Deposit and collection receptacles – Closures and chutes – Letter box
Patent
1993-03-11
1995-02-21
Milano, Michael J.
Deposit and collection receptacles
Closures and chutes
Letter box
B65G 1104
Patent
active
053908490
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
The present invention relates to an apparatus with a big vertical slot for mail transfer to a distant receiving box.
The conventional or specific letter-boxes approved by the Post-Office have traditionaly had horizontal slots with a breadth of two centimeters to about three centimeters. These letter-boxes do not fit well on fences with generally vertical openings (palisade, grille, door or main gate). The apparatus according to the invention allows a solution to this disadvantage.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
This problem is solved by the hood of the apparatus according to the invention having a vertical slot which fits easily on the above described fences and which receives vertically the mail parcel. The apparatus also includes a mail transfer conduit-slide-deflector which guides a mail parcel to the receiving box and reduces its speed. A receiving plate, inside the receiving box, receives the mail more than an arm's length from the vertical slot. The present invention also includes an elastic suspension for the receiving plate to absorb the shock of the parcel landing on this plate.
According to various particular configurations of manufacture: mounted on the hood which can be lifted easily or by an overhang from the hood or by the receiving extension of the top wall and both lateral walls of the hood, walls of the hood, receiving plate and elastic suspension of the receiving plate are not necessary.
In the following,an embodiment of the invention is explained in more detail with the aid of drawings.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS
FIG. 1 shows a perspective view of the hood mounted on a grille of a gate.
FIG. 2 shows a rear view of the apparatus according to the invention with the receiving plate in an upper position of minimum volume (open door).
FIG. 3 shows a top view of the apparatus (open door)
FIG. 4 shows a rear view of variant with a receiving plate placed on fixed bearing points.
FIG. 5 shows a section of apparatus taken along the line 1--1 in FIG. 3.
DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION
The apparatus, illustrated by these drawings, includes a hood 1 (with vertical slot 2) that communicates with the receiving box 3 by means of the mail transfer conduit 6. The hood 1 and its mobile shutter 4 shelter the mail from the rain. The whole of the vertical slot mailbox is hung from gate panel 23 by means of a fixation 5 on the gate. The slot 2 is placed before an opening 21 between two bars 22 of the grille of the gate. The receiving box 3 and the mail transfer conduit 6 are bound by a belt 7. The mail transfer conduit 6 slide 10 deflector 11 guides the mail 20 to the receiving plate 12 which is hung by elastic suspension 13. The thick wall 15 (thickness .gamma.) is the wall which is supporting the door 16 of the vertical slot mailbox. The other walls are thin (thickness .beta.). Two carrying handles 17 allow a person to manipulate the receiving box 3.
According to FIG.4, the receiving box 3 can have bearing points 14 so that the receiving plate 12 can be placed on several levels: upper (minimum volume), mid or lower (maximum volume).
According to variants not illustrated, the apparatus can be of rectangular or square section. Further, the apparatus can be embedded in a wall, sealed on a concrete socle, coated with bricks or parpens to form a pillar.
Referring to the drawing, the sizes are: the distance (.alpha.) between two openings through the gate, the breadth (A) of an opening and the cutting error (.epsilon.).
Without excluding other possible sizes, the approximate sizes of the apparatus, which can be made of wood, metal, plastic or other materials can be, for example,:
The apparatus according to the invention is suitable in particular for the fences with vertical openings and for buildings with small entrances which require the slots of letter-boxes to be brought nearer one another and the receiving to be moved further away from one another away.
1. In a mail receiving device for a structure having at least two rods which are oriented generally vertically and
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