US14879A - Improvement in wardrobe-trunks - Google Patents

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Nrring STATES "ATENT FFICEj-jixj VILLIAM J. MCCRAKEN, OF ROCHESTER, NEV YORK.

IMPROVEMENT IN WARDROBE'TRUNKS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 14,879, dated l\Iay `18, 1856.

To all whom, t may-concern:

Be it known that I, \V. J. MCCRAKEN, of Rochester, in the county of Monroe and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Trunks, which I term a \Vardrobe Trunk; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had to the annexed drawings, making a part of this specication, in which- Figure l is a transverse vertical section of my improvement represented in a closed state in black and in an open and partially-open state in red and blue. Fig. 2 is a front view of saine, represented in an open state, one of the end pieces of the upper part of the trunk and one of the end pieces of the sliding box being bisected.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the two figures.

My invention consists in the peculiar' construction of the trunk, as will be hereinafter fullyshown and described, whereby the trunk may with the greatest facility be converted into a wardrobe and space still allowed in the lower part of the trunk for receiving` such articles that do not require to be hung on hooks.

To enable those skilled in the art to fully understand and construct my invention, I will proceed to describe it.

A represents the body of the trunk, which is of the usual form and divided as usual into the parts d b, connected by hinges c at the back.

The lower part l) of the trunk has the usual box I3, iiited within it, and to the upper part of l) a supplementary lid C is attached by hinges rZ. To the under side of the lid C a pocket D is secured.

lVithin the upper part d of the trunk a sliding box E is placed. This box has a handle e on its outer end, which end forms the front side of the upper part of the trunk. A hook f is attached to the inner end of the box, which hook is fitted in a staple g in the inner side of the back part of the part d of the trunk, said hook securing the box Within the part a. (See Fig. l.) The box E is not closed at its inner end, and the lower or under side of the box is formed of two doors h h, which are hinged to the box. The upper side of the box has hooks/attached to it. The upper side of' the box E has a slidej fitted to it and the two doors Zt h have part-s Zt k jointed to them, so that when the box E is withdrawn from the partctof the trunk it maybe lengthened by. shoving out the slide j and turning down or outward the parts Zt' 7tat the lower ends of the doors 7L 7L.

To the inner side ofthe Lipper partaof the trunk there are attached by joints or hinges strips Z Z, one at each end of the part d. The outer ends of these stri ps are provided with dovetails m, as shown clearly in blue, Fig. l.

The under side of the part a of the trunk has a lid F attached to it by hinges n, and a supporto is attached to the back part of said lid by hinges Ap.

Zhen the trunk is closed, the several parts are in the position as shown in Fig. l, the box E, being within the upper part d of the trunk and secured therein by the hook f, the doors Zt 71, being closed and locked and the slidej secured in proper position by bolts.

Then the part ct of the trunk is raised in a horizontal position, the lid F may be raised, the doors h h opened, and articlesplaeed within the box E. Thus it will be seen that nearly the same room is obtained in this trunk, when used as a trunk, as in the ordinary ones. The trunk is converted into a wardrobe by removing the hook f from the staple g and then withdrawing the box E from the part (t oi' the trunk. The strips Z Z are then raised to a vertical position, the dovetails -m being fitted in corresponding recesses in the ends of the box E. The strips Z Z project some distance above the box E; but by shoving down the slidej and securing it by the bolts g, and turning down the parts 7c 7s of the doors l1., the box E will be lengthened and form acontinuation of the part d of the trunk. The parts when thus arranged will form a wardrobe, clothes being hung on the hooks t'.

The lower part l) of the trunk may be used as usual for receiving suoli articles of cloth ing as are not liable to be injured by being folded.

The lid C may be provided with a lock and also the doors h.

The above improvement is a valuable one, for persons when traveling and stopping at hotels are often compelled to keep their clothes in their trunks. Ladies dresses are particularly liable to be creased or injured by desk, as shown by the black dotted lines,

Fig. 1.

What I claim as my improvement, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

l. The construction and arrangement of the supporting-strips Z Z in the portion of the trunk a for uniting the sliding portion of the Wardrobe E to the part a of the trunk, as and for purposes mentioned in the foregoing specieation.

2. The construction and arrangement of the lid F and supporter 0,'as Combined and arranged with the portion of the trunk a, for purposes mentioned in the foregoing specilication. Y

WM. J. MCCRAKEN.

Witnesses:

WM. TUsoH, JAMES F. BUCKLEY.

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