Improvements in Cabinets or Receptacles for the Storage of Fruits, Roots, and the like.
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 7th Feb., 1896
Complete Specification Left, 9th Nov., 1896-Accepted, 12th Dec., 1896
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Cabinets or Receptacles for the Storage of Fruits,
Roots, and the like.
JOHN THOMAS MOORE Wood Villa Langley Cheshire Chair Manufacturer
do hereby declare the nature of my invention for improvements in cabinets or
receptacles for the storage of fruit, roots and the like to be as follows:-
The article consists of first trays on which the fruit or other article is placed
and secondly of a framework into which these trays slide, this gives ease of
stowing away & also of examination the above named framework may be boarded,
or covered with wire or other suitable material.
Dated this 4th dow
-1000
Improvements in Cabinets or Receptacles for the Storage of Fruits,
"Roots, and the like.
I, JOHN THOMAS MOORE, of Wood Villa, Langley, in the County of Cheshire,
Chair Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of my said invention and in
what manner the same is to be performed to be particularly described and
ascertained, in and by the following description, to be as follows:-
The object of this invention is to provide improved means for storage of fruit,
roots, eggs, butter and other like articles or substances, the construction thereof
as hereafter described, being such that great simplicity is obtained, both in the
manufacture and use of the apparatus, while the articles or substances so stored
can be inspected when required or desired with facility, or any particular part or
parts of same may be inspected separately, without exposing or removing other
parts of the contents of the storage apparatus.
According to my invention, I provide a frame adapted to receive trays, and
such a frame is, or may be of skeleton formation, and may be enclosed if desired or
found necessary, in order to exclude draughts, vermin, pilferers, dust or the like.
To the framework, slides or carriers are attached to support each separate tray,
and in order to prevent the said framework warping or twisting out of shape
I provide stays of wire or other thin material, arranged at proper distances
apart.
The trays to contain the articles or substances to be stored, are generally made
with lath or lattice bottoms to permit of ventilation, or the tray bottoms may be of
perforated material or even in some cases may be solid, according to the purpose
for which they are or may be required, and it is upon these bottoms the fruit or
the like is arranged, unless same is suspended as hereafter described.
For the storage of pears and some other fruits or vegetables I make the trays
somewhat deeper than when such are employed for apples and I provide bars

page_text: across the upper part of the trays, the bars being fitted with pins at suitable-
distances apart, upon which pins, the stalks of, say the pears are thrust, and hang
therefrom without being in mutual contact.
In some cases instead of providing special trays for suspending fruit. I apply a
frame upon the top of such trays as previously stated.
In order that my invention may be readily understood I will describe same by
reference to the accompanying drawings whereon
Fig. 1 is so much of a front elevation partly in section of such a cabinet or
receptacle as is necessary to illustrate same.
Fig. 2 is a sectional plan of Fig. 1 taken about the line Y.
Figs. 3, 4 aud 5 are respectively plan, side, elevation and end view of one of the
slides detached.
Fig. 6 is a sectional perspective view illustrating diagrammatically a tray
constructed to receive pears and the like.
Figure 7 is a perspective view of a cross bar having pins for suspending the
articles, and
Fig. 8 is a perspective view of a part of a tray shewing a frame applied
thereto.
The frame Figs. 1 and 2 is composed of four standards A, connected together
by horizontal connecting pieces B extending rectangularly at both the upper and
lower ends of the standards; these standards A are recessed to receive slides C,
(one of which is shewn at Figures 3, 4 and 5), each slide C being of somewhat
Lsection, the vertical web taking at each end into the recesses formed in the inner
sides of each pair of standards, while the horizontal webs extend horizontally and
form supports for the trays.
D are stays extending from one of the pair of standards connected by one set of
slides, to the other pair of similarly connected standards and such stays D are
conveniently formed as shewn of wire or rod passing through the standards with
the ends returned and driven into same.
The trays are formed with rectangular vertical sides E fronts E' and ends E'
and are fitted with suitable bottoms, those shewn being formed of laths E. The
fronts E' of the trays when the latter are slidden onto the slides C, are generally
of such height as to leave an open space between each for ventilation although
such is not absolutely necessary.
When the fruit or the like is to be suspended, the trays are formed of greater
height as shewn at Fig. 6 and provided with cross bars F with projecting pins or
spikes G upon which for example, pears H may be hung by the stalks.
The cross bars F in some cases are formed with notches or recesses as shewn at
Figure 7 to receive the pins or spikes G.
When desired the appliance for suspending the fruit may be formed as
separate frame as J Fig. 8, and be adapted to be placed upon or added to the trays
as described with reference to Figs. 1 and 2.
The utility to the grower or consumer of cabinets or safes constructed according
to my invention is apparent when the great variation in price of the products
owing to excess or scarcity is taken into consideration. The continually increasing
'consumption of fruit and the occasional abundant supply renders this simple means
of storing and keeping fruit necessary, and the small cost of these safes is easily
recouped by the increased value of their contents, when the latter are put on the
market at a later date.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this inven
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
1. In cabinets or receptacles for the storage of fruit roots and the like, a frame
having lateral longitudinal slides to carry superposed trays the said frame con-
sisting of four standards recessed to receive and hold the ends of the slides and
braced together by horizontal connecting parts and stays all substantially as

page_text: described and illustrated with reference to Figures 1 to 5 of the accompanying
drawings.
2. In cabinets or receptacles for the storage of fruit roots and the like, the
trays, or tray frames for the suspension of such articles, substantially as and for
the purposes set forth with reference to Figs. 6, 7 and 8 of the accompanying
drawings.
3. The general arrangement and combination of parts composing my improved
cabinet or receptacle for the storage of fruit roots and the like all substantially
as described and illustrated with reference to the accompanying drawings.
Dated this 7th day of November 1896.
BREWER & SON,
London and Leeds, Agents for the Applicant.