US1209879A

US1209879A - Safe and the like.

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Publication number: US1209879A
Authority: US
Inventors: Frank Packinger
Original assignee: J C SPARROW
Current assignee: J C SPARROW
Priority date: 1916-05-18
Filing date: 1916-05-18
Publication date: 1916-12-26
Anticipated expiration: 1933-12-26

Description

. F; PACKINGER. SAFE AND `THELIKE. APPLCATION FILED MAY l8r i916.

Patented Dec. 26, 916.

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FRANK PACKINGEB, OF CLEVELAND, OHIO, ASSIGNOR 0F ONE-HALF TO J. C. SPARROW, 0F CLEVELAND, CHIO.

SAFE AND THE LIKE.

Application led May 18, i916.

To all whom t may concern Be it known that I, FRAXK PACKiNonR,

like, otivhich the following is a specilication.

The invention provides a new arrangement of bolts and bolt sockets and a new mode of operating bolts for safes, fireproof cabinets and other similar doored structures. It will be suflicient herein to explain the novel features of the invention as adapted tolircor burglar-proof safes.

The invention consists in providing een tain or. the bolt bars with angular or can*- like devices engaging the other' adjacent bars so that when the first' named bars actuated by the ordinary bolt handle, said bars directly, and by very simple movement, actuate the other bars and hold them positively in place. This operating mechanism is usually provided in connection with relatively long or continuous bolts carried in sockets around the periphery of the door and arranged, When extended, to tit Within similar peripheral sockets in the jamb to form a continuous lock and seal of great strength along each intersection between the door and the safe body.

The accompanying drawing shows one eX- emplifying embodiment of the invention.

It is to be understood that the invention may be embodied in other forms, and I do not limit myself to details except as claimed hereinafter.

Figure 1 is a perspective view of a safe embodying the invention, the door being shown open and With a part of the inner lining cut away. Fig. 2 is an enlarged transverse section through a part of the door and j amb. Fig. 3 is a similar view with the door swung open. F ig. 4 is a detail of the bolt bars to illustrate their action.

ln the drawing, 1 designates the safe body and 2 the door, hinged as usual. Along one or more, and usually along all of the edges of the door-opening, the jamb is provided with longitudinal sockets 3', and the adjacent edges of the door are provided with sockets 4, to correspond. Adapted to lie within the door sockets are bolt bars 5 which are preferably continuous for each side of the door and are usually of oblong crosssection, as shown. The vertical bars are specificati@ of Letters Patent.

Serial No. 98,365.

usually provided with pins 6 entering guideholes 7 in the door to -relieve the bars of any tendency to vertical movement. The horizontal bars are operated by links 8 connected to disk 9 which is turned by the handle (not shown). 'the links 8 and their mode of connection with the handle for opcrating the bolt bars may be varied .considerably Without departing from the invention. The. horizontal bars are connected to operate the vertical bars by providing the Patented Dec. 26, llanto. i

former with angularly arranged or inclined slots l0 and providing the latter With simin larly arranged tongues 1l fitting in said slots. These tongues and slots constitute in effect cams, which, When the horizontal bars are extended, cause the vertical bars to be extended. Upon extension of the bars when the door is shut, the bolt bars, as clearly shown in l 2, lie across the intersection o1 the door and casing all the Way around and et'ectually prevent damage to the safe orits contents by tire or burglary.

lit is evident that the arrangement of the cam slots 10 and the cams 11 could be reversed, or the pin and slot connections could be substituted for the cams; also that the vertical bars could be operated by the handle and in turn operate the horizontal bars. All such reversals or adaptations may be made without departing from the invention.

I claim Lln a safe or the like, the combination of a body having an opening, a door movu able therein, opposite, continuous bolt sock'- ets in the door and casing, horizontal and vertical bolt bars carriedby the door sockets, an angular cam connections between the vertical and horizontal bars to actuate one sel? of bars directly by the movement of the otherset.

2. In `a safe or the like, the combination of a body having an opening, a door hinged therein, opposite bolt sockets in the door and casing, horizontal and vertical bolt bars carried by the door sockets, cam connections between the vertical and horizontal bars to actuate one set of bars directly by the movement of the other set, and means for moving one set of bars.

3. ln a safe or the like, the combination of a safe body having a door-opening, a door hinged therein, continuous bolt sockets provided in the opening, horizontal and vertical' bolts carried by the door at its edges, il@

y thesecond pair is operated connections between two opposite bolts and the handle 4for operating the same, and angular tongue and 4groove connections be-' tweenthe ends of said first; pair of bolts and the ends of the other pairof bolts whereby movementof the first air.

'4. In av safe or the' like, the combination I 'of a body having. an opening, adoor hinged therein, opposite continuous bolt sockets in the door and casi'ng, horizontal and vertical bolt bars carried by the door sockets,- means for moving one pair of the bars directly by l the, action of a suitable'han'dle, and cam directly by the -connectionsbetween said pair and the other pair of; bars for operating the second pair directly by the action of the first pair.

5. In a safe or the like, the combination i 'upon'the vertical bars entering holes in the .door to support-the bars, Vand angular cam g connections between the vertical and horizontal bars. to actliate one set of bars directly by the movement of the other set.

FRANK PACKNGER.