US1186597A - Safe. - Google Patents

Description

Patented June 13,

BARTELS.

M. MOSLER & C

SAFE.

APPLICATION FILED mo. 13.

Qr/Barfe/a Inventors Attorney Nos es Mos ler Witness:

.Pts: 7, screws serving to secure the co MOSES MOSLER, OF CINCINNATI. AND CARL BARTELS, OF HAMILTON, OHIO. ASSZGNORS TO THE MOSLEB SAFE COMPANY. OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

SAFE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented June 13, 1916.

Application filed December i3 !915. Seri z? 311a. 66.5%.

To all whom it may con ern:

lie it known that we. Moses Mosuzu, a citizen of the United States. residing at ('incinnati. llarnilton county. Ohio. and (.uu. Hum-11s. a citizen of the l'nited States, rcrf 'ng at Hamilton. Butler county ()hio, hav invented certain new and useful Improvements in Safes, of which the following is a specification.

()ur invention will be readily understood from the following description taken in connection with the accompanying drawing in which Figure 1 is a front elevation of a compound safe exemplifying our invention. the. door of the outer safe being illustrated in the open position. and wall-portions of hoth sates being illustrated in vertical section in the plane of line a of Fig. 2; Fig. '2 a horizontal section of the outer safe and a plan of the inner safe. portions of the walls and doors of both sates appearing in horizontal section in the plane of line I of Fig. 1: and Fig. 5 a horizontal section. in the plane of line I) of Fig. l. of the wall of one of the sates. at the joint of separation between its sections. the joint lacing shown as open.

in the drawingz l. indicates the outer component of a composite safe which will he herein termed the outer sate: '1. its door; 3. the rear portion of the outer safe: l. the front portion of the. outer safe: (i. a joint of separation between the front and rear portions of the outer safe: 3, a coverdland covering the outer portion of the joint hetwecn the two sections of the outer safe. this t'i'and heing preferably secured permanently to one of the sections, as by means of ri hand to the secondscction of the outer safe:

a cover-strip over the inner portion oi the joint between the two sections of the outer safe. this strip whether complete arqund the inside of the outer. safe or formed in sectional strips, being preferablysecured permanently to one section of the outer safe, as by means of rivets: 9. screws serving to se ure the cover strip 3 to the opposite section of the outer safe: 10. a safe, hereinafter termed the inner safe. disposed within the outer safe and having the outer surface of its walls disposed inwardly at a distance from the inner surfaces of the Walls of the outer safe: 11, spacing members. as Mocks or strips. disposed in the .spaces between the inner surfaces of the may form a part of the wall and door of the outer safe and a part of the wall and door of the inner safe and may fill the spaces between the two walls' of the two sates, except at the doors.

Both the inner and outer safes are illustrated as being; provided each with a door at its trout. which is all that is needed if the safe is to be opened from one of its faces only, and the illustration shows the door of each safe as being of single type, that is to say, each door is supported on hing s at one side of the door-jamh and is formed of one member. as distinguished from double doors. each covering but half of its door-opening and supported by hinges at each side of the door-opening. ()ur invention is indilicrcnt as to these variations in construction.

The walls and doors of" either or both sates may follow usual constructions of safes, that is to say. either of the safes may involve a plurality of plates with fireproof iilling between the plates. or the walls of either sale may he formed in any other usual manner. flhe space between the walls of the outer safe and the inner safe forms an air space having within itself heat insulating qualities. so that fireproof filling within this space is not essential.

Looking at the outer safe it is to be observed that it is, within itself, a-self-c ntained safe. and ldokingat the inner safe it is to he observed that, within itself, it is 8.-

self-contuined safe. Either of these two- E the inner safe, out in case the door-opening of the outer safe is too small to permitthe insertion of the inner safe, the inner safe may obviously be inserted in the outer safe before the two Sections of the outer sate are secured to each other. The formation of the outer safe in united Sections permits of the outer safe being gotten into an apartment through a doorway too narrow to per; niit the passage of'the outer safe in its coinplete form, and the same construction may be applied to the inneigsafe if the narrowness of doorways intothe con'ipartlnents indieatesits necessity.

When the inner safe has been disposed within the outer safe then the margin-plate may he applied and secured byany adequate means, as by means of screws securing the margin-plate to the front of the inner safe, the margin-plate masking the space between the inner and outer safes. "hen the safes are employed in conjunction, to form a composite safe, there is nothing in the frontal appearance of the safe, when open, to indicate that the-sate is not an integral safe instead of a composite safe.

In the safe-making art the distinction between the expression safe and rault is a rather shadowy one and seeimo be de pendent largely upon size of structure.

We wish it to'he distinctly understood that while we have termed our invention 'an improvement in safes theterm is to he provement in safes or vaults.

We claim A composite safe comprising. a self-row tained outer safe provided with a door-jamh in one of its walls. a door hinged to suchouter safe and closing into said doon anib;

an inner safe complete within itself and re movably disposed within the outer safe and unsecured thereto and having exterior dimansions less than the interior dimensions of the outer sate so asto leaYe. a space hetween the walls oi" the two safes. spacing nieinhers disposed in such spare and serving to position the inner sate within the outer safe. and a niargin-plate secured to the front of the inner safe and having its outer edges at the walls of the outer safe and serving to close the front of the space between the inner and outer safes and hide that space when the door of the outer safe is open, combined suhstantiaily as set forth.

MOSES MOSLER. CARL BARTELS.

\Vitnesses G. M. (lroLnsnnn, l). A. G-LAESER.

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