US231995A

US231995A - Wallace h

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Publication number: US231995A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1880-09-07
Anticipated expiration: 1897-09-07

Description

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W. H. CAMP. Post Office Box. Nc. 231,995. Patented Sept. 7,1880.-

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

WALLACE H. CAMP, OF WATERBURY, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNOR TO THE SCOVILL MANUFACTURING COMPANY, OF SAME PLACE.

POST-OFFICE BOX.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 231,995, dated September '7, 1880.

Application filed August 5, 1880.

To all 'whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WALLACE H. CAMP, of' Waterbury, in the county of New Haven and State of Connecticut, have invented a new Improvement in Post-Oftice Boxes; and I do hereby declare the following, when taken in connection with the accompanying drawings and the letters of reference marked thereon, to bc a full, clear, and exact description of the same, and which said drawings constitute part of this specification, and represent, in-

Figure 1, a front view; Fig. 2, a transverse section between two boxes.

This invention relates to an improvement in the post-office box tor which Letters Patent were granted to P. H. Camp and myself September 4, 1877, No. 194,890. In that patent the metal fra me of each independentbox comes in close contact with the frame of adjacentboxes.

It is found very difticult to so construct the boxes that there shall be a close fit between the frame ot' one box and the fra-me ot adjacent boxes, as many times a joint is left, which detracts materially from the appearance of the front.

The object of this invention is to overcome this difficulty; and it consists in the construe` tion, as hereinafter described, and particularly recited in the claims.

A represents the side or wall of one box, and B the side of the adjacent box. a is the metal frame, which covers the outer edge of the box. Adjacent boxes are secured together by forming corresponding grooves bin each box and introducing a tongue therein. In our previous patent this tongue was in thickness only equal to the combined grooves.

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In the present invention I make the tongue d alittle thicker than the depth ot' the two grooves and extend one toward the front, as at c, the other toward the rear, as at f, and so as to form a partition, as it were, between adjacent boxes and show at the front and rear. By making the one at the front so as not to extend Hush with the frames a space, IL, appears between the two frames, as seen in Fig. 2, and the edges ot' the frames, rounded in shape ot' a bead, give to the front a neat and finished appearance, and hide to a great extent the heretofore open joint between boxes. This tongue d c is made ot' wood or other non metallic material which will present a strong contrast with the metal, and the part c is preferably made in the same piece with the tongue d; but they may be made separate, the object heilig to show a strip between adjacent boxes.

I claim- 1. The herein-described improvement iu independent post-office boxes, each provided with a metal frame at its front end, consisting in a tongue, c, between the metal frames ot' adjacent boxes, substantially as described.

2. In independent post-office boxes, the cor responding grooves b in adjacent boxes, combined with the T-shapcd tongue d c, serving to secure the boxes in position and form a partition between the metal fra-mes of adjacent boxes, substantially as described.

WALLACE H. CAMP.

Witnesses:

J. H. SHUlstwAY, L. D. ROGERS.