US1503894A - Chest of trays - Google Patents

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Aanga 5', 1924.

F. l-iAMlLTON CHEST oF TRAYs Y Filed Jan. 28, 1924 f mit star FRANCIS F. HAMILTON, OIF INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA.

S PATENT iff CHEST OF TRAYS.

.Application filed January 28, 1924. Serial No. 688,910.

To @ZZ w/tom t may 00m-cera.: in a chest 6, of the right width to receive the Be it known that l, FRANCIS F. HAMIL- trays with a sliding tit against the sides of TON, a citizen of the United States, residing the trays, but the length of the chest is at Indianapolis, in the county of Marion enough greater then the length of the trays 5 and State Vof Indiana, have invented new to provide spaces '7 at each end for the free and useful Improvements in a Chest of insertion of the lingers of a person between Trays, of which the folle-wing is a specificathe trays and adjacent chest-end in placing tion. and removing the trays.

The object of this invention is to provide Vertical cleats 8, two for each front and l0 a safe and convenient place for the deposit of back walls of the chest, are fastened to the trays containing sundry articles when the inner walls of the chest as shown, for contact latter are not in use, such as gaming devices therewith of the tray-ends, whereby the employing' several series each comprising a trays will be properly spaced from the ends plurality of separate pieces or tiles which of the chest and so retained as long as they 15 are best kept in methodical order. remain within the chest. The corners of the A further object is to accommodate a setrays make close sliding lits against the ries of trays in a chest, which trays are cleats.

stacked one upon another therein, and to The chest has a suitable bottom 9, upon' provide means whereby one, or several, or which the trays are directly supported and 7o 20 all of the trays may be conveniently reached stacked,- and it is provided with a lid 10, with the fingers and removed. properly hinged and equipped with a lock,

A further object is to provide a simple, in any usual and suitable manner. durable, neat appearing, and inexpensively By the construction as above described manufactured device for the above uses and and as shown in the drawing, the stacked for any use to which it may be found to be trays are always held by the cleats in their adapted. vertical alinement, and the finger spaces 7,

l accomplish the foregoing, and other between the trays and each end of the chest objects which will hereinafter appear, by the enable the handles of any desired one of the means illustrated in the accompanying trays to be selected and reached with the so `S0 drawing, in whichngers, and that and all of the trays above Fig. l, is a front perspective view of a it may be quickly and easily lifted up and chest with the lid raised, and containing out of the chest. The number from the top trays. Fig. 2, is a top plan view of the chest of any given tray may be counted by feeling without its lid and without the top tray with the fingers, or by sight, as all of the S5 w shown in F ig. l, and F ig. 3 is a vertical sechandles of an end of the stack are visible tion on the line 3-8 of Fig. 2, showing all from above the open chest through the space of the trays in the chest, and closed lid. separating the trays from the adjacent end Like characters of reference indicate like of the chest. parts throughout the several views of the Having thus fully described my invention,

40v drawing. what I claim Vas new and wish to secure by The tiles or other gaming devices are VLetters Patent of the United States, is: placed and kept when not in use in the trays l. IThe combination, with a chest of rec- 1, here shown as live in number. These are tangular shape, of a plurality of like-shaped rectangular in shape, with raised sides and trays stacked in the chest and making close "i5 ends, and are alike in size. Handles 5 are sliding lit with the sides of the chest, said attached to the tray-ends, and as shown here, trays being enough shorter than the chest to are horizontal-flanges 'that make them easy provide a linger space between the trays and to grasp by the fingers when the fingers of the end of the chest, and vertical cleats fasthe two hands of a person desiring to lift the tened to the chest to keep the vertical aline- 50 trays are placed, one at each end of a tray. ment of the stack.

The trays 4 are stacked one upon the other 2. The combination, with a chest of rectangular shape, of a plurality of like-shaped trays stacked n the chest and making close sliding t With the sides of the chest, said trays being enough shorter tha-n the chest to 5 provide nger spaces between the trays and adjacent ends of the chest; V'rtal clets fastened to the chest to ke th ve'tal alnement of the stack, and horizont-l flanges forming finger-pulls on each end of each tray.

Signed at Indianapolis, India-na, this the 25th day of January, 1924.V .Y

ANCS HAMLTON.

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