US2564485A - Revolving door and cabinet - Google Patents

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1951 w. J. KURSTIN ET AL 2, 64,485

REVOLVING DOOR AND CABINET Filed July 24, 1947 2 Sheets-Sheet 1 1951 w. J. KURSTIN ETAL 2,564,485

REVOLVING DOOR AND CABINET Filed July 24, 1947 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 l llllllm I W 'l" 5 L IIIII HIIHIIHHI Patented Aug. I4, 1951 REVOLVING noon AND CABINET William J. Kurstin and Vito M. Renna, Los Angeles, Calif.; said lflurstin assignor to said Renna Application July 24, 1947, Serial No. 763,178

8 Claims.

This invention relates to new and useful improvements in building construction and more particularly to a revolving door and cabinet or closet construction, the primary object of the invention being to provide a combination cabinet, closet, or the like, and revolving door which will save space, provide greater shelf space, allow for greater hanging space, permit greater and more simple accessibility to the contents of the cabinet or closet and permit said contents to be readily aired and sprayed when desired.

A further object of the invention resides in providing a device of the character mentioned which may be readily and quickly installed in new buildings or installed in old structures with.

cation,

Figure 1 is a front elevational view of our improved door and cabinet construction as applied to a structure, the latter being broken away,

Figure 2 is a vertical section therethrough, as seen on the line 22 of Figure 1,

Figure 3 is a horizontal section through the structure as seen on the line 3-3 of Figure 1,

Figure 4 is a front elevation, showing the door revolved to a position diametrically opposite that shown in Figure 1,

Figure 5 is an enlarged front elevation, showing the door partially revolved,

Figure 6 is a vertical sectional view, as seen on the line 6-6 of Figure 5, showin the upper swivel construction, and

Figure '7 is a similar view, as seen on the line 1-1 of Figure 5, showing the ball-bearing lower swivel connection with the door.

In small apartments, the usual complaint is lack of closet or cabinet space. When there are sufiicient closets or cabinets, same are usually inadequate in space and otherwise improperly designed. They are dark, lack shelf space and do not permit of ready access to the contents,

' either for removal or for airing and spraying.

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Even when a closet is spacious, such as may be provided in homes or large apartments, ready access to the contents for airing and spraying thereof is usually not possible. It is the purpose of our invention to overcome these difi1- culties by the provision of a combination revolving door and cabinet or closet, which may be initially provided when the apartment or home is constructed or which may be installed with slight alteration to a closet or cabinet already in existence.

In describing the invention, we shall refer to the drawings in which similar reference characters designate correspondin parts throughout the several views and in which the numeral l designates the wall of a structure in which there is formed a cavity 2 constituting a closet or cab- Surrounding the opening forming this cavity 2 and secured in any desired fashion to the wall I is the doorway frame 3. Mounted in the corners of the cavity 2 in vertically spaced relation are the shelf-like members 4, which may be made of wood, plastic, metal or any other desired material and the inner opposed edges of said shelf members are arcuately designed as shown at 5, for a purpose to be hereinafter and more particularly set forth. Whereas, we have shown in the drawings four such shelves in each corner of the closet or cavity, one spaced above the other, it will be understood that a lesser or greater number may be provided, as desired. These shelves, obviously, permit of the storage thereon of any desired articles which a housewife may wish to keep concealed, but readily accessible.

An essential feature of our invention is the closure for this closet or cavity, which will provide a function other than a mere closure. To this end, we provide a door or closure 6, the frame of which is divided into three panels I, 8 and 9. The outer panels 1 and 9 are flat panels of wood, plastic, metal or any other desired material, the intermediate panel 8 having a mirror applied to the outer face thereof. This intermediate panel 8 with the mirrored outer face is formed into a hinged closure which opens into a closet or compartment in formed on the rear face of the closure or door 6 by a semi-cylindrical wall H, the edges of the latter being mounted in strips l 2 on the rear face of said closure, as best illustrated in Figure 3 of the drawings. This semi-cylindrical wall H has a top l3 and a bottom l4 and secured to said wall I I in spaced relation between the top and bottom I3 and M are the shelves l5. Thus, it will be 3 seen that the closure 6 for the cavity or closet 2 is provided in itself with an additional compartment which is particularly useful in supporting and, concealing linens, bed coverings and the like.

