US1238215A - Metallic cabinet. - Google Patents

Description

A. C. TERRELL.

- METALLIC CABINET.

APPLICATION FILED out 5. 1916.

Patented Aug. 28, 1917.-

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AZEc ff C YFr-relL A TTORNE Y ALBERT G. TERRELL, F GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN.

METALLIC CABINET,

Specification of Letters Patent. Patented Aug, 28, 1917.

Application filed October 5, 1916. Serial No: 123,997.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ALBERT C. TERRELL, a citizen of the United States, residing at Grand Rapids, in the county of Kent and State of Michigan, have invented new and useful Improvements in Metallic Cabinets, of which the following is a specification.

The present invention relates to metallic cabinets; and its object is, generally, to provide an improved structure of that character; and more particularly, to provide improved means for joining the parts of such cabinets; and further, to provide improved means for supporting the shelves; and further, to provide improved means for securing partitions in place.

This and any other objects appearing hereinafter are attained by, and the invention finds preferable embodiment in, the structure hereinafter described and illustrated by the accompanying drawings, in

which Figure 1 is a view in perspective of the upper portion of one unit of a metallic cabinet and a portion of an adjoining unit;

Fig. 2'is a like view of the lower portion of the same; i

Fig. 3 is a section of the same taken on a vertical plane corresponding to line 33 of Figs. land 2 and parallel with the cabinets sides;

Fig. 4: is a section of the same taken on a horizontal plane corresponding to line H of Fig.1;

Fig. 5 is a view in perspective of the upiperkportion of such a unit with the top slid Fig. 6is a section of such a unit taken on a vertical plane corresponding to line 66 ofd Fig. 1 and parallel with the cabinets s1 es;

Fig. 7 is a section of the same taken on a vertical plane corresponding to line 77 of Figs. 1 and 5 and parallel with the cabi nets front and back; a

Fig. 8 is a view in perspective of one end of a cabinet shelf;

Fig. 9 is a botton of the same; and

Fig. 10 is a view in perspective of a shelf holding and supporting member.

In the embodiment of the invention chosen for detailed description in the body of this specification and for illustrationxby the drawings, the cabinet units 1, 2, ar-

ranged side. by side, have the b ack walls 3,

plan view of a portion side walls 4, fronts 5, and horizontal walls' the tops 6 and bottoms 7. Where two units are arranged side by side, one side wall may be common to both as shown. The back walls and the front have longitudinal angularly disposed vertical flanges 8 and 9 respectively, being part of the angle irons 10, and 11 carried by said back and front (Fig. i). The side walls have channels 12, 13 extending longitudinally vertically along their opposite edges and formed by the body portion of the side Walls and the strips 14:, 15 welded to their inner sides. These channels are adapted to receive claspingly said flanges of the back and front, and by the resilient character of the metal, the opposite sides of the channel are adapted to yieldingly hold such flanges between them in the assembled position of the parts. Thus assembled, screw bolts 16 passing through the sides of the channels and the flanges positively hold the parts together. The side walls areprovided on their inner sides with inwardly extending sockets 17, died out from (Fig. i)

the metal and having closed bottoms and sides--being thus pockets in form. The shelves 18 are provided at their ends with downwardly extending flanges 19 having recessed portions 20, in which portions downwardly extending hooks 21 are positioned which are adapted to be inserted into the sockets. The location of these hooks in the recessed portions enables the ends of the shelves to abut closely against the inner sides of the side walls, for-the sockets protruding from the side walls are received in the'recessed portions when the shelves are placed in position. The hooks are formed on the hook members 22 passing throughapertures 23 in said flanges and secured to the shelves. In the construction shown, the said flanges are the vertical flanges of angle strips 50 whose horizontal flanges 24 are fastened to and support the shelf, and. the shelf itselfhas flanges 25 extending downwardly over the strips vertical flange. and

between stop lugs 26 died out from the v strips said flange.

