US1183095A - Collection-receptacle. - Google Patents

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w. [LMARTIN & n. T. BJYOR'K. i

COLL-ECTlON RECEPTACLE;

APPLICATION FILED FEB.26,1915.

1,183,095.: Patented M 16, 1916. 2 SHEETS-:SHEET l.

A TTOR NE vs,

W. D. MARTIN & D. T. BJORK.

COLLECTION RECEPTACLE.

APPLICATION FILED FEB. 26. I915.

Patented May 16,1916.

2 SHEETSSHEE T 2.

. INVENTOR,

.jauza iork. BY

ATTORNEYS.

WILLIAM in. malaria Ann nnvrn T. BJORK', OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

COLLECTION-RECEPTACLE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May in, 191s.

Application filed Februarj 26, 1915. Serial No. 10,664.

T 0. (ZZZ whom it may concern.

Be it known that we, lVILLIAM D. Minrrrn and DAVID T. Baonn, citizens of the United States, and residents of Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Collection-Receptacles; and we do hereby declare that the following is a full, cleanand exact description thereof, ,refer-.

ones being had to the accompanying draware closed by suitable doors, the latter being opened when. a package or article is placed into and removed from the receptacle. The entrance opening permits the package or article to be placed in the receptacle from the outside of the building wall, and the exit opening enables the deposited article to ,be removed from the receptacle from the in- 'side of the wall or room of which the wallv forms a part.

Among the objects of the invention is to improve the construction of a collection receptacle of the type referred to in the several particulars as will hereinafter appear, and to provide in particular means whereby the door of the entrance opening will be locked as soon as it is closed, after an article or articles are deposited inthe receptacle, and will be held in locked position as long as such articles remain in the. receptacle, and further to unlock the door as soon as the deposited article or'articles are removed from the receptacle. I

Inits general features, a collection rec'eptacle embodying the features ofjour invention comprises an entrance opening in its front wall, which. when the receptacle is inserted in the wall of a building. is located along the outer orexterior face of said wall, and an exit opening in its rear wall, which is located along the inner face'of said wall and faces into the room or other compartment formed in part by said wall. A false bottom is located in said recepta dc, and said false bottom is yieldably held above the bottom wall of the same. The entrance open- .tional view, taken on line 55 of Fig. 3';

ing in the front wall of the receptacle is closed by a door, which when opened permlts a package or article to-be deposited in the receptacle'upon the false bottom Wall thereof. The weight of the article acts to depress; said false bottom wall, and when the entrance door is closed the same is locked in such position. lhe entrance door is locked in closed position long as the package or article remains in the receptacle and access to the-same from the outside of the building wall is prevented. The exit open ng inthe rear wall is closed by a door, which opens into theroom of the house or apartment, and when opened from the inside of the room enables the occupant of the same to remove the package that has been placed in said receptacle. As soon as the package is removed, the entrance. door is unlocked and may be opened to enable other articles to be deposited in said receptacle.

The invention consists further in the mattershereinafter described and more particularly pointed out in the appended claims,

In the accompanying drawings Figure 1 is a perspective view and in front elevation of a' collection receptacle constructedin accordance with our'invention, tire receptacle being shownin the position it occupies when inset in the. wall of a building or the like; Fig. 2 is a perspective'view and in rear elevation of said receptacle when inset in the wall of the building, the rear door of said receptacle being shown in open position; Fig. 3 is a longitudinal sectional view, taken on line of Fig. 2; Fig. 4: is a transverse. vertical sectional view, taken on line 4+4 of 'Fig. 3; Fig. 5 is a transverse,- vertical sec- Fig. 6 is an enlarged, vertical sectional view.

