US1853241A - Chest with revolving door - Google Patents

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April 12, 1932. c. F. SIOBERG 1,853,241

CHEST WITH REVOLVING DOOR Filed July 15, 1931 2 Sheets-Sheet l F l A .19 T

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I CHEST WITH REVOLVING DOOR Filed July 15. 1931 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 Patented Apr. 12, 1932 T ES. I

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Leon coirrnnv, or relax, PENNSYLVANIA, A CORPORATION or DELAWARE cnnsr "WITH REVOLVING noon Application filed July 15,

With the development of chain stores, gasoline stations owned and operated by the large oil companies and moving picture houses in considerable numbers under a single central ownership and management, the necessity for depositing receiptsin such a way that the local managers and ticket sellers and dispensers of oil and gasoline need not have access to the chest in such a manner as to permit them to withdraw from the chest or vault the funds thus deposited, or other valuables or private papers which may be in the chest or vault, has become generally recognized. For this purpose a depository whereby packages of money are passed downwardly by gravity from a convenient locality is directly in the rear of the ticket sellers window in the theatre or near the cash register in chain stores, gasoline stations and the like, has been provided, but these depositories are used with a relatively expensive and elaborate equipment, including a vault or a basement beneath the point of deposit and suitable as locations for the chest.

The present invention relates to a device particularly adapted for use inconnection with the rotary door type of chest which has been furnished in considerable numbers and of relatively small size for use in chain stores and the like. As thus provided, this type of chest has been supplied one for each store or one for each of a group of stores where a number of chain stores under the same management are located in. the same neighborhood.

Assuming that such a chest be installed in a. store which may be one of a group of chain stores where the store manager does not have access to the inside of thechest bymeans of the combination lock, it would be convenient by means of the present invention to make deposits within the chest by placing bills or coins in envelopes or other suitable packages, and passing them through a slot in the front wall ofthe body. This slot is closedby means of a rotary or other suitable moving plate or closure whichis back of the rotary door and exposed through the opening in the door when the latter is thrown out of registration with the opening in the amb, i. e., in

1931'. Serial No. 550,847.

the closed position .of the door. This plate its referred to the store manager need-only have a key to this lock. Upon'releasing the plate shown in the form of a rotary disk, it is possible to move it, or in this instance to rotate it so that the slot in the disk is brought in align sent with the slot inthe body, when packet can be passed into the chest. After the deposit has been made, the disk or plate can be moved to its original position and held in place by the lock.

In the accompanying drawings I have illustrated a chest embodying the features of the invention inthe preferred form.

In the drawings:

Figure l is a vertical central section in a fore and aft plane, i. e., substantially on the axis of the rotary door and particularly on line l1in Figure 2.

' Figure 2 is a front elevation of the chest, both the chest-door and the slot being closed in both figures.

Referring to the drawings by numerals, each of which is used to indicatethe same or similar parts in the different figures, the illustration includes a chest or chest body 1, which may to advantage be embedded in a suitable mass 2 of concrete as a foundation or other masonry construction or an ordinary fireproof casing may be used. The chest 1 has a circular jamb 3 with a door opening l, which is slightly less'than semi circular and located in the upper half of the jamb occupying a little less than half the a ea of the jamb. Mounted to rotate in the'jamb and held therein by any suitable means as peripheral ribs 6 on the door which operate in peripheral grooves 7 in the jamb, is the chest door 8. 7

Adapted to register with the opening 4 in the amb is an opening 9 in the door. This opening 9 is preferably also a little lessthan semi circular and of an outlineidentical with that of the opening 4, and so placed that'ina certain angular position of the'door the opening 9 registers with the opening 4 in the j amb. The door is inserted in a predetermined position and its movement from closed to open position is limited and determined in any suitable manner. In closed position the openin s are completely out of registration.

