Improvements in and connected with Frames for Containing Type Cases or other Articles.
Year: 1894

page_text: Cate of Application, 3rd July, 1894
Complete Specification Left, 17th Sept., 1894-Accepted, 20th Oct., 1834
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in and connected with Frames for Containing Type
Cases or other Articles.
I, WILLIAM SMITH, of 1984 St. Vincent Street, in the County of the City of
Glasgow, North Britain, Printers' Furnisher, do hereby declare the nature of this
invention to be as follows:-
This invention has for its object to construct frames for containing type cases or
other articles so as to economise space.
In carrying my invention into practice I use iron runners on which the cases
slide in place of wood as is presently used. By this I am thus enabled to increase
the accommodation for cases of from about 50%, that is to say, in place of a single
frame being only capable of containing ten cases, by my improvements each single
frame is capable of holding fifteen.
These runners are constructed and fixed in position in the following manner. At
the back end of each runner I cast or otherwise fix a projecting piece which fits
into a groove or recess specially prepared in the post, the front end being dealt with
in a similar manner, so that by this method I altogether dispense with the use of
nails, bolts or screws in fixing the runner to the posts.
Dated this 2nd day of July 1894.
BOTTOMLEY & LIDDLE,
154, St. Vincent Street, Glasgow, Applicant's Agents.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in and connected with Frames for Containing Type
Cases or other Articles.
I, WILLIAM SMITH of 198* St. Vincent Street in the County of the City of
Glasgow, North Britain Printers' Furnisher 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 :-
This invention has for its object to construct frames for containing type cases or
other articles so as to economise space. In carrying my invention into practice I
use iron runners or side bars which extend froin the front to the rear of the frame
and on which the cases slide. By this arrangement I am enabled to increase the
accomodation for cases to a very considerable extent which forms an essential
feature of my present invention.
In order that my invention may be properly understood and readily carried into
effect I have hereunto appended an explanatory sheet of drawings in the several
figures of which corresponding parts are indicated by the same letters of referance.
Fig. 1 is a front elevation partly in section of a frame for containing type cases
made in accordance with and constituting my invention. Fig. 2 is a part transverse
section. Fig. 3 is a part horizontal section of the same and
Fig. 4 is a plan of a runner or side bar drawn to an enlarged scale and herein-
after more fully described.
In carrying my invention into practice the said bars or runners which are made
of iron or other suitable metal are unarked A, and extend from the frout to the rear
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page_text: of the frame marked B. The said runners or side bars A, on which the type
cases C, slide are constructed and fixed in position in the following manner:
At the front and back of each runner or side bar A, I cast or otherwise fix, above
and below thereof, a lateral extension, a, a, which constitutes a distance piece or
pieces, and determines the distance or space between the several rows of bars or
runners A aforesaid. This lateral extension a, a, which is at right angles to each
respective bar or runner is formed with a rectangular square, dovetail or equiva-
lent projection a', which fits in a correspondingly formed groove or recess a². formed
in the post or upright standard on both sides of the frame B, aforesaid. The said
side bars or runners, A, are built up in such a manner, (referance being had to
Fig. 1 of the drawings) that the lateral extension of each side bar or runner A,
rests or lies upon that of its adjacent bar or runner, and thereby constitutes the
respective rows of shelves D, for the type cases without the use of any kind of
fastening to keep them in position which is another especial feature of my
improvements.
A continuous line of metal, due to such an arrangement, is formed on both sides
of the frame B, which in hot or tropical climates will serve to counteract any
tendancy to the warping of the said frames. The top of the frame B, is surmounted
with a pair of brackets E, E, for holding two type cases the upper one of which
overlapping to a small extent that of the lower case for the convenience of the
compositor and to economise space.
It is here explained that though I have for brevity described and illustrated my
improvements as being applicable to type frames I do not confine myself to the
exclusive application to such as it is to be understood my invention is equally
applicable to those kinds of cabinets, boxes, and like moveable and stationary
repositories in which cases, trays, drawers and analogous sliding receptacles are
used.
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. The mode and means of constructing frames cabinets, boxes, and the like with
metal runners for forming shelves on which it is intended to carry sliding
receptacles without the aid of any separate means of fastening substantially as
described and shown in the drawings.
2. The metal runners or side bars constructed with lateral projections in combina-
tion with grooves or recesses formed in the posts of the frames for supporting the
said projections a', a', substantially as described and shown in the drawings.
3. The metal runners or side bars A, constructed with distance pieces a, a, in
order to determine the proper distance between the shelves D, and constitute a
continuous line of metal to prevent warping of the frame substantially as described
and shewn in the drawings.
Dated this 15th day of September 1894.
WILLIAM SMITH,
1984, St. Vincent Street, Glasgow, Applicant.