US1178260A - Ironing-board. - Google Patents

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R. BPPALMER.

IRONING BOARD.

APPLICATION FILED SEPT. 10, 1915.

1,178,260. Patented Apr. 4,1916.

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RAY B. PALMER, 0F NORWICH, NEW YORK.

IBONING-BOARD.

Application filed September 10, 1915.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, RAY B. PALMER, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Norwich, in the'county of Ghenango and State of New York, have invented a new and Improved Ironing-Board, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

My present invention relates to an ironing board structure having folding supports for the board, the supports including braces pivotally connected at one end and having means whereby to detachably connect the opposite ends of the braces, to variously adjust said braces whereby to vary the height ofthe board or adapt it for other purposes such as a bedside table.

The invention also has in view strength and convenience of adjustment.

The invention will be particularly explained in the specific description following.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying description forming a part of this specification, in which similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the views, and in which: v

Figure 1 is a perspective view of an iron ing board embodying my invention, and in erect position; Fig. 2 is an inverted plan view ofthe board folded; Fig. 3 is a side elevation of the structure adjusted as in Fig. 1; Fig. 4 is a similar view with the supporting elements differently adjusted; Fig. 5 is a side elevation showing an adjustment to dispose the board at a lower elevation than that illustrated in Figs. 1 to 4; and Fig. 6

is a side elevation showing a variant in the adjustment of the parts to position the board at the same elevation as in Fig. 5.

In carrying out my invention in accordance with the illustrated example, the board proper, 10 is provided in practice with an auxiliary board for use in ironing sleeves, and the like, the said auxiliary boardll being detachably supported, there being a depending pin 12 at the underside adapted to pass through a corresponding orifice in the board 10 near one end. Also, a block 13 on the auxiliary board, at the pin 12, is wedgeshaped, the lower end being tapered to enter in a transverse slot 14 in the board 10. Thus, when positioned, the auxiliary board 11 will be sustained with the pin 12 adjacent to across-bar or cleat 15 on the underside of the board 10 near one end, the block 13 serving to firmly support the auxiliary board elevated above the board 10.

Specificationof Letters Patent.

Patented Apr. 4, 1916.

Serial No. 49,888.

011 the cleat 15 legs 16 are pivoted, said cleat having trunnions 17 for the purpose. A second pair of legs 18 is pivotally connected at one end with a cross-bar 16' of the legs 16 and extends downwardly obliquely therefrom beneath the board 10 to rest on the floor.

A brace 19 presenting side members is pivotally connected to trunnions 1O on a cleat 10 secured to the underside of the board 10 distant from the cleat 15, and means are pro vided to variously connect the lower end of the brace 19 in the manner hereinafter described. A second brace 20 presenting side members is pivotally connected to a crossbar 18 of the second pair of legs 18 and means are provided to variously connect the opposite end of the brace 20.

In full lines in Fig. 1, the brace 19 is detachably connected with the cross-bar l6 on the legs 16 to which the second pair of legs 18 are pivoted, said cross-bar 16 being received in notches19 in the upper sides of the side members of the brace 19. A turn button 21 onthe brace 19 serves to prevent displacement of the brace 19 from the crossbar 16 A second notch 19 is provided adj acent to the notch 19 and either notch may engage the cross-bar 16 for adjusting the height of the board. Also, the brace 19 may connect with the cross-bar 20 at either notch 19, as indicated in Fig. 3. Furthermore, the brace 19 may connect with the pin 18 of the second pair of legs 18, as indicated in dotted lines in Fig. 3, said pin 18 being received inthe lower one of two notches 19 in the underside of the brace 19, without altering the elevation of the board. V

In Fig. 3 the brace 20 at the end opposite the pivot 18 is shown in full lines detachably connected with the first pair of legs 16, there being a cross bar 16 in the lower ends of said legs'which is received in a notch 20 or 20 in'the side members of the brace 20 at the underside thereof. In Fig. 1 in full lines the brace 20 is shown detachably connected with a cross-bar 16 above the second pair of legs 18. In either position turn buttons 22 on the brace 20 prevent displace ment of said brace. Two other positions of the brace 20 are indicated in dotted lines in Fig. I. In one of these positions the notch 19 in the side members of the brace 19 receive a cross-bar 20 of the brace 20. In the second dotted line position in which the brace 2 i s b t ntially upright, the side members of said brace engage between the cleat 10 and blocks 23 secured to the underside of the board 10. To effect the last adjustment, the side members of the brace 20 are rabbeted as at 20, the reduced ends 20* thus provided entering between the cleat 10 and the said blocks 23. To strengthen the brace 19, it may have a cross-bar 19 In Fig. 5 the elements 19, 20 are adjusted to dispose the board 10 at a somewhat lower elevation than in Figs. 1 to 4. In this arrangement the cross-bar 18 is engaged with the upper notch 19, and the notch 20 of element 20 is engaged with cross-bar 16. The extent of the vertical adjustment varies withthe number of notches 19 and the number of notches in. the element 20.

In vFig. 6 the board is disposed at the same elevation as in Fig. 5 but by a different relative arrangement of the elements 19, 20. In Fig. 6 the element 19 has its notch 19 engaged with the cross-bar 20 of element 20.

The full line adjustments of Figs. 3 and 4:,

and the position of the parts in Fig. 6, it

will be seen, leave a greater clearance beneath the board 10, and the structure, in these adjustments, serves very well as a bed side table, as the board 10 may be disposed to a very material extent above the bed. Dotted line adjustments of Figs. 3 andt andthe arrangement illustrated in Fig. 5, leave less clearance beneath the board 10, and hence the structure is less-adapted for use as a bedside table, but on the other hand is more stable for use as an ironing board.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is:

1. A structure of the character described, including elements as follows: an ironing board, legs pivotally connected at their upper ends with the board near one end of the latter, a second pair of legs pivotally connected near one end with the first pair of legs and extending downwardly therefrom beneath the board, a brace pivotally connected at its upper end with the board, distant from the first pair of legs, and a second brace.

pivotally connected at one end' with the second pair of legs, there being means to end opposite its pivot with one of said elements other than the second pair of legs, and there being means to detachably connect the first brace at the end opposite the pivot, with one of said elements other than the board.

2. A structure of the character described, including elements as follows: an'ironing board, legs pivotally connected at their upper ends with the board near one end of the latter, a second pair of legs pivotally connected near oneend with the first pair of legs and extending downwardly therefrom beneath the board, a brace pivotally connected at its upper end with the board, and a second brace'pivotally connected at one end withthe second pair of legs and detachably connected with the first pair of legs, there being meansto detachablyconnect the end of the first brace opposite its.

pivot with one of said elements other than the board.

3. A structure of the character described, including elements as follows: an ironing board, legs pivotally connected at their upper ends with the board near one end of the latter, a second pair of legs pivotally connected near one end with the first pair'of legs and extending downwardly therefrom beneath the board, a brace pivotally con nected at its upper end with the board, disf tant from the connection of the firstleg's and having means whereby to detachably. connect its opposite end with the first legs,

and a second brace below the first brace and pivotally connected at one end with the second pair of legs distant from the first legs, the said second brace having means at its opposite end to detachably connect the same with one of said elements other than the second pair'of legs.

In testimony whereof I have subscribed my name to this specification in the presence of. two subscribing witnesses;

RAY B; PALMER,

\Vitnesses: i I

CUn'rIs PALMER, CYNT IA P LM R.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by ad dressing tho Commissioner of Patents,

'Washington D. C.

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