US1329539A

US1329539A - Filing-cabinet

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Publication number: US1329539A
Application number: US843161A
Authority: US
Inventors: Haakon A Martin
Original assignee: NCR Corp
Current assignee: NCR Voyix Corp; National Cash Register Co
Priority date: 1914-06-05
Filing date: 1914-06-05
Publication date: 1920-02-03
Anticipated expiration: 1937-02-03
Also published as: AT88799B; FR506889A

Description

H. A. MARTIN. FILING CABINET.

APPLLCATION FILED JUNE 5,1914.

1 ,329,539, Patented Feb. 3, 1920.

amwutoz Haa/ on riin l vi tmwow M 75a Mu 45 1." ing. thevalue 'machi'ne-as aflwhole and each vided witha consecutive printing counter for printing-on the'tickets the number of the tickets issued to thexparticular station .tto Whiclrthedevice'is assigned. .Inthe'pat- To all whom it may concern:

I other than in the disclosed :wherein .the invention is applied partlcularly to acabinet for nets, of which I Martin, one of these tions as the a railroad ticket "issue tickets. noontrol-totahzmg mechanism for accumulat- U IT D STATES PAT Ii-AAK'oiv A. MARTIN, or narrow, OHIO, ASSIGNOR TO THE ivATroiwAncAslHinneis'rna I comramrlor DAYTON, OHIO, A CORPORATION or onro,v (INCORPORATED m mosa Be it known thatI, HAAKON M AR'r1N, a citiZen-of the United States, reslding at Dayton, in the county of Montgomery and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and, ,useful Improvements in Filing-Oabideclare the following to be a full, .clear, and exact description.

This invention relates tofiling or storage cabinets and has more particular relation to that class of filing cabinets used as a storage place for devices oryarticles adapted 'to be removed for temporary use outside of the cabine'tand subsequently replaced.

One of the principal objects of the invention is to provide means for the convenient storage and handling of the articles filed in the cabinet. I

Another object is to provide means wherebyan article once having been removed from the cabinet cannot be replaced completely except by some authorized person or persons, thereby indicating clearly which .ofsaid/articles have been removed.

. The present invention and the substantial parts thereof are capable of various uses embodiment filing destination of control devices,.such as are described in two co--pending applications for Letters Patent of the-United States, filed by Haakon A. patent applications having-been filed February 6, 1915, Serial ,No;.6.490, and the other June 20, 1914, Serial No. 846,222. a

Referenceis made here to these applicapresent invention has a direct relation thereto. In the above patent application,,No. 6490 is shown and described issuing machine havin mechanism for cooperating with detachable .destination'or control devices to print and These detachable devices also of the tickets issued by the device is pro- I Specificationof Letters Patent.

Application filed June 5,

machine. being used SGCHtlVQ printing counters rILINe-cAB-INET; v I: m

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ing machine 18 shown and .describedf the to print; from the eon- Of the I destinastrip fora-udittion devices upon a detail a Patented iena fm zo. 1914. Serial No. 843,161. l r f ENT OF IC ing purposes as the devices pass through the machine. ord, in the auditing machine only fromthose destination devices vwhich have. been used since the last audit was made bytheauditing machine, as it would, waste of time used duringthat period. 1

One of the principal objects of the present embodiment of the invention, therefore, is to construct nation devices control of the auditing machine,;ma'y' detect readily which of the devices havebeen withdrawn from thecabinetfor usein the ticket issuing machine.

' It is desirable .to make a recbe a useless, and a l to print trom the. devices not a filing cabinetfor thedestiso that the auditor, having To this; end. means are provided in the cabinet forpreventing the used destination devices. from being completely reinserted into the cz tbinet so that these devices :will projectbeyondlthe devices which have not been used- I The disabling of these of the auditor, so that all of the devices may be fully inserted aftera completeaudit is made by the auditing machine-from the destination: devices usedin ing machine. Withthese and incidental objects in view, theinvention consists in certain'novel fea; tures of construction andcombinationsjof parts, the essential elements of which are,

means is under the control the, ticket} issu- U set forth in append ed.clain'1s,,and a preferred form of gembodimenfiof; which is hereinafterdescribed with reference to the drawings which accompany, and form part of the specification;v i

. Figure l is a front elevatienbf h net constructed, according to the :present. in-

vention, omitting some of. the slides for carry-ing their respective destination devices and the-plates, {preventing the complete .in-

sertion. of the.idestinatio wd after, zbeing withdrawn.

