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Description

(No Model.)

D. D. WALTON, J. BARKER &. H. VAN DYKE. TYPE WRITER CABINET.

No. 569,259. Patented Oct. 13, 1896.

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DAYTON D. IVALTON, JAMES BARKER, AND HENRY VAN DYKE, OF GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN, ASSIGNORS TO FRED MAOEY, OF SAME PLACE.

TYPE-WRITER CABINET.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 569,259, dated October 13, 1896.

Application filed September 24, 1895. Serial No. 563,555. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, DAYTON D. IVALTON, JAMES BARKER, and HENRY VAN DYKE, citizens of the United States, residing at Grand Rapids, in the county of Kent and State of Michigan, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Type-\Vriter Cabinets; and we do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

Our invention relates to improvements in type-writer cabinets, and its object is to provide the same with certain new and useful features, hereinafter more fully described, and particularly pointed out in the claims, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a front elevation of a device embodying our invention 5 and Fig. 2, a vertical section of the same on the line 2 2 of Fig. 1, parts beingbroken away to show the construction.

Like letters refer to like parts in both the figures.

A represents any suit-able desk or case having a suitable compartment A to receive the type-writing machine, and closed by a suitable door A.

B B are parallel Ways near the lower side angles of the compartment A, in which ways are longitudinally-movable slides O C, supporting near their outer ends a bed D and at the rear thereof a box or receptacle E. Pivoted to the front and rear of the bed D, and near the inner side of the same, and swinging in planes transverse to said slides, are four parallel arms F, which arms at their upper ends are pivoted to and support a table G, upon which table is mounted a turn-table G, provided with a pivot-pin G and adapted to carry the type-writing machine shown in dotted lines thereon.

On the arms F F most remote from the corners of the bed D are downward extensions F F, and connecting said extensions is a weight F" to counterbalance the parts supported by the arms F. Said extensions are also set off laterally from the plane of the pivots to cause the weight F to engage the under side of the table D and serve as a stop when the device is open and to permit said weight to be below the plane of said bed and parallel therewith when the device is closed.

From the foregoing description the operation will be readily understood.

lVhen the machine is to be used, the slides O and all parts supported thereby are drawn outward,as shown in th e drawings. The table G is then elevated by turning the arms F to and beyond a vertical position until stopped by contact of the weight F with the bottom of the bed D, when said machine will be moved vertically and also inward toward the middle of the desk, thus being brought nearly in front of the operator, and also permitting ready access to the receptacle E, also uncovering the bedD and permitting its use, being securely supported in place. The turn-table may now be rotated to bring the front of the machine to the desired position.

Replacing the machine within the compartment A is such an obvious operation as to require no further description.

Having thus fully described our invention, what we claim, and wish to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. In a typewriter cabinet, horizontallymovable slides, a bed connecting said slides, arms pivoted to the front and rear of said bed, and swinging in a plane transverse to said slides, and a table pivoted to said arms and supported solely by the same when elevated, substantially as described.

2. In a type-writer cabinet, horizontallymovable slides, a bed between the forward part of said slides and connecting the same and areceptacle between the rear part of said slides, arms pivoted to swing transversely of said slides, a table pivoted to said arms and supported thereby, and moving both laterally and vertically when elevated, substantially as described.

3. In a type-writer cabinet, ahorizontallymovable bed, arms pivoted to the front and rear thereof, one or more of said arms extended below said bed, and having a set-off in said extension, a weight attached to said set-ofi portion, and engaging the under side of said bed, to limit the movement of said arms, and a table pivoted to said arms and supported thereby,substantia1ly as described.

4. In a type-writer cabinet, horizontallymovable slides, a transverse bed between said slides, arms pivoted to the respective front and rear sides of said bed, set-off extensions on two of said arms, a weight attached to said extensions, and engaging the under,

side of said bed, a table supported by said arms and pivoted to the same, a turn-table on said table, and a receptacle between the said slides at the rear of the bed, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof we affix our signa- I 5 tnres in presence of two witnesses.

DAYTON D. WALTON. JAMES BARKER. HENRY VAN DYKE. Vitnesses:

LEWIS E. FLANDERS, Lois MoULToN.

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