USRE5112E - Improvement in fire and burglar proof safes - Google Patents

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T. SHARTS.

Improvement in Fire and Burglar-Proof Safes.

No. 5,112. Reissuedoct. 22,1872.

UNITED STATES PATENT CEEICE.

THEODORE SHARTS, OF YORK, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF INTEREST TO JOHN RYER, OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.

IMPROVEMENT IN FIRE AND BURGLAR PROF SFES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 20,736, dated June 29, 1858; extended seven years reissue To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, THEoDoRE SHARTs, of the city, county, and State of New York, have invented a new and Improved Fire and Burglar Froof Safe; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description thereof, which will enable those skilled in the art to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawing forming part of this speciiication, in which drawingt Figure l is a vertical central longitudinal ,section of a safe constructed with my improvements, and Fig. 2 is a horizontal section of the same.

Similar letters indicate corresponding parts.

This invention consists in a sectional safe, the sections being cast to fit to and to interlock with each other at their junction where they are fastened together by rods or bolts. The ends of the rods or bolts are hid from sight, and made inaccessible to burglars, which is accomplished by owing molten metal over and around their ends. My improved safe can be constructed at comparatively7 rsmall cost, which makes it convenient for family or domestic use, for instance as a depository of' jewelry and small valuables 'which almost every family possesses.

To enable others skilled in the art to make and use my invention7 I will proceed to describe its construction and operation.;` l

The safe is of rectangular form, which probably would be the most desirable shape, and is constructed of cast-iron-that is to say, all but the filling or non-conducting material used to repel heat, and the bolts which keep the Whole together. The letters A A A represent three sides of the safe, which are each cast with a recess, c, in' the outer side in imitation of panels. The inner sides of the plates are cast with recesses which are much deeper than the outer recesses. The inner recesses are intended to receive the plaster of Paris B, or other substances known or used as a nonconductor of heat. Each side plate A A A is constructed precisely similar, and they are placed endwise on the bottom `plate C, which is constructed preciselylike the side plates A A A', the filling being designated by B.

No. 5,112, dated October 22, 1872.

The top plate D is also constructed like the others, the letter B" representing filling or non-conducting material. The sides and top and bottom plates are secured together as follows: Inside the bottom plate U near its edges, V-shaped grooves e are made, (see Fig. 1) and these grooves receive corresponding projections j' on the lower edges of the side plates A A A. The upper edges of the side plates A A A have similar V-shaped projections g formed on them, and the projections iit into corresponding grooves h in the under side of the top plate D. The back-side plate A has V-shaped projections t' at its ends, which t in corresponding grooves j in the back part of the other two side plates A. (See Fig. 2.) The letter E designates bolts, which pass through the side plates A A and top and bottom plates C 1). The heads k of these bolts tit in countersunk recesses m in the upper surface of the top plate D, and are covered by flowing melted metal over and around the same, as shown.

at p p, and on the bottoms oi' the bolts nuts l are placed, said nuts fitting in countersunk recesses in the bottom plate G, and being hid from view by iowing melted metal over and around the same, as shown at p p. The plates A A and O D being thus secured together by the bolts, the back plate A will consequently be secured by the grooves and projections, which form locks at its top, bottom, and sides, as described. F represents the door, which is constructed similar to the side plates A A A', and is furnished with lling B. The door is hinged to the safe by one edge, and provided with a lock, G, at the other. The bottom plate C is provided with proper i'eet o. The safe by being lilled in with plaster of Paris will be perfectly fire-proof, as is Well known, and 0W- ing to the ends ot' the screw-bolts and the screw-nuts being covered and rendered invisible by the tiowing ot' metal round and over the same, it is. burglar-proof. as rall access to the same so as to separate the sections is shut ofi', unless the covering metal is removed first; and consequently my safe is made secure against burglars.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

l. A cast-iron safe made in sections, provided with iis/{Erloelzing joints, and held together by rods or olts, substantialb as described.

2. A sectional Cast-iron safe, which has the junction between its sections accomplished by means of tongues and grooves 1] h @'jfe, and maintained by means of screw-rods E E, which havetheir ends entirely hid from sight, alud made inaccessible to burglars by lowing melted metal pvp over and around the same,

substantially es set forth. f

ls'lliis specification signed ,by me August 14.

THEODORE SHARTS.

Witnesses:

J. VAN SANTVOORD', E. F. KASTENHUBER.

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