The shelves have apertures or keepers 27 and notches 28: Vertical partitions 29 between adjacent upper and lower shelves are provided with vertically extendin bearings 30 with transverse extensions 31, ied in the sheet metal. Bolts 32 are slidable in these bearings into and out of the keeper apertures, and when slid into suqh'keepers may be turned in said bearings so that the laterally extending portions 33 of the bolts enter the extensions 31, thus to hold the bolts in the keepers, whereby the partitions, whose upper edges have been previously inserted into the notches of the shelf next above,- are securely held in position. (Fig. 6.) The back wall has a series of vertically arranged keeper apertures 34 with enlarged upper ends as shown. A shelf-holding member 35, particularly shown in Fig. 10, has a hook portion 51 adapted to engage a flange 36 at the lower inner side of a shelf, and is provided with a screw-threaded bolt 37 extending therethrough, and having a wing nut 38. The head39 of this bolt is adapted to be passed through the enlarged portion of a keeper aperture and to be held in the restricted portion thereof. When the nut is screwed down, the shelf is clamped relatively to the back of the cabinet and is held against horizontal and vertical displacement. By forming these keeper apertures in a strip 40 secured in a vertically extending recess ll in the cabinets back and flush with the backs inner surface, the shelf may abut closely against such surface its entire length, and a suflicient space being provided between the strip and the bottom of the recess the bolts head may be readily inserted into the keeper apertures.

The side walls have at their upper ends inwardly extending flanges 42 and also channels 43 belowtlie flanges, such channels being formed by the body of the sides and the horizontal strips" 4A. The horizontal wall, as the top 6, has channels 45 extending horizontally on its opposite sides and downwardly extending flanges 46 below the channels. (Fig. 7 The side walls flanges are adapted to he slid in the horizontal walls channels and the horizonal walls flanges slid in the side walls channels in assembling said parts. The top 6 also has a channel 47 extending horizontally on one of its other sidesthe front side as shown; and the front 5 has an inwardly extending flange 48 adapted to be received in said channel in assembling said parts (Fig. 3).

The parts may be convenientl assembled in the following manner: the anges 8 of the back are inserted into the channels 12 of the side walls; the top is slid on in the manner described; the flanges'9 of the front are inserted into the channels 13 of the side walls. The parts may be securely held together by bolts 16 and 49 extending through the assembled parts as shown.

The invention being intended to be defined solely by the claims, is not to be limited to or by details of construction shown ordescribed.

I claim:

1. In a metallic cabinet;a cabinet wall having sockets; a shelf provided with a cessed portions and apertures through said portions; hook members passing through said apertures'and having downwardly extending hooks adapted to enmr the sockets; and a shelf supported on the horizontal flange of said strip and having a flange extending downwardly over the strips vertical flange.

4. In a metallic cabinet; a cabinet wall having sockets; an angle strip having a horizontal flange and a vertical flange with stop lugs and recessed portions and apertures through said portions; hook members passing through said apertures and having downwardly extending hooks adapted to enter the sockets; and a shelf supported on the horizontal flange of said strip and having a flange extending downwardly over the strips vertical flange and between the stop lugs.

5. In a metallic cabinet; adjacent upper and lower shelves, one shelf having a keeper and'the other shelf having a notch; a partition one of whose edges is adapted to be inserted into the notch, and having a hearing with a transverse extension; and a bolt slidable in said bearing into and out of engagement with the keeper and having a turning movement in said bearing, and having a laterally extending portion adapted in one longitudinal position of the bolt to be turned into the bearings extension and to be heldtherein against longitudinal movement of the bolt in either direction.

6. In a metallic cabinet; side walls having at their upper ends inwardly extending flanges; a horizontal wall having channels extending horizontallv on its opposite sides and in which the side walls flanges are adapted to slide inthe assembling of said parts, the horizontal wall having .also a channel extending horizontally on one of its other sides; anda front having an inwardly extending flange adapted to be received in the last mentioned channel, in the assembling of the horizontal wall and the front.

7. In a metallic cabinet' adjacent upper and lower shelves, one shelf having a keeper and the other shelf having a notch; a partition adapted to be inserted at one edge into the notch, and having a bearing; and a bolt movable in said bearing into and out of engagement with the keeper.

I In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in presence of two subscribing Witnesses at Grand Rapids this 2nd day of October A. D. 1016.

ALBERT G. TERRELL. Witnesses CYRUS W. RICE,

VICTOR KLASSAY.

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