US103980A

US103980A - Improved toilet-mirror

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Publication number: US103980A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1870-06-07
Anticipated expiration: 1887-06-07

Description

G/H. OHINNOGK & E, P. WILLIAMS.

TOILET MIRROR No. 103,980. Patehted June 7, 1870.

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GEORGE H. OHINNOCK, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., AND EDWARD P. WILLIAMS,

OF ELIZABETH, NEW JERSEY.

Letters Patent No. 103,980, dated June i, 1870.

IMPROVED TOILET-MIRROR.

---0 The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of the same.

Be it known that we, GEORGE H. Gnrxxocx, of the city, county, and State of New York, and ED- WARD P. WILLIAMs, of Elizabeth, Union county, in the State of New Jersey, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Toilet-Mirrors; and we do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawing forming apart of this specification, in which Figure 1' is a. side view ofa toilet-mirror.

Figure 2 is a plan of the joint and cap which connect the mirror with the supporting-pillar or stand.

Figure 3 is a side view of thecap detached.

Figure 4 is top view of the same.

Figure 5 is a vertical section of the same.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts .in the several figures.

-This-invention relates to the means of producing friction in the joint by which the mirror is attached to the arm of the cap of the supporting-pillar or stand,

whereby the adjustment of the mirror at various inclinations is provided for, and theadjustment at any,

inclination is secured and It consists in an elastic construction of the arm of the cap.

v A Aarc rectangular plates secured firmly, by screws or otherwise, to the back of the mirror 0, for the purpose of receiving between them the arm a a of the cap 15 of the supportingpillar or stand I). These plates A A and the arm a a of the cap' have inserted through them the pivot 0, upon which the glass is capable of swinging vertically, to provide for its adjustment at various inclinations.

Thecap B is represented as constructed of a single piece of steel plate, bent attbe middle of its length to form an eye, e, which fits the upright pin or pivot b, provided on the top of the standD, and having the portions a :1 beyond this eye s0 bent or shaped that, in their normal condition, they curve or incline outward from each other, as shown in fig. 4. These-portions (1- a form an elastic arm to the cap, and, when embraced between the plates A A, they are so drawn together, either by riveting the ends of the prvot, or by a screw on the pivot, or by otherwise setting up the plates A A toward each other that, by their own elasticity and tendency to straighten themselves, they produce sntlicient friction between their outer surfaces and the inner surfaces of the plates A A torctain the mirror at any inclination at which it may be placeu, but yet permit the inclination to be variously adjusted.

It is preferable that the two'portions (a a of the elastic arm be made concave around the pivot-holes ff, as shown in fig. 5. 'ihis enables them to exert a greater pressure and friction against the plates A A.

Instead of the two portions of the elastic arm of the cap being constructed so that they tend to spring apart, they may be so constructed that they tend to spring together, in which case they may receive between them the platesA A, or asingle plate attached to the back of the mirror as a substitute for the said plat-cs, and in such case the elastic arm will clamp itself upon the exterior of the said plate orplates, and, by its elasticity, produce the necessary friction to hold the mirror in essentially the same manner as the elastic arm represented in the drawing.

The eye of the cap may be fitted to swing upon the pin or pivot I), to'permita horizontal movement; of

the mirror, or may be so fitted to the top of'the stand as not to provide t'or'such horizontal movement.

\Vhat we claim as our invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The arms a. of the cap B, constructed of a curved and concavo-convcx form, for operation in the manner essentially as shown and described.

GEORGE H. OHINNOCK; EDWARD P. WILLIAMS. Witnesses:

' FRED. Harms,

ARTHUR Kimrnn.