US113868A - Improvement in devices for adjusting mirrors - Google Patents

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OLIVER L. GARDNER AND WILLIAM GARDNER, 0F GLEN GARDNER,

NEW JERSEY.

Letteis`Patent No. 113,868, dated April 18, 187] IMPROVEMENT IN DEVICES FOR ADJUSTING MIRRORS.

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and its base or the upper portion ofa bureau to which itis attached;

Figure 2 is a sectional elevation, showing the mirror in 'a vertical position and in dotted lines in an inclined position, and also the mechanism for operatingr the mirror;

Figure 3 is a plan view of the lower side of the .cover of a bureau or other piece of furniture to which the mirror may b e attached, showing the screw and sliding bar which operate the mirror-trame;

Figure 4 is an elevation of the oscillating support to which the mirror is attached; and

Figure 5 is a side elevation of the same and of a portion of' the sliding bar which operates it.

. Corresponding letters referto corresponding parts in the several figures.

This invention relates to an improved method of suspending and operating mirrors or mirror-frames; and

It consists ofthe means employed to produce such results, as will be more fully explained hereinafter.

To enable those skilled in the art to which my invention appertains to practice our improved method, We will proceed to describe it, referring to the accompanying drawing which forms a part of this speci'dcation, and in which- Arefcrs to a mirror, which is set in a frame A. This mirror and its frame may be of' any form and size suited to the article of furniture upon which it is to he piaced. J K

B refers to the base ot' the mirror, which may be the top of a bureau, drawing-case, or other article of furniture, or it may be only a 'movable platform upon which the mirror may be placed for convenience 'in moving from place to place or from one piece of furxiiture to another. In any case it is to be provided with a recess in its lower surface for lthe lower vend of an oscillating support to play or move in, and with a slot entirely through it for the -insertion of such support, as shown iu iig. 3. It isalso to be provided with a slot or groove for the reception of a sliding bar,

which moves the mirror, vand with au aperture for the reception of a screw, as shown.

' O is an oscillating support for theframe of the mirror, it being constructed substantially as shown in gs. 4 and 5, so that its upper or elongated portion may rest upon the upper surface of its base or the article of furniture to which it 'may be attached, while. its smaller or reduced portion passes through the slot formed in the base andv engages with a hook formed upon the sliding bar which moves it, and which will be hereinafter more fully described.

Instead of having the shoulder formed upon the support O, from the pivoted point upon which it oscillates, it may be provided with journals, which may enter boxes in the upper surface of the base, and thus additional security willbe afforded to the mirror, especially when large ones are to be used.

D refers to a'sliding bar, which'has one of its' ends formed, as shown in lig. 5, so as to form a hook for the lower end of the oscillating support C to rest in, and so as to form a projectioxnpwhich shall pass through. a slot in the lower portion of such support, and thus prevent the same and the mirror which is attached to it from being accidentallyremoved from its place. The opposite end of this bar is provided with a nut, through which a screw passes. y

E refers to a screw, which is so arranged in the cover ofthe furniture, or in the base of the mirror, that it shall work through the nut in the end of the sliding bar, while its outer end is provided with a wheel or other means for turning it, 'so that by turning the screw the oscillating support, and with it the mirror, may be made to assume any position, either vertical or angular, as shown in fig. 2, or as the convenience ofthe person using it may require.

Having thus `described our invention,

What we claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The combination of' the frame A', base B, oscillating support O, sliding bar D, and screw E forI supporting and operating mirrors from their base, it being effected by means substantially such as'ar'e herein shown and described.

In testimony that we claim the foregoing as our invention we have hereunto set our hands this 16th day of March, A. D. 1871, in presence of two subscribing witnesses.

. '0. L. GARDNER. Witnesses: WILLIAM GARDNER;

' F. TRUMBoWEn,

E. B. GnIFFITHs.

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