An Improved Combination Picture-panelled Cabinet Bracket or Console.
Year: 1887

page_text: Date of Application, 11th Feb., 1887
Complete Left, 10th Nov., 1887
Complete Accepted, 13th Dec., 1887
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Combination Picture-panelled Cabinet Bracket
or Console.
I, ALEXANDER BARR, of 2 Bothwell Terrace, Glasgow, in the County of Lanark,
North Britain, Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of this Invention to be as
follows, that is to say :-
My said Invention has for its object to form an improved combination piece of decora-
tivo furniture, which conjoining utility with ornament, comprises a bracket or console
support for a bust or objects of virtu, a cabinet for containing useful or ornamental
articles, and panels or frames for displaying photographs or other pictures.
In carrying out my Invention according to one modification, I construct a cabinet
or small box with three vertical doors, one being in front and the others in oblique
positions at the sides. The doors are pivoted on vertical axes at their middles, and
springs are applied to turn them with their inner sides outwards, whilst catches are
provided to hold them against the springs with their outer sides outwards. A trigger
or button is arranged for acting simultaneously on the catches of all the doors and so
as when moved to set the doors free to be turned by their springs. Photographs or
other pictures are put on the outer sides of the doors whilst the inner sides are fitted
with receptacles for holding articles, as for example cigars and smokers' requisites, or
ladies' sewing requisites.
The top of the cabinet forms the table of the bracket or console, and parts are added
below the cabinet and otherwise in a manner to give the structure the general contour
of an ornamental bracket or console, the back being made for fixing against a wall or
in a corner.
The cabinet may be made with more or fewer doors than three, and with fixed
panels on which photographs or other pictures may be put. One or more small
ornamental brackets for candles or lamps may also be fixed on the main bracket
or console.
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EDMUND HUNT,
Applicant's Agent.

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Combination Picture-panelled Cabinet Bracket
or Console.
I, ALEXANDER BARR, of 2 Bothwell Terrace, Glasgow, in the County of Lanark,
North Britain, 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, that is to say :-
My said Invention has for its object to form an improved combination piece of
decorative furniture, which conjoining utility with ornament, comprises a bracket or
console support for a bust or objects of virtu, a cabinet for containing useful or orna-
mental articles, and panels or frames for displaying photographs or other pictures.
And in order that iny said Invention and the manner of performing the same may
be properly understood I hereunto append a sheet of explanatory drawings to be
hereinafter referred to and showing a simple modification of my improved cabinet as
made with three panels or doors.
Figure, 1, on the accompanying sheet of drawings is a front elevation. Figure, 2,
is a horizontal section, and figure, 3, is a view of a detail hereinafter referred to. In
these drawings the same reference numerals are used to mark the same or like parts
wherever they are repeated.
In carrying out my Invention I construct a cabinet or small box, 4, with three
vertical doors, 5, 6, 7, one, 6, being in front and the others, 5, 7, in oblique positions
at the sides. The doors, 5, 6, 7, are pivoted on vertical axes, 8, 9, 10, the front door, 6,
being pivoted at its middle and the two side ones, 5, 7, a little nearer the back of the
cabinet, 4. The upper ends of each of the axes, 8, 9, 10, pass through holes in small
metal plates, (one, 11, of which is shown in figure, 3) fixed on the inner side of the
cabinet, 4, and have on them helical springs, 12, arranged so as by torsional action to
turn the doors, 5, 6, 7, with their inner sides outwards, whilst catches, 13, 14, 15, are
provided for holding then against the springs, 12, with their outer sides outwards.
These catches, 13, 14, 15, are cach centered on pins, 16, 17, 18, and are kept in the
positions to hold the doors by springs, 19, 20, 21. The outer ends of the catches, 13,
15, enter recesses formed for them in the side doors, 5, 7, whilst the end of the
catch, 14, acts on a small pin, 22, fixed in the underside of the door, 6, and which
works in a groove, 23, in the bottom of the cabinet, 4. A trigger or button, 24, is
arranged for acting through a sliding bar, 25, simultaneously on the ends of the
catches, 13, 14, 15, so as when moved inwards to set the doors, 5, 6, 7, free to be turned
by their springs, 12, the springs, 19, 20, 21, making the catches, 13, 14, 15, resume
their normal positions on the release of the button, 22, from which positions they are
only momentarily pressed aside on reclosing the doors. Pictures or photographs are
put on the outer sides of the doors, 5, 6, 7, whilst the inner sides are fitted with
receptacles, 26, for holding cigars or it may be other articles as for example ladies'
sewing requisites.

page_text: The top of the cabinet, 4, forms the table of the bracket or console on which may
be fixed for example a mirror, 27, and small ornamental brackets, 28, 29, for candles
or lamps and parts, 30, are added below the cabinet and otherwise in a manner to
give the structure the general contour of an ornamental bracket or console the back
being made for fixing against a wall.
The cabinet may be made with more or fewer doors than three and with fixed panels
instead of some of the doors on which photographs or other pictures may be put, and
the back may be made for fixing in a corner.
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 :-
The combination and arrangement of parts constituting an improved combination
picture-panelled cabinet bracket or console substantially as hereinbefore described and
as shown on the accompanying drawings.
Dated this Ninth day of November 1887.
EDMUND HUNT,
Applicant's Agent.
EDMUND HUNT,
Applicant's Agent.