US2122738A - Display chest for silverware, etc. - Google Patents

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July 5, 1938. R. w. Dr-:UMMQNDl ET AL DISPLAY CHEST FOR SILVERWARE, ETC

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Patented July 5,'1938 l y y y UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE 2,122,731; i DISPLAY cnns'r ron smvEawAnE, ETC.

Robert W. Drummond, Oneida, and Max Rogers, Earlvilie, N. Y., assignors to Oneida Limited, Oneida, N. Y., a corporation of New York Application Anm: 21, 1935, sensi No. 37,128 1 0mm. (ci. zoo- 4o This invention relates to improvements in While the chest is open for display its interior chests designed primarily for use with silver and and its contents would'bc exposed to the objecsilver plated flatware articles and for use by dealtive effects ofthe atmosphere and, as to silver or ers in the display of suclr articles to their trade.- silverplated articles, tov its` tarnishing effect, un-

'I'he object of the present invention is to proless protected therefrom. These atmospheric 5 vide a chest in which such articles may be satiseifects, however, are avoided by vthe present infactorily displayed by the dealer and one in which vention by the provision of covers 8, 9, each conthey and the interior of the chest itself will be SiSting f a frame in Which iS Seil a pene of trans-f protected from the dust of the atmosphere and parent material I0, il, respectively, these panes the articles also be protected from the tarnishing being preferably of non-frangible material such 10 effect of the gaseous elements of the latter. as sheets of cellulose acetate, which is also pre- Generally stated the chest provided byy the ferred because of its non-inflammable nature. present invention is one comprising a. body por- These covers are readily removable from the tion for containing and displaying some of the body and lid to provide for convenient access to articles and also a lid portion for containing and the contents thereof and the removal of such 15 'displaying others of the articles, the body and contents and their replacement by other articles. lid portions being hinged together so that they A matter of considerable importance, however, may be opened for such display andl each of them is the character of the fit between the covers and y provided with a. removable transparent cover the body andlid. This. 8S Shown and as contemthrough which the articles Within lit; may be plated by the present inVentiOn, is a. close one, s0 20 Viewed, these covers, when in plee@ on the body much so as to prevent the entrance of dust into portion or lid, protecting the contents thereof A the body and lid and also the entrance therein against 'the dust Aand tarnishing eirect or the atof the tarnish-producing eases 0f the atmosphere,

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mosphere. y particularly where, as here, the bottoms of the .25 In the accompanying drawingbody and lid are lined with soft, yielding matev Figure 1 -isa perspective View of the chest rial i2 with which the inner edges of the covers opened; I. contact in their closed position.

Figure 2 is a vertical section of the same, also What is claimed is:

opened; A display chest comprising a body and a lid -Figure 3 is a perspective view of the removable hinged thereto. the' lid being a Substantial dupli- 30 protective cover for the body of the chest; ente of le body, the body being formed With a Figure 4 a fragmentary cross-section of the bottom and up'sinding Side and end Walls of same, on an enlarged scale, and considerable depth, a soft, yieldable lining within Figure 5 a perspective view of the removable the body at the bottom thereof and e bodily SeD- protective cover for the lid of the chest. arable and removable Cover for the body, said 35 Referring to said drawing, represents th'e cover comprising a frame open at its bottom and body and 2 the 11d of the chest, theA two being having side and end walls of considerable depth hinged at 3 (Fig. 2) and the opening display withatop oi' transparent, substantially non-franmovemenf; of the 11d 2 being limited by a tape gibleand non-readily-infiammable material, the

40 connection 4 between it and the body I (Fig. 2). Cover fitting Within the body 8nd having its Sides 40 The body i is provided interiorly with e, rack 5 and ends making close, dust-excluding contact for receiving the articles to be displayed therein with the sides and ends of the body, with its bot-v and the lid is-provided on its under or inner side tom edges engaging and making Close, atm0S with racks 6, 1, for receiving the articles to be Phono-excluding Contact With the Soft. Yieidable displayed' therein, such display occurring, of lining 0f the body. 45

course, only as and when the dealer desires it. At other times the iid is swung down to closing ROBERT W DRUMMON'D- position. y MAX ROGERS.

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