Apparatus for facilitating pick up of dry cleaning
AssigneeThe Raymond Lee Organization, Inc.
InventorLaurie Richard
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Abstract
Apparatus used to facilitate pick up of dry cleaning which uses a multi-drawered cabinet with each drawer having a separate access door. The door is unlocked when a coin is deposited therein and thereafter when closed is locked. A key operated device enables the door once locked to be unlocked and the coin removed. The user after opening the door using the coin places the material for dry cleaning in the cabinet and then locks the door. The person making the pick up opens the door with a key, removes the coin and also removes material from the drawer for cleaning.
Claims2
In apparatus used to facilitate pick up of dry cleaning, wash and the like, a multi-drawered cabinet, each drawer having a separate access door which can be opened and closed while always remaining in vertical position, each door having a side opening for receiving a latch, each door being provided with a separate mechanism for unlocking and locking the door, each mechanism comprising:
- a horizontally elongated latch which can be moved horizontally forward to engage the corresponding side opening to lock the corresponding door and which can be moved horizontally rearward to be withdrawn from said side opening to unlock said door;
- spring means bearing against the latch to normally bias the latch into forward position;
- a horizontal shaft rotatable about its axis and extending past the latch at right angles thereto;
- a vertical cam on said shaft which is pivoted about the shaft in a vertical plane when the shaft rotates;
- a check on the latch disposed on one side of the cam;
- stop pins disposed on both sides of the cam and spaced therefrom;
- a cam wedge on the latch;
- a push-button device having a cam follower cooperating with the wedge, said device including a button spring loaded biased into a normally extended position, said button having a compressed position when manual pressure on the button overcomes the spring bias thereon, said follower bearing against the wedge surface when the button is in extended position and being spaced from the wedge surface when the button is in compressed position;
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- handle means manually operable and secured to the shaft for rotating the shaft in one direction until the cam bears against the check and moves the latch rearward against the bias of the spring means until the cam bears against one pin to withdraw the latch from the side opening, said handle means rotating the shaft in the opposite direction until the cam bears against the other pin and no longer overcomes the bias of the spring means.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.