US235753A - Apparatus for retailing nails - Google Patents

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Apparatus for Retailing Nails &0.

No. 235,753. Patented Dec. 21, 1880.

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HENRY O. DRAPER AND THOMAS O. BOWYER, OF OSWEGO, KANSAS.

APPARATUS FOR RETAILING NAILS, 800.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 235,753, dated December 21, 1880. Application filed October 26, 1880. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, HENRY CLAY DRAPER and THOMAS OSBORNE BowYER, of Oswego, in the county of Labette and State of Kansas, have invented a new and Improved Apparatus for Retailing Nails, 850.; and we do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming nart f this specification, in which Figure 1 is a front elevation with one of the Fig. 2 is a side elevation.

The object of our invention is to provide a means for conveniently selling nails, nuts, rivets, washers, bolts, staples, coffee, beans, spices, and other small articles sold by hardware merchants and grocers by the pound, which shall facilitate the handling of these articles in getting them out and weighing them by retail; and it consists in a set of uprights,

, each madein one piece, with abroad base and a backward inclination, and having on their front edges notches or open bearings, combined with a keg having trunnions which rest in said bearings, and a cross-bar at the tops of the uprights, which serves the double function of connecting and holding the uprights against lateral displacement, and also forms a rack for horseshoes and other analogous articles.

In the drawings, A represents the uprights, which are arranged in groups of two or more, or may be arranged in longer and continuous series. base, and are rigidly connected to a baseboard, B, or the floor. In form they taper upwardly and incline backwardly, as shown in Fig. 2, and are provided on their front edges with jogs or notches a, to form open bearings for the trunnionsupports of the kegs, so that the latter may be readily lifted out bodily, if d ,ired.

G are the kegs or receptacles,which are preferably made of heavy sheet-iron, in cylindrical form with wooden bottoms. These kegs are provided each with trunnions or cars b just above their centers of gravity, which trunnions rest in the notches of the inclined up- These uprights are made deep at the rights, so as to permit the kegs to be easily tilted to discharge a portion of their contents into the hopper of the scales.

At the tops of the uprights are arranged one or more bars or rods, D, which serve to con.- nect and brace the uprights, and also afford a rack to sustain horseshoes and other analogous right, so that the said receptacles may be tilted to permit the more convenient insertion of the shovel in putting coal into the stove.

In defining our invention more clearly, we would state that we are awarethat barrels, milkcans, and even nail-kegs have been hung upon trunnions so as to tilt, and we therefore do not claim, broadly, the combination of a supportingframe and a trunnioned receptacle. We are aware, furthermore, of the Patent No. 205,681, to Cotter, Russell, and Warrell, for a washingmachine, in which a receptacle for the clothes is provided with trunnions which are supported in bearings in complex end frames made of several bars braced by special crossbars below the trunnioued receptacle, and in which a special supplemental frame is attached in the rear to the end frames for the single definite purpose of sustaining a trough. Our invention differs from this in that the end frames in our caseare in the nature of uprights made in a single piece and of a peculiar shape, while our cross-bar connects the tops of the uprights themselves to perform the double function of a rack and a brace to the uprights, instead of simplyforming a part of a supplemental frame, as shown in said washing-machine.

Having thus described our invention, what we claim as new is- The combination of the uprights A A, made each in a single piece, with a broad base, an a rack for horseshoes and like articles, as open bearing in its front edge, and arearward shown and described.

inclination, the keg having trunnions adapted HENRY CLAY DEAPER to rest in said bearin s and a cross-bar con- 5 necting directly the td ps of the uprights, for THOMAS OSBORNE BOWYER' the double purpose, first, of holding the same WVitnesses: in proper position and bracing them against JNO. B. DRAPER, lateral displacement, and, secondly, of forming JOHN M. MAGIE.

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