US1734790A - Photograph exhibitor - Google Patents

Description

Nov. 5, 1929.

H. F. BAND T PHOTOGRAPH EXHIBITOR 2 Sheets-Sheet 1 Filed Jan. 50, 1929 ATTORNEY WITNESSES NOV. 5, 1929. BANDT 1,734,790

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This invention appertains to improvements in photograph exhibitors and the like generally, and ha for an object to provide a type of the same particularly adapted for 5 use in the home, whereby photographs of the family and friends will be systematically kept in a manner that they may be readily and easily exposed to view when desired, and yet be retained in a fixed order of arrangement within a cabinet or casing employed to house them, and to thereby avoid undue and otherwise possible injurious handling of the same.

Another object of the invention is to pro vide a cabinet for the housing of a comparatively large number of photographs and the like, and in a manner that the same will be fully protected from the injurious efiects of light, and otherwise possible dust accumulations thereon when not in use.

A further object of the invention resides in the provision in the cabinet aforesaid of a plurality of supports for photographs and the like, which are so mounted that the photographs may be readily and easily placed in position. on one or both sides of each support, and that the supports will be movable relatively to one another, somewhat after the manner of the leaves or pages of a book, as

to successively display the photographs to view at the upper side of the cabinet when a closure for the latter is removed, or otherwise moved to open position.

Another object of the invention is to provide a photograph exhibiting cabinet as hereinbefore characterized, which is extremely simple but durable and efficient in construction and arrangement, and comparatively inexpensive to manufacture.

With the foregoing and other equally important objects and advantages in view, the invention resides in the certain new and useful construction and arrangement of parts as will he hereinafter more fully described, set forth in the appended claims, and illus trated in the accompanying drawings, in which:

Figure 1 is a perspective View of a preferred embodiment of the invention, showing the cabinet in open position,

Serial No. 336,318.

Figure 2 is an enlarged vertical longitudinal section through the same,

Figure 3 is an enlarged fragmentary vertical transverse section through one side wall of the cover portion of the cabinet, and show ing the manner of journalling the roller, to which the photograph holders are attached, in the side wall,

Figure f is an enlarged fragmentary portion of the roller, and showing the manner of attaching the photograph holders to the same, and

Figure 5 is a perspective view of a spring tensioned roller employed for holding the rotating unit of photograph supports in balance, when the load of photographs is not equally distributed on the several holders or supports.

7 Referring to the drawings wherein like characters of reference designate corresponding parts throughout the several views there of, the embodiment of the invention, as shown therein by way of example, is constituted in a cabinet 10, which is preferably rectangular in form, and open at its upper side, and which may be constructed from either wood, metal. or other suit-able material, as desired. The open side of the cabinet is to be normally closed by a cover 11, which is preferably hinged, as at 12, to the upper edge of one of the longer side walls thereof. A usual form of sliding support 13 is preferably hinged at one end to the under side of the cover 11 at a point adjacent one end edge thereof, and is slotted in the longitudinal direction of the same for engagement over a pin or stud 14 at the inner side of the adjacent end walls of the cabinet 10, so as to sustain the cover in its fully opened position.

Journaled, as at 15, in the opposite side walls of the cabinet 10, at a slight distance inwardly from the top edges of the walls and in the plane of the transverse center thereof, is a roller or shaft 16, also of wood or other suitable material, and to which is secured, in the longitudinal direction of the same, one edge of each of a plurality of flexible hinge members 17. These hinge members 17 are preferably formed from a flexible material, such as cloth, leather or the like, and have their opposite or outer edges each attached to one edge of a corresponding number of leaves or panels 18 of cardboard or the like. The leaves or panels 18 are preferably of 'ectangular form, and have the opposite sides hereof each provided with a superimposed sheet of paper or other material 19, which is affixed in position thereon at its edge por- -icns only, so as to form a pocket beneath the ame for the retention therein of a photograph. Each of the superimposed sheets 19 are provided with a central opening 20 through which the body portion of a photo graph will be exposed, and a slot 21 at one side of the opening 20 through which a photograph will be inserted in proper position. Each of the leaves or panels 18 also have the opposite sides of their outer corners providedwith relatively thick pieces of cardboard, or other suitable material, preferably of triangular form, to weight the. outer sides f the leaves or panels in a manner that the same will be rigid toward a lowered position within the cabinet 10, as well as to hold them in slightly spaced relation. In lieu of these corner pieces 22, however, the entire outer side edges of each of the leaves or panels18 may be enclosed within the fold of a reinforcing strip of the material (not shown) extending from corner to corner for the same purpose.

