US730046A - Cabinet. - Google Patents

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PATENTE'D JUNB.2,\:190 3.=

S. 0. PRICE.

CABINET.

APPLICATION rILsn mac 12, 1901.

2 SHEETS-SHEET 3.

16 MODEL.

WITNESSES! ATTORNEYS Patented June 2, 1903.

F PATENT OFFICE.

STEPHENC. PRICE, or PITTSBURG, KAN'S-AS.

CABINET.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N 0. 730,046, dated June-2, 1903.

"Application filed December 12, 1901. Serial No- 85,588- (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that LSTEPHEN O. PRIoE,a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Pittsburg, in the county of Crawford and State of Kansas, have invented a new and Improved Cabinet, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description. f

The purpose of this invention is to provide a cabinet or system of shelves designed especially for use in stores and other places where goods are kept for display; and the invention comprises a certain novel construction which enables me to utilize the entire space along the wall from the floorto'the' ceiling without involving the necessity of using a step-ladder or other means for climbing up to points near the ceiling. This end I attain by-a peculiar arrangement of balanced cases arranged in pairs, one to move up as the other moves down, and thus while they may be placed one higher than the other for purposes of display when it is desired to remove the goods either of the casesmay be lowered into a position convenient for a person standing on the floor.

This specificationis a specific description of one form of the invention, while the claim are definitions of the actualscope thereof.

Reference is to be had to the accompanyin g drawings, forming a part of thisspecification,

in which similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the views.

Figure 1 is a front elevation of the invention. Fig. 2 is a sectional plan view on the line 2 2 of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a side elevation with parts broken away and in section. Fig. 4 is a detail section showing the lock for holding the cases in the desired position, and Fig. 5 is a detail view showing the rollers for mounting the cases.

The base or lower portion of the cabinet is preferably in the form of a closed case a, with drawersa',in which goods maybe placed, the top of this case providing a shelf at its front portion. (See the point a in Fig. 3.) On the base or case a is arranged the framing and the connected shelf-cases forming the subject-matter of my invention. This framing comprises a top I), with four corner-posts 1), these corner-posts being of right-angle cross-sectional form, as best shown in Fig. 5. At each side of this frame is a vertically-extending T-rail b these T'-rails' lying midway side .to the other of the framing.

between the front and rear corner railsor posts I). The postsor rails 12 and b are'suitably fastened to the baseportion 0.. Reference. to Fig. 2 will show that by the arrangement of the posts or nails 1) and 1) two verti'calguideways are produced, these guideways being located one in front of .the other and each extendingcontinuously from one In each of the guideways thus formed is arranged one shelf-case. "These cases comprise side walls 0, with shelves 0 arranged horizontally therein, the compartmentsformed by these shelves being open, at their front, and-at the rear a screenor other like wall 0 'is arranged to prevent the goods from falling over the rear edges-of the shelves. These cases are of a height equal to or slightly less than one-half of the vertical extent of the frame forming the guide'ways (See Fig. 3.) The shelf-cases are connected togetherbytworopes or cords (1, arranged one at each side, these ropes or jcords passing up over guide-sheaves d in the top I), as shown in Fig. 3. -.The shelf-cases .thus balance each other and may be moved freely up or down, one case moving up as the other moves down, and vice versa. In order to reduce the friction attending the movement of the shelf-cases, Iprovide rollers 0 these rollers being set into the walls of the cases, as shown in Fig. 5, and running against the inner sides of the guide rails or posts I) and b "j j As shown best in Figs. 1 and 4, I provide a thumb-latch 6, preferably in the form of a cam. This thumb-latch is arrcnged in the corner post or rail 12'' at the right-hand side of the cabinet and works through a slot therein, so as to engage the corresponding side edge of the front shelf-cases. When the catch 6 is thrown into operation, this case is locked rigidly in place at any elevation desired, and of course the other end is held from movement.

Now it will be observed that by the arrangement shown cases may 'be"placed in the adand thus any of the shelves may be brought to a lower position, so that a person standing on the floor may readily place articles on and remove them from the shelf referred to. This materially adds to the capacity of the store, especially in buildin where the ceilings are relatively high, and it avoids the necessity of employing step-ladders and other means for raising ones self from the floor.

Various changes in the form and details of my invention may be resorted to at will without departing from the spirit of my invention. Hence I consider myself entitled to all forms of the invention as may lie within the intent of my claim.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters 1 ate nt- A cabinet, comprising a base, corner-posts rising therefrom, said posts having essential] y L-shaped cross-sectional form and said posts forming a frame, a T-rail located ateach' side of said frame, the T-rails extending \'ertically and forming in the frame two vertically-disposed spaces, a shelf-case arranged to move verticallyin each of said spaces, the shelf -cascs having their corners running against the T-rails and corner-posts, said corners of the shelf-cases being inclosed by said posts, guide-rollers attached to the shelf-cases and running against the corner-posts and T-rails, a flexible connection, the ends of which are attached to the she1f-cases, and guide devices at the top of the frame, over which guide devices said flexible connection In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence 01: two subscribing witnesses.

STEPHEN (3. PRICE.

\Vitnesses:

J. J. CAMPBELL, A. II. GREEF.

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