US1146349A - Cover for ironing-boards. - Google Patents

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F. ROSS.

COVER FOR IRONING BOARDS.

APPLICATION FILED MAY 5,1915.

LlfifiQn Patented July 13, 1915.

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- FRANCES ROSS, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

COVER FOR IRONING-IBOARDS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented July 13, 1915.

Application filed May 5, 1915. Serial N 0. 26,011.

To all whom it may concern: 4

Be it known that I, FRANCES Ross, a citizen of the United States, residing at New York, in the county of New York and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Covers for Ironing-Boards, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to a cover for ironing-boards and has for its object to produce a cover, which can be readily and firmly secured in place and readily removed.

Heretofore it has been the custom to cover the ironing-board by fastening thereto by lacks an old blanket to serve as a pad, and then to provide a proper ironing surface by wrapping about the padded boarda piece of sheeting which is held in place by tacks or safety-pins secured to the blanket. Various more or less complicated-devices, including lacings, have also been proposed.

My invention provides a simpler, cheaper and more effective device in that it consists of a bag whose sides are tapered to correspond to the shape of the ironing-board, having permanently formed within it a suitable pad, and provided with an overlap long enough to extend over the wider end of the board. This overlap and the bottom portion of the bag are provided with cooperating fastening means such as tapes or buttons or series of fasteners, so that when the bag is pulled up over the board, the ironing surface with its underlying pad will be tightly stretched across the board, and when the fastening means are secured, the ironing-board will be provided with a securelyfastened smooth, soft, tightly-stretched ironing-surface.

The construction of my improved device will be readily understood from the draw-.

ings, in which,

Figure 1 is a back view, with the overlap open; Fig. 2 is a front view of Fig. 1; Fig. 3 is a side View of Fig. 1; and Fig. 4: is a section on plane 44 of Fig. 1.

The upper or ironing surface portion A of the bag is made of muslin, sheeting, or any other desired material, and has an overlap portion B. Secured to the underside of the portion A,,and preferably also extend- 111g under the overlap portion B, is a pad or cushion C, which may conveniently be made of a qullted pad. This pad C is preferably made of nearly the same shape, as to width and taper, as the ironing-board. The back or pocket portion D is also secured at its edges to the pad C and is made of sufficient fullness to just receive the tapering ironingboard of the usual shape.

My device may be conveniently made by sewing both the back and upper portion of the device to the pad by a binding tape E and then turning thebag inside out, as in Fig. 4, in which the ironing-board F is shown in dotted lines. As shown by the dotted lines in Figs. 1 and 2, the bag is preferably made slightly longer than the board, so that suflicient play is left to cause the tight stretching about the board of the bag, when the tapering board is pushed down into the tapering bag. It will be noted thatthe ironing surface portion A is separate from the pad C, but secured thereto at its edges.

As shown in Figs. 1 and 2, a tape G is secured to the inner side of the overlap and another tape H is secured to the outer side of the back portion. Obviously any other adjustable fastening means, such as a button clasp, instead of one tape, and a series of buttons instead of the other tape, may be,

used.

The operation of the device is as follows :The tapering ironing-board is inserted into the bag, which is. then pulled tightly over the board, thus, .because of the tapering shape of both board and bag, causing the ironing surface A to be ti htly stretched over the board. The tapes and H are then tied and the ironing-board cover is securely held in place, with the pad covering the entireupper surface of the board with a tightly-stretched overlying ironing surface.

The cover can be readily removed for cleaning and as readily again secured in place.

I claim:

A cover for ironing-boards consisting of a tapering bag of the shape of an ironingby When said securing means are engaged board, the bag comprising an ironing-surthe bag is caused to snugly fit the ironingface portion having an overlap portion, a. board With the ironing surface portion m pocket-forming back portion, a pad secured "tightly stretched thereoverl to the underside of the ironing-surface por- Intestimony whereof I afiix my signature.

- tion, and securing means attached to the overlap portion and the back portion where- FRANCES ROSS.

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