US2044141A - Stamp display and vending device - Google Patents

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June 16, 1936. R R wlLUAMS v 7 2,044,141

STAMP DISPLAY AND VENDING DEVICE Filed OCC. 22, 1934 INVENTOR 20 [1? ////&/775

ATTORN E15 Patented June 16, 1936 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE 4 Claims.

The present invention pertains to a novel display device particularly adapted for philatelical purposes.

The primary object of the present invention is to provide a display device embodying means for supporting a stamp catalogue so that access may be readily had thereto and a receptacle associated therewith for containing the various stamps listed in the catalogue.

Another important object of the present invention is to provide a sheet metal display device embodying an inclined wall formed to receive and support a catalogue and including a means for reinforcing the structure and for slidably receiving a drawer for containing the stamps listed in the catalogue. In connection with the drawer, which is also of sheet metal construction, means is provided for permitting the same to be moved slidably to an extended position where the interior thereof is entirely exposed and for providing adequate support for the drawer while it is in its fully extended position. Means is provided for preventing the accidental removal of the drawer from the supporting structure, which means may be moved to permit the removal of the drawer when such an operation is desired.

With the above and other ends in view the invention consists in matters hereinafter set forth and more particularly pointed out with reference to the accompanying drawing, in which Figure 1 is a side elevation;

Fig. 2 is a front elevation;

Fig. 3 is a cross section taken along the line 33 of Fig. 2;

Fig. 4 is a cross section similar to Fig. 3 with the drawer removed;

Fig. 5 is a cross section taken on line 5-5 of Fig. l, and

Fig. 6 is a cross section taken on line 66 of Fi 2.

Like characters of reference are employed throughout to designate corresponding parts.

The numeral I designates vertically extending side walls and 2 and 3 the horizontally extending top and bottom walls respectively of a sheet metal cabinet. The front end of the cabinet is closed by an inclined wall 4 having a ledge 5 suitable for supporting a catalogue 6 thereon. Extending parallel to the side walls I are reinforcing metal strips 1, two of such strips being welded to the bottom wall 3 with one adjacent to each longitudinal edge thereof.

The support for the cabinet comprises a pair of strap metal members having portions 8 welded or otherwise secured to the metal strips 1 respectively, each of the strap metal members having an integral vertically extending portion 9 and a laterally bent part In providing a base. A second strap member H is secured to each of the members 8, each member I I being bent to provide a reinforcing web l2 and a base part I3.

In the corners formed by meeting of the walls I and 3 are welded channel members [4. A drawer I5 is provided with lengthwise extending flat strips of metal I6 welded to the sides thereof and the drawer is slidably supported in the cabinet by inserting the strips IS in the channels M. The strips l6 extend beyond the end of the drawer as indicated at I 1 and the outer ends of the strips are reinforced and held in spaced apart relation by a transversely extending metallic rod I8.

As shown more clearly in Fig. 3 the rear wall l9 moves in close proximity to the top wall 2 of the cabinet when the drawer is assembled therein as above described. In order to prevent accidental removal of the drawer from the cabinet a lug 213 is provided on the inner surface of the Wall 2, the lug being provided by welding a small block of metal thereto. As indicated in dotted lines in Fig. 5 the lug 20 is positioned centrally of the wall 2 and it projects into the drawer so as to be engaged by the rear wall IQ of the drawer when the latter is extended. In order to permit insertion of the drawer or removal of the same the wall 2 may be flexed so as to elevate the lug 28 to permit the wall l9 to pass freely thereunder, such flexing movement being possible due to the sheet metal construction of the device permitting the desired degree of flexibility to provide for such a function.

It becomes obvious from the foregoing that the weight of the drawer l5 and its contents is supported by the strips 16 in the channels l4 and by extending the strips as at I! and reinforcing them as at I8 they provide adequate support for the drawer when it is moved outwardly of the cabinet to a point where the wall l9 strikes the lug 20.

Although a specific embodiment of the invention has been shown and described it will be understood that various changes may be made in the details of construction without departing from the spirit of the invention as defined by the scope of the appended claims.

What I claim'is:-

1. In a device of the character described, a cabinet having a flexible wall, a drawer slidably received in said cabinet, and a projecting element on said flexible wall and adapted to be engaged by a wall of said drawer to limit movement thereof, said projecting element being of a length less than the width of said cabinet whereby it is adapted to be moved out of the path of said drawer wall by flexing of said flexible wall.

2. In a device of the character described, a cabinet having a flexible wall, means in said cabinet for reinforcing the same and for slidably supporting a drawer, a drawer received in said means, and a projecting element permanently secured to said flexible wall adapted to be engaged by said drawer to limit movement thereof, said projecting element being spaced from the sides of said cabinet whereby it is adapted to be entirely withdrawn from the path of said drawer by flexing of said flexible wall.

3. In a device of the character described, a cabinet, channel members secured in opposite sides of said cabinet, a drawer, metallic members rigidly secured to the sides of said drawer and slidably received in said channel members to slidably support said drawer with respect thereto, said metallic members extending beyond the inner end of said drawer, means for holding the extending ends of said metallic members in rigid spaced apart relation, and means for limiting movement of said drawer outwardly of said cabinet to retain said extending members in said channel members when said drawer is in an extended position.

4. In a device of the character described, a cabinet, said cabinet having a flexible wall, channel members secured in opposite sides of said cabinet, a drawer, metallic members rigidly secured to the sides of said drawer and slidably received in said channel members, said metallic members extending rigidly beyond the inner end of said drawer, means for holding the extending ends of said metallic members in spaced apart relation, a projecting element on said flexible wall adapted to be engaged by said drawer to limit movement thereof, said projecting element being adapted to be moved out of the path of said drawer by flex- 20 ing of said flexible wall.

ROY R. WILLIAMS.

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