US1395721A - Locking device - Google Patents

Description

R. MADISON.

LOCKING DEViCE. APPLlCATlON FILED MR. 2. 1921.

.1,395,721 Patented Nov. 1,1921.

RANnoLrnM-Amson, or rnT'ERsBuRG, VIRGINIA.-

LOCKING DEVICE.

v Specification 01 Letters Patent.

Application filed March 2, 1921. Serial No. 449,019.

To all whomit may concern:

Be it known that I, RANDOLPH MADISON, a citizen of the United States, residing at Petersburg, in the county of Dinwiddie and State of Virginia, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Locking De vices, of which the following is a specification, reference being had to the accompanyingdrawings.

This invention relates to certain improvements in looking devices and has relation more particularly to a device of this general character especially designed andadapted for use in connection with a wardrobe trunk, and itis an object of the invention to provide a novel and improved locking device which. serves effectually to maintain the drawers of a wardrobe trunk in closed posi-- tion toholdthej same against undue vibration when the trunk is in transit and also to hold said drawers against opening movement when the lid or top of the trunk is open.

; The invention consists in the details of construction and in the combination and arrangement of the several. parts of my improved locking device whereby certain important advantages are attained and the device rendered simpler, less expensive and otherwise more convenient and advantageous for use, as will be hereinafter more fully set fort The novel features of my invention will hereinafter be definitely claimed.

7 In order that my invention may be the better understood, I will now proceed to describe the same with reference to the accompanying drawings, wherein:

Figure 1 is a view in perspective illustrating a wardrobe trunk having applied thereto a locking device constructed in accordance with an embodiment of my invention;

Fig. 2 is an enlarged fragmentary view in elevation illustrating in detail the operative connection between adjacent locking strips, said strips being in looking position;

Fig. 3 is a fragmentary sectional view taken substantially on the line 33 of Fig.2;

Fig. 4 is a view similar to Fig. 3, showing the locking strips in open position; and

Fig. 5 is a view in plan of a pair of coacting segmental gears.

As disclosed in the accompanying drawings, T denotes a wardrobe trunk of-a conventional type and which has slidably supported therein the drawers D, said drawers moving outwardly ofthe trunk T when the lid or'cover L is in open position.

Hingedly connected with the longitudinal marginal portions of the trunk T at the open or top face thereof are the elongated strips 1, each of said strips being ofa length substantially coextensive with the interior length of the trunk, so that, when the strips are intheir closed or inwardposition, they will overlie and contact with the drawers D to hold the same against undue vibration and also against outward or opening movement. 1 r

Also hingedly connected with the outer marginal portion of the trunk T at one end thereof is the strip 2 which, when in its closed or inner position, has contact with the adjacent drawer D to provide means to further hold said drawer against outward movement.

The strips 1 and 2 are held in applied position by the hinges 3 and the hinges at the adjacent ends of the strips 1 and 2 have their pintles 4 extended. Secured to the extended portion of each of said pintles 4 is a'segmental gear 5 in mesh one with the other so that, upon movement of a strip 1 or the strip 2, all of said strips 1 and 2 will move in unison and in the same general direction.

In order that the strips 1 and 2, when in their inner or closed position, may have proper coaction with the drawers D,'the adjacent ends of the strips 1 and 2 are beveled so that, when in their closed or inner positions, the strips 1 will offer no obstruction to the strip 2 and vice versa.

Carried by one ofthe strips, and prefer- Patented Nov. 1, 1921.

ably by the strip 2, is any preferred type of lock mechanism, generally indicated at 6 in Fig. 1, and which mechanism coacts in any desired manner with the trunk T to lock the strips 1 and 2 at their inner or closed position, so that, when the cover or lid L is open, the strips 1 and 2 serve to maintain the drawers D against opening movement by unauthorized persons and which is of particular advantage in hotels or the like to reduce the possibility of petty theft.

By locking the strips 1 and 2 in their inner or closed position, the drawers D are held against undue vibration when the trunk T is in transit and this in itself is of importance and advantage. 7

From the foregoing description it is thought to be obvious that a locking device constructed in accordance with my invention is particularly well adapted for use by reasonof the convenience and facility with which it may be assembled and operated, and it will also be obvious that my invention is susceptible of some change and modification without departing from the principles and spirit thereof and for this reason I do not wish to be understood as limiting myself to the precise arrangement and formation of the several parts herein shown in carrying out my invention in practice 8X' c'ept' as hereinafter claimed.

I'claim': I I 1. In combination with a container having a compartment, a plurality of drawers slidably mounted in the compartment, locking strips hi'ngedly connected along the sides and one end of the 'compartment,'said strips being arranged to swing into and out of the path of travel of the drawers, and operative connection between adjacent strips whereby all of said strips have movement in unison and in the same general direction.

23in combination with a container havpath of travel of nection between adjacent strips whereby all ing a compartment, a plurality of drawers slidably mounted in the compartment, looking strips hingedly connected along the sides and one end of 'tlie compartment, said strips being arranged to swing into and out of the the drawers, operative conof said strips have movement in unison and in the same general direction, and means for locking said strips against swinging movement in a direction out of the path of travel of the drawers.

3. In combination with a-contain'er having a compartment, a plurality of drawers slidably' mountediin the compartment, looking strips hingedly connected along the sides and one end of the compartment, said strips being arranged to swing into and out of the path of travel of the drawers, operative connectionbetween adjacent strips whereby all ofsaid strips have movement in unison and in the same general direction, and mean's'car ried by one of the strips for'locking said strips against swinging movement in a direction out of the path of travel of the drawers. I t v In testimony whereof I hereunto afli'x my signature. V I

1 RANDOLPH MADISON.

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