US1039695A - Mail-box. - Google Patents

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H. R. GAGLEY.

MAIL BOX. APPLICATION FILED OUT. 4, 1910. RENEWED JULY 29, 1912.

1,039,695. Patented Oct. 1, 1912.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

HARRY R. CAGLEY, OF BLOOMFIELD, NEBRASKA.

MAIL-BOX.

Application filed October 4, 1910, Serial No. 585,285.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HARRY R. CAGLEY, a citizen of the United States, residing at Bloomfield, in the county of Knox State of Nebraska, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Mail-Boxes; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to mail boxes, and especially to a type adapted for use in what is commonly known as the rural delivery system.

The object of the invention resides in the provision of a bracket rotatably mounted upon a standard for movement in a horizontal plane and pivotally supporting upon such bracket a mail box or receptacle for movement in a vertical plane whereby said box may be moved from its normal or elevated position to a pointwithin the reach of the carrier.

A further object of the invention resides in the provision of means for automatically moving the mail box from lowered to elevated position and in so connecting the box with the rotatable bracket that the former will always be disposed in a horizontal position during its movement from one position to another.

lVith the above and other objects in View, the invention consists in the details of construction and in the arrangement and combination of parts to be hereinafter more fully described and particularly pointed out in the appended claim.

In describing the invention in detail ref erence will be had to the accompanying drawings wherein like characters of reference denote corresponding parts in the sev eral views; and in which,

Figure 1 is a side elevation of a mail box constructed in accordance with the invention; the box being shown in full lines in elevated position and in dotted lines in lowered position; Fig. 2, a front elevation of what is shown in full lines in Fig. 1; Fig. 3, a vertical section through the horizontally swinging bracket which supports the mail box; Fig. 4, a detail perspective View of the T members which support the mail box upon the bracket; said box being shown in dotted lines; Fig. 5, a vertical section through the weight carried on the lower end of one of Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Oct. 1,1912.

Renewed July 29, 1912. Serial No. 712,179.

the T members for returning the mail box to elevated position; and Fig. 6, a detail perspective view of the catch employed to lock the box in lowered position.

Referring to the drawings 10 indicates a standard which may be an ordinary fence post. Enciroling the standard 10 a short distance from its upper end is a collar 11 having a flange 12 projecting laterally therefrom at its top. Pivotally mounted on the upper end of the standard 10 is an arm 13. This arm is inclined downwardly toward the outer end and is provided at its inner end with spaced ears 14 and 15. A recess 16 is formed in the outer end of the arm 13 for a purpose that will presently appear. The downwardly inclined position of the arm 13 is had by slightly beveling the top face of the standard 10 as at 17. By reason of the beveled upper end of the 17 of the stand-- ard 10 it will be apparent that the arm 13 will always tend to assume the position shown in Fig. 1 and thus prevent said arm from becoming positioned on the road side of the standard 10. The outer end of the arm 13 is supported by means of a brace member 18, the upper end of which is secured to said arm while its lower end is provided with an.opening through which the upright 10 extends and bears normally upon the upper face of the flange 12. The arm 13 together with the brace member 18 and the collar 11 form a horizontally rotatable bracket which constitutes the direct supporting element of the mail box. Pivoted be tween the ears 14 and 15 is a T member 19, the cross arm of which is provided at each end with upstanding cars 20 and 21 and between which ears is pivoted the forward end of a mail box 22. Pivoted in the recess 16 is a second T member 23, the cross arm of which is provided at its end with upstanding ears 24 and 25 and between which ears is pivoted the rear end of the mail box 22. The stem of the T member 23 is extended downwardly beyond the arm 13 and carries at its lower end a counterbalancing weight 26. This weight 26 is of hollow spherical formation and is secured to the stem of the member 23 by means of a threaded connection whereby the weight may be detached from said stem and a suitable filler inserted into or extracted from the interior thereof so that the weight may be varied. The stem of the T member 23 is provided with a catch which includes a clamp portion embracing stem of the T member 19 therebetween when the box 22 is lowered so as to lock saidbox against movement to elevated position under the influence of the weight 26. While this catch is of a strength sufficient to balance the weight 26 it will require but a slight effort to release same from engagement ith the stem of the T member 19 so as to permitthe box 22 to return to normal position.

What is claimed is In a device of the class described the combination of a standard having a tapered up per terminal and a beveled upper end, a bracket including an arm having one end pivoted on the beveled upper end of the standard for complete rotation in the plane of said beveled upper end, a second arm having one end terminating in a ring portion rotatably encircling said standard at the lower end of its tapered terminal and its other end secured to the free end of the first In testimony whereof, I affix my signature, in presence of two witnesses.

HARRY R. CAGLEY. Witnesses H. F. FRIEDRIOHS, F. H. CRAHAN.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents, Washington, I). G.

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