US508263A

US508263A - Jacob c

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Publication number: US508263A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1893-11-07
Anticipated expiration: 1910-11-07

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PRINTERS FURNITURE. No. 508,263. Patented Nov. 7, 1893-.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JACOB C. WOLFE, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

PRINTERS FURNITURE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of LettersPatent No. 508,263,dated November 7, 1893.

Application filed December 22, 1892- $erial No. 456,059. (Model-J To all whom it may concern/.-

Be it known that I, JACOB O. WOLFE, of New York city, in the county and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Printers Furniture, of which My invention relates to an improvement in printers furniture, and it has for its object to provide an article of furniture which will present a maximum of bearing surface and yet be of minimum weight.

A further object of the invention is to so construct the article of furniture that it may be expeditiously and conveniently cast, and whereby also a facing of uniform thickness will be secured, while the body of the article will be of considerably less thickness than the facing and also be uniform.

The invention consists in the novel construction and combination of the several parts, as will be hereinafter fully set forth and pointed out in the claims.

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

Figure 1 is a perspective view of the article of furniture. Fig. 2 is a transverse section of the same.

In carrying out the invention the article of furniture may be of any desired dimensions. It is cast, or otherwise constructed, preferably cast, however, inone piece and of any suitable metal, as metal or its equivalent only is employed in the construction of the article; that is to say no wood or other fillings are employed.

The top and bottom of the article of furniture are alike in shape and construction, as upon both the top and bottom face, at the side and ends, a rib 10 is formed, and this rib may be termed a marginal one, as it extends entirely around the said faces. Those portions of the top and bottom pieces surrounded by the ribs are depressed centrally and longitudinally, as illustratedat 11 in the drawings, whereby the said top andbottom surfaces incline downward from each side rib in direction of the center. The ends of the furniture are made perfectly flat, and in each side a series of pockets 12, is produced. The pockets extend inward to a central longitudinal wall 13, this wall being immediately between the top and bottom depressions 11; and the upper and lower inner surfaces of the pockets, designated respectively as 14 and 15, are inclined from the wall 13 outward, the upper surface facing in an upwardly direction and the lower surface in a downwardly direction, the degree of inclination of these two faces corresponding to the inclination of the upper and'lower faces of the article. By this means a uniform thickness of metal is secured throughout the top and bottom of the article of furniture with the exception of at the margin where the rib slightlyincreases the thickness of the metal.

The partitions 16, separating the pockets are inclined from the wall 13 outward in direction of the sides of the article. The partitions'are allof uniform thickness, and by thus inclining the ends and the top and bottom surfaces of the pockets the cores employed in the process of casting the article may be readily withdrawn.

It will be observed that when an article of furniture. is constructed as has been above set forth ample bearing surface is obtained, while the article .is exc'eedinglylight in weight, and

'fu'rther'that a marginal bearing surface only is provided at the top and at the bottom, the major portion of these faces not engaging with the support upon which the article of furniture is to be placed.

An article of furniture constructed as above set forth has a finished and neat appearance, may be readily and conveniently handled, and every surface presented to the type or to the. form is true.

If in practice it is found desirable, electrotype or stereotype matter may be produced upon one face of the block, or one face of the block may contain one or more letters; and it will be observed that as an article of printers furniture the block consistsof practically a hollow body provided with depressed or sunken upper and lower faces, and marginal ribs upon said faces, which afford ample bearing surfaces without adding materially to the weight of the block. The depressions may be deeper or more shallow than shown, in

which event the pockets are proportionally increased or decreased.

Having thus fully described my invention, I claim as new and desire'to secure by Letters 5 Patent 1. An article of printers furniture, comprising a hollow block having its top and bottom recessed, the bottoms of the recess being inclined toward the center, and provided with 10 a longitudinal central wall and transverse partitions extending from the central wall and forming a plurality of pockets in each side, substantially as described.

and described.

JACOB C. WOLFE. Witnesses:

H. H. W001), J. L. FERRIS.