Improvements in Cabinets or Fittings for Books and other objects.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 25th Aug., 1892
Complete Specification Left, 25th May, 1893-Accepted, 1st July, 1893
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Cabinets or Fittings for Books and other objects.
I CHARLES GEORGE VIRGO of Queens Park Manchester Art Museum Curator
do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:―
My improvements consist in the construction of cabinets divided into a number
of elongated square; or elongated rectangular passages or compartments, running
horizontally through the cabinet from side to side, and open from end to end, for
the admission of sliding shelves, trays, nests of pidgeon holes, drawers, or other
fittings, such fittings to be partially, or entirely withdrawable from either end of the
passages or compartments on either of two opposite sides of the cabinet. The passages
or compartments may be arranged some transversely with others, and accessible
for movable fittings on all four sides of the cabinet; or the whole of the passages
or compartments may be arranged parallel one with another, and accessible for
movable. fittings on either of two sides only of the cabinet. The passages or
compartments may be divided by partitions, or constructed in skeleton form without
division or partition between. The cabinet may have doors fitted with movable
fittings or shelves, and as also the cabinet and the fittings thereof, may be constructed
of any height width, or length, to suit requirements, and may be made of wood,
iron, or any suitable material.
It must also be distinctly understood that I do not confine myself to any particular
arrangement of the passages or compartments, or of the precise form or shape of
the fittings thereof, as various arrangements of the passages or compartments, and
various combinations of the fittings thereof, may be made to suit various require-
ments.
Dated this 22nd dow of Anout 1800
CHAS. GEO. VIRGO.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Cabinets or Fittings for Books and other objects.
I CHARLES GEORGE VIRGO of Queens Park Manchester in the County of
Lancaster, Art Museum Curator, 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 :-
My improvements consist in the construction of cabinets divided into a number
of elongated square; or elongated rectangular passages or compartments, running
horizontally through the cabinets from side to side, and open from end to end for
the admission sliding shelves, trays, nests of pidgeon holes, drawers, or other
fittings, such fittings to be partially or entirely withdrawable from either end of the
passages or compartments, on either of two opposite sides of the cabinets. The
passages or compartments may be arranged some transversely with others, and
accessible for moveable fittings on all four sides of the cabinets; or the whole of the
passages or compartiments may be arranged parallel one with another, and accessible
for moveable fittings on either of two sides only of the cabinets. The passages or
compartments may be divided by partitions; or constructed in skeleton form
without divisions or partitions between, and as also the cabinets and the moveable
fittings thereof, may be constructed of any height, width, or length, to suit require-
ments, and may be made of wood, iron, or any suitable material. It must also be
distinctly understood that I do not confine myself to any particular arrangement of
the passages or compartments, or of the precise form or shape of the fittings

page_text: thereof, as various arrangements of the passages or compartments, and various
combinations of the fittings thereof, may be made to suit various requirements.
The drawing appended shews a cabinet in perspective, arranged with some of the
passages or compartments transversely with others. A shews fittings partially
withdrawn to the left. B. B. B. fittings partially withdrawn to the right.
C. C. C. fittings partially withdrawn at the back, and D. D. D. fittings partially
withdrawn at front, E. E. E. E. E. E. E. E. fixed fittings or shelves.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I déclare that what I
claim is,
.
The construction of cabinets or fittings divided into a number of passages or
compartments running horizontally through the cabinets or fittings from side to
side, some transversely with others; or the whole of the passages or compartments
parallel one with another, and open from end to end thereof for the admission of
sliding shelves, trays, nests of pidgeon holes, or other moveable fittings substantially,
and for the purposes described and illustrated by the accompanying drawing.
Dated this 23rd day of May 1893.
CHAS. GEO. VIRGO.