11 the form of the invention shown, see Figure 2, there is a sliding positioning pin or bolt mounted to slide in a bore or hole 21 formed in the door transverse to the axis of the door and open at its outer end at 23 through the edge of the door. This pin 20 is given an outward tendency by a coil spring 22 compressed between the end of the pin and the closed end of the hole at 24. The pin or bolt 20 cooperates with a peripheral groove 25 in the j amb which provides for a rotation of the doorabout its axis through an arc of 180 from open to closed position.

The important feature of the invention relates to the provision of a slot or opening which is'accessible in the closed position of the door to a clerk or store manager preferably by means of a key lock so that the slot may be normally closed but uncovered by an authorized person having the key, for the insertion of packages and the like. In the present instance the closure of the slot is fully protected by the chest door which overlies the plate 14 which is located within the jamb. Thearea enclosed by the j amb not occupied by the door opening 4 therein is closed by the wall 10. which may be termed the front wall portion of the chest body within the jamb. This wall or front wall is formed with any suitable type of a seat lltherein which may be in the nature of a depression in the outer surface. Within this seat or depression 11 is formed a slot 12 which in the preferred form of the invention is inclined upwardly from the outside to the inside of the wall 10 and it is preferably located near the upper part of the front wall 10 just below the door openin 4 in the jamb.

he length of the slot 12 is shown as disposed horizontally though this is not essentialand it islarge enough for the introduction of a convenient sized package of bills or other currency, and also for the admission of conveniently sized packages of documents. Located in or on the seat 11 to move relatively thereto to cover and uncover the slot is a plate 14, and in the preferred form of the invention shown, this plate is circular and it is further provided with. a slot 15 so located, shaped and arranged as to register with the slot 12 in one position of the plate, which is preferably mounted to rotate in the seat 11. This position will be referred to for convenience as the open position of the plate. In the form shown the plate or disk 14, as it may be termed, being preferably a circular plate, is provided at its center with an operating slot 16v which is'shown as in the nature of a screw driver slot whereby the plate or disk 14 may be engaged to rotate it from open to closed position andvice versa.v

It will be noted that the plate or disk 14 is grooved at its circumference at 26 preferably as to the edge adjacent the wall 10 and is further provided with substantially radial pins 27 and 28, projecting into the groove. The wall portion is also provided with a pin or stationary abutment 29 projecting into the groove in the path of the pins 27, 28 as the disk is rotated. In the form shown the pins or abutments 27, 28 and 29 are so arranged and related that the disk 14 may be rotated back and forth through an arc of 180 degrees. In the position which it takes, with the pin 28 in contact with the pin 20, i. e., the opposite position to that shown in Figures 1 and 2, the slot 15 is located in exact registration and alignment with the slot 12. In the opposite position, i. e., at the other end of its path, as shown, the slot 15 is closed by the plate 14.

The disk or plate 14 is held in the closed position of the slot by a lock 19, preferably of the transmission type, having a bolt 30 which slides in the direction of the axis of the door 8. The lock is preferably mounted in and carried by the chest door 8 and the bolt 30 engages a notch 31 in the edge of the plate 14 in the advanced position of the bolt. The bolt 30. which in the locked position enters socket 31 in the safe wall within the jamb, is more or less eccentric as to the jamb so the door 8 cannot be rotated till the bolt is withdrawn and the plate 14 cannot be looked as the door is closed. The purpose of this is to make certain that the store manager shall be present when the district collector removes the contents of the safe. The socket into which the bolt advances consists partly of this notch but being formed mainly in the safe wall within the jamb at 31'.

