US1187196A - Ironing-table. - Google Patents

Description

L. H. STAGNER.

IRONING TABLE.

APPLICATION mzn APR. H, 1916.

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LEWIS H. STAGNEB, OF RICHMOND, KENTUCKY, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF '10 LANDON T. WILSON, OF RICHMOND, KENTUCKY.

IRONING-TABLE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented June 13, 1916.

Application filed April 11, 1916. Serial No. 90,488.

To all whom 2'25 may concern.

Be it known that I, Lnwis H. STAGNER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Richmond, in the county of Madison and State of Kentucky, have invented new and useful Improvements in Ironing-Tables, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to a folding ironing table wherein the supporting members for the table top are so arranged and connected therewith as to require very little manual effort to enable the table to be set up or collapsed, as the occasion may require.

Another object of the invention is to provide the device with a bar which co-acts with the supporting legs connected with the table top in supporting said top in a horizontal position, said bar being moved into top supporting position through the weight of the prop legs connected therewith and with the supporting legs.

A further object of the invention is to provide an ironing table having supporting legs upon which the prop legs and top supporting bar may be so mounted, that when the table is set up and the supporting legs held in a. vertical position, a slight pressure upon one end of the table top will free the same from contact with the supporting bar and allow the prop legs through the action of gravity to move the parts to folded position.

With these and other objects in view, the invention resides in the novel combination and arrangement of parts, which will be hereinafter described and particularly pointed out in the claims.

The preferred embodiment of the invention has been illustrated in the accompanying drawing, although no restriction is necessarily made to the precise details of construction therein shown, as changes, alterations, and modifications within the scope of the claims may be resorted to when desired.

Like characters of reference denote corresponding parts throughout the several views in the drawing, in which:

Figure l is a perspective view of an iron ing table constructed in accordance with the invention and showing the table in set up position. Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the table showing the supporting legs in a verwherein pressure upon one end thereof has released the top supporting bar from con-.

tact therewith. Fig. 3 is a rear elevation of the table showing the same in a vertical position with the prop legs and top sup porting bar in folded position.

Referring now to the drawing in detail, the numeral 1 designates an ironing board or top, one end of which is reduced and rounded, as at 2 to provide oppositely diverging-side edges 3 which extend for the greater portion of the length of the top 1. The top 1 near its other end is provided on its under-face with a transversely extending cleat 4:. A block 5 is secured to the underface of the top 1 between its ends and has an inclined bottom face 6 to provide a shoulder 7 at one end of the block.

Spaced and parallel supporting legs 8 are arranged beneath the board 1 with each leg having an end provided with a recess 9 in which is received an end on a bar 10 secured to and extending transversely between the legs 8 and having connected therewith hinges 11 which are also connected with the under-face of the cleat 4, a second bar 12 has its respective ends secured to the legs 8 near the other ends thereon and coacts with the bar 10 in holding said legs in spaced relation. A cross-piece 13 is secured to the legs 8 between the bars 10 and 12.

A shaft 14 extends transversely between the legs 8 and has its respective ends secured therein, said shaft having mounted to turn thereon prop legs 15 secured to which at opposite ends and upon opposite sides are cross-strips 16 and 17, the strips 16 being so arranged that when the prop legs 15 are turned about their pivotal connection with the shaft 1 1 they may be positioned in alinement with the legs 8 and with a side edge on each bar contacting with the cross-bar 12 on the legs 8 which limits the turning movement of the prop legs in one direction. The cross-strip 17 has its ends extended beyond the sides of the prop legs 15, so that when the prop legs are moved to set up position, the extending ends on the cross-strip 17 will contact with the side edges on the legs 8 to which the cross-bar 12 is connected and hold said legs in supporting position. One end 18 on the crossstrip 17 extends beyond the adjacent prop leg for a considerable distance to serve as a handle by means of which the prop legs may be turned about their pivotal connection with the shaft 14.

A top supporting bar 19 is hingedly connected between its ends with the cross-piece 13 and has one end beveled, as at 20 for contact with the top 1 and its other end connected with the cross-strip 17 by means of a link 21, which is rendered adjustable by means of a turn buckle 22. It will, of course, be understood that if found desirable, the turn buckle may be dispensed with and the respective ends of the link pivotally connected with the strip 17 and the top supporting bar 19 as now shown.

When the ironing table is in the position shown in Fig. 1 in the drawing and it is desired to collapse the same, the supporting legs 8 are moved to a vertical position as shown in Fig. 2 in the drawing, with the legs 8 in this position, pressure upon the hinged end of the top will release the beveled end of the supporting bar 19 from engagement with the shoulder 7 on the block 5, at which time the prop legs 15 are free to turn about their pivotal connection with the shaft 14 through the weight of said legs and such turning movement of the prop legs moving the supporting bar 19 to a folded position by means of its connection with the cross-strip 17.

1V ith reference'to Fig. 3 in the drawing, it will be seen that the ends of the supporting legs 8 to which the cross-bar 12 is connected extends below the rounded end of the top 1 and the ends of the prop legs to which the cross-strip 16 is connected, so that when it is desired to set up the table and the supporting legs are held in a vertical position, the end 18 on the cross-strip 17 may be pressed in the direction of the top 1 to swing the prop legs about their pivotal connection with the shaft 1-1 and raise the bar 19 into contact with the top 1 behind the shoulder 7 on the block 5. Vith the parts in this position, the supporting legs may be tilted until the ends of the prop legs engaged with the support at which time the top 1 will be in a horizontal position, thus requiring very little effort to set up the table or collapse the same in comparison to the structures of this character now in use.

Through the above described arrangement of the supporting leg, the prop leg, and supporting bar, it will be noted that the reduced end of the top 1 extends sufliciently far beyond the bar 19 to enable skirts, shirts, or the like, to have the board inserted therein without requiring the raising of the board for this purpose,

From the foregoing description, taken in connection with the accompanying drawing, it is at once apparent that an ironing table has been provided which requires very little manual effort to move the parts to set up position or to collapse the same and also that an ironing table has been provided which through its simplicity in construct-ion is cheap of manufacture and highly efficient in use.

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed as new is:

1. An ironing table comprising a top, supporting legs hingedly connected at one end with the top, prop legs pivotally connected with the supporting legs between their ends, a bar hingedly connected between its ends with the supporting legs and having an end for contact with the top, a cross-strip on the prop legs for contact with the supporting legs, and a link terminally connected with said bar and the cross-strip.

2. A folding ironing table comprising a top, supporting legs hingedly connected with the top, a bar hingedly connected between its ends with the supporting legs and having an end for contact with said top, a link connected with said bar, prop legs pivotally connected with the supporting legs, a cross-strip connected with the prop legs and link, and an extending end on said cross-strip adapted to serve as a handle whereby the prop legs may be turned about their pivotal connection with the supporting legs to cause the end on said bar to contact with the top.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

LEWIS H. STAGNER. Witnesses J. W. Cuooxn, S. P. DEARLUVAGE.

Gopies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents, Washington, D. G.

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