US568706A

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Publication number: US568706A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1896-09-29
Anticipated expiration: 1913-09-29

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0. F. SHIPMAN. CABINET. 0R SAFE IOR PIES, &c.

Patented Sept; 29, 1896.-

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No. 568,706. 'Patente'd Sept. 29;, 1896 a if UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CHARLES F. SHIPMAN, OF WASHINGTON, DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO HENRY COPPERTHITE, OF SAME PLACE.

CABINET OR SAFE FOR PIES, 80C.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 568,706, dated September 29, 1896.

Application filed January 7, 1896.

T at whom it may concern.-

Be it known that 1, CHARLES F. SHIPMAN, of Washington, in the District of Columbia, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Cabinets or Safes for Pies,

&c.; and do I hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 is a perspective View of my safe or cabinet; Fig. 2, a vertical section thereof on a line from front to rear, and Fig. 3 is a detail viewof one of the rack-sections.

Letters of like name and kind refer to like parts in each of the several figures.

The object of my invention is to provide a cabinet or safe for pies and other articles of food which will be of simple and inexpensive construction and adapted for easy and thorough cleaning; and to this end said invention consists in the cabinet or safe constructed substantially as hereinafter described.

The purpose that I have had more especially in view is the provision of a cabinet or safe for displaying pies for sale in lunchrooms, eating-houses, &c., and in the construction of the same I employ a rectangular base or bottom A, uprights B and B at the four corners thereof, which support a top C, and ends D and D and front E, formed of plates of glass suitably held in place. The rear of the cabinet is closed by two sliding doors F and F, that consist each of an open frame to which is attached aperforated plate or a sheet of wire cloth or netting. Said doors are adapted to be moved alongside of each other in parallel ways or grooves a and a and c and 0, provided, respectively, in the upper side of the base A and the under side of the top 0, and enable access to the interior of the cabinet for the placing therein or the removal therefrom of pics The pics, in pans'or plates, are supported within the cabinet upon a rack composed of two similar frames that consist each of several, as shown, three, equidistant posts G and G, connected by and supporting a number of parallel horizontal bars or rods H and H, that, with the exception of the top one, are

preferably round in cross-section. Each pair Serial No. 574,587. (No model.)

of round bars of the two frames that are in the same horizontal plane forms a support for a pie.

The two frames forming the rack are placed removably in the cabinet, and for their insertion therein and removal therefrom the top 0 is provided with a rectangular opening a and a hinged cover I for closing the same. For the support of said frames a vertical groove 0 is provided in each side wall of the top opening for the engagement of the two end posts G and G of the frame, and at the lower end of each of the three posts is provided a pointed'pin ordowel g to engage a suitable opening in the base A.

The object in making the rack removable is to enable the same and the interior of the cabinet to be readily cleaned, and this purpose as respects the rack is materially contributed to by making the latter of separate and unconnected or independent frames; and this construction of the rack is also advantageous because of its simpler construction as compared with a rack formed of connected frames. The latter construction, however, I contemplate using, and I consider the same as within the scope of my invention.

By employing the pins 9 at the bottoms of the frame-posts as a means for holding the frame in place no projections exist to obstruct the easy and thorough cleaning of the bottom of the cabinet when said frames are removed; but while I prefer such means for holding the frames at their lower ends other means may be employed therefor,- such, for instance, as vertical grooves in cleats or strips corresponding to the grooves c for holding the frames at their upper ends.

My cabinet can be given a neat and attractive appearance. It is light, so as to be 0 easily portable, and can be readily and thoroughly cleaned.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim is 1. A cabinet or safe having an opening in 5 its side closed by doors that slide past each other in opening and closing, a suitably-covered opening in its top, and provided with a removable rack composed of vertical and horizontal bars connected together, articles upon the rack being accessible through said engage openings in the cabinet-bottom, subside opening, and the rack itself being adaptstantially as and for the purpose set forth. ed to be passed through the opening in the In testimony that I claim the foregoing I top, substantially as and for the purpose have hereunto set my hand this 24th day of 5 specified. December, 1895.

2. A cabinet or safe havin an o )ening in a T its top and provided with a raek e onsisting CHARLES SHIP} {A of two separately-removable frames, each of \Vitnesses: which at its sides engages grooves in the Jos. BARRES, 1o cabinet, and has pins at its lower end that \V. E. VAN DEUSEN.