US404398A - Hotel room-register - Google Patents

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HOTEL RO0M REGISTER.

Patented June 4, 1889.

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UNITED STATES PAT T OFFICE.

CHARLES H. GREENLEAF, OF BOSTON, MASsAeHUsETTs, ASSIGNOR OF ONE- HALF To WILLIAM A. TRACY, OF NASHUA, NEW HAMPSHIRE.

HOTEL ROOM-REGISTER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 404,898, dated June 4, 1889.

Application filed January 31, 1889. Serial No. 298,254. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, CHARLES H. GREEN- LEAF, of Boston, in the county of Suffolk and State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Hotel Room- Registers, of which the following is a specification.

The object of this invention is to provide a hotel room-register which will not only be simple in construction, but also save space and facilitate the work of the clerk or other person in charge.

In the accompanying drawings, in which similar letters of reference indicate like parts, Figure 1 is a front elevation of my improvement in hotel room-registers. Fig. 2 is a similar View with a portion of the leaves swung forward toward the left in order that the card belonging to a particular room may be reached and examined. Fig. 3 is a transverse vertical section on line 00, Fig. 1. Fig. 4 is a horizontal section on line y, Fig. 1. Fig. 5 is an enlarged vertical section of a single card-receptacle.

A A represent a rectangular frame of wood or other material, provided with a number (in this instance six) of vertical rods or shafts B, whose ends are held in the top and bottom rails A of the frame. These shafts may be fixed in said rails A or have bearings in them, as desired. On each of these shafts is a long narrow leaf 0, preferably metallic, which is fixed to the shaft if the shaft can turn, but is loose upon it if the shaft is fixed, so that these leaves can swing easily to the right or left, as may be desired. The normal position of the leaves is swung toward the right, as in Fig. 1, the eX- treme right-hand leaf lying against a post D, whose ends are supported by the rails A, and the other leaves resting each against its right-hand neighbor. When the leaves are swung toward the left, (see Fig. 2,) the extreme left-hand leaf lies against the left upright rail of the frame, and the other leaves rest each against its left-hand neighbor" WVashers b are preferably placed on the shafts B between the upper and lower ends of the leaves and the rails A. The leaves are held upon the shafts B by simply bending their rear edges 0' around said shafts, as shown in Fig. 4, preferably from the rear forward around the shafts. On each leaf are secured anumber of horizontal T-shaped partitions or rests E, (in this instance eight,) thus leaving seven spaces in which cards H may be slid, said cards bearing the names of the guests occupying the rooms corresponding to the numbers placed upon the flanged or flat portions E, Fig. 5, of the partitions E above, and any other desired memoranda. The numbers, being placed on the righthand portion of the partitions, are always in sight when the register is in its normal position, (shown in Fig. 1,) and portions of the cards in position are also visible.

In Fig. 1 two cards are shown, showing that two rooms are occupied; in Fig. 2, four, and in Fig. 3 five cards are shown. To turn to any roomsay room 26swing the leaf next left of it back toward the left, as shown in Fig. 2, and the whole of the leaf bearing that number is exhibited. Thus each cardcompartmentis readily accessible, every roomnumber is in sight, and a portion of each compartment, and the entire register is compact and occupies very little space.

I am aware that photographic picture-cases have been constructed with leaves or frames hinged to intermediate pieces in such a manner that they can be swung backagainst each other. Ido not therefore claim, broadly, a swinging leaf or series thereof adapted to hold cards.

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

In a hotel room-register, the combination of the frame A, the series of parallel rods or shafts B, Whose ends are held in said frame, the series of leaves 0, turning or swinging on said rods or shafts, each leaf being integral and swinging bodily and provided with recesses or spaces separated by partitions adapted for the easy insertion, withdrawal, and holding of cards or slips, on which may be written the names, 650., of guests, said partitions being provided near their outer ends with characters indicating the different rooms, and a Stop piece or rod D, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

CHARLES H. GREENLEAF.

Witnesses:

HENRY W. WILLIAMS, J. M. HARTNETT.

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