A suitable handle or a screw driver or simf ilartool being inserted in the slot 16 in the closed position of the chest door 8 as shown most clearly in Figure 1, the door 14 being released by unlocking the lock 19, the slot 15 is thrown into registration with the slot 12 for the introduction of packages, and when the deposit has been made, the plate 14 is returned tothe closed position shown in Figure 1 and locked. It is of particular importance that the seat 11 and the disk or plate 14 extend beneath or behind the chest door 8 so that the opposite edges of the plate 14 are located beneath or behind the door on the 0 posite sides of the opening 9 therein in tiie closed position of the door, making it difiicult and practically impossible for an unauthorized person to remove the plate 14 or toobtain access to the slot 12 in any way without possession of the key to the lock 19. It is further noted that the position of the plate behind the door laying flatwithin the seat 11 in the jamb obviates any chance that in any position of the plate it may interfere with the rotation of the chest door to open position.. Thelock'19'locates theplatein closed and locked position on closing the chest door. a The construction shown has the advantage that it enables the chain store management or other concern to utilize the chest, and store money therein, the money and other contents of the chest not being accessible even to the district managers of the store, the deposits being removed by some trusted employee or oficer of the company at suitable intervals. This not only serves as a precaution against dishonesty on the part of clerks and managers andthe like, but makes it exceedingly dithdetail, in order that the manner of applying I the invention, constructing, operating and using the device may be fully understood, however, the specific terms herein are used des'criptively rather than in a limitingsense, the scope of the invention being defined in the claims. c

What I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

1. The combination in a burglarproof chest of a circular jamb having a wall portion and a door opening enclosed by the jamb, a door having a corresponding opening mounted to rotate in the iamb to bring the opening of the door into and throw it out of registration with the opening in the jamb, moving the door fromopen to closed position, the chest wall portion within the jamb having a slot for the admission of packages, said slot being accessible through the opening in the door in the closed position of the door, a cover for the slot having portions extending behind the door on both sides of the opening therein. 7 9. The" combination! in a. burglarproof chest of a circular jamb having a wall por-' tion and a door opening enclosed by the jamb, a door having a corresponding opening mounted to rotate in the jamb to bring the opening of the door into and throw it out of registration with the opening in the jamb, moving the door from open to closed position, the chest wall portion within the jamb having a slot for'the admission of packages, said slot being accessible through the opening in the door in the closed position of the door, a cover for the slot having portions extending behind the door on both sides of the opening therein, said closure being out of the path of the door as it moves from open to closed positionand vice versa.

3. The combination in a burglarproof chest of a circular j amb having a wall portion and a door opening enclosed by the jamb, a

chest door havinga corresponding opening V Jl i mounted to rotate in one amb to bring the opening of the door into and throw it out of registration with'the opening in the jamb, moving the door from open to closed position, the chest wall portion within the ja-mb having slot for the admission of packages, said slot being accessible through the opening in the door in the closed position of the door, a cover for the slot having portions extending beneath the door on both sides of the opening thereiinsaid'closure being out of the path of the door as it movesfrom open to closed position and vice versa, and a key lock for said losure.

l. The I combination in a burglarproof chest or a circular jamb havinga wall portion and a door opening enclosed by the jamb, a chest door having a corresponding opening mounted to rotate in the jamb to bring the opening of the door into and throw it out of registration with the opening in the jamb, moving the door from open to closed position, the chest wall portion within the jamb having a slot for the admission of packages, said slot being accessible through the opening in the doorin the closed positionor" the door, a cover for the slot having portions extending beneath the door on both sides of the opening therein, said closure being out of the path of the door as it moves from open to closed position and vice versa, and a key lock for said closure, said lock being carried by the chest door and serving to position the closure for the slot when the chest door is closed.

The combination in a burglarproof chest having a front wall, a door opening therein, door mounted to move parallel to thewall to cover and uncover the opening moving the door from open to closed position, the chest wallportion having a slot accessible in the closed position of the door, a cover for the slot, the cover being movably mounted to cover and uncover the slot, the chest door serving to protect'the cover and prevent its removal.