taken through the sliding front door of the receptacle, said sliding door being shown. locked in its closed position; Fig. 7' is' an enlarged, vertical sectional view of the-same parts shown in Fig.6 and looking-at such parts from the rear, the parts forming the latch device for said sliding door being shown in locked position in full lines and in unlocked position in dotted lincs z-Fig. 8

is an enlarged horizontal sectional view,

taken on line 88 of Fig. 4; Fig. 9 is an enlarged, fragmentary. rear elevational view of the parts shown in Fig. 8; and Fig. 10

is an enlarged. fragmcntar vertical sectional view, taken on line 10-10 of 5 Referring to the drawings, illustrating in detail a collection receptacle or box constructed in accordance with our invention, indicates the wall of a building, in which said receptacle 1s adapted to be inset. 11s

. and, a bottom wall 15.

shown, said receptacle is rectilinear in form, and comprises a front wall 11, a rear wall 12,- and walls 13, 13, atop wall 11, The receptacle is preferably made of metal, and the walls thereof are rigidly joined to each other. The interior space of the receptacle constitutes the package orf merchandise-receiving compartment thereof, and, as illustrated,

such compartment is divided into two chambers 16, 17 by atransverse partition wall 18, vertically arranged in the receptacle and secured to the top, bottom front and rear walls thereof. Said partition wall 18 is so located that the chamber 17 is considerably larger longitudinally than the chamber 16. The receptacle or box is made of such size as to completely fill the opening in the building wall, in which it is inset, and the front flush with the exterior face wall 11 of the receptacle packages or other articles are passed in closing the doorway 19.

the chamber 17 and secured to the bottom the chamber 17 in placing the same in said chambers 16, 17 The opening 19 is opened and closed by a door21, which, as shown, is of the sliding type; and is mounted in the chamber 17 so as to be moved endwise thereof over the door vay 19 in opening and closing the samel Said door 21 is larger than said opening 19, and is slidably applied against the rear face of the front wall 11. Said door 21, when moved endwise toward the partition, opening 19, and, when moved 1n the opposite direction, completely closes said opening 19. Said door '21 is slidably mounted in the following manner: Located in the chamber 17 and secured to the top wall 11, adjacent the front wall 11, is an angle bar 22 which extends preferably the full'length of the chamber 17. The upper portion of the sliding door '21 extends into the space between the angle bar and the fro t wall 11, as shown in Figs. 3, 5 and 6, nd said door 21 is provided with rollers 3, 23 which have rolling contact upper face of a track portion 21,

formed by a laterally projecting flange on with this Said rollers 23, 23 supsaid anl le bar 22.

and enable the same to C port the door 21, be easily moved endwise in opening an Located within '6.) The upper margin vertical or upright position wall 18, uncovers the entrance d the plate 30.

wall 15, adjacent the front wall 11, is an angle bar 25, the upright flange 26 of which is arranged parallel to, but spaced inwardly from, said front wall 11. (See Figs. 5 and of the flange 2.6 is below the lower margin of the doorway opening 19. The angle bar 2.5 extends substantially the full length of the chamber 17, and the upright flange 26 thereof isiprovided, intermediate its ends, with a slot or locking notch 27 opening upwardly through the upper edge of said upright flange 26. Said locking notch 27 is located opposite the doorway opening 19, and the opposed upper edges of said notch 27 are inclined upwardly and outwardly, so as to give the entrance end of the slot 27 a flared shape, as shown in Fig. 7. Pivotally secured to the inner face of the sliding door 21, is a locking or latch member 28. The latter is pivoted to the door 21 by a pivot pin 29, located above the center of the locking member, so that the same normally tends to swing into a by reason of its gravity. The lower end of thelatch member 28 rides on the upper margin of the flange 26 in the endwisemovement of the door 21 into open and closed positions, and, when the door is moved into closed posi-- tion, the lower end of the latch member is adapted to drop into said locking notch 27. \Vhen the lower end of said latch member 28 drops into said locking notch 27, the latch member contacts with one of the side margins of said notch and holds the door '21 against endwise movement in a dircc= tion to open'the same.

