US1270260A - Filing-cabinet. - Google Patents

Description

T.D. BROWN.

FILING CABINET.

APPLICATION FILED ma. I. I9I7.

1,270,260. Patented June 25, 1918..

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THOMAS ID. BROWN, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNOR TO SONORA PHONOGRAPH CORPORATION, A CORPORATION OF NEW YORK.

FILIN G-CABIN ET.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented June 25, 1918.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, THOMAS D. BRowN, a subjecty of the King of Great Britain and Ireland, and a resident of the borough and county of Richmond, city and State of New York, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Filing-Cabinets, ot' which the following is a specilication.

My invention rela-tes to tiling cabinets for talking machine disk records, and more particularly to the type wherein each record is inclosed in a separate receptacle, all of which are loosely mounted on a rod so that any record may be withdrawn without disturbing the others, and wherein a second rod extends through all of the receptacles and acts as a stop to limit the pivoting et the receptacles.

rIhe object of my invention is to provide means whereby a receptacle may be readily removed 'from the cabinet and a new one substituted without the necessity ot' dismantling the cabinet.

This and further objects will more fully appear in the following speciiieation and accompanying drawings considered together or separately.

I have illustrated one embodiment of my invention in' the accompanying drawings, in which like parts are designated by similar reference characters in all the figures, and in which,-

Figure l is a front elevation of a rack for carrying a number of individual record disk receptacles; i

Fig. 2 is a section on the line 2 2 of Fig. l; and

Fig. 3 is a detail sectional view on an enlarged scale.

In carrying out my invention, I provide a rack composed of a top member l, a bottom member 2, and side members 3, 3. I employ a central partition 4, andv between the partition 4: and the side members 3, 3, I may provide partitions 5 by means of which the records may be divided into classes.

Carried in the side members 3, 8, is a pivot rod composed of two sections 6 and 6, A stop rod composed of two sections 7 and 7 n is likewise carried by the side members 3, 3, and is preferably positioned vertically above the sections 6 and 6a. The rod sections are carried in sockets S, 8 in the side members and bear against plates 97 9 screwed or otherwise secured to the side members.

The partition l has a cut-away portion 1l, the vertical edge of which is in alinement with the axis of the rod sections. The inner end of each rod section is seated in a semi-cylindrical recess l0 in the cut-away portion 11 of the partition 4, and a corresponding socket 10 in a filler piece 12 engages the ends of the rods and retains them in position. The filler piece is secured in the eut-away portion by means of screws 13 or otherwise.

The record receptacles have each a perft'oration l5 near one corner thereof, by means of which the receptacles are threaded on the rods 6 and G. Each receptacle is provided with a segmental slot 16 which is engaged over a rod section 7 or 7a. The slots are radial to the rods 6 and 6a so that the receptacles may be pivoted on the rods (i, 6, and are of such a length that the rcceptacles are limited in their movements by the engagement of the rods 7, 7a with the ends oi the slots.

The partitions 5 are cut away as shown in dotted lines at 17 Fig. 2, so that the rods will be. accessible from the front.

l/Vhen it is desired to insert a new receptacle or remove an old one which has become broken, the Iiller piece 12 is removed. This will uncover the inner ends of the rods which may then be pulled out of the sockets S in the side members, and all of the receptacles may be removed from the rack, and damaged ones may be removed and new ones substituted.

The receptacles may be replaced in the rack by reversing the operation above described.

The racks may be made up of different sizes, of different material, or with different arrangements of partitions, and are inserted in the compartments of the talking machine cabinet or in a book-ease or the like.

I desire it understood that my invention is not eonned to the particular 'form of apparatus herein shown, and described, and, therefore, I claim broadly the right to employ all equal instrumentalities coming within thc scope of the claims and by means of which objects oi" my invention are obtained and the new results accomplished, as herein set forth. As it is obvious that the particular embodiment herein illustrated is only one of many that may be employed, as for instance, the device caribe constructed by eliminating the partition et with its cutaway portion 11, and in place of having rods 7, 7a, and 6, 6a, each made up of two sections, the device can be constructed so as to eliminate the partition 4 with its cut-away portion 1l, and have in its place the dividing partition 5 with rods constructed of one piece instead of two, and having the side members 3 either having a cut-away portion similar to 11, or having short strip covering the front edge of the sides 8, the same being screwed in place which can be readily removed when it is desired to insert a new receptacle or replace a broken one. Such removing of the cut-away portions, which will be similar to the cut-away portion 1l, or such small strips, will uncover the ends of the rods which may then be pulled out of their respective sockets in the side members, and all the receptacles may be removed from the rack, and the damaged ones may be removed and new ones substituted. It is to bey understood that while I have given one instance of a modiiied form of my invention, that I am not to be limitedto this modication.

In accordance with the provisions of the patent statute, I have described the principley of my invention together with the apparatus which I now consider torepresent the best embodiment thereof, but I desire to have it understood that the apparatus shown is merely illustrative and that the invention can be carried out in other ways. y

Having now described my invention, what I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent is.:

Copies of this patent may be obtained for whereby the second member may be removed without removing the receptacle from the frame.

An article oi the class described, comprising a frame, a receptacle in the frame, a pivot for the receptacle, said pivot member being removable without removing the receptacle from the frame, a second member passing through the receptacle, there being a segmental slot in the receptacle engaged by said member, and means whereby the second member may be removed without removing the receptacle from the frame.

3. An article of the class described, comprising` a frame having a central partition and side members, a rod carried in a socket in each side member, each rod engaging a socket in the partition, said rods being in alinement, means for securing the ends in the partition, a plurality of receptacles pivoted to each rod, a second rod carried in a socket in. each side member, and each engaging a socket in the partition, and means for securing the ends of the second rod in the partition, said latter rods engaging slots in the receptacles.

4. An articley of the class described, com` prising a frame, having side members, and a central partition, a plurality of sockets in each side .member, a rod carried in each socket, the rods in each pair alined with their ends resting in an open socket in the partition, a keeper secured to the partition :for retaining the rods in position, and a plurality of receptacles pivotally mounted on one pair of alined rods, the second pair of alined rods engaging segmental. slots inthe receptacles to limit the pivotal movement of the receptacles.

This specification signed and witnessed this 27th day of January, 1917.

THOMAS D. BROWN. Witnesses FRANK J. GoUrn,

C. J. HERMAN.

ve cents each, by addressing" the Commissioner of Patents, Washington, D. C. Y

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