A Cabinet for Keeping and Protecting Postage Stamps and Postal Requisites Generally, also Bills of Exchange, Bank Notes, and other Valuable Documents.
Year: 1886

page_text: Date of Application, 2nd July, 1888.
Complete Left, 11th Mar., 1887.
Complete Accepted, 15th Apr., 1887.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
A Cabinet for Keeping and Protecting Postage Stamps and Postal
Requisites Generally, also Bills of Exchange, Bank Notes, and
other Valuable Documents.
WALTER HOLDER 22 Upper Sackville Street Dublin Hotel Manager do hereby
declare the nature of my invention for A CABINET FOR KEEPING AND PROTECTING
POSTAGE STAMPS AND POSTAL REQUISITES GENERALLY, ALSO BILLS OF EXCHANGE, BANK
NOTES, AND OTHER VALUABLE DOCUMENTS to be as follows:-
The improvement consists in providing the drawers of the cabinet with a self acting
lid or cover, which opens and closes by action of pulling out and pushing in the drawers;
thus keeping the documents in good order, free from dust and preventing the possibility
of their getting over the sides or back of the drawers.
Dated this 2nd day of Santancha 100

page_text: A Cabinet for Keeping and Protecting Postage Stamps and Postal
Requisites Generally, also Bills of Exchange, Bank Notes, and
other Valuable Documents.
WALTER HOLDER 22 Upper Sackville Street Dublin Hotel Manager do hereby
declare the nature of my invention for A CABINET as described above and in what
manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in
and by the following statement:-
The Cabinet comprises a series of drawers varying in dimensions, according to the
number of Stamps or documents each drawer is required to contain a separate drawer
being used for each particular postage stamp or distinctive document-Each drawer is
labelled or marked on the front to indicate its contents. The Cabinet can be made to
contain any number of drawers, according to requirements, and can be made of either
wood or metal.
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To such of the drawers as may contain postage stamps, or documents requiring
especial protection & care & to avoid the possibility of their getting over the sides
or back of the drawers, a lid or cover, marked on drawing No. I, is attached to
the insides of the drawers, which lid or cover, opens and closes by the action of pulling
out and closing the drawers.
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The construction of these lids is illustrated by figure 3-the lids are fastened
to a cross piece () at back of drawer, and hinged with leather or metal hinges.
To these lids is fastened a chain () and the chain, at other end, is fixed to an
upright post (D) at back of the Cabinet as in figure 2; so that when pulling out the
drawers the chain is stretched to its limit & pulls up the lid, which falls immediately
on the drawer being pushed in, the chain falling into its place at back of Cabinet.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said Invention,
and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I claim is:
1. Some or all of the drawers of the Cabinet are fitted with self-acting lids or
covers.
2. These lids or covers, open and close by the action of pulling out and closing the
drawers by means of a chain attached to the lid, & an upright post, at back of the
Cabinet.
Dated this 11th day of March 1887