Located within the chamber 17, is a flat metal plate 30, which fits loosely within said chamber and forms the false bottom therefor. Said plate 30 is provided along its front and rear margins withdepending marginal flanges 31, the latter being provided intermediate its ends with downwardly opening, vertical slots or notches 33, 33, adapted to receive inwardly projecting lugs or screws 31, 31 on the rear wall 12. (See Fig. 10.) Said parts 31, 31 are adjacent the bottom wall 15 of the receptacle and serve to hold the rear margin of the plate 30 above said bottom-wall 15. The front marginal portion of the plate 30 is normally held above said bottom wall 15 by means of a spring 35, located beneath said plate 30 and bearing upwardly thereagainst. As shown in the drawings, said spring 35 is of, the leaf type and has its central depressed portion rigidly secured to the bottom wall 15 by fasteningscrews or rivets 36, 36. The opposite ends of the spring 35 are spaced above the bottom wall 15 and bear upwardly against the bottom of The parts 31, 31 and spring. 35 serve to hold the plate 30 normally in a substantially horizontal position and verti- "ally spaced above the bottom wall 15. Sa1d plate 30 is-in etl'ect pivoted along its inner margin to the rear wall of the recep tacle, its front margin being yieldably held above the bottom wall 15.

In order to hold the lower or locking end of the latch member 28 out 01 the locking notch 25, when the door 21 closed and the chamber or compartment 17 is empty, so that the door 21 may be readily opened, we provide the following construction: The plate 30 is provided on its front margin with an outwardly projecting lug 37 (see Figs. 6 and T), the latter being so positioned as to extend into the locking slot 27. hen the chamber 17 is empty. the plate 30 is maintained by said spring in its normal position, as shown in Fig. 6, and the lug 37 is substantially flush with the upper margin of the flange 26, as shown in dotted lines in Fig. '1' thereby preventing thelower end of the latch member 28 from dropping into the looking notch 27 when the door 21 is closed. When the chamber 17 is empty, the parts are in the position shown in Fig. 3, and the door 21 is unlocked and may be moved enclwise to open andfclose the opening 19. The door 21 is provided on its outer face with a handle 21, by means of which the door may be moved endwise. Sa'id door 21 is normally maintained in its closed position by a spring 21", one end of which is secured to the door and the other end of which is secured to one .of the walls of the receptacle (Fig. 3). Said spring 21 extends across the door, as shown in Fig. 3, and serves to normally hold the door closed. lVhen the door 21 is moved into open position. the spring 21 is expanded and acts to pull the door closed when the same is released.

The rear wall 12 of the receptacle or box is provided with an exit opening 38 which opens intothe chambers 16 and 17. Said exit opening 38 is closed by a door 39, which has hinged connection with one of the margins of said door opening 38. As illustrated. said door 39 has hinged connection along its ower margin. by means of hinges '-10, 10, with the rear wall 12, the hinges being exteriorlynpplied against such parts. The door is held in closed position by a suitable latch device. which. as shown in the drawings, comprises a handle 41 pivotallvmounted on the outer face of the door adjacent the upper margin thereof. and a keeper 42 fixed to the rear wall 12 ot' the re ceptacle. Said handle 11 is provided with a locking lug adapted in turning said handle to be moved into and out of locking engagement with said keeper. The door opening 38 also opens into the smaller or second chamber 16, and the door 39 constitutes the closure therefor inthe rear Wall of the receptacle. 1

The chamber or compartment 17 15 of such size or dimensions as to receive rather large packages or parcels. such as laundry packages, boxes containing groceries, packages of merchandise and the like. hen the chamber 17 is empty. the latch member 2 is held out of the locking notch 27, and the sliding door 21 may be moved to open the opening 19." The bottom plate 30 is in its normal position. hen the door 21 is- 37 downward into the positionshown in full lines in Fig. 7. The lower end of the latch member 28 drops into the locking notch 27 as soon as the door 21 is closedi In this position of the parts, the lower end.

