US123332A - Improvement in children s table-trays - Google Patents

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Patented Feb. 6,1872.

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WALTER M. conenn, oF

NEWARK, N E'W JERSEY.

IMPROVEMENT IN CHILDRENS TABLE-TRAYS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 123,332, dated February 6, 1872.

Spec'nication describing certain improvements in Ghildrens Table-Trays, invented by WALTER M. OONGER, of Newark, in the county of Essex and State of New Jersey.

Table-trays of sheet metal adapted to fit on the edge of the table, and turned down to overhang the edge and turned up at the other sides, have become a staple and important article of manufacture. One plan has been patented wherein the edges are turned up on all sides and legs soldered on to hang down over the edge of the table, but the legs are liable to become bent or broken.

I have, after much reflection and experiment, arrived at a form which can be manufactured with facility in one piece, and which has a front ridge as wide and smoothly rounded as may be desired, with a hanging lip at the front, extending down to the desired depth, formed in one piece therewith.

The accompanying drawing forms a part of this specification.

Figure l is a central vertical section, and Fig. 2 is aplan View of my improved tray complete. Figs. 3 and 4 represent one form ofthe spring-clips, which I prefer as fasteners. Fig. 3 is a View before being bent, and Fig. 4a perspective view after being bent.

Similar letters of reference indicate like parts in all the gures.

The drawing represents what I consider the best means of carrying out the invention.

A is a sheet of metal, and I will designate by A, A2, Sac., the several portions which are turned upward and downward in the process of manufacture. The back is turned upward, as indicated by A1. The two sides are turned upward, as indicated by A2 A3. The front is turned upward to about half the height of the back and sides, as indicated by A4 5 it thence bends forward, presenting a broad and smoothly-rounded bead or broad ridge, which is a strong form of the metal, and well adapted to receive the pressure of the childs breast or naked arms; it thence extends downward, forming a deep vertical lip, and extends a considerable distance below the bottom A of the main body of the tray, as indicated by A5. The upper and lower edges are finished by folding the edges of the metal over upon a wire with ordinary tinners7 tools or otherwise.

The iinished tra decorated in any d y is japanned, and may be esired style.

the bent-up side lips A2 and A2.

I esteem it important, in practice, that the edge-wire B shall extend down from the upper to the lower edge, and guard the otherwise sharp edges of the metal where the transition occurs from the bent-up to the bent-down condition. It is so represented, and this feature may be introduced without further instructions to the tinsmith.

I esteem it also important that the cutting' of the metal shall be so adapted to the dies that the bending up of the ascending front lip A4 shall `just close with and `join tightly to Solder may be applied along these lines to strengthen the union, if desired 5 but I believe the edging-wire B, extending along close to the edge, will sufficiently strengthen it.

My tray may be used-with some success in the condition just described without the addition of spring-clips 5 but the addition, as shown, constitutes an important improvement.

Fig. 5 shows the spring-clips made from separate pieces of wire 5' these separate wires are stuck in close-tting sockets, soldered on the outside of the lips A2 A3, and allow of being turned out of the way when not in use.

I claim as my inventionl. The within-described table-tray in one piece, having the front edge turned upward,

as indicated by A4, and then downward, as iny dicated by A5, and adapted to serve as herein set forth.

2. In combination with the waiter or tabletray, constructed as above described, the edging-wire B, inclosed within the metal at the top of the lips A1 A2 A3, and at the bottom of the front hanging lip A5, and extending along close to the raw edges in the interval between, as and for the purposes specied.

3. The turning-clips C C, in combination with the table-tray, and adapted to retain the same against displacement in any direction, and to be turned around or folded out of the way when not in use, as herein specied.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my name in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

WALTER M. GONGER.

Witnesses:

THOMAS D. STETsoN, C. G. Lrvnves.

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