US1131730A

US1131730A - Pedestal-table.

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Publication number: US1131730A
Application number: US79542913A
Authority: US
Inventors: John F O'connor
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 1913-10-16
Filing date: 1913-10-16
Publication date: 1915-03-16
Anticipated expiration: 1932-03-16

Description

J. P. OCONNOR. PEDESTAL TABLE.

APPLICATION FILED 00T.16, 1913.

1 ,131,730, Patented Mar.16,1915.

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UNITED STATES PATENT QFFIQh.

JOHN F. OGONNOR, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR TO WILLIAM H. MINER, 0F

' CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

Application filed October 16, 1913.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN F. OCoNNoR, a citizen of the United States, residing in Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Pedestal-Tables, of which the following is a full, clear, concise, and exact description, reference being had to the accompanying drawing, forming a part of this specification.

My invention relates to pedestal tables, more particularly those tables of an adjustable type.

The object of my invention is to provide an adjustable table, having a plurality of legs, in which the legs will automatically adjust themselves so that the same may engage an uneven floor.

In the drawings forming a part of this specification, Figure 1 is a side elevation of a pedestal table embodying my inventlon. Fig. 2 is a cross section taken at line 22 of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a cross section taken on line 3-3 of Fig. 1.

In the drawings, the numeral 4: represents a table frame with a top 5 suitably secured thereto, the said frame and top being supported by a pedestal 6. The pedestal illustrated in the drawings is octagonal in shape and is divided longitudinally into sections, preferably two in number, one of said sections being designated by the numeral 7 and the other by the numeral 8. The legs 9, 9, of a suitable type, are secured to each section of said pedestal, there being two secured to each section in the preferable construction illustrated in the drawings.

The sections of the pedestal are pivotally connected, preferably by a pin or bolt 10. One of the sections of the pedestal is provided with a recess 11, which in preferable construction is located above the point of the pivotal connection of the two sections. The opposed section 8 is provided with an arm 12, preferably of metal, which is adapted to enter the recess 11.. The said arm is in preferable construction secured to the section 8 of the pedestal by means of a flange 13, preferably integral with said arm, and downwardly extended from said arm beyond the bolt 10, which passes through the perforation 12 in one section, 7 of the said pedestal and through the perforation 12 in the other section, 8,

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Mar. 16, 1915.

Serial No. 795,429.

of said pedestal and through the perfora tion 14 in said flange.

The head 15 of the bolt bears against a washer 16. The nut 17 bears against the spring washer 18, the said spring washer and nut being received in preferable construction in a recess 19 in one of the sections of the pedestal 6.

l/Vithin the recess 11 in the section of the pedestal indicated by the numeral 7, are disposed a pair of

springs

20, 20, each of said springs being preferably of the coiled type, and each being seated at one end against the arm 12.

It will be understood that only one sec tion, preferably the section illustrated by the numeral 7 of the pedestal 6, is secured to the frame and top of the table, while the other section, illustrated by the numeral 8, being free to move in relation thereto so that the legs secured to the said movable section 8 of the pedestal will adjust themselves automatically when the table is placed upon an uneven surface.

The spring washer 18 is preferably employed so that while the face 21 of the rigid section 7 of the pedestal is kept in engagement against the face 22 of the movable section 8 of the pedestal, said engagement is not sufliciently tight to prevent the automatic adjustment of the movable section.

I claim:

1. In a pedestal table, a pedestal having longitudinal sections, legs for each of said sections, a pin pivotally connecting said sections, and springs, one of the sections of the pedestal having a recess, another sec tion having an arm entering said recess, the springs being seated in said recess, and engaging said arm.

2. In a pedestal table, a pedestal having longitudinal sections, legs for each of said sections, a pin pivotally connecting said sections, and a pair of springs, one of the sections of the pedestal having a recess, another section having an arm entering said recess, the springs being seated on either side of said arm and each engaging a wall of the recess at one end and the said arm at the other end.

3. In a pedestal table, a pedestal having longitudinal sections, legs for each of said sections, a pin pivotally connecting said sections, springs, and an arm, one of said sections of the pedestal having a recess to receive the springs, the other section having the arm, said arm entering said recess and engaging between the springs, said arm being provided with an attaching flange.

4:. In a pedestal table, a pedestal having longitudinal sections, legs for each of said sections, a pin pivotally comiecting said sections, springs, and an arm, one of said sections of the pedestal having a recess to receive the springs, the other section having the arm engaged thereto, said arm entering said recess and engaging between the springs, said arm being provided with an attaching flange, the pin passing through the flange to secure the same to one section of the pedestal.

5. In a pedestal table, the combination with a top, of a pedestal formed in two sections, and a horizontally extending pivot for pivotally connecting said sections, one

of said sections having the top secured thereto and forming the sole support for" 'named part by a transversely extending pivot, and spring means interposed between the two parts of the pedestal for automatically positioning the pivoted part relatively to the part to which the top is secured.

JOHN F. OOONNOR.

Witnesses:

ELEANOR L. NASH, JOHN GUTKNECHT.

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

Washington, D. 0."