US900848A - Mail-box. - Google Patents

Description

W. 0. GRDENKE.

MAIL Box.- APPLICATION FILED mafia-190s.

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Patented Oct. 13,1908.

W.50. GROENKE.

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Patnted Oct. 13,1908.

witnesses WILLIAM G. GROENKE, OF MILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

PatentedOct. 13, 1908.

Application filed March 12, 1908. Serial No. 420,661.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM C. GROENKE, a citizen of the United States, residing at Milwaukee, in the county of Milwaukee and State of Wisconsin, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Mail-Boxes, of which the following is a specification.

The present invention provides a receiver designed most especially for catching and retaining mail or like matter thrown from a moving train, the appliance being of such construction as to protect the matter from inclement weather and from being tampered with by parties bent upon mischief.

For a full understanding of the invention and the merits thereof and also to acquire a knowledge of the details of construction and the means for effecting the result, reference is to be had to the following description and accompanying drawings.

While the invention may be adapted to different forms and conditions by changes in the structure and minor details without departing from the spirit or essential features thereof, still the preferred embodiment is shown in the accompanying drawings, in which: I i I Figure 1 is a perspective view of a mail receiver embodying the invention. Fig. 2 is a vertical transverse section thereof, on the line 22 of Fig. 3. Fig. 3 is a vertical longitudinal section on the line 33 of Fig. 2, looking in the direction of the arrows. Fig. 4 is a detail perspective view of the lock, the parts being separated. Fig. 5 is a horizontal section on the line 5-5 of Fig. 2. Fig. 6 is a perspective view of the automatic dumping table.

Corresponding and like parts are referred to in the following description and indicated in all the views of the drawings by the same reference characters.

The appliance or receiver is designed to be placed at a station or other convenient point to receive mail or like matter from a moving train, and comprises a catcher 3 having an open mouth 4, a throat-portion 2 and a' box 1. The several parts may be of any desired construction and are preferably formed of metal which may either be cast or pressed into the required shape. The catcher 3 is closed at its bottom, top and sides and may be of any size so as to receive one-or more mail bags or like containers. An opening is provided in a side of the catcher and is closed by means of a door 5 which is secured by the appliance.

.bars 12 are means of a specially devised look so as to render the same as near burglar proof as possible. The lock consists of a weighted lever 6 and interlocking disk tumblers 7 and 8 having corresponding depressions in their edges to receive a lug 9 of the lever 6 when the lock is opened. One of the tumblers is provided with a semi-circular slot to receive a projection of the companion tumbler. When the tumblers are turned by means of a suitable key to bring their notched edges in register to receive the lug 9, the weighted end of the lever 6 descends, thereby permitting the opposite end of the lever to automatically disengage itself from a stop 10 at the side of the door opening opposite to that to which the door 5 is hinged.

The box 1 is provided at one side with an opfining forming the mouth 4 of the receiver w 'ch comprises a side and ends, said mouth being fitted to the open side of the box and having its side-inclined upwardly and away from the open side of the box so as to direct a bag or other matter lodging thereon into the receiver. The throat-portion 2 connects the bottom of the box 1 with the top of the catcher 3 and establishes communication between them. A dumping table 11 is arranged within the throat-portion 2 and prevents anyone from withdrawing a package or matter from the catcher after the same has been received therein. The dumping-table 11 is automatic in action and turns by the weight of the bag or other container holding the matter delivered from a moving train to The throat-portion 2 is of less dlmensions than the catcher 3, and to prevent the lodgment of' a mail bag or other container upon the shoulder surrounding the upper end of the throatortion 2, rods or rovided an are arranged between the si es of the box 1 and its bottom so as to incline upward and outward from the said throat-portlon.

The receiver may be of any size, construction and design and is adapted to be placed in any convenient position to receive the mail thrown from a moving train, said mail entering the open mouth 4 and passing into the box 1, thence through the throat-portion 2 into the catcher 3 and adapted to be removed from said catcher through the opening closed by the door 5.

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed as new is:

1. A mail bag receiver, the same comprising a catcher, having an open mouth, a I of shoulders, and an automatic dumping ta- 10 throat portion, and a boX, and an automatic I ble arranged within said. throat portion. dumping table mounted in said throat por- In testimony whereof I aflix my signature tion. A 1 b in presence of two witnesses.

2. 1na1 a receiver, com rlslng a r v 1 a 1 catcher having an open mouth, a t iroat por- ILLIAM GLOEA tion, and a box, means interposed between Witnesses: the sides of the box and the upper end of the EMIL J. STIEMKE, said throat portion to prevent the formation JULIUS STEFFEN.

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