Improvements in or relating to Cabinets or Tables.
Year: 1893

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or relating to Cabinets or Tables.
I WILLIAM HENRY BRAND, of the Firm of W. H. Brand and Sons, of Nos. 3
and 4 Hoxton Square, Shoreditch, in the County of Middlesex, Fancy Goods
Manufacturer, 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 invention relates to improvements in or relating to cabinets or tables which
has the outward appearance of and can be utilized as an occasional table, while it
can be converted into a writing desk, card table, stand, tray, dumb waiter, or
cellarette, by the mere raising of two flaps covering the article of furniture and
forming likewise the top of the occasional table.
My improved combination cabinet consists of an outer case carried on a
suitable number of legs and enclosing and guiding an inner case which is connected
by suitable means with the flaps aforesaid in such a manner that it can be raised
for use when the flaps are opened and folded back level with the top of the said
inner case so as to form a continuous surface, lowered into the outer casing when
no further required by, closing the said flaps.
In the accompanying drawings,
Fig. 1 is a perspective view of one form of my improved combination cabinet,
the flaps being open; Fig. 2 is a sectional view of the same.
Figs. 3 to 7 are details showing the method of actuating, guiding, and
supporting the inner case.
h
Like letters of reference indicate corresponding parts throughout the figures.
As shown in Fig. 1, my improved combination cabinet consists of a hollow body
or outer casing carried by the legs c and the top of which is provided with two
lateral hinged flaps connected by the sliding-bars to the inner case a which
moves within the body or outer casing b, being guided therein in the manner
hereinafter set forth. The inner case a may be provided with a smooth top, thus
forming with the inner surfaces of the flaps when folded back into a horizontal
position, a continuous surface which may be used for manifold purposes, or it may
be provided with side bars as shown in Fig. 1, to prevent the articles placed on it
from being tilted and upset. This inner case or platform is guided by means of
the two sliding-bars and the sliding supports j.
The sliding-bars are hinged at their upper ends to the flaps by means of the
pins or pivots e, (Figs. 2 and 7) their inner or lower ends which are rectangular,
carry guide pins e¹, sliding within the slots of the guides d, screwed or otherwise
fixed to the inner walls of the outer case b. These slots may be deepened by
means of corresponding recesses formed in the said walls.
The top of the guides d is enlarged to allow the quadrangular ends of the
stays h to enter such enlargement when the flaps are folded back in a horizontal
position, as shown in Fig. 2, which illustrates a writing-desk, n being the part
which is hinged to the platform a and can be raised in an inclined position when
the latter is raised and the flaps are opened, this desk n being supported in its
inclined position in any suitable manner. In recesses formed in the inner surface
of the flaps, the fitting a shown in Fig. 6 is countersunk, the pine of the sliding
stay h, moving in the slot g' of the same.
The inner case a is further guided by the supports ; (Figs. 3, 4 and 5) consisting
of a guide & fixed by screws or otherwise to the inner wall of the outer case or
body b, and in the slot of which can slide up and down, the back or rectangular
bar 7 of the support proper j, the latter being screwed at the top to the underside

page_text: of the case a which rests thereon. This support is placed either on the side b¹ of
the body, or on the opposite side, or on both, according as required, and has for
for its object to prevent the platform or inner case a from oscillating or tilting to
one side or the other when being raised or lowered by the flaps, and to ensure its
steadiness while it is being raised or lowered. Fig. 3 is a rear view of the
support and its guide k, and Fig. 5 an end view of the same.
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. The improved combination cabinet, arranged, constructed, and operating
substantially as herein described and shown.
2. In cabinets of the kind above claimed, the means for actuating, guiding, and
supporting the inner case or platform, substantially as herein described and
shown.
Dated this 12th day of August 1893.
HUGHES, SON & Co.,
38, Chancery Lane, London, W.C., Agents for the Applicant.