US1568073A - Locker - Google Patents

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Jan. 5,1926.

C. R. LAKE LOCKER Clarke R- ffii? Hrs AtturnEY Filed Oct. 8, 1925 Patented Jan. 5, 1926.

CLARKE B. LAKE, OFv KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI.

LOCKER.

Application filed October 8, 1923. Serial No. 667,185.

To all whom it may concern.

Be it known that I, CLARKE R. LAKE, a citizen of the United States, residing at Kansas City, in the county of Jackson and State of Missouri, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in a Locker, of which the following is a complete specification.

This invention relates to automatic 3U clothes lockers, commonly used in dance halls, gymnasiums, churches, clubs, theatres and, in fact, any place where the individual is required to check his wraps or apparel for safe keeping. A

The primary object of this invention is the provision of a clothes locker that may be built in sections of four or more and placed in rows or tiers much closer to-.

gether than the usual distance, yet still allow for the positive closing and locking of the door.

A further object of the invention is to provide a collapsible grate door for clothes lockers that may be easily operated, is effective in closing the open side of the locker when in a closed position, and occupies but very little space when collapsed to open and permit the entering of the locker.

In its preferred form, the invention is built of metal or other suitable material, in sets of four compartments or lockers, as shown in the illustration. However, the design used for illustration is only one specific form and it is understood that many other arrangements of details can be made without departing from the scope of the invention.

In the drawings Figure 1 is a front elevation of one set of lockers with two of the folding grate doors open.

Fig. 2 is a vertical section of the lockers taken on line IIII of Fig. 3, looking in the direction of the arrow.

Fig. 3 is a horizontal section of the lockers and a suitable release mechanism, taken on line III-III of Fig. 1.

Fig. 4 is a corresponding enlarged fragmentary horizontal central section of one of the lock members and its releasing structure.

Fig. 5 is an enlarged fragmentary detail sectional view of the central partition, showing the guide slots of the upper door 55 member.

Fig. 6 is an enlarged fragmentary sec tion taken on line VIVI of Fig. 1.

Similar reference characters refer to simi lar parts throughout the several views.

The lockers have side Walls 7, top 8, back 9 and bottom 10 and are divided. by partition 11 which serves as part of passage ways 12, 13 and 14. Openings 15 and 16 permit the free passage of a check, disk or other operating means 17 to a compartment 18 located under the floor of the bottom row of closures. Any suitable lock 19 and door 20 may be utilized for the safe storage of the checks 17 until the proprietor of the particular institution using the system collect them for further use.

Collapsible grate doors 21 pivoted as at 22 to rigid member 23 may have an upper member 24 which slides vertically in grooves 25 of the sides 7 and partition 11. A handle 26 is attached for convenience, and a latch lug 27 rovided with acavity 28 may be rigidly astened to member 24 by rivets or analogous means 29.

Any suitable coin controlled or other locking means may be used on this door, located, as shown in the drawings, at the top of each locker.

The latch 30 carried in housing 31 is centrally located to engage cavity 28 when is integral with yoke 32, which has a check the collapsible grate door 21 is closed, and engaging foot 33 disposed at its opposite end. A retrieving spring 34 maintains latch 30 and yoke 32 in a set position.

To release latch 30 after the door has been closed, the check or disk 17, which has a corresponding number to that of the locker, is inserted in check guide 35 between front wall 36 and plunger pin 37. Each locker may be constructed with this distance slightly different which precludes the use of any other check, or the use of a fixed size for coins may be instigated.

After the check or coin has been dropped into a position such as that shown in Fig. 4, the plunger 38 is forced inwardly against the pressure of a sprin 39 which is con tained in housing 40. heck or coin 17 is carried along check guide 35 and against the engaging foot 33 which takes up the movement and transmits it, through yoke 32, to latch 30 which is caused to move inwardly, against the pressure of spring 34, and out of engagement with latch lug 27.

The door immediately drops to the open position without the aid of the operator, due to the fact that tie member 24 is unrestricted in its downward movement along vertical grooves 25. Coin or check 17 drops into passage way 12 and is deposited in compartment 18. Slot 41 inchee'k guide,

and slot 42 in housing 40 allow free passage of pin 37 and, after releasing plunger 38, the device is again ready for use.

Having thus described the invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is In a locker of the class described, a vertical inwardly facing groove formed in each side wall adjacent the front edge thereof, a

rigid front wall member joining said sides and extending downwardly below and in alinement with said grooves, a tie member slidably mounted in said grooves, a collapsible grate door attached at its upper end to a side face of said tie member and movable therewith across the locker opening and normally held in a raised position by a detent to drop by gravity to the folded position upon said rigid wall member immediately upon releasing the detent whereby the folded grate and tie member forms a substantially continuous low front wall.

In witness whereof I hereunto set my sig nature.

CLARKE R. LAKE.

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