of the latch member contacts with one of the side margins of the notch 27, and the door 21 is held or locked against endwise movement. The door remains locked as long as the article or articles remain in the chamber 17. Upon opening the door 39 at the back of the receptacle, the articles may be re moved from the chamber or compartment 17. As soon as the articles are removed from the chamber 17, the weight on the bottom plate 30 is relieved, and the latter under the action of the spring 35 is moved upward into its normal position. .The lug or finger 3? is raised upward in the locking slot 27 and acts to raise the end of he latch member 28 out of said notch. The door 21 is thus unlocked and may be moved to open the opening 19 when another article or package is to be deposited in the receptacle. When several articles or packages are to be placed in the receptacle at one time, the

door 21 is held open and the. articles or packages placed in the chamber 17 in succession. As soon as the last article is placed in the chamber 17, the door 21 is released, and the same is closed by the spring 21 Thechamber 16 is preferably smaller in transverse dimensions than'the chamber or compartment 17, and said compartment 16 designed to receive small articles, such as filled bottles of milk. Located in said chamber 16 is a false bottom $3, in the form of a fiat plate, which is provided on its front and rear margins with depending marginal flanges e5 41, the latter being provided intermediate its ends with vertical notches or slots 46, 16, adapted to receive inwardly projecting lugs or screws 17, 47. The latter are arranged adjacent, but above, the bottom Wall 15, and serve to holdtherear portion ofthe false bottom olate si -above the bot- .same plane with the lower margin of 'are hung in the following manner:

tom 15 of the box and in substantially the the rear door opening 38.- The parts 47 and the slots 46 are made substantially the same as the corresponding parts 33, 34, as shown in Fig. 10, and serve the same purpose. A spring 48 (see Fig. 4), located between the plate 43 and the bottom Wall 15 and adjacent the front wall 11, serves to yieldably maintain or hold the forward marginal portion of the bottom plate 43 in horizontal position and above and vertically spaced from the bottom wall 15. As shown in the drawings (Fig. 4), the spring 48 is of the leaf type, and has one end secured to the under side of said bottom plate 43. The free end of the spring 48 bears downwardly against the bottom wall. The parts 47, 47 and the spring 48 serve to normally hold the bottom plate 43 above the bottom wall 15 in a substantially horizontal position. The doorway opening 20 in the front wall 11 of the receptacle opens into the chamber 16, and double doors 49, 49, of the swinging type, are provided to close said doorway 20. Said double doors'49, 49 combined are larger than the opening 20, and each door is made exactly alike. Said doors 49, 49 are located in the chamber 16, and, when in position closing the opening 20, said doors are in lateral alinement and overlap the margins of the opening 20. Said doors 49, 49 Secured to the inner face of the front wall 11. and above each door 49, is a bracket 50. Secured to the inner face of each door 49, adjacent the lower margin thereof and in vertical 'alinement with the associated bracket 50, is

a bracket 50 Said brackets50, 50 are arranged at the sides of the door opening 20. Extending between each set of brackets 50, 502 is a rod 51, 51, about which is encircled a coiled spring 53, one end of which is secured to the door 49, and the other end to the front wall 11. Said springs 53, 53 yieldably hold the doors 49, 49 in a position closing the entrance opening 20. The doors 49, 49 swing open in unison upon an article being forced inwardly thereagainst, and, as soon as the article enters the chamber 16 and passes the doors, the latter, under the action of the springs 53, 53, spring into closed position, thereby closing the opening 20.

