Mail Box Signal (Patent No: 207643)

Inventor: Mackey, Frank Forrester

Location: Sexsmith

Comments: see Wagon trails grown over: Sexsmith to the Smoky; biographical information; b New York city 1878, cut ice; worked on street cars; homesteaded in North Dakota c1909; m Clarice Leda Wolverton 1914, 6 children; c1915 to Sexsmith; moved to Oregon

Description: Frank F. MacKey, Sexsmith, Alberta, Canada, 18th January, 1921; 6 years. Filed 25th June, 1920. Receipt No. 330,503.

Claim.—1. The combination with a mail box, of a bottom pivoted at its rear end therein and having a pin projecting from its front end, an arm pivoted on the front end of the box and carrying a signal, a crank pin connected with said arm, and a, link connecting this pin with the pin on the bottom.

3. The combination with a mail box, of a movable bottom therein hinged at one end near one end of the box, a pin projecting from the opposite end of said bottom through a slot in the adjacent end of the mail box, a disc pivoted to the latter end of the mail box and exteriorly thereof, a display signal projecting from the periphery of said disc, and a link between said disc and said pin for causing operation of the signal when mail matter is placed upon the movable bottom.

4. The combination with a mail box, of a movable bottom hinged at one end to one end of the mail box and extending to the opposite end, a pin projecting from the latter end of said bottom through a vertical slot in the adjacent end of the mail box. a rocking disc pivoted to the latter end of said mail box and exterior thereof, a signal member projecting from the periphery of said disc, a link pivoted at one end to said pin an-d at its opposite end to said disc for moving the latter and so changing the position of the signal when a weight is placed upon or removed from said movable bottom, said signal being maintained by a slight preponderance of weight in a, depressed position when the mail box is moved and to resume said position after being raised when all mall has been collected.

Claims allowed, 4.