US191550A - Improvement in fire-proof safes - Google Patents

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    • E—FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
    • E05—LOCKS; KEYS; WINDOW OR DOOR FITTINGS; SAFES
    • E05G—SAFES OR STRONG-ROOMS FOR VALUABLES; BANK PROTECTION DEVICES; SAFETY TRANSACTION PARTITIONS
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    • Y—GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
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  • the object of our improvement is to pro- A box thus constructed, and filled with vide a vnon-combustible or tire-proof box or paper or equivalentcombustiblematerial, may safe for the reception of valuable documents, be subjected to a fierce fire, equal to that ot' money, &c., said box being designed to be any ordinarv conflagration of dwellings, and
  • Our invention relates, primarily, to the 'lin- What'we claim as our invention is.
  • a tire-proof box or safe provided with a vfully set forth. filling of infusorial earth.
  • a lining for the walls of tire-proof boxes make a -box of any convenient or desired*y composed of paper felting saturated with size, said box being formed of tin or other silicate of soda.
  • a lining E, said felting and wood being satu .AI are the double Walls, forming the box, 4rated with silicate ot' soda, substantially as t whichfhas a bottom, B, and lifting detachaand for the purpose set forth.
  • D is a CHARLES A. SAXE. filling of infusorial earth, occnpyingthe space JAMES SIDNEY HARDING.

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109. SAFES, BANK 'P scmm AND RELATED vDax/icas. 84
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FIRE-PROOF SAFE.
Patented June 5.18'7'7 v :IlllllllllllIIIllllllllllllilllllllllllll.'fnd-H.
NJETLRS, PHQTQLWHOGRAWER wAsHlNGYoN. n C.
im. SAVES, EMU( PROTECTEON lit-Sgm AND UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE CHARLES A. SAXE AND. JAMES S. HARDING, OF PHILADELPHIA, PA.
rMPRovEMEN-r IN FIRE-PRQOF SAFES.
Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. [91,550, dated J une 5, 1877; application filed September 1, 1876.
To all whom it may concern said lining being of wood saturated. like the y `Be it known that We, CHARLES A. SAXE paper felting, with silicate of soda. G repreand JAMES -SIDNEE HARDING, of Philadelsents a hinged lid tting vdown over the re.- phia, in' the county ot' Philadelphia and State movable top C, being furnished with one or of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new more metal straps, g, through which pass a and useful Improvements in Fire-Proof Boxes staple or staples, h, by means oi' which, and a and Safes; and we do hereby declare the folpadlock t'or each staple, the contents ot' the lowngto be afull, clear, and exact description box are locked in the cham ber F. of the invention, such as will enable others lThe upper edge of the box is beveled, as skilled in the art to which it pertains to make shown at a2, the detachable top C being corand use it, reference being had to the accomrespondingly shaped, (forming the inverted panying drawings, which form part of this frustum of a pyramid,) so as to t snugly specification, in which is shownavertical centhereon, leaving a projecting flange, c', on tral section of our improvement. which the hinged lid G shuts down.
The object of our improvement is to pro- A box thus constructed, and filled with vide a vnon-combustible or tire-proof box or paper or equivalentcombustiblematerial, may safe for the reception of valuable documents, be subjected to a fierce fire, equal to that ot' money, &c., said box being designed to be any ordinarv conflagration of dwellings, and
portable and easily carried from one place to will be found to preserve its 'contents unanother. harmed.
` Our invention relates, primarily, to the 'lin- What'we claim as our invention is.
ing and filling of the box, as hereinafter more y 1. A tire-proof box or safe provided with a vfully set forth. filling of infusorial earth.
In carrying our invention into effect, we 2. A lining for the walls of tire-proof boxes, make a -box of any convenient or desired*y composed of paper felting saturated with size, said box being formed of tin or other silicate of soda.
sheet metakwith double walls, between which 3. The lining herein described for the ini's left a space for the filling and lining. All ternal chamber of Aa lire-proof box or safe, thel of the walls are lined with paper felting sat= same being composed of wood saturated with urated with silicate of soda, the intermediate silicate of soda. space being filled with infusorial earth. The l 4. The fire-proof box herein described, cominner chamber of the box is lined withvwood, posed of the double walls A A', correspondwhich, like the paper felting, is saturated ingly-formed bottom and top B C, paper feltwith silicateot' soda. ing a a1.infusorialearth filling D, and wooden Referring to the accompanying drawing, A lining E, said felting and wood being satu .AI are the double Walls, forming the box, 4rated with silicate ot' soda, substantially as t whichfhas a bottom, B, and lifting detachaand for the purpose set forth.
f ble top C, of similar construction. a al show In testimony that W'e claim the foregoing we a lining ofpaper felting, (for which any proper have hereunto set our hands this 5th day of 'equivalent may be. substituted,) said lining iAugnst, 1876.
being saturated withsiligate of soda. D is a CHARLES A. SAXE. filling of infusorial earth, occnpyingthe space JAMES SIDNEY HARDING.
` between the lining of the'walls and the cor- Witnesses:
responding spaces in the topV and bottom. E GEO. C. SHELMEEDINE,
1s a wooden lining for the inner vchamber F, e M. DANI.. UoNNoLLY.
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