US1467147A - Article of furniture - Google Patents

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Sept. 4-, 1923. 1467,147

S. ETTNER ARTICLE OF FURNITURE Filed April 9, 1925 IN VENTOR {51E t iner- ATTORNEY Patented Sept. 4, 1923.

SAMUEL ETTNER, or BROOKLYN, new YORK.

ARTICLE 013 Application filed April 9,

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, SAMUEL E'r'rNnR, a citizen of the United States, residing at Brooklyn in the county of Kings and State of New Ybrk, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Articles of Furniture, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to articles of furniture, and more particularly to woven willow furniture, and the main object is to provlde means whereby the seat of a chair or table top is prevented from sagging or losing its original shape after being used, and consists of braces which transmit the strains from the seat or table top to the legs of the article, by which said strain is more readily taken up.

Another object is to provide a novel type of brace which is especially adapted for use with furniture and is composed of material such as steel, in which a relatively large amount of flexibility is inherent. An extensible type of brace is also herewith presented as a modification.

These and other objects will become apparent in the description below, in which characters of reference refer to like-named parts in the drawing.

Referring briefly to the drawing, Figure 1 is a side elevational view of a chair.

Figure 2 is a bottom plan view of the chair, the willow weave being indicated only in part for convenience and clearness of illustration of the novel features.

Figure 3 is a sectional elevational view of the extensible brace, taken on line 3-3 of Figure l.

Figure l is a top plan view of the brace.

Figure 5 is a perspective vie-w of one of the brace arms.

Referring; in detail to the drawing, the numeral. 10 indicates the rear legs of the chair which are slightly staggered and are secured to the lower surface of the woven seat 11, the side edges of. said seat tapering toward the rear, as is usual in chair construction. The front legs 12 extend upwardly past the seat and form supports for the ends of an arm rest weave. 13 which girdles the upper edge of the latticed willow reeds 145, the latter forming the basket which encloses the sides and the rear above the seat. Both the front and rear legs are preferably wrapped with willow which is woven into some desired ornamental design. A

FURNITURE.

1923. Serial No. 830,959.

seat support frame consisting substantially of side members 15 and front and rear members 16 and 17 respectively, is" anchored beneath the seat 11 and supports the latter. An additional member 18 may be provided on the support frame midway between the members 16 and 17 and has its ends secured to the sides 15.

The braces which support the seat frame are essentially comprised of two plates 19 and 20, each of which is bent at one end into an angular foot plate 21. Plate 20 is pro-- vided with a plurality of spacedapart rectangular openings 22. Plate 19 has apair of similarly spaced apart ears which are preferably formedby blanking said plate and bending the enclosed material upward, as indicated in Figure 5. split lengthwise, thereby forming a pair of aligned prongs 23 and'2l. i

In an article of furniture such as illustrated in Figures 1 and 2, the braces may be of the ordinary type such as indicated by the numeral 25. Where desired, an extensible brace may be used. Before attaching the plates 19 and 20 to each other, the

foot plates 21 of the cooperating plates are first attached to their respective positions. Thereafter, the plate 19 which carries the upturned prongs 23 and 24, is attached to its corresponding plate 20 by inserting said prongs into the openings 22 in the corresponding plate 20. In order to secure thev brace in'this position, the projecting ends of the prongs are turned down to lie fiat on the surface of plate 20. The split ears which form the prongs are designed in this manner to permit eachpair -of aligned prongs to be turned over in opposite directions, as shown in Figure 4.

I claim 1. In an article of furniture, means for bracing two members comprising a pair of plates, each having a foot plate thereon, one of said plate members having aplurality of rectangular spaced apart openings therein, cars on the remaining plate adapted to register in any of said openings, said ears when bent over in said openings being adapted to secure both plates together.

2. In an article of furniture, means for bracing two members comprising a pair of plates slidable adjacent each other, each having a foot plate thereon, one of said plates having a plurality of rectangular spaced apart openings therein, ears on the remaining plate said ears being adapted to register in any of said openings of the firstnanied plate. said ears being split longitudinally to form a pair of adjacent prongs each set of adjacent prongs being adapted to be bent over in opposite directions when securing both plates together.

3. In an article of furniture, means for bracing two members comprising a pair of W plates, each having a foot plate thereon,

longitudinally to form a pair of adjacent 5 prongs adapted to be bent in opposite direetions.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature.

SAMUEL ETTNER.

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