Improvements in Coal Vases, Cabinets, and the like.
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 21st Dec., 1896
Complete Specification Left. 31st Aug.
1897-Accepted. 21st Dec. 1897
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Coal Vases, Cabinets, and the like.
I, WILLIAM ROBERT SELKIRK of 27 Holborn Viaduct in the City of London,
Hardware Agent, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
According to this Invention in a Coal Vase, Cabinets, or the like, I make the top
to open, for preference hinged at or near the back thereof, and construct the front,
or part of the front, to slide in grooves or guides, parallel with the sides. I then
connect the top and the front by means of Mechanism in such manner that on the
top being opened backwards, the front, or the moveable part of it, slides down wards,
thus giving simultaneously upper and lower access to the interior. The mechanism
consists of a lever, pivoted at the side and connected by links with the top and the
sliding parts of the front.
1000
WILLIAM ROBERT SELKIRK,
'Improvements in Coal Vases, Cabinets, and the like."
I, WILLIAM ROBERT SELKIRK of 27 Holborn Viaduct in the City of London,
Hardware Agent, do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what manner
the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and
by the following statement :-
According to this invention in a coal vase, cabinet or the like I make the top to
open it being by preference hinged at or near the back thereof and construct the
front or part of the front to slide in grooves or guides parallel with the sides. The
top and front I connect by means of suitable mechanism in such manner that on the
top being opened swinging backwards, the front or the movable part of it slides
simultaneously downwards, thus giving convenient access to the interior of the
cabinet or other structure. The mechanisin may consist of a lever pivoted at the
side and connected by links with the top and with the sliding front part. Or I may
reverse the arrangement so that on opening the top the sliding front part slides upwards.
The following are examples of the application of my invention, viz. as a coal cabinet,
coal vase, music cabinet and combined music stool and cabinet, toilet cabinet, cycle
cabinet, stationery cabinet, writing cabinet, letter box, smoking cabinet, workbox
cabinet, commode, showcase, wardrobe, bedstead, liquor cabinet, garden seat to close
up, game cabinet and tool cabinet. I may make various other combination furniture
fitted with my improvements, I may thus for instance make a cabinet with a
compartment for coals at the top and one for music at the bottom or vice versa.
In the drawings I have shewn some examples.

page_text: Figs 1 and 2 are vertical sections through a coal box or cabinet the lining being
removed. The top lid A is in Fig. 1. shewn in the open or raised position. On one
side or on each side it is provided with a bracket .B. to which is jointed one end of a
lever .C. having a slot for a shifting fulcrum at .D. its other end being jointed to the
sliding front part .E. of the box.
Fig 2 shows the box closed, that is to say with the top lid A down and the sliding
front part E up.
Fig. 3 shews another arrangement of mechanism where the bracket. B. is connected
to one end of a lever .C. with fixed fulcrum by means of a link F the other end of the
lever .C. being by a link .G. connected to the sliding front part E.
Fig. 4 shews the invention supplied to a wash stand cabinet fitted as an example
with a shelf and upper compartment I for a water jug and a water bottle, the sliding
part E serving to close the compartment I at the same time as the lid is let down.
Fig 5 shews a cabinet used for holding a cycle. In this case the lower part of the
front is always closed while the sliding part E is lowered down when the lid is opened.
When used as a bedstead the frame, spring mattress or hammock may be secured to
or slung from the ends of the box at any convenient height.
Fig 6 shews a reverse arrangement of mechanism where a link F is connected to a
lever .C. having its fulcrum H at one end, the other end being formed as a toothed
sector which gears with a tooth rack on the sliding part E which, when the lid .A. is
thrown open, is raised and thus opens the lower part of the cabinet. The upper
compartment which is open to the front when the lid is down may for instance be
used for containing music while the lower compartment may be used for coals and is
accessible when the lid is raised. The mechanism may either be on one side or both
and either boxed in or not.
The sliding part E instead of being flat and having a vertically rising and falling
motion may be made of a curved form and be made to work between correspondingly
curved guides or the part E may be made of hinged laths in the form of a folding
shutter and work between curved guides.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said Inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
1. In coal vases and other boxes receptacles cabinets or the like the application of
a hinged top lid such as A a front sliding part such as E and connecting mechanism
so constructed that the lid or top opens while the part E moves down or up.
2. The construction of mechanism shewn and described and as applied to coal vases
and other boxes receptacles cabinets or the like.
Dated this 31st day of August 1907
JENSEN & SON,
77 Chancery Lane London W.C. Patent Agents.