Deposit and collection receptacles – Letter boxes – Compartment
Patent
1984-10-15
1985-12-10
Swiatek, Robert P.
Deposit and collection receptacles
Letter boxes
Compartment
232 434, 109 56, B65D 9100
Patent
active
045574162
ABSTRACT:
A multiple-unit mailbox apparatus comprising a number of parallel hinge door assemblies, a plurality of tubular mail receptacles and an outer support structure including a front panel which supports the receptacles and the hinge door assemblies at its front surface. The outer support structure also includes interconnected top, bottom and side panels including a back panel. The front panel has a plurality of container openings in which the mail receptacles are supported in spaced relationship from each other so that the receptacles can receive mail inserted therethrough. Each hinge door assembly includes a hinge rod fixedly mounted at its opposite ends to top and bottom weather strip portions of the front panel. Each hinge rod extends through intermediate strip portions of the front panel which are positioned between adjacent container openings. Each hinge door assembly also includes a set of aligned receptacle doors which are individually hinged on its respective hinge rod at spaced locations corresponding to receptacle openings formed at the front ends of the receptacles.
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patent: 950935 (1910-03-01), Lorenz et al.
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patent: 2781965 (1957-02-01), Dembs
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patent: 4446797 (1984-05-01), French
Hierman Thomas L.
Stahl Benedict J.
Stahl Benedict J.
Swiatek Robert P.
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