US1490814A - Cabinet - Google Patents

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April 15 1924.

1,490,814 w. B. FLANAGAN CABINET Filed June 8 1922 2 Sheets-Sheet 1 C1 Mommas April 15 1924.

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1,490,814 PATENT OFFICE.

WILLIAM B. FLANAG-AN, OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR TO A. KREAMER, INC.,

F BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.

CABINET.

App1ication filed June 8, 1922. Serial N o.' 566,813.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM B. FLANA- can, a citizen of the United States, residing at Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvement in Cabinets, of which the following is a specification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawing.

My invention relates to improvements in cabinets and more particularly to one adapted primarily to contain cake, although usable also for numerous other purposes. My invention relates to that classof cabinets employing a cylindrical casing having an open ing and a pivotally mounted arcuate door within the casing for closing said opening, the door being movable around the casing wall when it is opened. One object of the invention is to' provide an improved door construction equippedwith means to establish a tight connection between said door and the casing wall, said means including a bead which not only reinforces the sheet metal door, but serves as a stop to limit the closing movement thereof.

One or more shelves are provided within the receptacle and a further aim is to provide relatively fixed and movable shelf-supporting brackets carried by the door and easing wall respectively, whereby at least one of the brackets must frictionally engage the shelf and thus exert a braking action when the door is opened, thereby tending to effectively hold the door in normally closed position.

A still further aim is to provide an extremely simple, yet a highly desirable and eflicient cabinet which will protect its contents against drying out and will also prevent flies and other insects from coming in contact with such contents.

WVith the foregoing in view, the invention resides in the novel subject matter hereinafter described and claimed, the description being supplemented by the accompanying drawings.

Figure 1 is a perspective view of a cabinet constructed in accordance with my invention, showing the door partially opened.

Figure 2 is a vertical sectional view with the door closed.

Figure 3 is a horizontal section as indicated online 33 of Fig. 1, the door however being closed.

Figure 4 is a duplicate of Fig. 3 with the exception that it illustrates the door in open position and the manner in which the shelfgated cylindrical casing closed at its ends by a suitable bottom 2 and top 3, the latter being preferably provided with an appropriate handle 4, and the entire casing being preferably formed from sheet metal enameled in white for producing an exceptionally attractive article. The casing wall is formed with a rectangular opening 5 whose edges are suitably beaded aszindicated at 6 for purposes for reinforcement. An arcuate sheet metal door 7 also preferably enameled in White is provided within the casing for closing the opening. In the present showing, the upper and lower ends of the door 7 are secured to a pair of door carriers 8 which I prefer to construct in the form of complete sheet metal disks disposed adjacent the top and bottom of the casing and pivoted thereto at their centers as indicated at 9. This arrangement effectively supports the door and causesit to move around the casing wall, concentrically with the latter when opened and closed. The front edge of the door 7, that is the advance edge when closing the door, is bent outwardly substantially upon itself to form a yielding lip 10 adapted to lie behind the bead 6 at one of the vertical edges of the opening 5, when the door is closed, thereby forming a tight connection at this point for obvious reasons. After forming the lip 10, the front edge of the door is rolled or otherwise formed to provide a vertical bead 11 which not only reinforces the door but is adapted to strike the last mentioned bead 6 to limit the closing move ment of the door.

The handle 12 which is employed for opening and closing the door 7, is preferably secured in place against the bead 11 as shown.

Suitable shelf supporting brackets are provided within the casing 1 for supporting any desired number of circular shelves 13. In the present showing, the casing wall is provided with fixed brackets 14 and 15 while the inner side of the door 7 is equipped with corresponding bracket 14: and 15. The bracket 14 is in the form of a straight bar ex tending horizontally from a point adjacent one edge of the opening 5, to a rearwardly spaced point on the casing wall. The bracket l i is also formed of a'straight strip of metal secured at one end to the edge of the door provided With the lip 10, and secured at its other end to substantially the intermediuse for supporting the contents. of the cask ing, the weight or such contents acts to ex (art a frictional. braking action between" the shelf and certain of the supporting. brackets so that the door is effectively held'against accidental opening even though the cabinet may be setting on an inclined surface which would otherwise tend to cause opening of the door by gravity. Another advantage for the precise arrangement of brackets herein disclosed is that when the door. 7 stands open, substantially diametrically opposite parts of the shelves 18 are supported by the elongatedbrackets 14 and 1 4. as shown in Fig. 4, so that accidental tilting, of the shelves is prevented.

In actual practice the invention is proving highly desirable and while in the manufactured article, a white enameled finish is preferred on account of its extremely sanitary appearance, it is to understood that any suitable finish may be employed and moreover the exact details herein dis closed are not essential, except as claimed' I claim: I

1. A cabinet comprising. a casing having upper and lower heads and a cylinder wall having an opening its side, combined abutment and reinforcing beads formed on the [side edges of said opening, an arcuate sheet'metaldoor for said opening mounting discs secured to the upper and lower ends of said door and pivot-ally connected at their centers to the adjacent upper and lower heads ofthe casing whereby the doormay be moved to open and closed positions, an integral yielding lip formed on the outer edge ofthe' doorby' bending outwardly at an acute angle the material of which the door is formed, said lipiorming a'close yield ingconnection'with the inner side'of the adjacent beaded edge of the door opening when the door is closed and combined stop and reinforcing bead formed on the free edge of said lip said bead engaging the beaded edge f'theuoor opening when the door is closed thereby limiting the closing movement of the door. i 2' A cabinet comprising a cylindrical cas closed at its upper and lower ends and. having an openingi-n its side, an arcuate door for said opening pivotally mounted within said; casing andmovable around the casingwall into andout of a closed position, bracket-s carried by the inner faces oi the door andcas'ing all, and a shelf formed as a disk positioned within said casing and havin its peripheral portion resting upon the brackets of the wall" and doo r,'the shelf when loaded providing means for frictionally engaging the bracket" of thedoor and retardiiigInovementof the doorf i The structure of claim 2 having cermm of the brackets formed from strips positioned horizontally and extending along the chord of an arc of a circlev and secured a theirfends to the casing wall'and door respectively, said brackets being located for disposition atopposite sides in the opening in said casing. Wall when the door is open;

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