US1135188A - Bolted bath-tub-foot fastener. - Google Patents

Description

J. S. JOEE.-

BOLTED BATH TUB FOOT FASTE'NER.

APPLICATION FILED IUNE a, 1914.

Patented Apr. 13, 1915.

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BOLTED BATH-TUB-FUOT FASTENER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed June 8, 1914.

To all whom 2'2. may concern Be it known that 1, JOHN S. Jenn, a citizen of the United States, residing at Noblesville, in the county of Hamilton and State of Indiana, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Bolted Bath- Tub-Foot Fasteners, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to means for positively securing detachable feet to bathtubs, stoves, and similar articles, and while applicable to various other articles it is particularly intended for bath-tub construction in order to remedy the defects attending the present methods.

The prevailing custom is to provide the feet with substantially horizontal tongues which are slipped into over-hanging flanges and are held by friction, with the result that the feet not being positively fastened become loose and detached at times, particularly where all four of the feet do not rest evenly and solidly upon the floor. lhis sometimes results in a tipping of the tub which breaks the pipe connections and plumbing, thereby causing the premises to become flooded and damaged by water.

The object of this invention is to provide interlocking parts between the tub and feet which are cast in tin shells at those portions which are required to fit accurately in order to avoid the formation of burs and rough surfaces which require hand workfor their removal.

Another object of the invention is to provide screw means for drawing the tapering portions of the tongue into close fit with the cooperating parts of the tub. and to cast the nut in the desired and required position, and also to cast the bolt-opening and bearing in the opposite member so as not to require hand work in the preparation of the parts for final assembly.

1 accomplish the above and other objects which will hereinafter appear, by the mechanism illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is an underside view of a fragment of a bath-tub sh owing a foot in horizontal section, said foot being attached to the tub by means of my invention, the section and view being from the line 11 of Fig. 2. Fig. 2 is a vertical section on the line 22 of Fig. 1, through the entire foot. Fig. 3 is a section on the line 3-3 of Figs. 1 and 2. Fig. 4 is a view similar to Fig. 1

' Patented Apr, is, rare.

Serial No. 843,733.

of a modified form wherein the nut to receive the threaded bolt is loosely and removably held in a pocket formed to receive it in the tongue of the foot, and Fig. 5 is a vertical section on the line 55 of Fig. 1, through the foot and not showing any portion of the tub.

Like characters of reference indicate like parts throughout the several views of the drawings.

The bath-tub 6 is preferably made out of cast-iron of any usual and suitable size and shape, and cast integrally therewith and depending from the bottom thereof at those positions where the feet of the tub are to be attached is a U-shaped flange comprising the connecting member 7 and stems 8. Each stem 8 is formed with an inwardly projecting lug 9, between which and the bottom of the tub 6 the tonguemember of the foot is slidingly assembled.

The foot 10 is of any desired size and shape throughout its major or body portion, but is formed at its upper end to make a close tit against the bottom of the tub, which bottom where the foot contacts is preferably fiat and smooth. The foot is preferably hollow and its walls are U-shaped in cross section, as clearly shown in Fig. 1, but with a greater spread between the stems of the U in order to admit and receive the stems 8 of the flange on the tub, between them.

Cast integrally with the middle walls of the foot 10, at the upper end of the foot, is a tongue 11. The outer end of the tongue is slotted centrally at 12, forming two end members between which a nut 13 is held by said members. In practice, the nut 13, which is of wrought iron, is'secured by cast ing the metal of the two end members upon and partially enveloping the nut, in the manner shown in Fig. 1. The tongue is reduced in thickness along each of its side edges to enable the tongue to be more easily inserted under the flanges 9, and the faces of said reduced portions which are adjacent the lugs are oblique to form wedges, and steeper slopes are provided at the portions 14: to contact with the lugs and force the feet against the bottom of the tub when the tongue is drawn in by the bolt.

Passing through a suitable opening in the connecting member 7 of the flange on the tub is a threaded bolt 16, which screws into the nut 13 in the tongue 11 of the foot.

The opening through the connecting mem- "of, the bolt-opening. This bolt-opening ber 7 for the bolt is made considerably larger than the diameterof the bolt in order to afford sufficient lateral adjustment ofrthebolt in entering the nut which may not always be in register with the center through the connecting member 7 and also the adjacent walls of the flange will be shaped by the placingof a mold formed out p of sheet tin 17 at the required place in the 7 cast, and the molten metal flowing into the tin'm'olda'sabove describedand a smooth "tlI1"mOld will be given a smooth and accu rate finish by thellatter. No coring is required to make the hole with the aid of a and accurate casting which requires no after finishing is produced. The lugs 9 arecast in suitably shaped tin molds placed in like'manner in the sand mold, before the ironis poured and the lugs are perfectly formed so as not to require hand-finishing for the removal of-burs and rough places.

In the modification shown in Figs. 4 and 5, the recessbetween the two members of the tongue is closed by a cross-member 20, having a bolt hole through it. A pocket 21 is'formed betweenthe' two tongue memhere immediately back of the member 20 to receive a threaded nut. The bolt 16 in this form of my device passes through the open- .ing in the connecting member 7 of the flange onthe tub and also through the member 20 on the tongue, and into a nut in the pocket 21,;so that, by screwing up on the bolt 16 the tongue and foot'will be drawn toward the connecting member 7 of the flange, the

.1 same as in the construction shown in Figs.

l-to 3 inclusive,previously described. The connecting member 20 and its bolt hole are 7 While I have described my invention with more or less minuteness as V regards details of construction and arrangement and as bemg embodled in certain precise forms, I do not-desire to be limited thereto unduly or t I claim':.- sand mold before the body of the tub is 1. The combination with a body having a pair of adjacent recessed lugs, of a foot having an upper end fitting against the bot- -.tom of thebody,said foot having a tongue with parallel edges the outer portions of which make a looseslidingfit in the recesses of and between said pair of lugs, said edges having wedge-shaped inner portions 'to engage the overhanging portions of said lugs and force the upper end of the foot against the body, and means to move the foot longitudinally of the tongue totighten the oblique edges of the tongue under the overhanging portions of the lugs.

2. The combination with a body having a perforated flange and a pair of adjacent recessed lugs, of a foot having an upper end fitting against the bottom of the body, said foot having a tongue with parallel edges the outer portions of which make a loose sliding fit in the recesses of and between said pair of lugs, said edges having wedgeshaped inner portions to engage the overhanging portions of said lugs and force the upper end of the foot against the body, and a screwthreaded bolt passing through said perforated flange into a screwthreaded opening in the foot.

In witness whereof 'I have hereunto set my hand and seal at Indianapolis, Indiana, this 27th day of May, A. D. one thousand nine hundred and fourteen.

JOHN S. JOBE. '[L. 5.]

Witnesses:

J. A MlNTURN, I. L. LARSON'.

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