US709709A - Show-case. - Google Patents

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No. 709,709. Patented Sept. 23, |902.'

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SHOW CASE.

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UNITED STATES PATENT Orr-Tea SOLOMON HIMMEL, OF BALTIMORE, MARYLAND.

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N 0. 709,709, dated September 23, 1902.

Application filed April 29, 1902. Serial No. 105,140. {No moclei.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, SOLOMON I-IIMMEL, a citizen of the United States, residing at Baltimore, in the State of Maryland, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Show-Cases, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in the construction of showcases.

The object of the invention is to provide a case of such construction that in appearance it will closely resemble and possess the advantages of the so called all glass case, but at the same time will be free of the many disadvantages of the all-glass case, which latter is frail and must be handled with extreme caution, owing to the fact that one plate is secured directly to the other. Another disadvantage of the all-glass case is that it cannot safely be shipped standing, but must be shipped knocked down, and then put together by experts after reaching its destination.

By my improved construction of case the same may be shipped standing, is strong and durable, and at the same time has the appearance of the all-glass case.

With these and other objects in view the invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure l is a vertical longitudinal section through a case looking toward the rear. Fig. 2 is a perspective View of a corner-joint. Fig. 3 is a perspective view of the metallic channels at one corner. Fig. 4 is a modification illustrating a wooden corner-post and metallic top channels.

In the drawings the base A and bottom a of the case may be constructed in any of the various well-known ways, and in the present instance the case is provided with metallic strips or corner-posts I), provided on one side with channels 0, which are of a size to receive the edge of the front glass plate d, and the opposite side of said strip is provided with a fiat surface 0. These channel-posts are provided between their ends with dovetailed grooves c and e, the grooves e being situated on the inner side f of said post, while the groove 6 has position on the flat side adjoining said inner side f, so that the grooves e have position at right angles to the flush with the inner surface of said glass plates. The extreme projecting ends of each of said tangs are provided with a head 71/, and a hole h in each head is provided for the reception of a bolt or rivet 7L2.

The lower ends of the posts I) in the present instance are turned inward to form a flange or foot 1', which rests on the bottom of the case and is secured thereto by a screw. The construction thus far described explains the securing together of the vertical plates to the corner-posts and the base, and this construction is equally applicable to fasten ing the top plate, except in a few particulars.

By reference to Fig. 3 it will be seen that in addition to the vertical channel-posts Z) horizontal top channel-strips 7t and 7c are provided. In the present instance the channel-strip It has position at the front of the case and takes over the top edge of the frontvertical plate d. At each end the vertical wall of said channel is notched or cut away at l to fit over the top of the channelpost I) and the extreme end of said top channel 7c is chamfered. The ends of the channels 7e are also chamfered, and these ends fit against the chamfered ends of the channel 7t: and together make a flush right-angle joint. The top channels k 7.." are each provided with tangs g and g, the former projecting downwardly in a vertical direction and taking against the inside surface of the front plate 01, and the latter tang, g, projecting horizontally and being flush with the bottom surface of the top plate j and secured, as previously described.

In order to make a tight dust-proof joint between each of the channels and the flat surface of the glass plates, I provide a strip of compressible packing m, such as felt or other suitable material, which is put into position before the plates are secured together and are compressed when the bolts 7b2 are tightened.

The modification illustrated in Fig. Ishows a case having wooden corner-posts and top metallic channels connecting same. In this construction the top metallic channels it are provided with but one set of tangs g, and

the top plate is secnredin place by screws at each corner which pass through said plate into the corner-posts. By this construction I am enabled to use a cheap grade of glass, such as double thick, for the front and end plates, which at the present time cannot be used in all glass cases,for the reason that such double-thick glass is extremely brittle and cannot be drilled; but by means of my improved channels double-thick glass can be used for the front and ends at a greatly-reduced cost in manufacture without detracting from the appearance of the case. In this construction the top plate 0 is plate-glass.

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

1. In a glass show-case the combination of two glass plates; a strip having a channel at one side and a flat surface at the opposite.

side, said channel receiving the edge of one plate and the opposite fiat surface of said strip abutting against the inner side survertical plates, and said strips providcd with tangs flush With and projecting from the said flat surface and contacting with the bottom surface of the top plate, and means for securing said top plate to said tangs.

3. In aglass show-case the combination of two glass plates; a metal strip having a channel and a flatsurface opposite said channel, the channel of said strip receiving the entire edge of one glass plate and the flat surface of said strip abutting against the side surface of an adjoining glass plate and two sets of tangs projecting from said metal strip at an angle with respect to each other, one set of tangs extending parallel and flush with one plate and the other set of tangs extending parallel and flush with the other plate.

4. In a glass show-case the combination of two glass plates; a strip having a channel at one side and a flatsurface at the opposite side, said flat-surfaced side also being provided with one or more dovetailed grooves; a dovetailed tang fitted in each of said grooves and projecting laterally therefrom whereby the channel of said strip Will receive the edge of one plate and the flat surface and tangs of said strip will abut against the side surface of the adjoining plate.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

SOLOMON I-IIMMEL.

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