US1954913A

US1954913A - Trunk

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Publication number: US1954913A
Application number: US475525A
Authority: US
Inventors: Bosque Jose Vidal
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 1930-08-07
Filing date: 1930-08-15
Publication date: 1934-04-17
Anticipated expiration: 1951-04-17

Description

April 17, 1934. L v os u 1,954,913

TRUNK Filed Aug. 15, 1930 2 Sheets-Sheet l 17.15 I Egj m m F 'April 17, 1934. J. v. BOSQUE TRUNK 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 Filed Aug. 15, 1930 Patented Apr. 17, 1934 UNITED STATES Application August 15, 1930, Serial No. 475,525 In Cuba August 7, 1930 l-Claim. (01. 190-13) This invention relates to improvements in trunks, and particularly to the type known as wardrobe trunks, and has for its main object the provision of an improvement in the construction of trunks, whereby the same is rendered as neat and compact as a regular closet, and thereby facilitating the handling thereof in small or narrow places, due to the fact that in this trunk the only front is constituted by a door, behind which there is a set of drawers comprising a hinged body, which, upon moving outwards permits access to the interior of the trunk.

A further object of the invention is to provide the trunk with an additional smaller side door, permitting the door and the body of drawers behind same, to have suflicient room to rotate outwardly, without wasting useful spaces in the trunk.

Still another object of the invention, although a secondary one, is to provide a trunk which, although not rotatory, may be placed upon a suitable pedestal or standard, matching the body of the trunk, thus giving the same the full appearance of a closet.

In the drawings:-

Figure 1 is a front elevation of a trunk constructed in accordance with the present invention.

Figure 2 is a side elevation of same.

Figure 3 is a front elevation showing the trunk with its door opened and the top raised.

Figure 4 is an upper plan view showing the trunk in a closed condition, with its top raised.

Figure 5 is an upper plan View of the trunk with its top raised, the door opened and the body of drawers thrown outward.

Figure 6 is a vertical longitudinal section view of the trunk.

Figure 7 shows an illustrative position, on a smaller scale, of the installation of a trunk in a narrow place, to better appreciate its advantages; and

Figure 8 is a perspective View, in detail, of the pedestal or standard serving to support the trunk of this invention.

By 1 is designated the main body of the trunk, which is provided with a top 2, hinged at 3 and having a conventional trunk lock 3'. The front of the trunk is constituted by a door 5, which is hinged to the trunk body at 6. 4. designates the usual latches to cooperate in fastening the top 2 to the trunk body and are arranged on opposite sides of the trunk. Behind the door 5 is located a set of panels 7 for a plurality of drawers 8, having their front faces provided with handles 9 facing the front upon opening of the door 5, these panels being hinged at 10 to the inner edge of the trunk body to which the door is hinged. The top drawer has a lid or top 11 hinged at 11' to the paneling and the front face of the drawer is hinged at 12 to rotate outwardly and adapted to remain horizontally extended as shown by dotted line on Figure 6, upon opening the door 5 of the trunk. In raising the top 11 of the upper drawer, there is visible a mirror 13 fastened to the inner face of said top.

The panels are adapted to cooperate, by means of sliding rollers 14, with a false bottom 15, which does not reach the rear wall of the trunk, for the purposes which will be explained further on, the said bottom is provided with plates 15 to avoid the wear by friction thereof. This false bottom has a rear wall 16, constructed with a View to constitute a panel within which a large drawer 17 works slidingly, this construction greatly strengthening the structure of the trunk. To the lower rear portion of the paneling '7, there is fastened a receptacle shoe-case 18.

The space behind the panels '7 is used for hangers, having for this purpose the usual supporting bars 19 for the hangers 20, the construction of the drawer 1'7 spaced from the rear wall of the trunk permits the hanging of certain larged sized clothes, such as dress-suits or overcoats on the hangers. By 21 a tenter-hook is designated, which is fastened to the rear wall of the panels '7, and may be used for suspending a laundry bag The body of the. trunk has a narrow side door 23, hinged at 24, which opens only when the top 2 and main door 5 open, owing to its upper edge being held by the edge of the top 2 and its side edge by that of door 5 in the closed position of both.

By 25, a standard or pedestal, with corner plates 26, is designated, upon which the trunk is supported, as illustrated in Figure 1, and it should be noted that'the pedestal affects the same construction and style or ornaments as the rest of the trunk body, in order to give same the full appearance of a closet.

As illustrated in Fig. 7, when the trunk is placed in a narrow space where little room is available for its handling, for example, in a ship stateroom, the lock 3 may be opened, the latches 4 disconnected, and the top 2 raised, whereupon 105 the door 5 may be opened and the body of drawers 8 thrown outwards, whereby the rollers 14 are caused to slide on the anti-friction plates 15'. Easy access to the rear part of the trunk or space provided for the hangers is thereby afforded and 110 permits the withdrawal or placing of clothes on the hangers.

These operations, as seen on Figure 5 are not interfered with by the drawers, which may be of full width of the inner dimensions of the trunk, as the panel body 7, due to the arrangement of the small door 23, is pivoted around its hinges 10, without need of reducing the size of the drawers to attain these results. This door 23 does not necessarily have to be opened in full to fill its object, as this is obtained by partly opening the same.

On the other hand, as indicated by the dotted line in Figure 6, and as also appreciated in Figure 3, the front part of the upper drawer 8, hinged at 12, will be made to rotate to a horizontal position, while the hinged top 11 of said drawer will be made to raise showing the mirror 13 fastened to its interior face, thus constituting a complete dressing-table and its bracket-shelf or front part of the drawer placed in a horizontal position rendering the usefulness of this piece of furniture still more complete.

I claim:

In a wardrobe trunk in combination, a door at the front of the trunk and hinged to one side thereof, a false bottom fixed in said trunk, a drawer positioned between the bottom of the trunk and the said false bottom, a drawer compartment separately hinged to the: side of the trunk at which the door is hinged, a top hingedly connected on said drawer compartment, said drawer compartment mounted to fit snugly between the side walls of the trunk, a portion of the side wall of the trunk opposite the side wall to which the compartment is hinged being movable so that the compartment may swing from between said side walls, and a top hinged to said trunk body, adapted to lock both the door front and said movable wall portion in closed position.

JOSE VIDAL BOSQUE.