US1986922A - Mail box signal - Google Patents

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Jan. 8, 1935. w. 1.. DYSART 1,986,922

MAIL BOX S IGNAL Filed Aug. 7, 1953 patented Jan. 8 l

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE MAIL SIGNAL William Luther Dysart, Louisville, Ky.

' Application August 7, 1933, Serial No. 684,067

.1 Claim. (01. 232-34) This invention has for its object the provision handle may be moved easily from end to end of of a very simple and inexpensivesignal for use the slot and may be seated in either notch so that upon rural delivery mail boxes whereby the carit will be set to present its side or its edge to rier may be advised as to whether the. mail box view from the corresponding dwelling, or to the contains letters to be taken up, and may indicate "view of the carrier approaching the box. Any to the occupants of the adjacent dwelling that rain ormoisture which may work into the post mail has been deposited in the'box. The invenwill escape through the slot 12 or the drain opention is illustrated in the accompanying drawing ling 4. and will be hereinafter fully described, the novel When the owner of the mail box deposits mail features being particularly defined in the apin the box to be taken up by the carrier, he will 10 Y pended claim. v 1 grasp the handle 11 and turn it to such a posi- In the drawing, l tion that the signal plate 10 "will present its side Figure 1 is an elevation of a mail box having my to the view of the carrier approaching the box. improved signal applied thereto, t Thesignal will thus be plainly visible to the car- Figure 2 is an ged. vertical sectionof the rier and he will know that mail has been placed signal, and 1 a in the box to be collected by him. If the carrier Figure 3 is a detail section on the line 3-3 of v has mail to be delivered to the owner of the box, Figure 2. i he will vplace said mail in the box and then turn The mail box 1 may be of the usual or anypre: the signal so that the side of the signal plate ferred de In Carrying Out the present in: will be presented to the view of the occupants of through this opening after being engaged in the vention, there is provided a post 2 which is formed theadjacent dwelling o t t they 111 underwith a base 0 t 3 pt 11 rest p t D stand that mail has been left for someone in the of the box and impart stability to thepost, the house D 5 having a Centralbore Opening throughits The device is exceedingly simple and may be 25 upper end and having a drain Passage 4 leading readily observed by-interested persons inasmuch 25 through its side from the lower end of the bore. as it is mounted upon the top of the box and is In mmmting the device mail bOX an not hidden by the side of the box from any point opemng mdlcated at formed through the of View. The base serves to establish a very firm top of the box and lag screw 7 is inserted footing upon the box so that the post may be 10 wer end of the post a nut 8 being mounted easily secured to the box and will be firmly held upon the lower end of the screw and turned home agamst dls lodgment' slgnal Shaft may P against the underside of the top of the box so as easlly at an tlfnes the 9 9 to firmly secure the device in position, as will be tutFS Y substantlal housmg for Shaft understood upon reference to Figure 2. A shaft which W111 effeQtuanY P e 113 from Weather 35 9 is disposed vertically within the po t d 1 elements and prevent its operation being clogged journaled in the bore thereof, the upper portion by any Collect on Of snow or other matter. 'of the shaft rising from the postfand carrying a Having thus described the invention, I claim:

signal plate 10. The signalplate may be given A signal for the purpose set forth comprising a 40 any preferred outline andis illustrated as a dart post, a fastening device insertable through the 40 or arrow pointing downwardly. The plate will top of a mail box and carried by the. lower end preferably be formed of sheet metal and will preof the post to secure the device upon the box, a sent its edge or its side to an observer, according vertical signal shaft rotatably fitted within a verto the position of the observer and the position tical bore in said post, the shaft rising beyond in which the signal is set. In order that the the upper end of the post, a signal carried by the 45 signal may be set in adesired position, a handle shaft above the post, the post having a hori- 11 is firmly secured to the shaft 9 and extends zontal slot in its side and depending notches at radially therefrom through a slot .12 provided the ends of the slot, anda handle fixed to the h e n e p as y QW h S1013 shaft and extending radially through said slot 0 s h w t c y i i u e 3, extends and engageable in the notches at the ends of throu h one-quarter of the circumference of the the slot to set the signal and hold it in a set posipost and, as shown in Figure 1, a downturned ti n, notch 13 is provided at each end of the slot. The WILLIAM LUTHER DYsg T, [1,. .11

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