US1298216A - Ironing-cabinet. - Google Patents

Description

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IRONING CABINET. APPLICATIONHLEU SEPT-30, 1918.

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IRONING CABINET.

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ANDERSON JENKINS, or JAGKSQNVILLE, FLORIDA.

IRONING-GA'BIN'ET.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Mar. 25, 1919.

Application filed september 30, 1918. Serial'No. 256,266.

To all whom z't-may concern:

Be it known that I, ANDERSON JENKINS, a citizen of the United States, residing at Jacksonville, in the county of Duval and State of F lorida,have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Ironing-Cabinets, of which 'the following is a specification.

This invention 1 relates to laundry apparatus, and more particularly to ironing outfits or cabinets.

The object of the invention is to provide a collapsible ironing cabinet which when not in use may be stored in a very small space and when needed setup quickly.

Another object is to'prov-ide an outfit of this character including a sliding board and a folding or swinging-stool for use when ironing.

With the foregoing and other objects in view, which will appear as the description proceeds, the invention resides in the combination and arrangement of parts and in the details of construction hereinafter described and claimed, it being understood that changes in the precise embodiment of the invention herein disclosed may be made within the scope of what is claimed without departing from the spirit of the invention.

In the accompanying drawings Figure 1 represents a side elevation of the outfit embodying this invention shown ready for use,

Fig. 2 is a top plan view thereof,

Fig. 3 is a detail perspective view of the socket carrying end of the seat supporting bracket,

Fig. 4 is an end elevation of the outfit,

Fig. 5 is a perspective view showing the cabinet constituting a portion of the outfit with the boards employed incased therein in the position assumed when not in use, and

Fig. 6 is a front view of the wall engaging plate shown attached to a base board, the latter being broken off for convenience in illustration.

In the embodiment illustrated a cabinet 1 is shown composed of a base board 2 having upstanding end members 3 connected at one edge intermediately of their ends by a cross bar 4. These end members are connected at their upper ends by laterally spaced rods 5 which form guides and retaining members for the ironing board 20 and the sliding board 25 presently to be described, and to a permit the cabinet to be used as a clothes rackwhen outfit is in use.

The front of the cabinet 1 has a movable wall or closure 6 extensibly connected therewith by links 7 and when in operative position is designed to be swung upwardly as shown in Figs. 1 and 2-form1ng a support at its opposite ends or side edges which are designed to detachably engage eyes 9 carried by theinner faces of the end members 3 and when said eyes are engaged by said hooks the plate 6 will be held in inoperative closed position and form one wall of the cabinet .1 which is designed to receive the boards 25 and 20 as shown clearly in Fig. 5.

Another support for the board 20 is shown in the form of a plate 10 adapted to be connected with a support, preferably with 'the base board '24: of a room by means of angle brackets 17 shown clearly in Figs. 1 and 6. This plate 10 has projecting from its front face a pair of vertically alined bearings 11 in which is mounted a pintle 12 forming a hinge for the bracket arm 13 which is bifurcated at its rear end as shown at 13 and the furcations thereof equipped with bearings 13 through which the pintle 12 passes. This bracket 13 has its free end curved upwardly and provided with a socket member 14 which is designed to receive a pintle 23 carried by the lower face 22 of a chair or stool 21.

' The plate 10 is further provided on its outer face with obliquely disposed alined supporting clips 15 which are designed to support one end of the slide board 25, the other end being supported by the clips 8 on the outer face of plate 6 as is shown clearly in Fig. 1. This plate 10 is also provided on its upper edge with an upstanding pin or stud 16 which is designed to pass through an aperture 20 in the board 20 when in use as is shown clearly in Figs. 1

and 2. This pin holds the board securely in engagement with plate 10 and the other end thereof rests on the upper edge of plate 6 permitting it to be lifted when desired for the insertion of skirts and the like for ironing.

From the above description it will be seen that the outfit embodying this invention comprises a cabinet 1 in which the slidable board '25 and ironing board 2Q may be stored when not in use and the wall plate 10 on which is mounted the seat or stool supporting bracket 13 which is foldable flat against said plate when not in use, the seat itself being first removed and placed where desired.

When it is desired to use the outfit, all that is necessary is to swing the bracket 13 out and insert the pintle 23 of the seat in the socket 14 then disengage the hooks 9 from the eyes 9 and swing the extensible plate 6 outward until its lower end rests on the floor with its upper end in position to support the ironing board 20. The ironing board is then removed from the cabinet and its apertured endengaged with the upstanding pin 16 carried by plate 10 and its other end rested on the top of -plate'6'. The sliding board 25 is engaged with the clips 8 and 15 carried respectively by the plates 6 and 10 and operates to guide the clothes ironed into a basket or other receptacle beneath the board 20. The seat supporting bracket 13 is positioned at one side of the board engaging pintle 16 so that the oper- Oopies of this patent may be obtained for ator may be conveniently located in relation to the board 20 and the sliding board 2 5.

From the foregoing description, taken in connection with the accompanying drawings, the advantages of the construction and of the method of operation will be readily apparent to those skilled in the art to which the invention appertains and while I have described the principle of operation of the invention together with the device which I now consider to be the best embodiment thereof, I desire to have it understood that the device shown is merely illustrative and that such changes may be made as are within the scope of the claimed invention.

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

An ironing cabinet having laterally spaced guides for boards to be housed in the cabinet, a front plate connected with the cabinet by links and adapted .to fit flat against the front face of the cabinet when-not in use, a rest for supporting said plate when folded, a support engaging plate, an ironing board having means for engagement with said plate, a slide board, and meanscarried by said plates for supporting the slide board in inclined position below the ironing board.

In testimony whereof I aifixmy signature in presence of two witnesses.

ANDERSON JENKINS. Witnesses:

WILLIE LOWE, JOHN H. BALLOU.

five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents, Washington, D. G.

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