US256838A - Carpet-stretcher - Google Patents

Description

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W. E. HENDERSON.

CARPET SIRETQHER. I No. 256,838. Patented Apr.25,1882.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

WILLIAM E. HENDERSON, OF IRON MOUNTAIN, MISSOURI.

CARPET-STRETCH ER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 256,838, dated April 25, 1882,

Application filodDece1nbcr20, 1881. (No model.)

.To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM E. HENDER- SON, of Iron Mountain, Missouri, have made a new and usefullinprovementin Carpet-Stretchers, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description, reference being had to the annexed drawings, making part of this specification, in which Figure l is a view in perspective of the improved stretcher; Fig. 2, a view in perspective from the under side of the stretcher-plate; Fig. 3,11 viewin perspective, lookingtoward the under side of the crab, Fig. 4, a side elevation of the stretcher-plate as in use, the plate being pressed downward and the carpet bein g against the floor; Fig. 5, a sectional elevation, show ing the stretcher as in use, the stretcher-plate and carpetbeinglilted from the floor; and Fig.

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The same letters denote the same parts.

In the drawings, A represents a carpet as being laid upon the floor F, and beingstretched in the direction of the arrow in Fig. 5-.

Brepresents what may beterlnedthestretcher-plate. its rear edge, 1), it -has a series of teeth or points, b,which areinclined orcurved forward, as shown, and at or toward its forward edge it has the teeth or points 0 0 represents acord attached to the plate B, and leading from the under side thereof.

D represents a crab having thebase-plate r], the shaft 01 at one end of the base-plate, and teeth or points (1 in the under side of the baseplate. A cord, E, leads from the crab-shaft (Z and connects with the cord (J by means of the book 6.

In its underside, and toward or at In practice the plate Bis connected with the carpet A by means of the teeth The crab is fixed in front of the plate byinserting the teeth (1 in the floor F and holding the end 61 of the base-plate d down, and either by inserting the end (1 under the strip G or by placing the foot upon it, and the cords E and O hooked together. Then by winding the cord E on the crab-shaft the parts are drawn into the position shown in Fig. 5, the carpet being lifted slightly from the floor F and stretched in the desired direction. It" the carpet needs a second stretching, the plate B is fixed and the carpet prevented from slipping back by pressing the forward edge of the plate down, so as to fix the points I) in the floor, as shown in Fig. 4. When this is done the crab is moved and readjusted and the stretching operation repeated: The strip G is attached to the wall or wall-board H.

I claim- 1. The co mbinalion ot' the stretcher-plate B, having the teeth b, the cord 0, the crab D, and the cord E, substantially as described.

2. The combination of the plate B, teeth I) b the cords G E, and the crab D, substantially as described.

3. The combination of theplate B, teeth 1) b the cords (l E, and the crab D, having the teeth (1 and the extended plate (I, substantially as described.

Vitness my hand.

WILLIAM E. HENDERSON. \Vitnesses:

UHAS. D. MOODY, SAML. S. Born.

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