US1178392A

US1178392A - Ironing-table support.

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Publication number: US1178392A
Application number: US1083715A
Authority: US
Inventors: Clarence H Foreman
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 1915-02-26
Filing date: 1915-02-26
Publication date: 1916-04-04
Anticipated expiration: 1933-04-04

Description

C. H. FOREMAN.

Patented Apr. 4, 1.916.

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IRONING-TABLE SUPPORT.

Specification bf Letters Patent.

Patented Apr. 4:, 1916.

Application filed February 26, 1915. Serial No. 10,837.

T 0 all whom it may concern Be it known that L'GLARENCE H. Fonn- MAN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Valencia, in the county of Butler and State of Pennsylvania, have invented new and useful Improvements in Ironing-Table Supports, of which the following is a specification.

This invention is an improved combined clothes rack, ironing board and clothes basket, the object of the invention being to provide an improved device of this character which is cheap and simple in construction and which is foldable and is adaptedto be compactly disposed, out of the way, when not in use.

The invention consists in the features of construction, combination, and arrangement of parts, hereinafter fully described and claimed, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, in which:

Figure 1 is a perspective view of a clothes.

rack, ironing boardand clothesbasket constructed in accordance with my'invention, showing the same set up and arranged ready for use. Fig. 2 is a detail side elevation, partly in section, of the same. Fig. 3 is an elevation of the same in folded condition.-

Fig. 4 is a detail section illustrating the manner of connection of the ironing board with the attaching bar.

In accordance with my invention I providea clothes rack 1 which, comprises a pair of upright bars 2 and a series of bars 3 the ends of which are secured on the front sides of the bars 2. I also provide a pair of props 4 the upper ends of which are connected by hinges 5 to the upper ends of the bars 2 to permit the props to be moved outwardly from or folded against the rack asdesired. The props are connected together by a pair of crossed braces 6. On one side of the rack is an attaching bar 7 which is connected to the rack and held in spaced relation to one of its uprights 2 by means of a pair of arms 8. This attaching bar has a longitudinal slot 9.

taching bar 7. A T-bolt 16 passes through the opening in the arm 15, its head bearing on the front side of the attaching bar and its nut 17 bearing against the rear side of the attaching bar. This T-bolt in connection with the connecting hinge permits the ironing board to be vertically adjusted on the attaching bar so that it may be arranged above the fioor at any desired height.

The ironing board is provided with a pair of supporting legs 18 and a pair of sup porting legs 19. The supporting legs 18 are pivotally connected as at 20 to the underside of the ironing board at a point a suitable distance from the inner end of the latter, by a rung 21 which connects the upper end of the legs 18 and passes through staples or other suitable pivoting devices 22 with which the ironing board is provided. A rung 23 connects the legs 18 at their lower ends. A rung 24: connects them near their centers and also passes through openings near the centers of the legs 19, thereby pivotally connecting the legs 18. The legs 19 are connected near their upper ends by a rung 25 and near their lower ends by a rung 26. A rod 27 is pivotally connected to the rung 25 and is slightly engaged with the keeper staples 28 on the underside of the ironing board, near the outer end of the latter. Hence the upper ends of the supporting legs 19 may be slidably related to the ironing board and engaged with any of a series of cleats 30 with which the iron ing board is provided on its underside so that the supporting legs may be adjusted to hold the ironing board at any desired height. When the supporting legs are folded against the lower side of the ironing board they may be held in such folded position by means of a hook 31 with which the ironing board is provided, said hook being engaged with the rung which serves to pivotally connect the supporting legs together. The ironing board-may be folded up against the attaching bar 7 and the rack may be also folded, as shown in Fig. 3, thus enabling the entire device to be readily compactly disposed and put out of the way when not in use.

I also provide a clothes basket 33 which is formed by a cloth 35 of suitable dimensions, and of substantially oblong rectangular form and an inverted substantially U- shaped front frame 35. The arms 36 and intermediate portion 37 of the frame 35 are respectively attached to the ends and front side of the cloth, said arms being pivotall connected as at 38 to the bars 2 of the rac at points near the lower ends of said bars. Hence this frame is adapted to be closed up against the rack or to be opened out therefrom. Hook arms 39 are pivotally connected to the frame 35 near its ends and are detachably engaged with keeper staples 40 on the front sides of the bars 2. These hook arms are connected together near their free ends by a rod 42 to which the rear side of the cloth that forms the body of the basket is secured. By first disengaging'the hook arms from the keepers 40 the frame 35 may be folded against the rack and the clothes basket collapsed, as will be understood. To secure the clothes basket in such folded condition I provide a bail 43 which is pivotally connected to the bars 2. Suitable cords 44: are provided to connect the bars '2 'to the in presence of tWo witnesses.

Witnesses E. L. ,NICELY,

In testimony whereof I aflix my signature 35 CLARENCE H. FOREMAN.

C. A. MoKELvEY.