Supported on the peripheral face of the semicylindrical wall I I adjacent theupper .endthereof and projecting radially outwardly from said wall is the semi-circular shelf I6, upon which may be supported hats, or other articles. A semicircular rod I! having its ends mounted in the cross-bars I8 secured on the rear face of the closure 6 provides an arcuate, rack for, hanging of clothes thereon. This baror, rack I! is spaced radially outward from the wall H to permit the freedom of the hanging of clothes on said rack. Secured to the panels 1 and 9 adjacentthe lower ends thereof are the ends of a semi-circular rod l9 and slightly below this rod l9 supported n..the,.bott oml I4 is a semi-circularshelflfl.

V -"I'his rack .or. bar [9, and the lower shelf Ziicon- .stltute a shoe rack for the storage of numerous Mpairsof shoes.

qgThenclosure j 5. is adapted to be revolvably .mounted.i11. the door f rame, 3.

lthis idea, .we provide a ball-bearing structure 2 Lbetweenithelower end of the closure 5; and .the. base, of; thejrame of the cavity,v as .shown o..in,Figure, '7, andgthe closure 8 is provided-at its upper end centrally with a swivel pintle 22 fitting in a, socket 23 in the frame 5. This-con- ,sti-tutes..a.-most.simple swivel and ball-bearing structure to-.p erm,it of thegclosure 6 being read- .i,1y:irevolvedjnjrthe.floor frame, .but it*will., be

understood thatany. other. form of .swivel'and ..ball -bearing "construction ,may' be utilized,

desired.

JIIhus-itwill, beseen. that when the ;closure 6 zeis positioned as shown. Figure, ,1, articlesof a-iwearingaapparel,linens; andyarious other ar- ;tiG1 3Y be.concealedwithin. the cavity or elo s et.. space. .Thenmirrorgin the central panel ";--.of the\ closurewill serve -,its. .1,1sual, us ef.ul. func- :;-tion.-;and-. without, revolving the. closure, access may xbe,readi-ly ,had to. linens. and otherarticles wwhich. maybe stored in the. closetspace or comapartment :18 .provided .intherclosure m6. jiflfhe =-,mirror.ed. closure or ,panel 8 11 .may the readily -op.ened .by pulling; onthe handle 21;. Access.- to

theecavity orflcloset 2,;may .be..had bvpartially 50 arevolving the 1:,closure 6 ,and. to facilitate the ';:movement. gbyqpulling, we provide the. handles 525; on thisiclosure. [It is apparentthrough ;the revolving of the closure to a position as shown .;in Figure 4. that ready access. may .be ,hadto the articlesithatimay-be supported on the rear'jace :pf said-closure, whether same. arehangingfrom .thegrack; l1, supported, ongtheshoe rack l 9,, .or rcarried onthe shelf, I5. By partially revolving rgtthe-closuregfi toga position as shown imhigure 55 itqwillzbei-seenthat entr to .the cavity. 2 may .-.be: had to. either remove articlesfrom the .shelves 41hr ;for:'dressing; room; purposes, the mirror ,on

the central =pane1 being useful in .thisconnection. 2 The. designing of the .shelves .4 .with, arcuate d -1 5,. aS-. aforesaid, Dermitsbf .the. door,or .gtolosureyt to be readily revolved withoutscontact ith :the :said: shelves and :said shelves .so, degned constitute ways between whichthe door =may,readilyrevolve.

' The V n-described construction-is characterized :both. by: advantageous, configuration of. the? en- --..cloed:-;spaces and by. full useofhtheavailable 535133198; Withrrespect. tosadvantageous configuration, it is to be noted that the space in which In. carrying out clothes are suspended from the rack 11 (see Figure 3) is of annular configuration and is uniform in width or radial dimension. This arrangement permits the clothes to hang in series 5 with full width for each garment. The garments most often needed may be placed next to the door, at both ends of the arcuate rack ll. It will be noted, that whenclothes-tare. arranged in this manner a space is left near the axis of 1() curvature of the arcuate rack H but this space is occupied by the compartment I5. To make :this; relationship possible, the compartment [5 must be located near the axis of rotation of the .door and the lateral extent or dimension of the 15 central compartment measured radially must be substantially less than the width of the door. ,When the; central compartment is so located and so dimensioned, it provides the desired space for' the hung garments which space extends radially outward from the inner compartment towards'the circle defined by the swingingmove- =ment of a vertical edge of the door. "This outer circle 'is shown in broken lines in Figure 3.

