GB916083A - Improved containers for drawings and the like - Google Patents

Abstract

916,083. Filing papers. RONEO Ltd. June 16, 1961 [June 28, 1960], No. 22623/60. Class 146 (1). Cabinets or drawers for drawings, plans and the like are provided with a plurality of walls of corrugated or other non-rectilinear crosssection, which are movable away from one another to receive drawings therebetween and towards one another to cause the drawings therebetween to assume a corrugated or other non-rectilinear form and thus impart a certain rigidity to the drawings and prevent them from rolling up in the bottom of the cabinet or drawer. The walls 1 are formed from rigid or semi-rigid material maintained in corrugated form by rigid reinforcing strips 4 and are provided with cylindrical members 11 at their lower edges slidable in guide channels 10 in the bottom of the drawer, whereby they may be pivoted either side of the vertical to an inclined position. The walls are supported in this position independently of each other, by cylindrical members 12 at their upper edges engaging support means 21 at each side of the drawer or cabinet. Alternatively, the walls are connected in pairs by lengths of webbing, plastic, or elastic, adjustable in the former cases by buckles or the like and the walls suspended from support means at the sides of the drawer or cabinet or supported from below. The rearmost wall is provided with a movable bolt 13 adapted to engage any one of a series of holes in the bottom of the drawer or cabinet to adjust the overall capacity between the walls. Hinged links 16 are provided between the front of the drawers or cabinet and the front wall 1 to press the walls together when the drawer or cabinet is closed. A telescopic bar 28 or elastic cord extends from the front to the back of the cabinet through registering openings 27 in the walls to divide the space betwen each pair of adjacent walls in two. The cabinet has a hinged lid and front 18, the latter being held open by stays 20 aligned with the supports 21, so that the upper cylindrical support members 12 of the walls may rest upon the stays when the front is open. The cabinet may be provided with additional shallow corrugated walls behind the rearmost wall 1, Fig. 11 (not shown), which are supported on an inverted U-shaped member bridging between the sides of the cabinet and are provided with locating pins at their lower edges engaging holes in the U-shaped member, whereby the walls may be pivoted and the spacing between the walls adjusted. Alternatively, the walls are provided with spaced, vertically disposed slats, which, when brought together, cause the drawings to become non-rectilinear in horizontal cross-section.