US922876A

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Publication number: US922876A
Application number: US47110509A
Authority: US
Inventors: John Frick
Original assignee: THOMAS DEVLIN Manufacturing CO
Current assignee: THOMAS DEVLIN MANUFACTURING Co
Priority date: 1909-01-07
Filing date: 1909-01-07
Publication date: 1909-05-25
Anticipated expiration: 1926-05-25

Description

J. FRIUK.

REGISTER APPLICATION FILED JAN.7,1909

922,876, 1 Patented May 25, 1909.

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JOHN FRIOK, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA,

OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA, A CORPORATION MANUFACTURING CO, NEW JERSEY.

ASSIGNOR TO THOMAS DEVLIN OF REGISTER.

T 0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN Futon, a citizen of the United States, residing in the city and county of Philadelphia, State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and useful Register, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to a new and useful register and consists in a novel manner of connectingthe pivotal pins with the slats or closure of the register.

It further consists in providing a bearing for the pins, when in position, whereby the slats are held and prevented from improper movement.

It further consists of actuating the slats.

It further consists of of construction, all as fully set forth.

Figure 1 represents a rear elevation of a register embodying my invention showing the slats in closed position. Fig. 2 represents a sectional view on line 01-50, Fig. 1. Fig. 3 represents a sectional view on line y-g Fig. 2. Fig. 1 represents a sectional view on line 2-2 Fig. 2. Fig. 5 represents a perspective view of the upper portion of one of the slats in detached position with the pivot pin removed.

Similar numerals of reference indicate corresponding parts in the figures.

Referring to the drawings. I have found in practice that it is essential that the slats when in position be held and prevented from improper movement and in the drawings I have shown a construction for accomplishing this purpose as well as a new and novel means for mounting the pivotal points and the operating means for the slats, which construction I have found operates successfully in practice but it will be evident that the arrangement of the parts may be varied, other instrumentalities may be employed and changes made in the construction which will come within the scope of the invention and I do not therefore desire to be limited in every instance to the exact construction as herein shown and described but desire to make such changes as may be necessary.

In my register, I construct a frame which consists of the top or end piece 1 and the bottom or end piece 2 to which are connected in any suitable manner the side pieces 3, said parts when so connected forming the frame of the register to which the front piece 1 novel means for other novel features wlll be hereinafter Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May 25, 1909.

Serial No. 71,105.

thereof is connected in any suitable or well known manner.

The top and bottom edges 1 and 2 are provided with journals for the reception of the pivotal pins of the slats and in the drawings, 1 have shown these top and bottom edges 1 and 2 provided with the angularly extending portions 5 and at suitable points therein, 1 bend inwardly, as at 6, in Fig. 4:, a suitable portion of the material and bend outwardly,

as at 7, another portion, said parts being curved or rounded in order to receive the end of a pivotal pin, it being noted that by the inward bending of the portion 6, I form a shoulder 8 against which the end of the pin abuts. It will be understood that the journals, as before stated, are constructed at intervals in each of the angular portions of the top and bottom port-ions 1 and 2 in a similar manner to that shown in Fig. 4:.

9 designates slats which are preferably formed with a strengthening bead 10 and at suitable points adjacent the top and bottom of each slat I form a journal for pivotalpins and I bend outwardly the portion 11 and bend inwardly the portion 12 and outwardly the portion 13, these parts being curved or rounded and forming a journal or a support for the pivotal pin let, the bending of the portion 11, forming a shoulder 15 against which one end of the pin 14: abuts in order to hold the same in position.

It will be understood that each of the top and bottom pins 1% of each slat are connected with the same in this manner and project beyond the slat a sufiicient distance to be seated in the journal of the top and bottom pieces 1 and :2 and to abut the shoulder 8 of the same, this construction being shown clearly in Fig. 4-, and it will be understood that by this means improper movement of the pins is prevented while rotary movement thereof is permitted, as will be evident. The bead 10 serves to strengthen the slat between the ournals for the pins and the whole forming a strong and durable construction while permitting the slat to be formed of substantially light material.

Projecting inwardly from each end of the slat 9 is a lug or car 16 having a suitable opening 1'7 therein each of said openings being adapted to receive a pin 18 carried by a bar 19. In the present instance, I have pro vided in the top end piece 1, the stamped out portions 20 which form the seats or supports for the slide 21, which is supported by said seats 20 between the same and the top piece 1, it being understood that the said slide is provided with a finger piece 22 which extends beyond the front face 1 of the register affording a grasping means in order that the slide can be moved backwardly and forwardly, laterally across the register. The said slide 21 is suitably connected with the bar 19 in the present instance by the bolt 23, whereby it will be understood that as the slide 21 is moved backwardly and forwardly it will move the bar 19 in a similar manner thus causing the ears 16 to be operated in a suitable manner to open and close the register slats 9.

The operation of the parts just described will be readily apparent. Since by the movement of the slat 21, as before stated, the bar 19 is moved and it will pull with it the lugs 16 and will open and close the slats, which latter are journaled between the top and bottom end pieces 1 and 2 by means of the pivotal pin 14 which, as before stated, are suitably held in position by means of the journal therein formed with one end abutting the shoulder of said slats, while the opposite end of the pins are seated in the journals formed in the angular portion of the top and bottom pieces with the ends abutting said shoulder 8 formed therein so that improper movement of the slats is prevented and the same will always be held in position. to be opened and closed into a proper manner.

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

1. In a register, a frame formed of end pieces and sides suitably secured together, journals formed in said end pieces at intervals, by bending inwardly and outwardly a suitable portion of the material, a shoulder formed by said bending, slats having journals at opposite ends, a shoulder formed at the inner end of said journals, and pivotal pins seated in each journal of each slat and seated in the respective journal in the end l pieces, the ends of said pins abutting the shoulders of the slats and said end pieces,

whereby the parts are prevented from im-' proper movement.

2. In a register, a frame formed of end pieces and sides suitably secured together, journals formed in said end pieces at intervals, by bending inwardly and outwardly a suitable portion of the material, a shoulder formed by said bending, slats having journals at opposite ends, a shoulder formed at the inner end of said journals, pivotal pins seated in each journal of each slat and'seated in the respective journal in the end pieces, the ends of said pins abutting the shoulders of the slats and said end pieces, whereby the parts are prevented from improper movement, and lugs projecting from said slats adapted to engage with suitable means for opening and closing said slats.

3. In a register, a frame formed of end pieces and sides suitably secured together, journals formed in said end pieces at intervals, by bending inwardly and outwardly a suitable portion of the material, a shoulder formed by said bending, slats having journals at opposite ends, a shoulder formed at the inner end of said journals, pivotal pins seated in each ournal of each slat and seated in the respective journal in the end pieces, the end of said pins abutting the shoulders of the slats and said end pieces, whereby the parts are prevented from improper movement, lugs projecting from said slats and operating means engaging with said lugs for opening and closing the slats.

4. In a register, a frame, slats pivotally connected with said frame, a slide suitably connected with said slats for operating the same, and seats formed of a portion of the frame bent downwardly, upon which said slide rests and between which and the upper portion of the frame the slide is guided.

J OHN FRICK.

WVitnesses:

G. D. MoVAY, N. BUssINeER.