Fig. 2 is-Ja right;hand:sidei elevationof the cabinet, part ofthe casing; and parts 20f the interior ofzthe cabinet beinggbrolgen is one of these away to expose the arrangement and construction of the cabinet more clearly to view.

Fig. 3 is a detail top plan view of a frame and one of the devices pivoted thereon for preventing thecomplete insertion of a destination device after it has been used.

Fig. 1 shows a top plan view and a View in side elevation of one of the slides for carrying a destination device.

Referring to Figs. 1 and 2 of the above drawings, side plates 1 of the outside casing of the cabinet are fastened on

vertical bars

3 and 1 which are rigidly connected at their upper and lower ends to flanges 6 integral with casing. The back 9 of the casing is tened in a similar manner to 3 which are bent to form a right angle. Vertical supporting frames or plates 10 are fastened to the top 8' and base 7 of the machine. The plates 10 are cut as shown at 11 (Fig. 2) and the cut portions 12 are bent to form laterally extending flanges upon which plates or slides 13 are supported. The slides are cut at let 4) and the cut portions are bent to form a right angled projection 15, so that the sides of the bottom of the slides 13 will rest on the flanges 12 and the horizontal portions of projections 15 will extend under the flanges 12 to guide the slides. The flanges 12 have shoulders 16 (Fig. -l) which are engaged by the vertical portions of the projections 15 on the slides 13 when the latter are pulled forward to limit the movement of the slides and prevent their withdrawal from the cabinet. The slides 13 are provided to carry the destination devices 17, whichare placed on the slides so that their rear ends engage vertical lugs or bent portions 18 on the slides. The slides are moved forward and backward on their supporting flanges 12 by the finger pieces 19. Rearward movement of the slides 13 is limited by the engagement of vertical flanges 20 on the rear ends of the slides with the forward edges of the sides 21 of a frame 22 which, as shown in Fig. 3, is formed in one piece and fastened to the back 9 of the cabinet. There frames 22 in the rear of each vertical row of slides 13.

The forward edges of the sides of each frame 22 are provided with slots 23 (Figs. 1 and 2) into which projections 2 1 (Figs. 2

and 3) on pivoted plates 25 extend, the projections 24L serving as pivots for the plates 25. The forward ends of the plates 25, there being one plate for each destination device,

rest upon the destination devices when the latter are in normal position, 2'. 6., fully inserted. The uppermost destination device shown in Fig. 2 is in this position. I When a destination device is drawn forward by its slide 13 to withdraw it from the cabinet the the bottom 7 and top 8 of the.

the rear bars device 17 passes out frombeneath its plate 25 and the latter is rocked downward by the force of gravity until it rests on a cross rod 26, so that the forward end of the plate is held in the path of the destination device, when the latter is reinserted to limit the movement of the device, but permits the slide 13 to be moved into normal position and against the frame 22. In Fig. 2 the second destination device and slide 13 from the top are shown in these positions. It can readily be seen that the used destination devices project out of the cabinet when reinserted thereby enabling the detection of the devices used.

The cross rods 26, there rod for each horizontal row of plates 25, are supported at their ends in vertical bars 27 (Figs. 2 and 3). The outer ends of a cross rod 28 supported at the lower ends of the bars 27, pass through forwardly extending arms 29 of hell crank levers 30 fast on a shaft 31. The bars 27 at their upper ends support a cross rod 32, the ends of which are journaled in the forwardly extending arms 33 of hell. crank levers 34 fast on a shaft 35. The downwardly extending arms 36 of the bell crank levers 3 1 normally enbeing one cross gage the back 9 of the casing to prevent the hand end of the shaft 31 is a hand lever 37 which, when. moved clockwise, serves to rock the shaft 31 and the bell crank levers 30, thereby raising the disabling frame so that the cross rods 26 elevate the forward ends of the plates 25 which have been rocked out of the paths of the destination devices, thereby to permit the auditor to push the used destination devices back to normal position into engagement with the lugs 18 on their slides 13, while the lever 37 is held in disabling position. Arms 38 of the bell crank levers 3O engage the back 9 of the casing to limit the rearward movement of the levers 37 A spring 39, which is connected at one end to the second rod 26 from the bottom and at its opposite end to a lug 10 on the base of the casing, moves the disabling frame and the hand lever 37 back to normal position, when the auditor removes his hand from the hand lever.

