Display cabinet

Application filed November i

My invention relates to cabinets employed to display goods and of the kind which are also intended for the convenient dispensing of the contained goods. It more particularly pertains to display and sales cabinets of the type which are coining widely into use in connection with the sales of cakes, crackers, and confectionery goods, although it may be used for widely different goods.

The object of my invention is to provide such a cabinet in a simple and cheap construction, in which goods may be effectively displayed, thoroughly protected from insects and dirt, and which are convenient for the removal of stock as sales are made.

My invention consists of the novel parts and combinations of parts which will be hereinafter described and then specifically pointed out in the claims.

The accompanying drawings show my invention in a form of construction which I now prefer to use.

Figure 1 is an end elevation, the near end member of the enclosing frame being removed.

Figure 2 is a vertical section through the drawer guiding and supporting parts at the end of one drawer.

Figure 3 is a perspective of the device, taken from a front diagonal direction, the parts being in the normal closed position.

In the device as illustrated, I have shown a plurality of superposed drawers 2, mounted in a frame to both slide and tilt, and covering sashes 5, pivoted in the frame and capable of swinging to expose the contents of the drawer without having to move the drawer.

Tlie particular construction of frame employed is in many respects immaterial. The essential part is that it have end members unci guide bars thereon upon which the drawers are supported and slide. The frame illustrated has encl members 1, upper and lower connecting bars 12 and 11, and supporting feet 10.

Each encl member 1 has a drawer supporting and guiding bar 4 upon its inner face for each drawer. Tlie drawers 2 may be of any suitable construction. At each end the drawers have a supporting and slide bar 3, secured thereto in an angular position relative to the top and bottom planes of the drawers, so that when lying in edge contact with the guide bars 4 of the frame, the drawers occupy a tilted position, as has been shown in Figure 3 and by two of the drawers

2, 1926. Serial No. 149,920.

in Figure 1. This position is the normal or closed position of the drawers.

The horizontal guide bars 4 carried by the end frame members 1 are positioned so that 60 their guiding surfaces are horizontal or approximately horizontal. Each is provided with a guide, parallel with the drawer guiding upper surface, and each drawer end is provided with a pivot member movable 65 lengthwise of said guide, upon which the drawer may be tilted from its normal position into a horizontal position when it has first been drawn out.

Such guide is suitably made as a slot 40 70 and the eomplemental pivot member as a pin 30. The slot 40 stops short of the outer end of the guide bar, and the end of said guide bar is cut diagonally as at 41 to form a stop surface which holds the drawer in 75 suitable horizontal position after it has been pulled out and swung down to a horizontal position, as shown by the lower drawer in Figure 1. The angular position of the drawer when pulled out is determined by the 80 angle of the end 41.

When so pulled out, the entire upper opening of the drawer is exposed for conveniently placing packages of goods therein, or for removing any of the goods. In closing the 85 drawers they are first swung upwardly and then pushed inwardly. _

When in normal position the drawers are covered by sashes 5, each containing a glass. These sashes are pivoted at their lower edge oo upon pivots 50, which are carried by the end frame members 1. The adjacent end surfaces 42 of the drawer guides 4 are cut upon a bevel which corresponds in angle and position with the plane of the upper or open faces of 05 the drawers when they are in closed position. The sashes are thereby maintained in proper position when the drawers are drawn back.

If access to the drawers from the front be desired, the sash may be swung outwardly 100 and downwardly, as is shown for one drawer in Figure 1. From the lower end of each end face of the sashes, projects a finger 51, designed to engage a stop upon the frame to thereby support the sash in a horizontal iOS position. This may suitably engage the lower edge of the guide bar 4.

The goods contained in the drawers are fully exposed from one side while being protected from handling, insects and dust. The no salesman can get at the goods for sales purposes from either front or back. The type ϋ 1,702.331 of construction employed is cheap and quickly made, while at the same time strong and durable. The disposition of the drawers when in normal position is such that a clear 5 and complete view of their contents is possible.