US918214A - Filing-cabinet. - Google Patents

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Patented Apr. 13, 1909;

H. SQUIRES. 'FILING CABINET.

APPLICATION BIL ED APR. 27. 1908.

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H. L. SQUIRES. FILING CABINET. APPLXGATiON'HLED APR. 27. 1908.

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HARRY L. SQUIRES, OF MORGAN CITY, LOUISIANA.

FILING-CABINET.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented April 13, 1909.

Application filed April 27, 1908. Serial No. 429,344.

T 0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HARRY L. Sonrnns, a citizen of the United States, and resident of Morgan City, in the parish of St. Mary and State of Louisiana, have invented a new and Improved Filing-Cabinet, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

The purpose of this invention is to provide novel features of construction for a filing cabinet, which embody a plurality of similar boXlike receptacles, permit inspection of thinterior of said receptacles while closed, through a glazed front wall on each receptaole, permit each receptacle to be rocked into opened condition affording access to its contents, and provide an alarm that will be sounded when any receptacle is opened.

The invention consists in the novel construction and combination of parts, as is hereinafter described and defined in the appended claims.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts, in all the views.

Figure 1 is a front elevational view of the improved carol filing cabinet; Fig. 2 is a side view of the cabinet, seen in direction of the arrow 2 in Fig. 1, parts of the casing wall thereof being broken away for exposure of in terior details, other parts therein appearing in dotted lines; Fig. 3 is a sectional plan view of the cabinet, substantially on the lines 3-3, in Figs. 1 and 5. Fig. 4 is an enlarged front view of a portion of the cabinet, parts being in section; Fig. 5 is an enlarged transverse sectional view of a portion of the cabinet, the section being taken on the line 55 in Fig. 3, and Fig. 6 is a fragmentary transverse sectional view, showing details that also appear in Fig. 5, but illustrating a different adj ustment of the same. An essentially rectangular casing 10 is provided for inclosure of other parts, it having a rear wall 10 and side walls 10 The interior of the casing is evenly subdivided throughout its area, by a plurality of horizontal partitions 11, which are evenly spaced apart, said partitions impinging their inner edges upon a vertical partition wall 12.

At equal distances apart the spaces between the horizontal partitions 11 are subdivided by a plurality of vertical partitions 13, that are afliXed to the other partitions, and thus produce therewith horizontal rows of similar rectangular receptacles (L that are open at the front.

Similar card receiving boxes 14, one for each receptacle a, are provided, these rectangular boxes having glazed front walls I) and open upper ends.

At opposite points on the side walls of each box 14, near the lower front corners thereon, trunnion pins 0 are projected therefrom, which loosely occupy alined sockets formed in adjacent vertical partitions 13, as is clearly shown in Fig. 4, and as appears in Fig. 5, for one boX. The upper edges of the side walls of each boX 14 are rendered convex and thus adapted to have clearance when rocked out of the receptacle a it normally occupies, to permit access to the open upper end thereof.

In a chamber 10", formed in the casing 10, rearward of the receptacles a therein and defined by the partition 12, rear casement wall 10 and side walls 10 thereof, the means for sounding an alarm when any of the boxes 14 is rocked outward, and consisting of the following details, is located.

In the same vertical plane, at a suitable distance from the partition wall 12, a number of carrier rods 15 are supported, one opposite the lower portion of each horizontal row of boxes 14, each of said shafts having its ends fixed in bracket-boxes 6, respectively attached upon the inner surfaces of the side walls 10 thus disposing the vertical row of carrier rods in a plane parallel with the partition 12.

Upon each carrier rod 15, near the boxes 6 therefor, two short rock arms g, h are loosely mounted, and are normally supported in a horizontal plane by a coiled spring h, connected with the carrier rod and arm 7L.

. On the free ends of the rock arms g, h, on each carrier'rod 15, a tripping rod 16 is secured at its ends, as shown in Fig. 3, thus disposing the tripping rods parallel with the respective carrier rods.

The arms 7, which are all positioned at similar ends of the carrier-rods 15, have their remaining ends furcated as at 7 2 and disposed in the same vertical plane.

As shown in l ig. 2, a bell i is secured in the chamber 10, on a side wall 10, adjacent to the uppermost carrier-rod 15.