' To hold the doors 49, 49 closed, when an article or articles are located in the chamber 16, a latch device of the following construction is employed: Secured to the inner face of the front wall 11, below the lower margin of theentrance openin 20, is an angle bar 52, the flange 54 of which is horizontally disposed and extends inwardly from said front wall 11. -The vertical. flange 55 of said angle bar 52 is secured to the front wall 11. The angle bar 52 extends across'tbe ing dogs flange 45 of the Pivotally secured to the verticaLflange 55,

below the horizontal flange 54, are two lockor catches 56, 56, one for each door 49, 49. (See Fig. 8.) The flange 54 is provided with slots 57, 57, one for each looking dog 56, 56. Each locking dog .is pivotally secured, intermediate its ends, by means of a pivot pin 58, 58, to the angle bar 52, and the upper or looking ends of said dogs are adapted to project through said slots 57, 57 and into the path of movement of said doors 49, 49. The depending marginal false bottom plate 43 is provided at each side thereof with outwardly projecting lugs 59, 59, one for each locking dog 56, 56. As shown in the drawings, said lugs 59, 59 extend beneath the tail ends of said locking dogs 56, 56, and, when the forward endof the plate 43 is moved upward by the spring 48, the tail ends of said dogs 56, 56 are also moved upward, thereby rocking the dogs 56, 56 and swinging the locking ends thereof down into the slots 57 57 and out of the path of movement of the swinging doors 49, 49. In Fig. 9, the locking dogs 56, 56 are shown in unlocked position in. full lines and in locked position in dotted lines. When an article 'is placed within the elm-m; ber 16 by forcing the same through the double doors 49, 49, the article rests upon the false bottom plate 43, and, by reason of its weight, depresses the forward niargin of the bottom plate 43 downwardly. In the downward movement of the bottom plate 43, the lugs 59, 59 are moved downward,

-thereby permitting the locking dogs 56, 56

are beveled, so that the doors 49, 49 may pass freely thereover in the closing of said doors. The doors 49, 49 are locked in closed position as long as an article or articles remain in the chamber 16 upon the bottom plate 43 thereof. To remove the article or articles from the chamber 16, the rear door 39 is opened and the articles withdrawn from the chamber or compartment 16 through the rear opening 38. Upon the removal of sucharticles. the spring 48 raises the forward portion of the bottom plate 43 and effects the rocking of the locking dogs 56, 56 into lowered'position, thereby unlockingthe double doors 49, 49.

The collection receptacle hereindescribed and shot-tn built in the wall of: a building to which it is to be'applied, and marginal portions of the front wall 11 overlap the front face of the wall 10 abopt the opening in which the receptacle or b'c-x is inserted. A wood or like facing is applied about the margins of the rear wall 12, as shown in Fig. so as to give a, finished. and neat appearance to the boX from the inside of the wall 10. The rear door 39 swings inwardly into the room of the house or; apartment of 1 which the wall 10 forinsa part, and the article or articles deposited in the receptacle from the outside thereof may be removed from the receptacle by the occupant or tenant of the house, 'up'on opening the rear door 39 and without leaving the room. The deliveryman and milkman deposit their respective articles in the proper compartments of thereceptacle through the entrance open? ings thereof, and continue about their respective duties. With such receptacle in the wall, there is no worry for the tenant or owner,-nor are the neighbors called upon to receive parcels and the like. The tenant need not be on hand to receive the parcel when delivered, nor be annoyed when the same is delivered. The locking devices all being located inside of the receptacle, said locking devices cannot be pried open or tampered with, nor the articles removed or stolen fromthe same from the outside of the house. The rear door 39 being locked from within the house, the door cannot be opened, even when the compartments 16, 17 are empty. As soon aS the articles are removed from the receptacle by the tenant, the atch mechanism is released and the front doors unlocked, so that the receptacle may be opened to receive other articles on subsequent deliveries. The receptacle and its parts are made of. metal, and the device is burglar proof. The slots in the rear marginal flange of each of the bottom plates 80, l-liespectively, open downward, and thereby permit the plates to be removed from the compartment or chambeijinwhich they are inserted, when it is desired to clean the collection receptacle. 7

A receptacle of the character described may be built into the wall as the latter is being built, or thereceptacle may .be placed in a wall that has already been-built.

It is. to be understoodthat the receptacle herein described and shown may be variously modified and changed as to its details of construction and arrangement of parts, without departing from the spirit and scope of our invention, and we do not wish to be limited tothe exact details of construction shown and described, except as pointed out in the annexed claims.

