US749264A - Bookcase - Google Patents

Description

No. vaaeezi.v

UNITED STATES Patented January 12, 1904.

PATENT OFFICE.

DUGAL CREE AND HERMAN DICKSON,OF MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA, ASSIGNORS TO THE CREE DICKSON MANUFACTURING COMPANY,

OF MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA.

BOOKCASE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 749,264, dated January 12, 1904.

Application filed February 24, 1902. Serial No. 95,248. (No model.)

To all whom t may concern: W Be it known that we, DUeAL CREE and HER- MAN DIoKsoN, of the city of Minneapolis,`

county of Hennepin, and State of Minnesota, have invented'new and useful Improvements in Bookcases; and we do hereby declare the h, following to be a full, clear, and exact description thereof, such as will' enable those skilled `in the art to which our invention appertains to properly construct the same. Our invention relates to bookcases wherein ma number of separable cabinet-sections are grouped to form cabinets of variable proportions, usually styled sectional bookcasesf and our invention consists, first, in providing `the doors of our cabinet-sections that those ofA the lower and intermediate sections vwill close both under and upon the lower edges of those of the cabinet-sections next above them. Thus we have but one horizontal jointto each comi "ss our invention.

partment.

`In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a view in. perspective of a tier of our cabinetsections, the `upper section thereof being removed., Fig. 2 is a vertical cross-section of a tier of sections constructed in accordance with Fig. Bis a fragmentary sectional view of the adjacent edges of two of the cabinet-sections, the door of the upper section being shown in lowered position. Fig. 4 is a section taken on linc 4 4 of Fig. 3. Fig. 5" is a fragmentary view in perspective of the lower portion of one of the cabinet-sections, and Fig. (i is a fragmentary view in perspective of the "upper portion of one of the cabinet-sections.

` Similar letters refer to similar parts throughout the several views.

A` indicates an upper cabinetsection; B, a lower cabinet;` C, the intermediate cabinet-secr tions, and D the hinge for hanging the doors. `The upper cabinet-section A consists ofthe end pieces a; the back piece the top piece c, and the bottom pieces d, the latter consisting of two slats, all of which are rigidly affixed together, forming a receptacle for books and the like. The lower cabinet-section B consists of the end pieces a2, the back piece b2, the bottom piece d 2, and the top piece c2, the latter consisting of one slat. The intermediate sections 4C constitute the greater part of our bookcase.

"as a door constructed wholly of wood might serve a like purpose; but we prefer the glazed door, as shown. To the inner side of this door g, at its end and near its lower edge, as shown in Fig. 3, is affixed the door portion of the locking and closing hinge.

The plates /L are sunk into the end pieces of the respective sections, their outer faces being flush with the inner faces of the said end pieces. f The lower ends of these plates extend beyond the lower edges of their respective sections andare adapted to extend over mortises m, formed in the upper edges of the lower sections, said mortises being deeper than the thickness of the plates L, as shown in Fig. 4,

` for purposes which will hereinafter appear.

In Fig. 4 wc show the door portion of the hinge D aflixed in place upon the door g and the jamb portion thereof affixed in place upon the end piece a of the upper cabinet-section A.

` Our purpose in cutting away the wood in the end piece a of the cabinet-section, as shown in Fig. 4, is to form a recess m in the rear of the plate L, into which the lower end of the said plate may be depressed to permit of the door g being put into place on its section or removed without removing its hinge. Thus it will be seen that our glazed doors may be crated and shipped separate and apart from their cabinet-sections.

.It is noticeable that the slats Z and d3, which constitute the bottoms of our upper and intermediate sections, extend below the end pieces a and. a3 of their respective sections and that their ends rest in the rabbeted portions cs, formed in the upper edges ofthe adjacent sections.

