drawings.

This invention relates to certain new and useful improvements in display apparatus, and relates more particularly to an apparatus whereby a plurality of pieces of goods or other articles may be displayed.

The object of this invention is to provide an apparatus wherein a plurality of pieces of goods of any character may be successively displayed and also to provide means whereby the removal of the goods from the apparatus may be readily accomplished.

A further object of this invention is to provide an apparatus whereby the bringing of the different articles into view may be readily accomplished by manual or automatic means.

With the above and other objects in View the invention consists in the novel construction, combination, and arrangement of parts to be hereinafter more fully described, and specifically pointed out in the claim.

In describing the invention in detail refer ence is had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this application, and wherein like numerals of reference indicate like parts throughout the several views, in which Figure 1 is a front elevation of our improved display apparatus. Fig. 2 is a crosssection thereof. Fig. 3 is a side elevation of the apparatus. Fig. 4 is a detail showing a certain style of goods in the display-trays, and Fig. 5 is adetail view of a modified form of display-tray.

Referring to the drawings, the referencenumeral 1 indicates the casing or frame, which may beconstructed of wood or other suitable material, and suitably mounted in said frame are sheaves 2 and 3, the said sheaves 2 being mounted in a permanent manner, while the sheave 3 is slidably mounted within a bracket same may be brought into the view.

l, secured within said frame. Passing around these sheaves 2 and 3 are endless carriers 5, such as belts or chains, and pivotally mounted on these carriers is a plurality of displaytrays 6, which may be semicircular, as shown, or of a flat construction, as illustrated in Fig. 5. The sheaves 2 being mounted in the framework, it will be readily seen that by revolving said sheaves the trays carried by the endless carriers 5 will be moved, whereby the The movement of the said sheaves 2 is accomplished through the medium of the sheave 7, which is mounted on an extension of the shaft 8, upon which said sheaves 2 are secured, and the said sheave 7 may be revolved either through the medium of the endless belt 9, as shown in the drawings, or by a suitable driving means, such as a motor or the like. (Not shown.)

In order that the goods contained in the tray may be readily observed, the casing 1 is provided on all sides with transparent panels, the side panels 10 and rear panels 11 of which are stationary, the portion 12 of the front panel also being stationary, and to provide for the removal of goods from the cabinet the portion 14 of the front panel is slidably mounted within the casing, and secured to said portion 14 on either side thereof are cords 15, which at their upper ends are secured to drums 16, the said drums being suitably mounted within the cabinet, and a spring 17 is suitably secured between the said drums and cabinet, whereby a force is normally applied to said drums to counterbalance the weight of the portion 14, of the front panel, thus permitting the same to be readily actuated. A handle 18 is provided on the part 1.4 for raising the same.

In Fig. i the trays are shown as semicircular, and this construction is especially advantageous in the display of bolts of ribbon or cloth; but in the display of jewelry or other articles a tray such as shown in Fig. 5 might be used, and the same may be con structed of plate-glass or the like or of any other desirable material, and it will also be obvious that the entire cabinet might be constructed of glass, as is now done in the construction of show-Windows or the like.

While We have herein shown and described our invention in detail, it Will be obvious that bracket, a sheave at the top of the casing having its shaft extended beyond one of the casing sides, a sheave on said projecting end of said shaft, an endless belt over said last-named sheave, and an endless carrier oversaid firstnamed sheaves, said casing having a portion thereof slidably mounted to permit access to said bracket.

In testimony whereof We affix our signatures in the presence of two Witnesses.

OTTO E. DUERR. CLETUS A. MORTLAND. Witnesses:

A. M. WILSON, E. E. POTTER.

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