US329147A

US329147A - dixon

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Publication number: US329147A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1885-10-27
Anticipated expiration: 1902-10-27

Description

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R. E. DIXON.

SAFE DEPOSIT- VAULT. No. 329,147. Patented Oct. 27, 1885.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

RUFUS E. DIXON, OF NEWV YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNOR TO FREDERICK FOSTER,

OF SAME PLAOE.

SAFE-DEPOSIT VAULT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 329,147, dated October 27, 1885.

Application filed December 30, 1884. Serial No. 151,539.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, Bonus E. DIXON, of the city, county, and State of New. York, have invented a new and Improved Safe- Deposit Vault, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

The object of my invention is to provide a practical safe-deposit vault for valuables, and one adapted for bank -buildings, to enable banks to carry on safe-deposit business in connection with regular banking business.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, in which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in both the figures.

Figure 1 is a front elevation of my new vault, the inner and outer main doors being shown open; and Fig. 2 is a sectional elevation of the same, taken on the line was of Fig. 1.

The invention will first be described in connection with the drawings, and then pointed out in the claims.

The casing A is of heavy masonry, by preference circular in form, and provided with the doorway A and door A Within the casing A is the shell 13, made of heavy plates of metal. This shell is also, by preference, circular in form, and provided with the doorway B and door B, that coincide with the doorway A of the outer shell, A.

Within the shell B is placed a revolving circular frame, O, that holds the safety-deposit boxes or compartments a, which are numbered, and closed by doors with lock and key, in the ordinary way. The central compartments, 1) b, of the frame 0, which compartments are closed by the doors I) b, constitute the guaranteed compartments of the vault. An opening or omission of boxes or compartments (1 is left at 0, (shown in Fig. 2,) to furnish access to the central guaranteed compartments,b. The frame C is made to nearly fill the shell B, and it rests upon the central point or screw, c,which rests in the socket c, and the frame-is held centered upon the screw 0 bythe rod (1 at the top of the frame, so that the frame may be easily revolved for bringing the opening 0, or any of the boxes or compartments a, to the doorways A B. The rod dis by preference made of considerable length, and the bottom plate, D, of the frame 0 is provided with the screws E E,

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so that in case the block 0' becomes worn, by turning down the screws E, the frame (1 may be elevated to permit access to the block a, to enable it to be removed and a new block put in its place.

The frame 0 might be revolved by hand; but for convenience in revolving it I prefer to groove the periphery of the bottom plate, D, as shown at e, and employ the belt F, passed around the plate D and the upright shaft G, so that by turning the shaft G the belt will act to revolve the frame. In this instance I have shown secured upon the shaft G the table G, which serves as a lever for turning the shaft, and also as a table for the attendant of the vault. The shaft is not made fast to the step G which is attached to the floor outside of the vault, near the door thereof, but is journaled loosely therein, so that when the vault is closed it may be removed, if desired.

By employing the revolving frame 0, in which the safety boxes or compartments are formed, all of the boxes may be conveniently got at from one side of the vault, and without entering the vault, and all of the available space in the vault is utilized for safety-boxes, so that the vault may be made small, and yet furnish room for agreat many boxes or compartments a, and the guaranteed compartments 1), being surrounded by the compartments a, are doubly protected against fire and burglars.

The endless chain or belt F may be passed around the shaft G by raising the shaft out of its socket, or the ends of the teeth or chain may be detachably connected for this purpose. There is no positive connection of the belt or chain F to the shaft G, but there may be, if desired. Pins may be used for this purpose, especially if an endless chain is used. The pins will be driven into the shaftGaround it, and they will be placed on the same level with the plate D, so as not to cause deflection of the chain in its passage from the shaft to the periphery of the plate D. If a belt is used, the same will pass around the shaft G about the same as around ahorizontally-arranged pulley, and the belt will be kept from raising or lowering upon the shaft by the two circumferential flanges y 3/, formed upon or secured to the shaft G, and these flanges are also on the same level with the plate D, so that the belt will run .between the flanges. The two flanges together form a'kind of groove or channel around the shaft G to receive the belt F, as shown clearly in the accompanying drawings, to Fig. 1 of which I now refer that a clear understanding of this device may be had.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by-Letters Patent, is-

1. The frame 0, having central compartments, 1), surrounded by boxes or outer compartments, a, and having a space, 0, in combination with the shell B and surrounding masonry A, the frame 0 being adapted to be re volved in the shell B, substantially as described.

2. The shell B, provided at the top with the rod d, in combination with the revolving frame 0, centered in the shell upon a point at the bottom, and held upon said point by the rod 01, that passes through the top of the frame 0, the rod (1 being of considerable length to permit the frame G to be elevated, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

3. The shell 13, provided with the rod 01, in combination with the frame 0, held upon the centering point or screw 0, and provided with the elevating-screws E, the rod d passing through the top of the frame G, and being of considerable length to permit the frame 0 to be elevated, substantially as and for the purposes set forth.

4. The frame 0, held in the vault upon suitable centering-points,and provided at the bottom with the grooved plate D, in'combination with the endless chain 13, shaft G, and table G, that serves as a lever to revolve the shaft G, for turning the frame 0 in the vault, sub; stantially as described.

RUFUS E. DIXON.

Witnesses:

H. A. WVEsT, O. SEDGWIOK.