{ lYe claim as our invention:

1. A collection receptacle of thecharacter describedcomprising a plate located therein and adapted to'support an article de posited thereon, means for holding said plate above the bottom of said receptacle and permitting said plate to be depressed under the weight of the article placed thereon, said receptacle being provided in one of its walls with an opening through which the artible may be passed in depositing the same in said receptacle, a door for closing said opening, a locking member mounted on said door, said plate being providedwith a part adapted, when the receptacle is empty, to occupy a position preventing said locking member from moving into locking position, said part being moved, upon the depression of said plate, into a position permitting sair locking member to move by its own weight into locking position and lock said "door in closed position, when the latter is closed,

said receptaele beingprovided with a secmnd opening through which the article may be removed from said receptacle, and a door for closingsaid second opening.

2. A receptacle of the character described, comprising upright ,marginal and bottom walls, a partition member within said receptacle and dividing the interior space thereof into a plurality of compartments, a plate located in each compartment and adapted to support air-article deposited thereon, means forholding each plate above the bottom wall of said receptacle and permitting each plate to be depressed under the weight ofthe article placed thereon, said receptaclebeing provided in one of its upright walls with a plurality of openings, one opening intoeach compartment, a door for closing each opening, a locking member for each compartment, eacl plate being provided with a part.

adapted. when ,the compartment within which the plate is located is'empty, to occupy a position"v preventing said locking member from moving into locking. position, and said part being moved with the plate when the latter is depressed, into a position permitting the locking member to move by its own weightdnto locking-position and lock the door of its associated compartment closed, when the latter is moved into its closed position.

.3. A collection receptacle. of the character described, embracing upright marginal and bottom walls, plateloca-ted in said recepf tacle and adapted to support the article deposited therein, means for yieldably; hold mg said plate above the bottom wall of said receptacle and permitting said plate to be depressed under the weight of the article placed thereon, said receptacle being provided in,one of its upright walls with an opening' through which an article be passed in depositing the same in said receptacle, a door slidably applied against the inner face of. said well for closing said opening, a locking member ,pivotally mounted on the inner face of saidv door, an

upright flange located in said receptacle and secured to the bottom wall thereof, said tiange'being provided with a locking notch, said plate being provided with a lug ex.- tending into'said notch, said lug occupying a position, when the receptacle is empty, in "the upper portion of said notch and preventing said locking member from dropping into said notch when said door is closed, said lug being moved downward in said notch in the depression of said plate under the weight of the article placed thereon and permitting said locking member to drop in said notch when'the door is closed, said receptacle being provided with a sec- I nd opening through which the'article deposited in said receptacle may be removed therefrom, and a door for closing said last named opening. 4. A collection receptacle of the character described, embracing upright marginal and bottom walls, a plate located in said receptacle and adapted tosupport the article deposited therein, means yieldably holdmg said plate above the bottom wall of said \receptac le and permitting said plate to be depressed under the weight of the article Dlaced thereon, said receptacle being pro- -Vided in one of its upright walls with an so'popening through which an article may be passed in placing the same in said receptacle, a door slidably applied against the rear faceof said wall for closing said opening, a locking member pivotally mounted on said door, an upright flange secured to said bottom wall and extending longitudinally of said receptacle, said locking member bearing on said flange endwise of said door, said flange being provided with a the article placed thereon and occupying-a position permitting said locking member to enter said locking notch when the door is closed, said receptacle being provided with an opening through which the article deposited in said receptacle may be removed therefrom, and a door for closing said second opening.

In testimony, that we claim the foregoing as our invention, we affix our signatures in the presence of two witnesses, this 23rd day of February A. D; 1915.

' WILLIAM D. MARTIN.

DAVID T. BJORK.

\Vitnesses: I v

CLARENCE FxPoor-aa, EUGENE C. Earn.

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