In the use of the cabinet, as thus constructed and arranged and with a number of photographs arranged one on the opposite sides of each of the leaves or panels 18 and beneath the sheets 19 as hereinbefore indicated, the leaves or panels 18 will swing under their own weight to positions one against the other and downwardly of the interior of the cabinet 10, substantially as is shown in Figure 2, in which position the entire group of the leaves or panels will be balanced on p the roller or shaft 16, so that the uppermost of the same, at the opposite sides of the roller or shaft, will lie substantially in a horizontal plane and parallel with the upper open side of the cabinet 10. Thus, with the lid or cover 11 closed, the several photographs will be entirely housed within the cabinet, and protected in the manner as hereinbefore suggested.

Now, when it is desired to view the photographs, the user will open the cover or clo sure 11 by swinging the same upwardly and rearwardly on its hinges 12, and until it is supported by the member 13 from the pin or stud 1 1-. With the closure or lid 11 thus held in openposition, the two photographs on the upper sides of the uppermost of the leaves or panels 18 at the opposite sides of the roller or shaft 16, will be exposed to full view, and" thereafter the remaining photographs on the reverse sides of the other of the leaves or pain els 18 may be successively brought into similarly exposed positlon by turning the latter,

one after the other, and in either a right or left hand direction. As the weight of several additional leaves or panels 18, with the added weight of the photographs thereon, is impressed upon the lower of the same at one side of the roller or shaft 16, thelatter turns about its axis so that the leaves or panels 18, at the opposite sides of the roller or shaft, are successively brought into horizontal position, from whence they may be readily turned to a position at the opposite side of the roller or shaft 16. As each leaf or panel 18 is turned about the upper side of the roller or shaft 16 from one side to the other thereof, the photographs on the lower sides of the same will 'be'brought into uppermost position, so that both photographs, at the opposite sides of the same will be successively exposed to view at each turning of a leaf or panel.

To hold the panel group or unit in a bal anced state, when a number of photographs are mounted on the leaves or panels in an unequally distributed manner, a tension device is provided to cooperate with the thickened corner or edge portions of the leaves or pan els 18 to restrain the rotation of the roller or shaft 16 under the efiect of the unevenly distributed weight of the photographs on the leaves or panels, and, as shown in Figures 2 and 5, this device consists of a roller 23, which is journaled between a pair of spring supports 24 secured on the bottom wall of the cabinet 10, and which act to force the roller 23 against the thickened corner or edge portions of the adjacent of the leaves or panels.

Without further description, it is thought that the features and advantages of themvention will be readily apparent to those skilled in the art, and it will of course. be understood that changes in the form, proportion and minor details of construction may be resorted to, without departing from the spirit of the invention or its scope as claimed.

Having thus fully described the invention, what is claimed is:

1. In a device of the class described, a cabinet, a shaft journaled crossways of the cabinet at the center of the same, a plurality of photograph holders, means for hinging said holders to and about said shaft, whereby the said holders will be normally grouped within the cabinet below and to either side of said. shaft and in a manner that they may be swung on their hinge connections about the" upper side of said shaft from one side of the same to the other to successively expose the photographs carried by said holders to view at the upper side of said cabinet, and means at the outer side of said holders for weighting the same toward the lower side of said shaft.

