US1360680A - Disk-record cabinet - Google Patents

Description

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DISK RECORD CABINET.

APPLICATION FILED APR-24. 1920.

H. D. POMEROY, H. T. AVERY AND R. M. WHEELER.

FA)! M. whee lei ATTORNEY.

I UNITED-STATES PATENT OFFICE.-

namalzn'romnnoy, HAROLD r. AVERY, AND my 1k. WHEELER, or SYRACUSE. NEW

' YORK.

To all whom it concern:

Be it known thatwe, HARRY D. POMEBOY, HAROLD T. AVERY, and RAY M. WHEELER, citizens of the United States, residing at Syracuse, in the county of Onondaga and State of'New York, have invented certain newand useful Improvements in Disk Record Cabinets,-of which the following is a s ecification. I

ur invention relates to disk record cabinets, and particularly to cabinets of the class employed for selectively storing phonograph records and the like.

The object of our invention is. to provide a novel and simple record supporting means, which includes a novel structure for spacing and separating the disks. A further object is to provide a pluralit of similar novel ejecting mechanisms, w ereby any record of a series may be readily and accurately selected, and then quickly expelled from the cabinet, the said mechanisms remaining in the'operated positions while the records are being played, thereby indicating the vacant compartment to which the records are to be returned. And a further object is to provide means for facilitating the selection of the records.

The various features and parts of the invention will be understood from the detailed description which follows, and by reference to the, accompanying drawing, in which+- Figure 1 is a broken front face view of the cabinet; the records being omitted. Fig. 2 is a vertical longitudinal section, taken on line 2-2 of Fig. '1; showing by full and dotted lines the various positions of the ejecting mechanisms. And Fig. 3 is a vertical cross-section, taken on line 3 -3 of Fig. 2; showing the alternate and reverse arrangement of the ejecting levers.

In the drawing, 2 represents generally the hollow body of the cabinet, comprising the top 2, the lateral walls 2*, the bottom 2", and top and bottom front facings 2 and 2 The disk records 3 and 3' are of different diameters, as shown by dotted lines in Fig. 2, and these are supported by gravity upon a rigid laminated platform 4, which'is preferably composed of alternating strips of wood 4 and thinner as well as broader strips of sheet fiber 4. The platform 4 is disposed horizontally parallel to the bottom 2*, from which it is suitably spaced. The platform preferably extends from one side wall 2 to Specification of Letters Patent. a lication filed April 24,

1920. Serial No. 376,3;8.

the other, and the top edges of the members 4. are preferably disposed on a level with the top edge of the facing 2. The members of the platform are all pierced by common supporting rods 4", the opposite ends of which may be anchored in the lateral walls '2. The top edges of the thin strips 4 preferably extend above the tops of the strlps 4', thereby providing shallow parallel grooves or runways 4 for the record disks, and each runway being wide enough to loosely receive a single disk. Above the platform 4, the cabinet is divided into a large number of narrow vertical compart ments corresponding in breadth and position to the several runways 4 by a series of similar angular guards or spacers 5, havin -the same thickness as the strips 4, an

by means of reversely disposed individual ejecting levers 7 and 8, which are pivoted on transverse rods 7 and 8', the said rods being located respectively near the top and near the bottom of the cabinet. Both of said rods preferably have their opposite ends anchored in the side walls 2 The levers 7 and 8 are preferably arranged alternately, as best seen in Figs. 1 and 3, and their free ends overlap each other, as shown in all of the views. The levers 7 and 8 are normally held in true vertical position by the partitions 5, but in order to prevent their outer ends from shifting on the rods 7 and 8, similar spacing sleeves 7 and 8 are mounted on said rods. The outer ends of the levers 7 and 8 are broader than their free inner ends for increasing their strength.

Patented Nov. 30, 1920.

The levers 7 and 8 are operated, z. e. swung on their respective pivots 7 and 8 for ejectpush-rods of the two series are staggered,

and are fitted with circular buttons or heads 7 and 8 which are engaged by the thumbs or fingers of the operators during the expelling of the records. Each of said buttons bears a different numeral, which corresponds to the number of a certain record, and each push-button is disposed in line with and servesto indexa record compartment of the cabinet. In order to facilitate the selections of the records stored in our cabinet,the push-buttons 7 contain onl the even numbers, as 2, 4,6 &c., all of whic are disposed at the top of the cabinet, while the 7 the short end of the corresponding ejecting lever rearwardly, which tilts the free end of said lever forwardly for expelling the record (see dotted lines in Fig. 2). When the push-rods and ejecting levers are in their normally idle position, asshown by the full lines in Fig. 2, the said levers are all positioned vertically and bear against the support 6. When the record disks are placed in the cabinet, they are rolled rearwardly over and just beyond a stop consisting of a common rod 9, which passes through the spacers 4 of the platform. The stop 9 prevents the accidental dislodgement of the This rearward movement of the records.

disks forces any of the levers 7 or 8 which happen to be extended, as "shown by the.

dotted lines in Fig. 2 back against the support 6, where a lof the parts remain until the keys 7 and 8 are operated as described. After the operator has selected and expelled a record, he temporarily leaves the push-rod in the operated position for indicating the vacant compartment when the time comes for replacing) themissing record. He is aided in this the fact that the corresponding button is still in the depressed position,

as he left it when the/selection of the record was made.

Having thus described our invention, what we claim, is

A cabinet for. filing disk records, comprising a hollow body open at one end, a

platform disposed horizontally in the body having upwardly facing grooves to receive and support record disks, inclined spacers for separating the records, ejecting levers separated and (guided by said spacers, said levers arrange in series, the levers of one series alternating the levers of the other series throughout the body, one series of levers pivoted near the top of the body, the

other series pivoted nearthe bottom of the body, the free ends of all of said levers overlapping near the horizontal axis of the body, a series of push-rods for operating the depending levers disposed across the top' of the open end of the body, and a series of similar push-rods disposed across the bottom of the body for operatingthe series of inverted levers.

In testimony whereof we aflix our signa- HARRY D. POMEROY. HAROLD T. AVERY. RAY M. WHEELER.

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