US1663990A

US1663990A - Cupboard

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Publication number: US1663990A
Application number: US171012A
Authority: US
Inventors: Marohn Albert Hermann Franz
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 1926-12-03
Filing date: 1927-02-25
Publication date: 1928-03-27
Anticipated expiration: 1945-03-27

Description

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A. H. F. MAROHN cuPBoAan Filed Feb. 25, 1927 :s sham-sheet 1 latented Mar.` 27, 1928.

PATENT OFFICE.

A'LEBT HERMANN FRANZ MABOHN, 0F HAMBURG, GERMANY.

CUIBCARD.

Application led February 25, 1927, Serial No. 171,012, and in Germany December 3, 1926.

This invention relates to a cupboard the walls of which are partly adapted to be folded over in inward direction so that, if it is not to be used as cupboard, it may be used as a table or the like and that, for instance at removals, it requires lit-tle space and is easy to transport. In this respect it differs from cupboards the walls of which consist of separate elements which at removal. get easily damaged or lost.

An embodiment of the invention shown, by way of example, in the accompanying drawing in which Fig. 1 is a front elevation partly in section.

Fig. 2 is a longitudinal section.

Fig. 3 is an elevation seen from the rear.

Fig. 4 shows in front elevation the folded cupboard.

Fig. 5 shows in perspective View the cup board partly folded.

The cupboard consists of a lower part 2 fixed on a base plate 1, and of an upper part having a top plate 3 and composed of several parts and hingedly fixed on the lower part. The lower parts 4 of the doors are pivotally mounted on the lower part of the cupboard by means of pivot pins 5. The upper parts 6 of the doors are hingedly connected to the lower parts of the doors so that, when the top plate 3 of the cupboard is removed, in which said upper door parts (i are pivotally mounted by pivot pins T, said upper door parts can be folded over into the cupboard. On the up oer parts 8 of the lower side walls 9, which may be folded over into the cupboard in a similar manner as the upper parts of the doors, the upper front corners 10 are ixed by means of hinges 11. The upper part of the rear wall consists of a central part 17, hingedly fixed on the lower part 12 of the rear wall and of two side parts 13, the outer edge 14 of each side part having a groove 15 designed to grip over the longitudinal edge 17 of the upper side walls 18 on each of which edges a tongue 16 is arranged. Each upper edge of the

parts

8, 10, 13 and 17 has a tongue 18 and the lower edges 19 of the lid 3 have also each a tongue, said. tongues overlapping one another when the top plate is placed on the cupboard. The top plate is securely held in position by means of slides 2() having each a conical groove by means of which they are guided on'wedge-shaped bars 2l, fixed on the inner surfaces of the top plate and of the upper side walls 8. The top plate 3 may be hingedly connected with the lower part 2 at the rear side of the saine by means of hinges 22.

I claim Folding cupboard, comprising in combina-- tion with a base plate, a lower part of the cupboard rigidly connected with said bas-se plate, an upper part of the cupboard composed of several elements each of which is hingedly fixed on said lower part of the cupboard and adapted, to be folded over into the lower part of the cupboard, a top plate,

and means for securely connecting the elements of the upper part of thefcupboard with said top plate when the upper part of the cupboard is in the position for use.

In testimony whereof I aliix my signature.

ALBERT HERMANN FRANZ MAROHN.