US101648A - Improved furniture-pad - Google Patents
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- A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
- A47—FURNITURE; DOMESTIC ARTICLES OR APPLIANCES; COFFEE MILLS; SPICE MILLS; SUCTION CLEANERS IN GENERAL
- A47C—CHAIRS; SOFAS; BEDS
- A47C7/00—Parts, details, or accessories of chairs or stools
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- A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
- A47—FURNITURE; DOMESTIC ARTICLES OR APPLIANCES; COFFEE MILLS; SPICE MILLS; SUCTION CLEANERS IN GENERAL
- A47B—TABLES; DESKS; OFFICE FURNITURE; CABINETS; DRAWERS; GENERAL DETAILS OF FURNITURE
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- Fig. 1 of the annexed drawings is shown a chair of ordinary construction, having provided in the lower end of each leg A a circular recess, B, the sides of which may either slope upward and inward in a straight line or, as shown in Fig. 2, in a curved line.
- a rubber pad, C Corresponding in shape with and fitting into the recess B is a rubber pad, C, about oncthird of the length of which projects downward below the end of the leg A.
- a small opening, c which serves to receive a nail, a, that, passing upward through said opening, enters the leg A and holds said pad frmlyin place, the yielding nature ofthe rubber permitting the head of said nail to be driven inward to the required distance ⁇ while its contraction around said head f is sufiicient to prevent the removal of the rubber from the leg unless considerable force is intentionally employed.
- the pad can only come in contact with articles placed immediately beneath the leg, and that therefore it will be subject to no strain other than that caused by moving the chair over the carpet or door, while from the large proportion of said pad embedded within the leg, and from the rm manner in which it is secured therein, no liability exists to its removal therefrom.
- Another advantage arises from theform of the recess within the leg, by means of which the strength ofthe latter is not materially decreased, although the sizeof the lower end of said opening may nearly or quite equal that of said leg.
- a rubber furniture-pad having an acorn or conical shape, substantially as and for the purpose specified.
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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.
WILLIAM B. MOSES, OF IVASHINGTON, DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA.
IMPROVED FURNITURE-PAD.
Specifica-tion forming` part of Letters Patent No. 10|,64S, dated April 5, 1870.
To all whom it may concer/n:
Be it known thatI, WILLIAM B. MOSES, of Washington city, in the county of Washington and in the District of Columbia, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Rubber Pads for Legs of Household Furniture; and I do herebydeclare that the following is afull,clear,and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, making a part of this specication, in
which t Figure lis a side elevation of a chair with my improvement attached to its legs, and Fig.
2 is an enlarged vertical central section of one of the legs of the same.
Letters of like name and kind refer to like parts in each of the figures.
In rubber pads as commonly constructedand applied much difculty is experienced in securing them to the furniture with suiiicient strength to prevent them from becoming detached by use, and although n various forms have been employed,in some of which the entire lower end of the leg is embraced, whilen others the pad is applied to or within the lower end ot' said leg, none have succeeded in removing this objection. Another ditliculty has arisen from the means employed for securing some ofpads to the furniture, to accomplish which so much of the leg was necessarily removed as to materially weaken the same and render it liable to become split from the action of the screw when applied, all of which objections have created a strong prejudice against the use of pads.
To remove these objections and produce a pad which, while cheap and easy vof application, shall be strong and durable, is the object of myinvention,which consists in the employment of an acorn or conical shaped pad having its upper or pointed end embedded within a corresponding recess provided in the furniture, as is hereinafter set forth.
In Fig. 1 of the annexed drawings is shown a chair of ordinary construction, having provided in the lower end of each leg A a circular recess, B, the sides of which may either slope upward and inward in a straight line or, as shown in Fig. 2, in a curved line.
Corresponding in shape with and fitting into the recess B is a rubber pad, C, about oncthird of the length of which projects downward below the end of the leg A.
Extending through the center, lengthwise of the pad, is a small opening, c, which serves to receive a nail, a, that, passing upward through said opening, enters the leg A and holds said pad frmlyin place, the yielding nature ofthe rubber permitting the head of said nail to be driven inward to the required distance` while its contraction around said head f is sufiicient to prevent the removal of the rubber from the leg unless considerable force is intentionally employed.
As thus constructed and applierhvit will be seen that the pad can only come in contact with articles placed immediately beneath the leg, and that therefore it will be subject to no strain other than that caused by moving the chair over the carpet or door, while from the large proportion of said pad embedded within the leg, and from the rm manner in which it is secured therein, no liability exists to its removal therefrom. Another advantage arises from theform of the recess within the leg, by means of which the strength ofthe latter is not materially decreased, although the sizeof the lower end of said opening may nearly or quite equal that of said leg.
In securing the pad within the recess I do not confine myself to the device herein described, as other and various means will readily suggest themselves.
Having thus fully set forth the nature and merits of my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-
A rubber furniture-pad having an acorn or conical shape, substantially as and for the purpose specified.
In testimony that I claim the foregoing I have hereunto set my hand this 7th day of March, 1870.
WM.`B. MOSES.
Witnesses:
GEO. S. PEINDLE, EDM. F. BROWN.
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