US396670A - Thomas s - Google Patents

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T. S. SPIVEY.

COMBINED SAFE AND COPYING PRESS.

(No Model.)

No. 896,670. Patented Ja11.22, 1889.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OEEICE.

THOMAS SPIVEY, OF CINCINNATI, OHIO, ASSIGNORTO THE VIC TOR SAFE AND LOCK COMPANY, OF SAME PLACE.

COMBINED SAFE AND COPYING-PRESS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 396,670, dated January 22, 1889.

Application filed May 29, 1888. Serial No. 275,482. (No model.)

To (LZZ whom it may concern: I) is a portion of the inner box of the safe,

Be it known that I, THOMAS S. SPIVEY, a and E the customary concrete or other noncitizen of theUnited States of America, residconducting filling occu iiying 'the annular ing at Cincinnati, in the county of Hamilton space between said box and the outer casing and State of Ohio, have invented certain new or shell. of the struetu re.

and useful Improvements in a Combined Safe F F are upright standards of the copyingand Copying-Press, of which the following is press, which standards are preferably integral r" a specification, referencebeing had therein to with the yoke G, having a nut, g, traversed the accompanying drawings. by a screw, H, that carries the press-platen I. 10 This invention relates to those strong cases J is a customary hand wheel or lever whereor boxes which are generally known as tirewith said screw is operated.

proof or burglar-proof safes; and the first ff are base-flanges of said standards,whieh part of myimprovements consists in making flanges may be riveted to the top plate of the said boxes in such a manner as to combine all safe, as seen in Fig. l; but I prefer the atr 5 the advantagesofasafe and copying-press ina taclnnentrepresented in Fig. 2. Here said single structure, therebyreducing the cost of flanges are shown as having open-mouthed manufacturing these two indispensable artipockets or pits K K cast with them, which cles of office furniture and facilitating their pockets are also connected to the standards transportation. To accomplish these results, F F, as seen in Figs. 3 and at. Furthermore,

20 the ordinary standards of a copying-press are said flanges are pierced to admit bolts L L,

attached to the top plate of the case or box, traversing stay bars or plates M M, which in order that this upper plate or casting will latter are in close contact with the underside serve the twofold purpose of a top plate for of top plate, (3, and, if preferred, said bars the safe and a base or bed for said copyingmay be provided with sockets or other re 2 5 press, the concrete or other fire-proof filling tainers, one of which is seen at N. beneath said plate serving to stiffen the lat- O is a water-proof filling, which can be ter, and thus prevent it bein sprung or bent poured into the pockets and allowed to harden, in the act of taking copies of letters, accounts, so as to conceal and protect the nuts on the or manuscripts, as hereinafter described. upper ends of bolts L L.

30 My invention further consists in providing From the above description it is apparent So the base-tlanges of these standards with inthat the casting or other plate C serves both tegral or cast pockets or pits, which openas a top for the safe and as a base or bed plate mouthed receptacles hold the brush and wafor the copying-press, the filling, E, when ter used for takingletter-press copies, as here used, affording a very solid bearing that pre- 3 5 inafter more fully described. vents said plate being sprung or bent, no

In the annexed drawings, Figure l is a matter how much power may be exerted by front elevation of my combined safe and the screw. It is also apparent that the concopying-press, a letter-book being seen in the struction herein described affords a fire or latter. Fig. 2 is an enlarged vertical section burglar proof safe and copying-press at a ma- 40 of the press and the upper portion of the safe. terially-less cost than would be required to fur- 0 Figs. 3 and at are enlargedhorizontal sections nish separately these two articles of office of the standards F F, said sections being furniture, and the safe is at all times conventaken directly above the pockets K K. ient as a place of depositfor copies of valuable A representsthe hoop, angle-iron, or main letters, accounts, the. Again, this construc- 4 5 frame, of any approved construction, of fire tion dispenses with the customary heavy bed- 9 5 or burglar proof safe or other similar strong plate for the press, and as a natural result the case or box, and B is the door of the same. weight of the structure is diminished acc0rd- O is the top casting or plate of the structingly, thereby facilitating its transportation. ure, which plate may be secured to the angle Furthermore, as the pockets K K are cast 50 iron or frame in any suitable manner. with the press-standards, there is no danger 10o of these receptacles being overturned nor misplaced when needed. If an accident should happen either to the standards or yoke, the cement, O, can be chipped out of the pockets and the nuts disengaged from the bolts L L, after which act a new pair of standards can be readily attached to the top plate, 0, the embedding of the bolt-heads within the filling, E, preventing any turning of said fasteners when the nuts are screwed thereto or unscrewed therefrom; or this turning of the bolts can be guarded against by inserting their heads within the sockets N.

I claim as my invention Vitnesses:

JAMEs H. LAYMAN, SAML. S. CARPENTER.

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