US1380402A - Table or desk novelty - Google Patents

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A. s. MACDONALD. TABLE 08 DESK NOVELTY.

APPLICATION FILED NAR- 6; ISIS;

Patented June'7, 1921.

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UNITED (STAT Es PATENT OFFICE.

ANG'U S S. MACDONALD, OF GREAT NECK STATION, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR TO THE SNEAD & CO. IRON WORKS, OF JERSEY CITY, NEW JERSEY, A OORPORATION OF NEW JERSEY.

TABLE OR DESK NOVELTY.

LESOAOZ.

is a specification;

This invention relates to table or desk novelties, and has for one ofits primary objects the provision of a shell, or analogous article, in separable parts so constructed that the parts when assembled may be used as an ornament, as a shaft or stand for lamps and the like, or as a container, such as a humidor. My invention also contemplates a novelty of the character specified, the parts of which are capable of individual use, as will further appear. In addition I propose to so construct the separable parts that certain of the same may be detached, the remaining portion or portions serving as a stand or the like.

I accomplish the foregoing, together with such other objects as may hereinafter appear, by means of a construction which I have illustrated in preferred form in the accompanying drawings wherein- Figure 1 is a side elevation of a shell, such for example as a 75 millimeter shell; Fig. 2 is a section of such shell as altered in accordance with my invention; Fig. 3 is a section taken on the line 3-3 of Fig. 2; Fig. 4 is a fragmentary elevation of Fig. 3; and Fig. 5 is a side elevation of a modification of my invention.

In carrying out my invention as applied to shells, I cut the shell A into a plurality of sections B, C, D, and E. The lower section B, which constituted the original base of the shell, has its top edge rabbeted, as indicated at 7 leaving an upstanding annular rim 8. The section C has its lower edge reversely rabbeted, so as to leave a downwardly depending rim 9, whereby the two sections will inter-fit. The top edge of the section C is of similar form and has a disk like plate 10 pressed or otherwise secured in the rabbet, the thickness of said plate being greater than the depth of the cut away portion.

The next section D is also rabbeted as at 11 leaving an annular external rim 12, a disk 13 being pressed or otherwise secured Specification of Letters Patent. Patented June 7, 1921,

Application fiIed March 6, 1919. Serial No. 281,005.

in the cut away portion. In this case,however, the depth of the cut away portion is greater than the thickness of the plate 13, as a result of which the lower extremity of the rim 12 may be slipped over the protrudlng'portionof the plate 10,thus permitting the section D to be fitted to the section C; The top edge of section D and the bottom edge of the section E are also rabbeted to provide complementary inner and outer rims 14 and 15.

The top of the section E may have secured thereto in any preferred form, an attachment such for example as a lamp socket 16, whereby the device may be utilized as a lamp stand, for example.

In some instances it may be desirable to lock the sections together in order that the device may be picked up as a unit by grasping any section. To this end, I may provide the sections with interlocking means, pref.- erably on the order of a breech lock, such as illustrated in Figs. 2, 3 and 4. From inspection of these figures, it will be seen that I undercut and recess the downwardly projecting rims or tenons of the sections in such manner as to provide a plurality of laterally and inwardly extending lips or lugs 17, preferably three in number spaced equidistantly. The upwardly projecting rims or tenons of the sections are similarly undercut and recessed to provide the spaced outwardly and laterally extending lips or lugs 18.

As thus constructed the sections are assembled by interfitting the tenons with the lips of one passed into the spaces between the lips of the other. On relative rotary movement, the lips will interlock. Stop means 19 are provided at one end of one set of lips soas to properly limit the rotary movement.

In the modification shown in Fig. 5, the shell is provided with a base 20 adapted to serve as an ash tray.

It will be apparent that the device may be used simply as an ornament; or as a lamp stand and the like; and that in either case the sections thereof may be utilized as containers. Thus for example cigarettes may be stored in section B and cigars in sections D and E. If it is desired to have access to the cigars section E, whether or not the same has associated therewith a lamp I or other device, is lifted 01f to expose the contents of section D. In such case the section E may be placed to one side as it will still serve as a base or support. If it is de sired to have access to the contents of section B then that section may be detached, as may section C, which when inverted will serve as a receptacle, such for example as an ash tray. It will be seen therefore that I have cut up the shell into a number of interfitting parts, one or more of which is or are provided with atransverse closure member adapted to serve as a bottom member. The advantages of my improvement will be readily understood.

1 claim:

' A novelty of the character described consisting of an artillery shell out transversely into four sections, the adjacent ends of each of which are rabbeted to provide interfitting rims, said rims being provided with means adapted to interlock on relative rotation of the sections, a fixture on the top section, a plate fitted into the lower end of the second section of less thickness than the depth of the rim on said section, and a plate fitted into the upper end of the third section of a thickness greater than the depth of the rim of said section, the projecting portion of said second plate being adapted to be slidingly fitted into the lower end of the second section; whereby when all sections are assembled the shell constitutes a stand, and when disassembled, the top section constitutes a stand and the remaining sections, receptacles having bottoms.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto signed my name.

ANGUS S. MACDONALD.

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