The combination in a burglarproof chest of a circular jamb having a wall portion and a door opening enclosed by the jamb, a door having a corresponding opening mounted to rotate in the jamb to bring the opening in the door into and throw it out of registration with he opening in the jamb, moving the door from op n to closed position, the chestwall portion in the jamb having a slotaccessible through the door opening in the closed position of the door, a cover for the slot having an opening, the cover being movably mounted whereby'the opening may be brought into registration with the slot to expose the same, the cover extendingbeneath the edges of the opening inthe door whereby removal of the cover through the opening is prevented.

7. The combination in a burglarproof chest of a circular jamb having a wall portion anda door opening enclosed by the jamb, a door having a corresponding opening mounted to rotate in the jamb to bring the opening of the door into and throw it out of registration with the opening in the jamb, moving the door from open to closed position, the wall portion oi the chest within the j amb having a slot for the admission of packages, the same being accessible when the safe door is closed.

8. The combination in a burglarproof chest of a circular jamb having a wall portion and a door opening enclosed by the jamb, a door having a corresponding opening mounted to rotate in the jamb to bring the opening of the door into and throw it out of registration with the opening in the jamb, moving the door from open to closed position, the chest wall portion within the jamb having an opening for the admission of packages, a seat, a cover for the opening in said seat and rotatable from open to closed position, said cover being out of the path of the chest door as it rotates and the cover and door having means for positioning the cover to close the package admission opening when the door is closed.

9. The combination in a burglarproof chest of a circulalr j amb having a wall portion and an eccentric opening enclosed by the jamb, a door having a corresponding eccentric opening mounted to rotate in the jamb to bring the opening of the door into and throw it out of registration with the opening in the jamb, moving the door from open to closed position, the wall portion within the jamb having an opening for the admission of packages, a circular seat surrounding the opening, a circular cover in the seat, as to which said opening in the wall is eccentric, the cover having an eccentric opening adapted to be thrown into and out of registration with the opening in the wall as the cover is rotated, said cover being out of the path of the chest door.

10. The combination in a burglarproof chest of a circular jamb having a wall ortion and a door opening enclosed by the jamb, a door having a corresponding opening mounted to rotate in the jamb to bring the opening in the door into and throw it out of registration with the opening in the jamb, moving the door from open to closed position, the wall portion within the jamb having an opening for the admission of packages, a circular seat surrounding the opening, a circular cover in the seat, as to which said opening in the wall is eccentric, the cover having an eccentric opening adapted to be thrown into and out of registration with the opening in the wall as the cover is rotated,

said cover extending beneath the edges of the opening in the chest door in the closed position of the latter, preventing removal of the cover.

11. The combination in a burglarproof chest of a circular j amb having a wall portion and a door opening enclosed by the jamb, a door having a corresponding opening mounted to rotate in the jamb to bring the opening of the door into and throw it out of registration with the opening in the jamb, moving the door from open to closed position, the wall portion within the jamb having an opening for the admission of packages, a circular seat surrounding the opening, a circular cover in the seat, as to which said opening in the wall is eccentric, the cover having an eccentric opening adapted to be thrown into and out of registration with the opening in the wall as the cover is rotated, said cover extending beneath the edges of the opening in the chest door in the closed position of the latter, preventing removal of the cover, means on the chest door for locating the cover in closed position when the door is closed.

12. The combination in a burglarproof chest of a circular jamb having a wall portion and a door opening enclosed by the jamb, a door having a corresponding opening mounted to rotate in the jamb to bring the opening of the door into and throw-it out of regis ration with the opening in the jamb, moving the door from open to closed position, the wall portion within the jamb having an opening for the admission of packages, a circular seat surrounding the opening, a circular cover in the seat, as to which said opening in the wall is eccentric, the cover having an eccentric opening adapted to be thrown into and out of registration with the opening in the wall as the cover is rotated, said cover extending beneath the edges of the opening inthe chest door in the closed position of the latter, preventing removal ofthe cover, means on the chest door for locating the cover in closed position when the door is closed, said means being in the form of a lock for the cover.

Signed by me at York, Pennsylvania, this 11th day of July, 1931.

CHARLES F. SIOBERG.

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