2. In a device of the class described, a cabinet open at its upper side, a closure hingedly mounted on one edge of the open.

side of the cabinet, a shaft journalled at its opposite ends in the side walls of the cabinet and in a plane of the transverse center thereof, a plurality of flat supports each adapted to have a photograph mounted on the reverse sides thereof, means for hinging said supports at one of the side edges thereof in spaced relation to and about said shaft, whereby the said supports will rest one against the other at the opposite sides of and below the said shaft and in a manner that they may be turned on their hinge connections about the upper side of said shaft from one side to the other thereof to successively expose the photographs to view at the open side of the cabinet, and means at the outer side of said supports for weighting the same toward the lower side of said shaft.

3. In a device of the class described, a cabinet open at its upper side, a closure hingedly mounted on one edge of the open side of the cabinet, a shaft journalled at its opposite ends in the side walls of the cabinet and in a plane of the transverse center thereof, a plurality of fiat supports each adapted to have a photograph mounted on the reverse sides thereof, means for hinging said sup ports at one of the side edges thereof in spaced relation to and about said shaft, whereby the said supports will rest one against the other at the opposite sides of and below the said shaft and in a manner that they may be turned on their hinge connections about the upper side of said shaft from one side to the other thereof to successively 6X pose the photographs to view at the open side of the cambinet, and means on the opposite sides of the outer side edges of said supports for weighting the same toward the lower side of said shaft.

4:. In a device of the class described, a cabinet open at its upper side, a closure hingedly mounted at one edge of the open side of the cabinet, a shaft journalled at its opposite ends in the side walls of the cabinet and in a plane of the transverse center thereof, a plurality of fiat supports each adapted to have a photograph mounted on the reverse sides thereof, means for hinging said supports at one of the side edges thereof in spaced relation to and about said shaft, whereby the said supports will rest one against the other at the 0pposite sides of and below the said shaft in a manner that they may be turned on their hinge connections about the upper side of said shaft from one side to the other thereof to successively expose the photographs to view at the open side of the cabinet, and members on the opposite corners and sides of the outer side edges of said supports for weighting the same toward the lower side of said shaft.

5. In a device of the class described, a cabinet open at its upper side, a closure hingedly mounted on one edge of the open side of the cabinet, a shaft j ournalled at its opposite ends in the side walls of the cabinet and in a plane of the transverse center thereof, a plurality of flat supports each adapted to have a photograph mounted on the reverse sides thereof, means for hinging said supports at one of the side edges thereof in spaced relation to and about said shaft, whereby the said supports will rest one against the other at the opposite sides of and below the said shaft and in a manner that they may be turned on their hinge connections about the upper side of said ashaft from one side to the other thereof to successively expose the photographs to view at the open side of the cabinet, means at the outer side of said supports for weighting the same toward the lower side of said shaft, and spring tensioned means for maintaining the balance of the photograph supports when the photographs are unevenly distributed throughout the support group.

6. In a device of the class described, a cabinet open at its upper side, a closure hingedly mounted on one edge of the open side of the cabinet, a shaft journalled at its opposite ends in the side walls of the cabinet and in a plane of the transverse center thereof, a plurality of flat supports each adapted to have a photograph mounted on the reverse sides thereof, means for hinging said supports at one of the side edges thereof in spaced relation to and about said shaft, whereby the said supports will rest one against the other at the opposite sides of and below the said shaft and in a manner that they may be turned on their hinge connections about the upper side of said shaft from one side to the other thereof to successively expose the photographs to view at the open side of the cabinet, means at the outer side of said supports for weighting the same toward the lower side of said shaft, a roller adapted to cooperate with the outer edges of said supports to maintain the same in balanced relation on said shaft when photographs are unevenly distributed throughout the support group, and spring means for tensioning said roller in its operative position.

I-IELMUTH F. BANDT.

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