A pull bar 17 is slidably supported in a vertical position on the rear casement wall 10 by bracket boxes m, as appears mainly in respective tripping rod 16, and said rods are respectively mounted on the arms g, h, on each fixed carrier rod 15, and the rock arms 7t are all connected with the pull bar 17, it will be seen that the bell i will be sounded when any box 14 in the cabinet is opened, which in some environments will be found very desirable.

It is to be understood that cards, letters or any valuable manuscripts printed or written may be placed in the cabinet in selected boxes 14, for removal as occasion may require.

Slight changes may be made in the constructive details of the invention without departure from .the spirit thereof, and I claim all such immaterial changes as may be embraced within the scope of the claims.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent:

1. A device of the class described, comprising a cabinet provided with a plurality of boxes, mounted for rocking movement outwardly, of an alarm in the casing, a spring pressed pull bar for operating the alarm, a plurality of fixed carrying rods in the casing, rock arms thereon adapted to engage with the pull bar, a tripping'rod on each pair of rock arms, and tripping dogs on the rear dotted lines in Fig. 2, said pull bar being supported in normally elevated adjustment by a coiled spring n, carried between brackets n, near the lower wall of the chamber 10. Upon the upper end of the pull bar 17, an ordinary bell strike 0 is loosely connected, which is adapted to sound the bell i, if the pull bar is jolted quickly by its sudden de pression and release. I

A plurality of collars p are mounted upon the pull bar 17, each collar being secured in contact with the lower surface of the forked member W, on each rock arm b, so that a quick elevation of either of the tripping rods 16, and sudden release, will pull down upon the bar 17, and give it a jolt which will ring the bell t.

Upon the back wall of each box 14, at its l transverse center and rear lower corner, a tripping dog 1" is hinged, the joint therefor permitting the dog to rock upward but not below a level position.

The free ends of the dogs r, on each horizontal row of boxes 14, all have an equal length, so proportioned that said ends may iminge upon the lower side of the tripping roc 16 they are nearest to, and raise the rod a short distance and suddenly release it when the dog is rocked upward along with the box i 14 it is mounted upon, by an outward and j downward rocking adjustment of said box mentary tripping rod, whereby the pull bar will be operated when the boxes are rocked outwardly.

2. The combination with a casing for a cabinet, a series of horizontal rows of receptacles formed in the casing, and an equal number of boxes open at their upper ends, and pivoted near their lower front corners in the respective receptacles, of an audible alarm in the casing, comprising a bell, a strike mechanism for the bell, a pull bar vertically spring-pressed and adapted by depression to actuate the strike mechanism, a plurality of fixed carrier rods in the casing, rock arms thereon adapted to engage with the pull bar, a tripping rod on each pair of said rock arms, and tripping dogs on the rear walls of the boxes, adapted for depressing and then releasing a complementary tripping rod, so as to jolt the pull bar and sound the bell when the boxes are rocked outward to expose their open upper ends.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

HARRY L. SQUIRES.

on its trunnions, this engagement of parts being shown by dotted lines in Fig. 5.

The boxes 14 are each furnished with pull buttons 8, as shown in Figs. 4 and 5, that are located near the upper open end thereof, and

to permit a free rocking movement of a respective box on its pivots a clearance slot 7 is formed in the rear wall of each receptacle a, which, as before mentioned, is the vertical partition 12; and to adapt the free ends of the dogs that engage with the tripping rods, to ride over said rods smoothly, the u per corners of said free ends are convexec as shown in Figs. 5 and 6.

It will be apparent from the foregoing dej scription and an inspection of the drawings, that reference cards for various business purj poses may be placed in the boxes 14, which may havedesignating characters on their front walls, and such cards may be quickly removed for inspection, by simply rockinga selected box outward and downward, and it will be noted in Fig. 5 that a recess 25 is formed in the lower wall of each receptacle a, which will permit the front lower corner of each box 14 to freely rock in its receptacle and fit neatly therein when closed, as shown by full lines in said figure. l

1As all the tripping dogs 1' in each jhorizonta Witnesses Z N. J AY Woosrnn,

row of boxes 14 have engagement with a DAVID C. 1V ALSH.

walls of the boxes, for depressing a comple-

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