US1199881A - Collapsible-table attachment for bath-tubs. - Google Patents

Description

U. I. EWING.

COLLAPSIBLE TABLE ATTACHMENT FOR BATH TUBS.

APPLICATION FILED o cr. 21, 1914.

1,199,881. v Patentd Oct 3,1916.

COLLAPSIBLE-TABLE ATTACHMENT FOR BATH-TUBS.

' Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Oct. 3, 1916.-

Application filed October 27, 1914. Serial No. 868,818.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, URBANE J. EWING, a citizen of the United States, residing at Uniontown, in the county of Fayette and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Collapsible-Table Attachments for Bath-Tubs, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in collapsible tables particularly adaptedto be attached to bath tu'bs.

The objects of my invention are :First, to construct a tableadapted to be supported over and applied to a bath tub, which can be easily attached or detached thereto, said table being without excessive weight, inexpensive to manufacture and readily assembled or repaired. Second, to construct a removable and collapsible bath tub table which involves the least number of parts, can be easily kept clean and adapted for many uses in connection with the water in the tub or without the same. Third, otheradvantages and objects of the invention will appear from the detailed description to be hereinafter given.

The invention consists of structural characteristics and relative arrangements of the elements, which will be hereinafter more fully described and particularly pointed out in the appended claim.

In the drawings similar reference characters indicate the same parts in the several figures of the drawing, in which Figure 1, is a plan view of an ordinary bath tub with my improved folding table attached thereto. Fig. 2, is an enlarged sectiona-l view on line IIII of Fig. 1. Fig. 3, is a sectional view on line III-III of Fig. 2, with the canvas removed. Fig. 4, is an enlarged view partly in section of one end of a modified form, and Fig. 5, is a perspective view of another modified form of rod which may be used to form the table.

Referring to Figs. 1, 2 and 3, 1 represents the ordinary bath tub having the end wall 2, provided with the usual hot and cold water faucets 3, 3. 4, 4 are the side walls of the tub 1, having the usual out-turned flange or rim 5 to which my improved table is capable of being removably supported. Said table is formed by means of two stifl pipes or hollow supporting rods 6,' 6 which have their ends internally threaded to be engaged by pins 7-, (seeFig. 3) having threads at their inner ends and heads 8 at their outer ends. Loosely and rotatably engaging each of the pins 7, between the heads 8 and ends of the rods 6 is provided a hook 9, said hooks 9, 9 being so formed and bent as to conform to the outside curvature of the tub 1. Said hooks 9 may be inclosed with an outside tightly fitting cover 10 of rubber,

leather or cloth, to prevent said hooks from scratching or injuring the tub or rattling against the same. 11 is a piece of heavy textile or flexible material such as duck, canvas or other similar fabric, preferably water proofed and having formed on its opposite.

rial 11 will assume substantially a horizontal or straight position and form a soft table securely held over the bath tub as shown in Fig. 1.

In Fig. 4, the construction of the rods 6, 6,

flexible material 11, with its stitching 12 and hems 13, 'are the same as shown in Figs. 1, 2 and 3, except that in said Fig. 4, the hook 14, is provided with a threaded integral shank 15, bent atright angles to the hook 14, and adapted to engage the threads in the ends of the hollow rods 6. j

Fig. 5 illustrates a further modification in which the rod 6, pins 7 and hook 8 are made of a single piece of stiff solid rod 16, having its ends bent and arranged to form the inte gral hooks 17, 17 adapted to engage thebut turned rims or flanges 5.

From the foregoing disclosure, it will be seen that I have produced with the least number of elements or parts, a folding or collapsible table, which may be held firmly and tightly stretched across a section of a bath tub, and enable the same to support an infant while being dressed,orany material while being washed in the-tub. The attach ment also is so proportioned and constructed as to reduce the weight to a minimum, thereby enabling the same to'be easily transported and handled while being attached or detached from thebath tub."

A pin or rivet 18 may be passed-through the end of the pipe 6 and inner end of each of the pins 7 asshownin Fig. 3, for the purpreventing said ins 7 from turnlng or working out of sai pipes 6.

What I claim is A folding or collapsible table for attachment to a bath tub comprising tWo separate and independent hollow rods, a pin inserted in each end of said rods and projecting therefrom, a 'hook rotatably connected to each of said pins and adapted to engage the side flange or rim at the top of the bath tub, and a flexible sheet connected to said rods 10 forming a table across a section of the bath tub from one side to the other when the said hooks engage the flange or rim of the tub. v

In testimony whereof I aflix my signature in presence of two Witnesses.

URBANE .l. EWING.

Witnesses:

HOLLIE W. FRANKs, J. S. DOUGLAS.

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