US439605A

US439605A - ricker

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Publication number: US439605A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1890-10-28
Anticipated expiration: 1907-10-28

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(No Model.)

B. H. RIGKER. SAFE FOR MILK CANS, &c.

Patented Oct. 28, 1890.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

REUBEN l-I. RIOKEB, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO 0. FRED. HOWE, OF SAME PLACE.

SAFE FOR MILK-CANS, 80c.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 439,605, dated October 28, 1890. Application filed March 26, 1890- Serial No. 55,437. (N model.)

To all whom it may concern: on studs N N, and normally held together Be it known that I, REUBEN H. RIGKER, of by the spring 8. The spring-catches M are Boston, in the county of Sufiolk and State of provided at their outer ends with hooks, as Massachusetts, have invented a new and useshown, adapted to engage with the barbed 5 ful Improvement in Safes for Milk=0ans and end of the start L, so that when the door is other Articles, of which the following, taken closed it is securely locked by the engagein connection with the accompanying drawment of the catches M M with the start L, and 5 5 ings, is a specification. it cannot be opened except by inserting the The object of my invention is to so conkey and unlocking the same. :0 struct a safe or case to be attached to the ex- To prevent the accidental closing and lock terior of a house, store, or other structure ing of-the door,I have two drops K K so susthat it will form a secure receptacle for cans, pended from either side of the opening in the dishes, &c., either full or empty, and to be face of the lock that one of them will so hang conveniently opened by any one authorized, as to cover the opening, and thus prevent the 15 but not to be opened by unauthorized perstart L from entering the look; but when it sons except by unlawfully unfastening the is desired to lock the door the drop covering same, the safe being so constructed that it the opening may be pushed aside, and thus can be placed at the right or left of the doorallow the start to enter and to be locked in. way, as may be desired. This object I attain Another and quite essential use of the 20 by the construction shown in the accompanydrops is to hold the door in a partially locked ing drawings, in whichcondition. Thus if the door is nearly closed,

Figure 1 is a view in perspective showing as represented in Fig. 4;, then the'hook K on one of my safes closed with a can inside. the drop K will engage with one of the notches Fig. 2 is a View in perspective showing one of the start L, and thus hold the door nearly 2 5 of my safes open, the position of the inclosed closed, but in a condition to be easily opened can being represented by dotted lines. Fig. by simply drawing the engaged drop away 3 is a horizontal section taken through the from the start. lock. Fig. 4 is a view enlarged of the look In Fig. 5 I have shown the plate W, that and its connecting parts, and Fig. 5 shows I use for covering the lock-recess. This plate 0 the lock-plate. has a front part W so shaped as to fit into a In the drawings, A represents the fixed dovetail formed on the edge of the casing, as part of the safe, and B the door, the said door shown, and a start W bent at right angles B being attached to the fixed part by hinges to the main part W, and is adapted to fit E E. 1 into a recess made for it at N. (See Fig. 4.) 3 5 Upon the fixed part of the safe I have a By forming the plate as above and adapting flattened boss I, Fig. 3, which is intended to the lock-recess to receive it; but one screw is fit against the flat walls of the structure to required to hold it in place. 8 5 which the safe is to be attached by means of This safe maybe made of iron or any other screws, one of which is shown at V, Figs. 2 suitable material. 40 and 3. As this safe is made symmetrical in In using my safe for milk, for instance, the all respects, its position can be reversed to can is placed within, and the door is so far fit to the right or left, as it may be desired. closed as to cause one of the drops (see Fig. 0 Turning the safe end for end changes it from 4) to engage with the start and hold it. Now a right to a left hand one, thus adapting it to any person may open the door by pushing 45 be placed in a right or left hand position in the drop away, and having placed a full can relation to the doorway. in the safe may entirely close the door by The lock W (shown in detail in Fig. l) causing the start L to enter the lock. Now 5 consists of two spring-catches M M, pivoted it cannot be opened except by the use of a key, which is always retained by the owner of the safe, the person who delivers the milk safe and so located that one of them, accqrd- IO or other article not having any key.

ing to which end of the safe is up, will hang over the entrance to the lock and in a posi- I olain1- tion to catch the barbed start, as described,

5 In a reversible safe, the combination of the substantiallyas and for the purpose set forth. 7 recessed lock V in the fixed part A, and the REUBEN H. RICKER.

door B, having a barbed start L adapted to engage with the swinging drops K K said drops K K being, attached to the fixed part of the Witnesses:

WILLIAM EDSON, FRANK G. PARKER.