US1355086A

US1355086A - Sink-apron

Info

Publication number: US1355086A
Application number: US330431A
Authority: US
Inventors: Beebe Jane
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 1919-10-13
Filing date: 1919-10-13
Publication date: 1920-10-05
Anticipated expiration: 1937-10-05

Description

J. BEEBE.

SINK APRON.

APPLICATION FILED 001. 1.3, 1919.

1,355,086. Patented Oct. 5,1920.

IN VEN TOR (1A NE 55535 UNITED STATES JANE BEEBE, 0F LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA.

SINK-APRON.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Oct. 5, 1920.

Application filed October 13, 1919. Serial No. 330,431.

I '0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JANE BEEBE, a. citizen of the United States, residing at Los Aneles, in the county of Los Angeles and tate of California, have invented new and useful Improvements in Sink-Aprons, of which the following is a specification.

My object is to make a sink apron, and my invention consists of the novel features herein shown, described and claimed.

Figure 1 is a perspective showing a sink apron embodying the principles of my invention in use.

Fig. 2 is a front elevation of the sink apron in use, the apron being shown out of use in dotted lines, and parts of the sink being broken away.

Fig. 3 is an enlarged sectional detail on the line 33 of Fig. 2 and showing the sink in section and showing the sink apron in edge elevation.

Referring to the drawing in detail, the wash sink 1 has a board 2 running around its front upper edge and a molding 3 under the board 2.

The details of the sink apron A are as follows:

A heavy wire is bent to form the straight central portion 5, the

inclined portions

6 and 7 extending from the ends of the central portion 5, the vertical portions 8 and 9 extending downwardly from the outer ends of the

portions

6 and 7, the supporting portions 10 and 11 extending laterally from the lower ends of the portions 8 and 9, and the

elongated hooks

12 and 13 extending downwardly from the supporting portions 10 and 11.

A piece of oil cloth is cut to fit the wire frame thus constructed and comprises the body portion 1 1 and loop portions extending from the edges of the body. portion 14 around the wire frame and secured to the body portion by lines of stitching 15.

A supporting strip 16, preferably of wood, is nailed against the body 17 of the sink frame under the molding 3,

screw eyes

18 and 19 are inserted into the supporting strip 16, and the

hooks

12 and 13 are inserted through the screw eyes, and the lower edge 20 of the oil cloth is tacked to the front face of the molding 3 so there will be a slack portion 21 of the oil cloth between the molding 3 and the body 14.

When the apron thus constructed is raised to a vertical position as in Fig. 3, the

hooks

12 and 18 will pass downwardly in front of the supporting strip 16 until the portions 10 and 11 rest upon the

screw eyes

18 and 19 and the apron will be held upright in front of the board 2, so that the person using the sink will stand in front of the apron and reach over the apron into the sink as shown in Fig. 1, and the apron will protect the clothes of the person from the dish water or the like.

When it is desired to put the apron 4: out of use the apron is raised bodily to the limits of the

hooks

12 and 13 and then swung forwardly and downwardly and then the apron will hang in front of the sink frame 17 as shown in dotted lines in Fig. 2.

The aprons may be used upon work tables and in canneries and various places as well as upon kitchen sinks.

Various changes may be made without departing from the spirit of my invention as claimed.

I claim:

1. A sink apronmounted at the forward edge of a sink to swing vertically upwardly in front of the sink and downwardly below the sink, and means on the apron for engaging the forward part of the sink, for holding the apron in its upwardly extending vertical position.

2. A sink apron comprising a wire frame having elongated hooks at its ends, an oil cloth attached to the wire frame, a supporting strip, and supporting eyes secured to the supporting strip, the elongated hooks extending through the supporting eyes so that when the frame is moved to an upright position and lowered the hooks will engage the supporting strip below the eyes and hold the frame upright.

3. A sink apron comprising a wire frame pivoted to the front edge of a sink to swing vertically upwardly above the front edge of the sink and downwardly from the front of the sink, and an oil cloth attached at its outer and side edges to said wire frame and at its other edge to the forward part of the sink in such manner as to bend and permit the apron to swing upwardly and downwardly.

4. A sink apron comprising a wire frame having elongated hooks at its ends, a supporting strip, supporting eyes secured to said strip the elongated hooks extending through the supporting eyes sowthat when forward edge of the sink suohmanner as the frame is moved to an upright position to bend in order to permit the swinging and and lowered the hooks Will engage the sup raising and lowering movement of the '10 porting strip below the eyes and hold the frame. Y

frame upright, and an oil cloth attached at "In testimony whereof I have signed my its outer and side edges to said frame and name to this specification.

at its remaining edge attached under the JANE BEEBE.