US1131894A - Convertible toy box. - Google Patents

Description

J. S. BAKER.

CONVERTIBLE TOY BOX.

APPLICATION FILED 001. 2c, 1914.

- Patented Maf.16,1915.

VINVENTOR %g fim WITNESSES:

ATTORN EY THE NORkIS PETERS CO.. FHOTO-LITHQ. WASHINGTON, D. C.

JOHN S. BAKER, 0F PEEKSKILL, NEW YORK.

CONVERTIBLE TOY BOX.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Mar. 11$, 1915.

Application filed. October 26, 1914. Serial No. 868,626.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN S. BAKER, a citizen of the United States, and resident of Peekskill, in the county of Westchester and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Convertible Toy Boxes, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to a furniture combination and may be classed as a toy.

Its object is to provide a suitable receptacle in which to keep a childs toys, the receptacle being convertible into a table and a bed. I

The object is attained by the means set forth in this specification and the accompanying drawings, in both of which like letters refer to similar parts throughout the several views.

Figure 1 represents a box for a toy receptacle. Fig. 2 is a perspective view, partly in section, showing the box converted into a table. Fig. 3 is a perspective view of the box converted into a bed. Fig. 4 is a transverse section of the bed through line 1, Fig. 2. Fig. 5 is a transverse section through the bed showing a mattress in place.

Fig. 1 represents a shallow box a with a cover in two parts, each part made up of two sections, one part comprising the sections 6 b hinged together, and one part the sections 0 a hinged together. The straight line 72, is the separating line between the two parts. The two parts are hinged to their respective ends of the box, the hinges being shown at o o in Fig. 4. In lifting the cover the section 0 folds against the section 0, and the section b folds against the section b, as shown in Fig. 3. The hinges uniting the sections of the cover are shown at u u u u, Fig. 3. The under side of the box a contains recesses along its side edges made by the partitions e e, as in Figs. 2 3 4 and 5, and the recesses contain table legs 2'. The legs are pivoted on pins Z, Figs. 2 3 and 4, that preferably do not show on the outside of the box. The legs are folded within the recesses as at 2" when not in use, and are withdrawable to serve as supports as in Figs. 2 3 4: and 5. In order to secure the legs in their extended position any one of a number of fastening means may be used, one being shown in Fig. 2, comprising a spring .9 fast to the part 6, and provided with a projection 25 on its end to drop into a notch in the upper end t of the leg.

(ionic: of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Fig. 2 shows the box with the legs extendto constitute a table.

In Fig. 3 the box is shown opened out to constitute a dolls bed. The sections 6 I2 become the headboard and the sections 0 0 become the footboard of the bed. The sections 6 and o are held vertically by their ends that extend beyond the box resting against the ends of the box. The sections 6 c are adapted to have their outer edges impinge against the top edges of the box, as shown in Fig. 8, so that each of the cover parts are rigidly held in the positions shown without special fastenings. The irregular lines m m, in Figs. 1 and 2, give an ornamental finish to the head and foot boards of the bed. as shown in Fig. 3.

In Fig. 5, 1" represents a frame for a mattress, and a mattress r is secured to the frame. The frame rests upon the recess boxing e e, and the whole is adapted to be inclosed within the box when the'top of the box is closed.

Having described my invention, what I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is,

1. In a childs toy-box the combination of a box, a two-part cover hinged upon the box, each part of the cover comprising two sections hinged together, the sections joined by irregular lines, and each part foldable upon itself to vertical positions, the box provided with recesses on its under side edges, movable legs pivoted within and foldable within the recesses, the boxing forming the recesses affording support for a mattress.

2. In a box convertible into a bed, a cover for the box to form the head board and foot board of the bed comprising a two-part cover hinged to the ends of the box, each part of the cover comprising two sections hinged together, one of the sections of each part projecting over the ends of the box where hinged as stops when the sections are raised to vertical positions, the inner section of each part folding against its respective section, with its ends resting on the top edge of the box.

Signed at Peekskill, in the county of 'Westchester and State of New York, October 23 A. D. 1914.

JOHN S. BAKER. Witnesses:

WILLIAM Lawson, J OHN TowARr, Jr.

Commissioner of latentl Washington, I). G."

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