US1128709A - Swing. - Google Patents

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M. D. MIESNBR.`

SWING. APPLICATION FILED MAY 29, 1913.

Patented Feb.16,1915.

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Application filed May 29, 1913. Serial No. 770,774.

To all LU/wm it may concern Be it known that l, MARTIN D. Minsnnn, a citizen of the United States, residing at Altenburg, in the county of Perry and State of lvlissouri, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Swings; and l do following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled: in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

T his invention relates to particularly to that class swings. v

rlhe general object of the invention is to provide an improved lawn swing of that class having opposed seats in the form of rocking chairs, connected by a central floor or platform and mounted in a frame in suoli manner as to give both a rocking and swing ing motion to each rocker seat while the swing is in motion.

i further object of theinvention is to provide an improved adjustable and convertible table and foot rest attachment for swings of this character.

`With these objects in view the invention consists in the improved construction, arrangement and combination of parts of a device of the character specified, which will be hereinafter fully described and afterward specifically claimed.

ln order that its construction and operation may be readily comprehended, l. will now proceed to specifically and fully describe my invention in connection with the accompanying drawings which illustrate an approved embodiment thereof, in which drawings,

Figure 1 represents the complete double lawn swing in side elevation, with my table and foot rest attachment thereon. Fig. 2 represents a longitudinal vertical sectional view of one end portion of the supporting stand, showing the spring hangers for one of the chairs.

Like reference characters mark the same parts in both of the figures of the drawings.

Referring specifically to the drawings, 10, 10 indicate a pair of parallel longitudinal bars adapted to rest upon the ground, floor or other support, and connected near their outer ends by suitable cross bars.

12, 12 indicate horizontal parallel bars above each end portion of the bars 10 connected to each other by suitable cross bars swings and more known as lawn and supported above said bars 10 by upright sections of boarding as at 13, secured between the bars 10 and 12, the front edges of such boards being cut away as at 14 forming substantially semicircular spaces 15. The bars 12 are extended outwardly as at 17 to form handles by means of which the swing may be moved from place to place when desired, and such handle bars form the supports for a rocking or oscillating chair at each end of the framework. Each chair comprises a seat 18, arms 19, rockers 20, uprights or legs 21 secured at their lower ends to the rockers 20, at intermediate points to the seat 18 and at their upper ends to the arms 19, and a back 22 pivoted to the seat. 0n the arms, facing inward are racks 23. Handles 25 are pivoted at 2G to the sides of the seats, being connected by pivoted links' 27 to the back. The handles are made of any suitable elastic material and are so mounted that they are normally held by their elasticity in engagement with the teeth of the racks 23. 0n the upper edges of the bars 12 boxes or blocks 28 are secured by screws or bolts passing through openings into said bars 12, such boxes being provided in their upper faces with grooves 30 in which are received the main body portions of spring hangers which hangers at each end are bent downward, as at 83, and

at their lower ends, as at 34, outward, said lower ends engaging in openings in the inner faces of the rockers, said hangers also being of proper dimensions, horizontally, from end to end, to require that they be sprung inward to insert their ends in the openings in the rockers, whereby their elasticity retains them in position.

The rockers 2O at their forward ends, as at 41, are connected by cross rods, upon which is mounted a platform 42 by means of notches straddling the cross rods 41, which platform forms detachable foot rests for the occupants of the chairs, and the connections of the rockers and platforms being pivoted, pressure of the 'feet upon the platforms will cause the chairs to rock forward. lf the front edges of the upright board supports were vertical, the platform 42 would strike them very early in their return or backward movement on the hangers, but by hollowing out their front edges, space is provided to permit of greater backward movement, allowing the platform to move into the semicircular space 15 as shown in dotted lines in Fig. 2. Centrally upon each side of platform 42 is mountedv an` upright 43 which has a vertical notch in its upper edge at 44. table top 45 having depending side brace boards 46 through whichpass bolts 47 which, notches 44. These bolts long enough toengage in the (which may be one only, pass through both uprights), are adjustable in and removable from the notches, so that the table top may be readily adjusted as to height or inclination, or as readily removed, being held inr any adjusted position by a` nut or nuts 48. By loosening the nuts, the table may be reversed in position, as shown in dotted lines in Fig. l, inv which position it may be also adjusted inheight or inclination, or both and: secured in such position by the nuts, to serve as a foot or leg rest for the occupants of the chairs.

ien it is desired to di'smount the rocke ing chairs in order to use them independently of the supporting frame so that they may rest upon their own rockers, it is only necessary to lift off the platform and spring the ends of the hangers out of the openings of the rockers, when the chairs mayv be lifted out of the frame, leaving the hangers swinging in the boxes, and when it is desired to sto-re the parts, the hangers may be removed from the boxes by swinging the: latches aside.

I/Vhile I have specifically described' the construction and operation of the several elements embodied in my invention, I desire it to be understood that slight changes and variations may be made therein, without de- Between the uprights 43 is a,

parting. from the spirit and scope of the invention.

Having thus ful-ly described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States is 1. The combination in a lawn swing, of a supporting frame, oppositely disposed chairs' having rockers and swung upon said frame, a foot platform connecting the forward ends of the rockers of' the chairs, uprightsf mounted on the opposite sides of the foot platforms and a table pivotally and reversibly mounted in said uprights whereby it may sei-'ve also as a foot rest for either chair.

2. The combination in a lawn swing, of a supporting frame, oppositely disposed chairs having rockers and swung upon said frame, a foot platform pivoted to and connecting the forward ends of the rockers of the chairs, uprights mounted on the opposite sides of the foot platform and provided in their upper ends with vertical slots, a pivotalv bolt mounted insaid slots, a table between said uprights swung upon said pivotalV bolt and adjustable and reversible thereon, and a nut on the pivotal bolt for securing.l the table in any adjustment, the table also serving when reversed on the pivotal bolt as a swinging foot rest for either chair.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

MARTIN D. MIESNER.

Witnesses:

EHREGETT Torrrrz, GoTrLoB Gui-mame.v

Copies of this patent may be obtained for n ve cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents,

Washington, I D. G.-

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