The slats c2 and c3, which constitute the tops of the lower and intermediate sections, extend above the end pieces a3 and a2 of their respective sections, and the ends thereof are received in rabbeted portions c, formed in the lower edges of the adjacent sections. It will therefore be obvious that as these sections are piled one upon another to form a tier these slats forming the tops and bottoms of their respective sections interlock to form shelves, the single slat lying between the two slats of its adjacent section to form the top of one section. This construction prevents one cabinetsection from sliding upon another either longitudinally or laterally. K

The doors of our cabinet-sections open downward to substantially a horizontal position that they may serve to rest the books upon while examining indexes and the like. It will be further noted that the loweredge of the upper cabinet-section door, the upper edge of the lower cabinet-door, and both edges of the intermediate cabinet-section doors are fashioned hollow and round, technically called cyma recta. rlhis construction forms a tight joint and prevents the entrance of dust.

Another feature of our invention is that a lower section (being fashioned with a closed bottom and a base-molding) and an upper section (being fashioned with a top and a capmolding) when placed one upon another constitutes a complete cabinet, and to provide additional room for the ever-increasing volumes it is only necessary to purchase the intermediate (cheaper) sections and pile them either singly or in numbers upon the lower section and cap them with the upper section, thereby building a single tier of the required height.

' Having thus described our invention, what we claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. A case for books or other articles, comprising a plurality of independent and interchangeable sections adapted to be piled one upon another, and connected together, each of said sections consisting of end pieces, a bottorn piece, a top, a back affixed to the rear edges of the said end pieces, and a downwardlyopening door pivotally aflixed to the end .pieces of each section at a point below the level of the respective section-bottoms, said doors being fashioned with cyma-recta edges adapted to rest upon and overlap the cymarecta upper edges of the similar doors belonging to the adjacent underlying sections, said doors being adapted to open to a horizontal position and to serve as shelves, substantially as described.

2. In a bookcase-section, the combination with the back, top and bottom pieces thereof, of the end pieces, resilient pivot-plates afiixed t o the inner faces of the said endpieces, and a door pivotally mounted in the said pivotplates at a point below the level of the said bottom, whereby when the said door is lowered to a horizontal position its lower edge will underlie the said bottom.

3. A case for books or other articles, comprising a plurality of independent and interchangeable sections adapted to be piled one upon another, each of said sections comprising a top, back, bottom and end pieces, a hinged door carried by each section, said doors being hinged at a point below the. respective bottoms of the sections, the doors when in a closed position engaging the upper and lower edges of the adjacent doors of the other sections, and when in an open position having their lower edges in engagement with the respective bottoms of the sections, substantially as described.

4. The combination with a series of bookcase-sections, arranged one on top the other, of plates secured to the ends of the said sections, said plates projecting into the adjacent sections over recesses formed in the ends thereof, and doors pivoted in the said plates.

5. A bookcase comprising a series of`sections, arranged one on top of the other, means for securing the said sections together, and pivoted doors, said doors being adapted to have their lower ends engage the bottoms of their respective sections for retaining them in a horizontal position, substantially as and for the purpose specified.

6. A bookcase comprising a series of sections arranged one on top the other, each section comprising back, end, top and bottom pieces, the top and bottom pieces of the several sections interlocking with one another, said end pieces having their upper portions formed with mortises, exible plates secured to the lower edges of the said end pieces and having their lower ends extending over the mortises of the adjacent sections, and doors pivoted in the lower ends of the said plates, said doors being adapted-to have their lower edges engage the bottoms of their respective sections when in an open position.

7. A bookcase comprising a plurality of sections arranged one on top of the other, the ends of said sections having their upper and lower edges formed with rabbeted portions, and interlocking slats forming the tops and bottoms of said sections having their ends received in the said rabbeted portions.

8. The combination in a bookcase-section of end pieces, a back piece afxed to the rear edges of the said end pieces, the upper vand lower edges of which are flush with the upper IOO IIO

i and lower ends thereof, a top piece aHXed to pieces at a point below the level of the said the upper ends of the said end pieces and lying bottom pieces, substantially as described.

partly above and partly below the upper ends DUGAL CREE. thereof, bottom pieces al'LXed to the lower HERMAN DICKSON. y 5 ends" of the said end pieces and lying partly Witnesses:

below and partly above the lower ends there- F. H. NYE,

of, and a door pivotally aflixed to the said end l A. H. YOUNGS.

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