Improvements in connection with Meat-safes.
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 3rd Mar., 1896
Complete Specification Left, 22nd Aug., 1896-Accepted, 10th Oct., 1396
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in connection with Meat-safes.
I, JOSEPH EDWARD ALFRED GREATOREX, of 11, Stanhope Terrace, Hyde
Park, in the County of Middlesex, Surveyor and Sanitary Engineer, do hereby
declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to an improved method of mounting and handling meat-
safes, and is specially applicable for use in "flats" and other confined situations
where economy of space is of importance and where it is desirable to expose the
safe with its contents to the external air.
In carrying out my invention, I mount the safe on a rail or rails, erected in the
immedinte neighbourhood of a window, arranged in such a manner that, on the
window being opened, the safe can be drawn opposite the same, so as to render its
contents accessible. To restore the safe to its normal position and free the window
from obstruction, it is pushed aside where it occupies a position against the wall at
the side of the window.
Instead of mounting the safe on runners as above described, it may be suspended
by a line attached to a drum adapted for being rotated by hand; or the line may
pass over a pulley and carry at its opposite end a counterweight. Under such
circumstances, the normal position of the safe is either above or below, instead of
at the side of, the window.
G. G. M. HARDINGHAM,
191, Fleet Street, London, E.C., Chartered Patent Agent.
I, JOSEPH EDWARD ALFRED GREATOREX, of 11, Stanhope Terrace, Hyde
Park, in the County of Middlesex, Surveyor and Sanitary Engineer, 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 relates to an improved method of mounting and handling meat-
safes, and is specially applicable for use in "flats" and other confined situations
where economy in space is of importance and where it is desirable to expose the
safe with its contents to the external air.
In the accompanying drawings, I have illustrated my invention as applied, by
way of example, to a "flat"; the space available for larder accommodation in
buildings constructed on such principle being of a restricted character.
Fig. 1 is a view of a safe, mounted in accordance with this invention, looking
from the interior of an apartment through the open window; the dotted lines
representing the position of the safe when closed and pushed aside from the
window.

page_text: Figs. 2 and 3 are respectively a corresponding side view and a plan.
Figs. 4, 5 and 6 are views, respectively similar to Figs. 1, 2 and 3, showing an
alternative method of mounting and handling, the safe in this arrangement being
suspemled by a cord and counterweighted.
According to one mode of carrying ont my invention, the safe A is furnished
with runners at a mounted to work on rails 13 13, erected preferably in the immediate
neighbourhood of a window C as shown. On the window being opened, the safe
can be drawn opposite the same by means of the handle b, so as to render its
contents accessible. To restore the safe to its normal position and free the window
from obstruction, it is pushed aside where it occupies a position against the wall at
the side of the window as indicated by the dotted lines in Fig. 1. In the drawings,
the rails B are shown as supported in the walls W W. If this mode of supporting
be impracticable, the rails my be carried on brackets attached to the outer wall of
the house or "Hot."
Instead of monuting the safe on runners as above described, it may be suspended
by a line attached to a drum adapted for being rotated by hand; or the line may
pass over a pulley and carry at its opposite end a counterweight. Under such
circumstances, the normal position of the safe is either above or below, instead of
at the side of the window.
According to the alternative method of monating, illustrated in Figs. 4, 5 and 6,
the safe A is furnished with runners or guides a' a', working against the vertical
rails attached to horizontal bracing supports D, the latter being firmly
secured in the wall of the house. The safe A is suspended by means of a rope or
cord c which passes over guide sheaves d d carried by the support D; the opposite
end of the cord being provided with a counterweight E, and hauling tackle e.
A clent is provided for use in holding the safe when suspended. When the safe
is in its normal position, it is below the window opening, and resting upon the
support D. It will be apparent that several safes may be arranged according to
this method one above another; the supports D under such circumstances serving
as rests for the safes when lowered and for carrying the sheaves whereon the
suspending rope works.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this invention
and in what manner the saine is to be performed, I claim :-
1. The improved method of mounting meat-safes substantially as herein
described, whereby they are rendered readily accessible from the windows of
dwelling houses, whilst their contents remain exposed to the external air.
2. The improved means for mounting and handling meat-safes arranged or
operating substantially as described with reference to Figs. 1, 2 and 3 of the
accompanying drawings.
3. The improved means for mounting and handling meat-safes, arranged or
operating substantially as described with reference to Figs. 4, 5 and 6 of the
accompanying drawings.
Dated this 15th day of June 1896