For the purpose of preventing an unauthorized person operatingthe hand lever 37 a lock ll fastened on the right hand side 1 of the casing is provided (Fig. 1). The right hand side bar 27 of the disabling frame carries a stud 42 having a flat surface 43 over which the bolt 14: of the lock passes when moved bv the key 15 into lockingposition to prevent movement of the disabling frame and therefore of the hand lever.

While the form of mechanism herein shown and described is admirably adapted to fulfil the objects primarily stated, it is to be understood that it is not intended to confine the invention to the one form of embodiment herein shown and described, as it is susceptible of embodiment in various forms, all coming within the scope of the claims which follow.

What is claimed is 1. The combination with articles or devices to be filed, of a cabinet comprising com partments in which the devices or articles are filed, means normally held in ineffective position but moved to effective position when the articles or devices are moved in one direction in the compartments whereby the articles or devices withdrawn and reinserted may be detected, and devices for returning said means to normal position.

2. The combination with articles or devices to be filed, of a cabinet comprising com partments in which the devices or articles are filed, means normally held in ineffective position but moved to effective position when the devices or articles are moved in one direction in the compartments whereby the articles or devices withdrawn and reinserted may be detected, and mechanism movable independently of the articles or devices for returning said means to normal position.

In a cabinet of the class described, the combination of articles filed in the cabinet, a device released as each article is with drawn for preventing a complete return of the article when reinserted in the cabinet, and mechanism operable to return said clevices tounreleased position to permit complete return ofthe articles.

4. In a. cabinet of the class described, the combination of devices filed in the cabinet, means released as each device is withdrawn for preventing a complete return of the devices when reinserted in. the cabinet, mechanism operable to return all the released means simultaneously to unreleased position whereby to permit a complete return of all of the devices, and a lock operable to prevent operation of said mechanism.

In a cabinet of the class described, the combination with devices or articles to be filed in compartments in the cabinet, of a plurality of elements, one for each compartment, for preventing the complete refiling of a device or article in a compartment after it has been withdrawn therefrom, operative means for simultaneously rendering said elements effective to permit a complete return of the devices or articles, and means for pre venting operation of said common means.

11 a cabinet of the class described, the combination with devices or articles to be filed in the cabinet, of a plurality of elements, one for each compartment, for preventing complete refilinlg of a device or article in the cabinet, a hand lever and connec tions for operating said elements to permit complete refiling of all withdrawn devices or articles, and a lock inaccessible to the operator for said hand lever.

In a cabinet of the class described, the combination with devices to be filed therein, of slides one for each device, for carrying the devices into position to be withdrawn from the machine, pivoted elements, one for each device, normally resting on said devices when completely filed and adapted to move into the path of the devices when the devices are withdrawn to prevent complete refiling of the devices, and an operating mechanism for simultaneously moving all of the operated elements out of preventing position.

8. In a cabinet of the class described, the combination with devices to be filed in compartments in the cabinet, of pivoted elements, one for each compartment, normally resting on the devices completely filed and adapted to drop into position to prevent complete refiling of the devices, a frame comprising cross rods passing under said elements, and a hand lever for elevating said frame so that the cross rods will raise the operated elements out of preventing position.

9. In a cabinet of the class described, the combination of devices or articles to be filed in the cabinet, normally inoperative detents moved to operative position when a: device or article is withdrawn for preventing complete return of the device or article, and means movable independently of the devices or articles for returning the detents to inoperative position whereby to permit complete return of the devices or articles to the In testimony whereof I afliX my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

HAAKON A. MARTIN. Witnesses:

F. E. HAMILTON, J. B. Rrcnm'crs.