US893786A - Sectional stacked letter-tray. - Google Patents

Referring to the

drawings

2 designates the 1 bottom of the tray, 4 the sides, 5 the rear end i and 6 the front end, and isiconstructed of wire woven together ,flhe end 6 is cut away for the purpose of readily remov ng the let- 'ters from the tray. At each corner the wire is formed into a ring or loop 8..

The legs or standards are formed in sections according to the number of trays with -which they are used. In Flg. 1 when there are three trays the

lower tray

10 is provided with the'standards 12 having

feet

14. On

the upper end of each of these

standards

12 is formed a screw 11. The

section

15 which sustains the

next tray

17 aboveis, rovided 50 thescre-w 1.1 on the standard 12. The standwith a screw threaded opening in its lower end adapted to been aged by the up er end of-the standard 12. n the upper en of the standard 15"is formed a

screw

16 the same as

v ards

18 which engage and sustain the

upper tray

19 are duplicates ofthe

standards

15 jhaving the screw threaded openingm their nj glgwer end and a screw thread-21 on. the top of each. On the top of

eachstandard

18 is a an ornamental head which tray and gives the apfpearance. The

or use with this screw havin screw holds; own the to combined tray a finished manner of setting them 11 standard is by inserting the screw of the standard 12 through the

loop

8 and then screwing the said standard into the lower end of the standard 15, bringing the shoulders of the

standards

12 and 15 against the top and bottom sides of the

loop

8 thus holding the 100 or corner of the tray rigidly between the en s of the two

standards

12 and 15, and

then'by screwing upon the top of the standard. 15 the head screw the'top tray is held down and combine the two trays rigidly together; Ifitis desired to add another tray, then the'head

screw

20 is removed and another set of

standards

18, are brought into engagement with the

standards

15 the same as

thestandards

15 were connected tothe' standards 12' and then the

head screw

20 is brought into enga ementwith the to of the

stan ards

18 and t e third tray is ad ed, and thus the trays may 'be added at pleasure. It will be seen that the adding" of one ormore trays will in no manner interfere with the use of any tray beneath, as the letters can be removed readily from the, end 6' of each of the traIys'.

11 Figs. 3 and 4 is shown a different mode offorming the. legs or standards, though their 0' eration is practically the same as those .s own in Figs. 1 and 2. In Fig. 3 there is attached to the railing rod or

wire

25, that-surrounds the tray and in which the

loops

8 are formed, a rod 28, which extends down in the inner corner of the tray at the angle of the tray and through between the meshes ofthe tray at the bottom and then twisted into a

loop

30. In this Fig. 3 the ,loop is-shown, forconvenience as projecting outwardly, but referably these loops should project inwardly beneath the tray where they will be out of sight. The

standards

32, whlch join these loo s with the

loop

8 are eachprovided wit a 100 34 at the upper end and a

loop

35 at the ower end whlch loops are arranged in parallel planes and the standards set at an angle. The trays are removably attached together by inserting a

screw

38 through the

loop

30 and loop 34 40 and then inserting a

screw

42 through the '

loop'35

8 in the lower'tray and securing

bolt

45 provided with a

large head

48 is passed through between the meshes of the tray at the bottom corners and engages the

loop

34 and removably secures the

standards

32 by a

screw

50, or the loop may be screw threaded and the bolt engage the loop and be screwed therein. By this mode all that is necessary to add a tray is to insert the bolts through the

loops

8 of the lower tray and the

loop

35 of the standard 32 and tighten the screw on the end of the bolt.