US1549276A

US1549276A - Vanity case

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Publication number: US1549276A
Application number: US604198A
Authority: US
Inventors: Ernest W Loesser
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 1922-12-01
Filing date: 1922-12-01
Publication date: 1925-08-11
Anticipated expiration: 1942-08-11

Description

Aug. 11, 1925. 1,549,276

. E. W. LOESSER VANITY CASE Filed Dec. 1, 1922 2 Sheets-Sheet 1 IN-ENTQQ WY Aug. 1*], 1925. I 1,549,276

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ERNEST W. LOESSER, 02 BELLEVILLE, NE'tV JERSEY.

VANITY oasis.

Application filer? Leo-ember 1, 1922.

form, preferably compact, and which is provided with a tray which is not removable from the box except to a limited extent, he box and the tray being connected together so that the tray can be fitted on the bottom of the box in its closed position, or can be suspended, uncovered, to expose its contents, which may be, for instance, a case of rouge or some other cosmetic.

The invention further consists in a vanity case of this kind in which the tray is preferably swung either beneath or in front of the box, and having a lid on the back of the box swung upward and backward to open position, so that when the box is held open in the hand and the tray is in open position, the receptacles and the mirror on the inside of the lid form a tier, so that the user can observe the countenance and also have available more than one cosmetic.

The invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawing, in which Figure 1 is a perspective view showing the box with its lid open and with the tray in open position, and illustrating them held in the hand. Figure 2 is central longitudinal section of the box and tray, the tray being in open position and the lid being shown closed. Figure 3 is a section on line 33 in Figure 1, with the compact removed from the box to show the bottom of the box, and Figure 4 is a perspective of a modified form of construction. Figures 5 and 6 are views of another modified form, and Figure 7 is a perspective of a detail thereof.

The box may be of any usual form, but the more preferred type is somewhat shallow and is formed of metal, this box being shown in the drawing at 10, and secured thereto is the tray 11. The box contains, for example, a compact of powder, shown at 12, and the tray can contain a compact of Serial No. 604,193.

rouge, shown at 13, these definitions of material being only for the purpose of describing the invention.

The tray is adapted to fit on the bottom of the box, as shown in dotted outline at a in Figure 2, and when in this position closed by the bottom of the box, the box in a sense acting as a cover for the tray, the tray being held closed by any suitable friction means; either by tightly fitting the tray to the box or by having the projection It on the box and the detent 15 on the tray to hold the elements detachably in closed position.

The tray, when in open position, is spaced from the box so as to make its contents available for use, and in the form shown in Figures 1, 2 and 3 I show the tray connected to the box by a set of links 16 which pivotally connected to the tray and also to the box, so that the tray is kept parallel with the box, but can be swung forward to the open position shown in Figure 2.

To provide space for the compact 13 the links 16 have the inclined parts 17 which are divergent, and which divergent arms 17 have the ends 18 rotatably connected with the walls of the tray by being sprung therein and held therein by this spring action, the links having central portions 19 which are substantially straight and fit in the loops 20 formed by punching out a portion of the bottom 21 of the box.

The box has a lid 22 which is provided with the usual mirror 23 on its inner face, the lid being hinged, as at 24:, to the back of the box. This arrangement of lid is preferred, because when the lid is swung back and the tray is swung forward, the device can be held in the hand, as shown in Figure 1, and the mirror, the powder compact 12 and the rouge compact 13 are readily available and all exposed, forming a tier and making it possible to use a suitable puff, such as the pufi' 25 adapted for use in the box, or a small puff 26 adapted for use in the tray.

A modified form of structure is shown in Figure 4, in which the box 10 and the tray 11 are held in closed position as in the previously described structure, that is, the tray fits on the bottom of the box and is held thereby, the parts being held in separated position with the tray open by a strand such as the chain 27, which can be secured to the middle of the bottom of the box and the middle of the tray, providing a space at the front end of the tray for the compact 13, and a space at the back for the putt 26.

In Figures 5, 6 and 7 I show still another form of structure, in which the tray is connected to the boxlby a single link 28 which is substantially flat and is in the form of a yoke with its ends 29 seated in the bead 30 of the tray,v and having the fingers 31 at the top edge seated into the depressions 32 in the bottom of the box. These depressions are preferably punched downward from the bottom and form sockets for the lingers 31, but in Figure 7 I show how the link can be placed into the depression 32-, since the links are of bendable metal and are normally made partly distorted, which brings the lingers 31 closer together than the distance between the depressions 32, and

then when the yoke or link isplaced into normal position the fingers 31 are seated pivotally in the depressions 32, as will be evident from Figure 6.

This form of link allows much more space than the previous structures, so that the compact 13 in the tray can be larger in size; in fact, can nearly fill the whole lower tray if the outer diameter of the yoke 28 is substantially the same as the inner diameter of the tray.

In this form the tray can beheld yieldinp ly in its uncovered or forward position by the flat spring the end 34 of which bears against the fiat or bridge portion35 of the yoke or link 28, the spring being held in position by the lips 36 struck up from the bottom of the box 10.

it will be evident that slight changes be closed thereby, and a connection secured to the tray and to the box and so disposed that the tray can be swung on said connection forwardly under the box in a ver tical plane to open position. I

2. A vanity case comprising a box, a tray, a yoke-like link pivotally connected at its ends to the tray and pivoted at its central portion to the bottom of the box and so disposed that the tray can close against the bottom of the box and open forwardly thereon.

3. A vanity case comprising a box, a tray, a yoke-like link pivoted at its ends to "the tray and at its central portion to the bottom of the box, and a spring bearing on the yoke to hold it yieldingl'y in its closed and open positions.

a. A vanity case comprising a box, a lid on the box and mounted so as to be swung backward, a tray fitting the under side of the box, and a connection pivotally con nected to the bottom of the box "and the sides of the tray so that the tray can be swung; forward to be partly uncovered.

In testimony that I claim the foregoin I have hereto set my hand, this 20th day of November, 1922.

ERNEST W. LOESSER.