US1414062A - Mail or the like box - Google Patents

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C. E. ARNOLD.

MAIL 0H THE LIKE BOX.

APPLICATION FILED IAN. a, 192|.

` Patented. Apr. 25, i922.

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UNITED STTES;

PATENT OFFICE.

'enanas E. AnNoLD, or SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA.

MAIL OR THE LIKE BOX.

T all lwhom it may concern.'

Be it known that I,CHARLES E. ARNOLD, ai

4citizen of the United States, and a resident cation.

My invention relates to boxes which are commonly used as receptacles for holding mail before its collection, by either the mail man, or the addressee.

Boxes such as these are, used in.oiiice buildings, dwellings and other places as a collection receptacle for letters and other mail, and the same are deposited therein by the postman to await collection by the addressee, or they may be deposited by the. sender, awaiting collection by the postman. Sometimes theseboxes are used on the outside of dwellings, oflices and other places, and it often happens the'box is not of the proper size, or the dimensions of the same are insuicient to accommodate unusually large envelopes and it has heretofore been necessary to deposit such largeV envelopes either on the floor or other places where it Y may become lost or mixed with other paraphernalia, which results in delayed ydelivery.

The primary object of my invention is to make a slight departure from the construction of the conventional type of mail boxto provide meansfor accommodating envelopes and other mail matter which is too large to be received in the receptacle itself.

I have illustrated the preferred embodi- Vment of the invention in the accompanying drawing, in which the ligure is a perspective view of a more or less conventlonal type of mail box illustrating the application of the invention.

Referring to the ligure in detail, the box A may be constructed along any desired lines and of anyv material; for instance, it may include a relatively deep, four-sided recep-v tacle having a bottom (5) and Van open top. The front (6) may include a plurality of lpose described.

Specification of Letters Patent.` l Patented A pl. 25, 1922.

, Application mea January 8,-1921. serial No. 435,903. v

elongated slots (7) as is sometimes customs? ary, and the box may terminate with its upper portion providing a hanger by produclng one or more-'small openings (b) in the thickness of the same, through which screws, nails, tacks or other fastening means may bepassed and driven into a wall, post,

door frameor other supporting structure.

In some instances the boxes may be made of cheap metal, preferably` such as tinfto make them economical to manufacture in large quantities.'

Mail may be deposited in the box by the postman to await a call by the addressee, or it'may be deposited by the sender to await a call by the postman. At any rate, it often happens, as before mentioned, that some of the mail is too large to be accommodated by the usual type of box. I therefore purpose to provide means tov accommodate oversize mail by recessing .the two side walls ofthe box to leave a pair of openings(9) adjacent the,back wall, so 'that an envelop or the like may be received and supported by the receptacle Without danger of the same becoming dislodged. The openings in. some respects resemble a supporting shelf, and the vdimensions of the same may be such as, to

accommodate several pieces of mail of considerable thickness.

The provision of these openings will' not add tothe cost of production; at the same time the will greatly increase the valuation of t e box from a selling standpoint,

and also add to the attractiveness and con.

venience of the same.

I claim: 4 Y A sheet metal mail receptacle having four walls, a bottom and an open top, the back wall of the receptacle adapted'to be fixed to a supporting structure andthe top edges of the oppositel disposed side wallsadjacent wv'. v the back wal being c ut to leave relatively Y deep andwide openings with the back wall forming one vertical side'for the back of the openings substantially as and for the pur- CHARLES E. ARNOLD.

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