US1337936A - Ironing-board - Google Patents

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P. D. MARTINDALE.

IRONING BOARD. neucnmwnuo N0v.17, 1917.

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IROliTING-BOARD.

I Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Apr. 20, 1920.

Application fi1ed November 17, 1917. Serial No. 202,585.

To all 207mm it may concern:

Be 1t known that I, PERRY D. MARTIN- DALE, a citizen of the United States, residing at Pontiac, in the county of Oakland and State of Michigan, have invented new and useful Improvements in Ironing- Boards, of which the followingis a specification.

This invention has reference to ironing boards.

I11 carrying out my invention, it is my purpose to produce, as a new article of manufacture, anironing board comprising a wooden frame and a metal top or facing for said frame. In the ironing of certain class of materials, a substantially non-yielding surface is desirable, in order to obtain the.

proper effect on the material or garment, while in other materials a yielding effect is desirable between the board and the said material. To accommodate the last referred to materials, which, it may be stated, are more common, and consequently, re-

. quire more frequent ironing than the first referred to materials, the ironing wooden board has arranged thereon a pad and a facing for the pad. From' experience, I have found that while such arrangement permits of a partial yielding between the material ironed and the board, the pad,

incident to the iron passing thereove and It is a further object of my invention to produce an ironing board which shall be comparatively cheap in manufacture, in

which the leg for supporting the board is telescopic and is provided with a hooked end to engage with the edge of a table and other support, and also in which the board has looselysecured to one of its sides a flexible element, the free end of the said element having a hook thereon and the other side of theboard having an eye to receive the hook of the flexible element, and whereby the said flexible element may be brought to engage with the edges of the fabric covering for the board. I

Other objects and advantages will appear as the nature of the invention is more fully understood, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, in which,

Figure 1 is a perspective View of the improved ironing board illustrating the same arranged upona support.

Fig. 2 is an approximately central longi tudinal sectional view through the same.

Fig. 3 is a bottom plan view, the leg being in its folded position.

Fig. at is a transverse sectional view approximately on the line 4-4 of Fig. 3.

Fig. 5 is a horizontal sectional view approximately on the line 5-5 of Fig. 4.

""Fig. 6 is a perspective view of the detachable shelf which may be employed.

My improved construction of ironing boards includes a wooden frame 10 and metallic facing or top 11 for the frame. The frame 10 comprises parallel side mem bers 12 respectively, which have their outer ends beveled as at 13. These beveled ends 13 are engaged by oppositely beveled surfaces 'upon the outer end members 14: of the frame. The members 14 incline toward each other and meet at the center of the frame, the membe s 12 and 14 being secured together in any desired or preferred manner. The frame is centrally provided with a brace 15, the outer ends of the same being beveled in opposite directions to contact with the inner inclined surfaces of the end members 13, and the brace is of a length "equaling the length of the frame and boardproper. The sides 12 as'well as the central brace member 15, adjacent what I will term the outer end of the board are out upon their upper surfaces to provide substantially rectangular depressions which enter from -thc ends of the said members, and in these depressions is arranged a transverse wooden member or board l6'that is secured to the side and brace members and has its outer face fiushwith the outer surfaces of the said side and brace members. This board 16, together with the other elements comprising the frame 10, constitute the rigid or non-yielding portions of the board, and the metallic top or facing 11, at theiportions thereof outward of the board and between the other elements comprising the frame constitutes the yielding or resilient portion of the board. By reference to the drawings, it will 11 is shaped to correspond with the shape of the frame and has its edges bent over and secured to the frame as indicated by the numeral 17.

The side and what I have termed the outer end-members of the frame are provided with a continuous groove 18, the said groove being located below the edge of the bent portion 17 of the metallic member 11. In this groove 18, adjacent what I 'have termed the inner end of the board, and

on one side of the said board is secured,

as at 19, a flexible element 20. The element 20 is preferably in the nature of a coil spring and has its free end provided with I has its outer end hook shapeas at a hook 21. In the groove, to the side of the board diametrically opposite that to which the flexible element 20. is loosely connected, is arranged an eye 22, and this eye is designed to receive the hook 21 of the 'elementQO when the same is brought around the board in the groove, the flexible element 20 being designed to secure the cloth or covering 23 upon the board.

The central member or brace 15 and the board or rectangular wooden plate member 16 are provided with alining slots 2%, entering from the outer end of the board. Secured upon the under face of the brace member 15 nearer the terminal of the slot 21 are eye I members 25, the same providing bearings be noted that the metallic facing retains 'the said lower leg section properly adjusted with respect to the upper ings, the hook shaped end of the leg is designed to be arranged over the top of a sup-' a table 33 and the inner or port, such as rear edge of the board is designed to be arranged below the said edge of the table 33, the leg section contacting with the floor on which the table rests effectively holding the hook in engagement with the table supporting the board thereon. 7

One of the sides of the improved ironing board, adjacent the rear end'thereof, is

fices 34 designed to receive the inturned or angular ends 35 of arms 36, the said arms having their upper portions bent in the same direction as the ends and'received in therounded edges of a shelf 37, This shelf may be readily attached to or removed from the board and when in attached position may serve as an iron holder, a holder for the wax, or for other desirable, purposes.

Having thus described the invention, what I claim is:

The herein described construction of ironing boards includinga substantially rectangular wooden frame having one of its ends beveled to the sides thereof, a W( oden member transversely conriecting the sides at the opposite end of the board, and a centrally arranged brace for the frame, a

preferably provided with transverse ori-' metallic facing provided with flanges on its sides and one end, fitting over the sides and beveled ends of theframe, both the sides and the beveled ends of the flange and frame having a continuous longitudinal groove therethrough, eyes in the groove adacent to the inner end of the board, and a spring member received in the groove having elements on the endsthereof engaging with the eyes, and said spring member designed to hold a covering cloth on the board. a v

In testimony whereof I aflix my signature.

PERRY D. MARTINDALE.

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