US1663820A - Cabinet - Google Patents

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March 27, 1928. 1,663,820

J. F. SYKES CABINET I Filed Sept. 10. 1926 Patented Mar. 27, 1928.

UNITED STATES JAMES F. SYKES, OF PITTSBURGH, PENNSYLVANIA.

CABINET.

Application filed September This invention relates to cabinets and more in particular to cabinets for collars and neckties.

The primary object of this invention is to provide a cabinet wherein the placing or removal of collars and neckties may be performed with ease and rapidity. A further object of this invention is to provide a cabinet of this character which permits of the storage of collars and neckties without deformation, that is, in the same shape as bought from a store or delivered from a laundry. Still another object is the provision of a cabinet which is compact, neat in appearance,

' simple in construction and operation and which can be manufactured at relatively low cost. Additional features and advantages of this invention will appear in the course of the following description considered in connection with the accompanying drawing forming a part of this application and in which:

Fig. 1 is a front view of the cabinet with the door fully opened.

Fig. 2 is a sectional view taken substantially on line 2-2 in Fig. 1, but with the door of the cabinet closed.

Fig. 3 is a sectional View taken on line 8-8 in Fig. 1.

Fig. 4 is a perspective view showing an adjustable support for collars.

Reference being had to the drawing, my collar and necktie cabinet comprises a boxportion 1 provided with a hinged door 2 in front of which there is preferably mounted a mirror 3. The cabinet is hung up against a wall by means of hooks and screws which are inserted in the eye 4 and the hole 5 drilled in the lower part of the cabinet-box.

The cabinet is subdivided into five com-' partments 6, 7 8, 9 and 10, the first four compartments are intended for the keeping of collars, either stiff or soft, and thelowermost compartment 10 is preferably arranged for receiving jewelry, etc for which purpose g it is provided with a velvet covered, padded and removable false-bottom 11. These compartments are formed by the two horizontal cross-boards 12 and 13 and by the two aligned vertical boards 14 and 15. In front of each collar-compartment are two vertical rods 16 and 17 which are secured in the horizontal boards 12 and 13 and in the top-board 18 of the box-portion. These vertical bars are suitably spaced to allow the insertion of the slightly compressed collars into the com- 10, 1926. Serial No. 134,612.

partments and to prevent their accidental falling out, once in said compartments. It will be noted in the drawing that so placed stiff collar 19 will assume substantially their normal horse-shoe shape form, once behind said vertical bars.

If desired, each set of vertical rods may be provided with an up and down slidable collar-support 20, illustrated especially in Fig 4. The purpose of this support is to hold the collars a distance above their corresponding lower horizontal board and thereby prevent their becoming soiled, should some dust or other undesired matter have accumulated on said board.

Referring to Figure 4 it will be noted that each collar-support comprises a frame 21 made of springy material and provided at the front end with two spaced and parallel sleeves 22 adapted to slidably engage the vertical rods. In the back portion of the frame are two horizontally disposed parallel pins 23 by which the collars are supported. Owing to the resiliency of the side-arms 82 ofthe frame and the fairly close fit of the sleeves 22 on the vertical rods 16 and 17, sufficient friction is created to maintain the support at any selected height above the aforementioned horizontal boards, regardless of the number of collars supported thereby.

In one of the left hand side collar-compartments I have shown how soft collars 24 are stored in the cabinet. Collars of this type are generally ironed and folded flat by the laundries and are piled up in this shape on the collar-support.

Neckties 25 are hung up on the back of the door 2. For this purpose I provide at the top of the door two aligned horizontal hangers 26, the inner ends of which have turned up fingers 27 to prevent the neckties from sliding off said hangers when the door is swung either way rapidly. The space 28 left between said two hangers reatly facilitates the insertion or removal of the ties, as will be understood. The hangers are secured to the back of the door by means of screws 29. The lower ends of the neckties are held in place bymeans of a single horizontal guard-rail 30, also secured to the door by screws 31.

As stated above, collars which are'to be stored away are inserted in a compartment by slightly compressing one or more at a time so that they may pass between the parallel rods 16 and 17 and they are placed above the pins23. hen fully inserted in the compartment they are released and, on their own accord, will spread open as far as the width of the compartment will allow. When in this condition, they are, of course prevented from falling out by the vertical rods. When one desires to take out a collar, he inserts his fingers between the vertical rods and pulls out the lowermost collar, preferably. Experience has shown-that best results are obtained in the extraction of coi- V lars when they are gotten hold of substantially at the middle of the top curve. For this reason, the supporting pins 23 are spaced a suiiicient amount to permit of the insertion of ones fingers therebetwecn.

While I have illustrated and described herein the preferred embodiment of my in vention, and one which I have found by actual use to be very practical, it may be found desirable after contlnued experlence to make slight changes in the construction and arrangement of the details of my cab inet, and I intend to include all such changes in this application as fall within the scope of the appended claim.

I claim:

- In a cabinet, a box-portion and a door therefor; said box-portion comprising a plurality of compartments for storing collars;

a pair of vertical rods disposed in spaced parallel relation in each of said compartments and adapted to hold collars therein; a collar -support comprising a frame having two resilient sidemembers each provided with a sleeve-portion adapted for frictional engagement on said rods for the purpose of maintaining said collar-support at any selected height.

In testimony whereof I afiix my signature.

' JAMES F. SYKES.

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