US106941A

US106941A - Improved bureau

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Publication number: US106941A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1870-08-30
Anticipated expiration: 1887-08-30

Description

tuitrd fnd-rs @anni @Mitica CHENEY KILBURN, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOR TO KILBURN & GATES, OF SAME PLACE.

Letters Patent No. 106,941, datedAugust 30, l1870.

IMPRovnD BUREAU.

The Schedule referred to in 4these Letters Patent and making part of the same I, CHENEY KILBURN, of Philadelphia, county of' Philadelphia., Stateof Pensylvania, have invented an Improvement in Bureaus, ot' which the following is a specification.

.Na-ture and Object of the Invention.

My invention relates to an improvement on the invention for which Letters :Patent were allowed to me onthe 20th day of July, A. D. 1870, and consists of a certain combination ot parts in which thumb-screws, inserted through the top ot' the bureau, from below, into the standards of a looking-glass, are rendered available as a means of receiving the box or boxes which form the base of said standards, and also of securing a detachable top to a bureau.

'Ihe object of xny invention is to avoid the use of glue, nails, or screws, by which boxes have been usually secured to bureaus; also, to facilitate the detachment of the looking-glass standards and the boxes prior to packing the bureausl for transportation, andy to afford ready means of securing these. parts together. Description of the .Accompanying Drawing.

Figure 1 is a sectional perspective view of a bureau with my improvements;

Figure 2, a vertical section of part of the same drawn to an enlarged scale; and

Figure 3, a sectional view of the parts illustrated in fig. 2, detached from each other. l

Genera-Z Description.

A represents the top of a bureau;

B B B, the drawers; and

I), the looking-glass hung to standards E.

It has been usual to provide these standards with screws of wood projecting through the top A of the bureau, and furnished beneath the same with wooden nuts, a. very unstable mode of fastening, which I improved upon by insexting the stem of a thumb-screw from'below the top of the bureau into each standard, as desclibed in my application for a patent-'led February 15, 1870, and allowed July 20, 1870.

In my present improvement I further increase the utility of these thumb-screws by making them mediums for securing the small boxes, which form the bases of the standards, to the top of the bureau.

In the present instance these boxes c a have each a hinged lid, but they maybe so constructed as to receive small drawers.

Ihe standards E rest on the permanent portions d of the boxes, and the stem of a thumb-screw, e, passes through the top of the bureau into each standard, as shown in the drawing.

If the bureau hasv a plain wooden top, a. simple washer, f, may intervene between the head of lthe screw and the under side of the said top; but if the latter be of marble or slate, a strip, h, of wood, fbrming a permanent part of the bureau, may form a support for the r'aarble, the washer in this case intervening between the said strip and the head of the screw, which thus serves to secure both the standards, box,- and marble to the bureau.

In some cases one long box extends nearly from end to end of the bureau, iu place of the two smaller boxes a a, and this long box, togetherv with the looking-glass standards, can be secured to the bureau in in the manner described above.

A looking-glass is in some cases hung to one frame instead of to separate standards, and this frame may be secured in the manner described above.

Not only may the use ot' glue, nails, and screws, heretofore used in securing boxes to the tops of bureaus be dispensed with, by adopting my invention, but the box or boxes a, and looking-glass standards or frame, can be more readily detached from each other, and more readily secured.. together than in ordinary bureaus.

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- CHENEY KILBURN.

Witnesses:

. WM. A. STEEL,

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