US113605A - Improvement in fenders or cushions for furniture - Google Patents

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that@ )Sia/ira Letters Patent No. 113,605, dated April 11,1871..

IMPROVEMENT IN FENDERS OR CU-SHIONS FOR FURNITURE. i

The Schedule referred to Lu these Letters Patent and making parl: of the same.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, GEORGE R.W1LLM0T, of Meri den, inthe county of New Haven and State of Clonnecticut, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Fenders and Cushions for Furniture and other purposes, of which the' following isa full, clear, and

exact description, reference being had to the accompanying drawing forming part ofvthis specilication,

and in whioh- A Figures land 2 represent .face views of my im# proved devic'e under different forms;

Figure 3 is a transversesection of the device under the form it is shown in fig. 2; and

Figured, a transverse section of they same under the form represented in iig. 1.

Figure' 5 is a, similar view to iig. 3 under a solid construction of the-'device'gjand" Figure 6, a `faceview of said device, as `shown ,in fig. 2,- with the marginal ring removed.

Figures 7 and 8 Vrepresent views of certain wires or i springs for holding on the cloth or cveringapplied to the device, as represented in figs. l and 2.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding part-s throughout the several figures.

My invention relates to what are known'by upholsterers and others as fenders or cushions applied to the backs of various articles of furniture and in other places, mainly to prevent soiling -an'd bruising of the walls of an apartment. or other surfaces with which said articles are liable to be brought in contact.

The invention consists in a fender or cushion coniposed 0"a block or body and a wire or spring for hold ing on a plush or other covering; also, a marginal ring or border casing fittedovcr the whole to conceal said spring and edges of the covering and to give an vornamental finish to the whole device. i

`By this improvement a heater fender or cushion is produced, and which Vmaybe supplied to the trade or retailed for privateense without its covering, and with increased facility for putting on the latter' and for utilizing scrap or waste to correspond with the upholstery or furniture of the room.

Referring to the accompanying drawing- Figs. 1, 4, and 7 relate to arfender or cushion oi" oblong form, and

Figs. 2, 3, 5, 6, and 8 to a like device of circular or hemispherical'constructiom but the elements ornovelA .features are the same, mere shape of the device, which 1may beotherwise varied, being immaterial.

A represents the body, which may either be made `hollow and from sheet metal, or solid and of wood or other material or materials, and preferable with a marginal dange or back-plate, a, that may be suitably punctured for the u'sually regarded es waste, it onlyl being ,necessary to see that the piece or scrap is of suicient size to cover' the block.

Said covering B is applied to the blockby simplyV placing it on or over the block and then slipping a bent wire or sp1-ing, 0over the covering, so as. tordraw the latter down toward and nhold it securelyr against or aroundthe base-portion of the block, alter which, if necessary, any surplus material may be trimmed from the covering at its edge.

A light metal or other marginal ring or border casing, D, is then slipped kover the whole to conceal the spring and raw edges of the covering and to give a neat finish tothe whole, to aid in which "latter effect said ring or casing may be fashioned and colored to represent gimp, corresponding with that used on'thearticle of furniture the fender or cushion is applied to.

or required to. match; and to further carry out such effect gimp-tacks may be used to liold the marginal ring or border-casing to its place.'

What is here claimed, and desired to besecured by'- The combination of the block A, the covering B, i and the wire or spring C, and the' marginal-ring or border casing D, with or without .the elastic packing b, substantially as specified.

GEORQEB. WILLMOT.

Witnesses:

GEO. W. SMITH; EDWIN Bmnsnv.

passage of nails tohold the device to its place. i

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