US1239018A - Attachment for chairs. - Google Patents

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W. T. LILLY. ATTACHMENT FOR CHAIRS. APPLICATION HLED JUNE 5, 1915.

1,Q39,U1 8, PzitentedSept. 4, 1917.

IINIED %TATE% PATN I IQ.

WILLIAM T. LILLY, OF GLEN MORGAN, WEST VIRGINIA, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-FOURTH TO HALLECK MQGINNIS SCOTT AND ONE-FOURTH TO CYRUS HUDSON MEADOB,

BOTI-I OF BECKL'EY, WEST VIRGINIA.

ATTACHMENT FOR CHAIRS.

T 0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, lViLLIAM T. LILLY, a citizen of the United States, residing at Glen Morgan, in the county of Raleigh and State of WVest Virginia, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Attachments for Chairs, of which the following is a specification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawing.

This invention relates to new and useful improvements in chair attachments and especially in the provision of a removable and folding table or shelf for arms of chairs and affording a simple and efficient device of this nature so constructed that the same may be conveniently adjusted in place and removed when desired.

My invention consists of various details of construction, combinations and arrangements of parts which will be hereinafter fully described, shown in the accompanying drawings and then specifically defined in the appended claim.

I illustrate my invention in the accompanying drawings, in which:

Figure l is a top plan view showing the application of the table to the arms of a chair.

Fi 2 is a central sectional view.

Fig. 3 is a view showing the table folded.

Reference now being had to the details of the drawings by letter, A designates a chair which may be of any kind, either rocking or stationary, and provided with arms B. C, C designate sections of a table or shelf, having their adjacent ends hinged together as at D, and the outer end of each section has a contracted projecting portion F adapted to engage a recess I-I formed in the inner edge of the arms. The recesses are of such a depth as to receive the contracted projecting part of the table and the shoulders I formed at the inner ends of the pro- Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Sept. 41-, 1917.

jecting portions are adapted to bear against the inner edges of the arms, as shown in the sectional view when the sections are adjusted in place and serve as a means for steadying the table. The upper surface of the sectional table, it will be noted, is preferably flush with the upper surfaces of the arms and affording a smooth level surface upon which a person may rest a book or pad for reading or writing or forv other purposes.

In adjusting the sectional table in place, the two contracted ends are brought in registration with the recesses and the two sections pushed down, throwing the ends into the recesses. A reverse movement or breaking of the joint intermediate the sections will serve to remove the sections from the recesses in the handles.

hile I have shown projecting portions of the table sections which engage slots, it will be understood that any projecting means may be fastened to the sections and made to engage the slots or other changes as to details without in any way departing from the spirit of my invention.

What I claim to be new is In combination with a chair having arms provided with slots in the inner marginal edges thereof above their transverse centers, boards hinged together end to end, each board having a tongue projecting from the outer end thereof and adapted to engage said slots in the arms, the upper faces of the boards and said arms being flush with one another.

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

WILLIAM T. LILLY.

lVitnesses A. L. I-IoUerI, A. R. FOWLER.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the, Commissioner of Patents,

Washington, D. C.

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