US892684A

US892684A - Separator-strip for slide-racks.

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Publication number: US892684A
Application number: US24379505A
Authority: US
Inventors: Alvah C Roebuck
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 1905-02-02
Filing date: 1905-02-02
Publication date: 1908-07-07
Anticipated expiration: 1925-07-07

Description

892,684. PATENTED JULY '7, 1908.

' A. C. ROEBUCK.

SEPARATOR STRIP FOR SLIDE RACKS.

APPLICATION FILED PEB. 2, 1905.

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ALVAH C. ROEBUOK, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

SEPARATOR-STRIP FOR SLIDE-RACKS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented July '7, 1908.

Application filed February 2, 1905. Serial No. 243,795.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ALvAn O. RonBUoK, a citizen of the United States of America, and a resident of Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Separator- Strips for Slide-R acks, of which the following is a s ecification.

This invention relates to separator strips for use in racks, shelves and the like, for holding in separated relation stereopticon slides and other analogous articles, and has for its object to provide a cheap, durable and eflicient separator strip having a structural formation adapted for ready and substantial attachment to a shelf or rack, andwhich while aording an individual separation for the slides, etc., permits of ready access to the same for removal, ete, all as will hereinafter more fully appear.

In the accompanying drawings z-Figure 1, is a plan view, illustrating the ap lication of the present invention to a storage ox or rack for stereopticon slides. Fig. 2, is a transverse sectional elevation of the same, at line :1c-Jr, Fig. 1. Fig. 3, is a detail perspective view of the separator strip.

Similar numerals of reference indicate like parts in the different views.

Referring to the drawings z-1 and 2, are a air of opposed boards arranged in parallel re ation and which may be component parts of a rack, ease or storage crate for glass stereopticon slides or other analogous articles.

3, are a series of grooves or kerfs formed in the opposed surfaces of the aforesaid boards, and having a separated relation corresponding to the widths of the slides or other articles to be held or stored in separated relation in the rack.

4, are a series of separated strips arranged in the aforesaid grooves or kerfs, and projecting a short distance away from the respective surfaces of the

boards

1 and 2, to form shallow channels for the reception of the opposed margins of a-series of-stereopticon slides or the like, and by such arrangement are distinguished from oidinary rack or tray partitions, the opposite edges of l to constitute a guide,

which have engagement in kerfs in the opposed faces of the racks and in consequence do not require the rigid attachment necessary in the present type of strip with its free projecting portion and single attaching base. In the present construction the separator strips are formed with a series of lateral teeth 5, which alternately project, and which when a separator strip is driven endwiseinto place in an aforesaid groove or kerf are adapted to enibed themselves in the side walls of said groove and eHect a strong and substantial attachment of the separator strip in place. The portions of said separator strips which extend away from the

boards

1 and 2, are preferably formed on their o posite sides with a series of rounded protu erances 6, in alternated relation, and which are adapted to form bearings for the opposite margins of a series of stereopticon slides or the like, to secure a maximum separation of the slides with a minimum weight of the separator bars, and at the same time afford convenient access to any particular slide or like article in the removal of the same from the rack or shelf.

Haxn'ng thus fully described my said invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is z- 1. In a rack for stereopticon slides, the combination of a pair of boards having grooves therein and held in sepai'ated relation and provided with opposed series of separator strips the free ends of which are in separated relation, each strip consisting of an elongated piece of inetal rovided with securing means along one er ge for driving engagement in a groove of a board aforesaid, the opposite edge of the stri projecting to constitute a guide, substantia ly as set forth.

2. In a rack for stereopticon slides, the combination of a pair of boards held in separated relation and provided with opposed series of separator strips the free ends of which are in separated relation, each strip consisting of an elongated piece of metal provided with securing means along one edge for driving engagement in a groove of a board aforesaid, the opposite edge of the strip proJeeting a series of lateral protuberanees being provided on the projecting lateral protuberanees extending alternately 10 portions of the strips7 substantially as set in opposite directions, substantially as set forth. forth.

3. An elongated se arator strip providedv Signed at Chicago, Illinois, this 28th day of 5 With securing means aijong one edge adapted January 1905.

for driven engagement in a groove of a slide ALVAH C. ROEBUCK.

rack member, its opposite edge being adapt- Vitnesses:

ed to project and constitute a guide, the pro- ROBERT 'BURNs, Y jeeting portion of the strip having a series of M. H. HOLMES.