We have shown and described thisconstruc- 5-tion r as particularly applicable to a wall of a structure, but it will be readilyunderstood 'that this: construction may be applicable. 110 a cabinet -separate from. a wallrstructure and. to .this extent we: do not wish to be limited to installation to. homesor apartments, since acabinetzof this constructionmay be readily built and sold to the ;;publlc. as' a- .unitfor use anywhere.

*From 1 the foregoing description of the "con- "'struction of our. improved revolvingdoorzand -..cabineto1tcloset structure,'.themethod 'of construction and application: to 'usewill- 'be-ireadily understood and it will be.seen'that'we havez-provided a comparatively simple, 'inexpensivesand efficient means forcarrying out: the various-ob- -"40'-jects of'the invention. While -we have pa rti'cu- :la'rly' described the elements-bestadapted' to per form the functions set forth, it is apparent that "various changes in form-proportion and-in the *minordetails of construction may be" -resorted I to without departing from the spirit" or-sacrificing to the circle defined by the swinging 'side' edge of the door, said space being. of' sufficient-radial dimension to accommodate ahung garment and "structure supported by said door in itheifupper region of said'space to. suspend garments in-said space.

' 2; 'In a" closet or-cabinet'construction; walls forming a cavity with" an opening at 'theffront, a door for said opening mounted for rotation about an uprightaxis, a compartment mounted on the winner side of said door in the region of said: axis uwith an opening in the door for accessto the compartment,.the lateral extent of saidcompa'rtment .m easured.radially of saidaxis being substantially less than the same measurement. 'of the door; to

7 provide back of the door a space extending radially from the compartment to the circle defined by the swinging side edge of the door, said space being of suihcient radial dimension to accommodate a hung garment, and a shelf supported by said door in the upper region of said space.

3. In a closet or cabinet construction a combination as set forth in claim 1 in which said structure to suspend garments comprises an elongated member curved substantially concentric to said axis and adapted to carry conventional clothes hangers.

4. In a closet or cabinet construction, walls forming a cavity with an opening at the front, a door for said opening mounted for rotation about an upright axis, a compartment mounted on the inner side of said door in the region of said axis with an opening in the door for access to the compartment, the lateral extent of said compartment measured radially of said axis being substantially less than the same measurement of inner side of said door in the region of said axis .1

with an opening in the door for access to the compartment, the lateral extent of said compartment measured radially of said axis being substantially less than the same measurement of the door to provide back of the door a space extending radially from the compartment to the circle defined by the swinging side edge of the door, said space being of sufficient radial dimension to accommodate a hung garment, a structure supported'by said door in the upper region of said space to suspend garments in said space, and a shelf supported by said door in the lower region of said space.

6. In a closet or cabinet construction, walls forming a cavity with an opening at the front, a door for said opening mounted for rotation about an upright axis, means including an upright arcuate wall mounted on the inner side of said door forming an inner compartment, said door having an opening for access to the compartment, the lateral extent of said compartment measured radially of said axis being substantially less than the same measurement of the door to provide back of the door a space extending radially from the compartment to the circle defined by the swinging side edge of the door, said space being of sufficient radial dimension to accommodate a hung garment, and structure supported by said door in the upper region of said space to suspend garments in said space.

'7. In a closet or cabinet construction, Walls forming a cavity with an opening at the front, a door for said opening mounted for rotation about an upright axis, a compartment mounted on the inner side of said door in the region of said axis with an opening in the door for access to the compartment, said compartment extending upward from a level near the lower edge of said door to a, level near the upper edge of the door, the lateral extent of said compartment measured radially of said axis being substantially less than the same measurement of the door to provide back of the door a space extending radially from the cornpartment to the circle defined by the swinging edge of the door, said space being of suificient radial dimension to accommodate a hung garment, and a closure for said compartment mounted on said door.

8. In a closet or cabinet construction, a wall having a depression forming a cavity therein, a frame for said cavity, shelves mounted in the corners of said cavity distant from the opening leading to said cavity, a door for said cavity revolvably mounted at the top and bottom thereof in the frame of said cavity, a panel hinged to said door to form an auxiliary closure, an arcuate wall mounted on the rear face of said door and forming with said auxiliary closure an intermediate closet, shelves mounted on said arcuate Wall to support articles 'within said intermediate closet, additional shelves mounted on the rear face of said door and partially surrounding said arcuate wall for support of further articles thereon, and a rack mounted on the rear face of said door partially surrounding said arcuate wall for the support of additional articles.

WILLIAM J. KURS'ITN. VITO M. RENNA.

REFERENCES CITED The following references are of record in the file of this patent:

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