US1554900A - Concealed compartment for safes - Google Patents

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Sept. 22, 1925.

B. BAER CONCEALED COMPARTMENT FOR SAFES Filed May 19. 1924 INVENTOR,

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BENJAMIN BAER, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

GONCEALED COMPARTMENT FO'R SAFES.

Application filed May 19, 192.4. Seria1wNo. 714,403.

invented a new and Improved Concealed Compartment for Safes, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention relates to safes and has particular reference, to a concealed or hidden compartment in a safe for the storage of valuables.

In the majority of robberies, hold-ups, or thefts, the perpetrator is usually in a hurry and does not take the time to carefully examine or search the safe for concealed or hidden valuables, but is satisfied to make way with whatever valuables are readily at hand.

It is, therefore, the principal object of the present invention to provide the built-in strong box of a safe with a horizontally pivoted partition or shelf located adjacent the upper wall and upon which bills of large denomination, expensive jewelry, or other valuables may be supported and concealed against casual search or examination.

As a further object the invention contemplates an attachment for the built-in strong box of a safe which affords a concealed or hidden storage compartment for the valuables and which is so constructed as to allow for the ready introduction or removal of the contents.

As astill further object the invention comprehends an attachment of the character set forth, which is extremely simple in its construction, inexpensive to manufacture and install, and which is highly efficient in its purposelVith the above recited and other objects in view, the invention resides in the novel construction set forth in the following specification, particularly pointed out in the appended claims and illustrated in the accompanying drawings, it being understood that the right is reserved -to embodiments other than those actually illustrated herein to the full extent indicated by the general meaning of the terms in which the claims are expressed.

In the drawings- I Figure 1 is a perspective view of a safe equipped with a hidden compartment constructed in accordance with the invention,

Fig. 2 is an enlarged vertical sectional view through the strong box taken approximately on the line indicated at 22 in Fig. 1.

Fig. 8 is a fragmentary transverse sectional view taken approximately on the line indicated at 33 in Fig. 2.

Referring to the drawings by characters of reference, A designates a safe provided with the usual built-in strong box B having a door O and providedwith a member acting as a stop D depending from the forward end of the upper wall E. The attachment includes a horizontal shelf, partition.

ortray 10 which is pivoted at its rear end by means of a transverse pivot pin 11 to the rear end of the strong box adjacent the upper wall whereby the free forward end 11 of the shelf is capable of vertical swinging movement and when swung upwardly is spaced slightly in rear of the door stop D to facilitate the grasping and lowering of the shelf. A coil spring or springs 12 surround the pivot pin 11 between the hinged knuckles 13 at the rear edge of the shelf and the opposite terminals 14 and 15 of said springs cooperate respectively with the shelf and the strong box to normally effect the upward swinging movement of the forward end 11" to dispose the same behind the door stop D. Under this construction and arrangement when it is de sired to conceal a package of bills, jewelry, or other valuables in the compartment 16 defined between the shelf 10 and the upper wall E of the strong box, the forward edge 11 of the shelf is grasped and swung downwardly, after which the valuables are placed thereon to permit the spring to again re turn the shelf to its normally raised position as illustrated in Fig. 2. In event of a robbery, hold-up, or theft, the perpetrator will remove whatever valuables are arranged on the bottom wall F of the strong box and the chance of discovering or observing the hidden compartment 16 is reduced to an absolute minimum, due to the fact that the door stop D overlies and conceals the forward edge 11 of the shelf 10.

From the foregoing it will thus be seen that an extremely simple and inexpensive attachment for the built-in strong box of a safe has been provided which will constitute a hidden or concealed compartment for the reception of articles of extreme value.

I claimz V V i i compartment adjacent the upper Wall of The combination with the built-in strong the strong box, the said forward end being box of a safe, of a member acting as a door. spaced in rear of the door stop, and means stop extending completely across the width for normally elevating the shelf to dispose of and depending from the forward end of the forward free end behind the door stop its upper wall, a horizontal shelf pivoted at whereby to conceal said compartment and its rear end adjacent the rear upper end of the shelf from View. strong box for vertical swinging movement of the forward end to define a concealed BENJAMIN BAER.

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