US1575691A - Quilting frame - Google Patents

Description

March 9 1926. 1,575,691

- E. E. KLEE QUILTING FRAME Filed Jan. 26, 1925 I f L-- Jm Ll--mlm- ,use, inexpensive to manufacture, strong,

Patented Mar. 9, i925.

UNITED STATES ELMER E. KLEE, OF TRIPLETT, MISSOURI.

QUILTING- FRAME.

Application filed January 26, 1925. Serial No. 4,891.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, Emma E. Knnn, a citizen of the United States, residing at Triplett, in the county of Chariton and State of Missouri, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in a Quilting Frame, of which the following is a specification.

The present invention relates to a ratchet quilting frame or comfort tacking frame, and has for its pricipal object to provide a knock-down structure so that the same may be stored easily and take up very little room.

A further important object of the inven tion is to provide a frame of this nature with a detachable leg structure in order that the frame may be supported in a horizontal position when in use or leaned up against a wall or the like when not in use so as to be out of the way. i

A further important object ofthe tion is 'to provide a ratchet quilting which is capable of easy and ready tion from either side. q

A still further object of the invention is to provide a leg structure for a frame of this nature which may be folded to a contracted position so as to take up little room when not in use.

Another very important object of the invention is to provide a quilting frame of this nature with a very simple and ellicient structure, one which is fairly reliable in invenframe opera durable, easy to manipulate, not liable to readily get out of order, readily assembled or disassembled, and otherwise well adapted to the purpose for which it is designed.

With the above and numerous objects in view as will appear the description proceeds, the invention resides in certain novel feaures of construction, and in the combination and arrangement of parts as will hereinafter be more fully described'and claimed.

In the drawing Figure 1 is a top plan View of the preferred embodiment of my quilting frame.

Figure 2 is a vertical transverse section through a portion of the frame, taken substantially on the line 22 of Figure 3 looking in the direction of the arrow.

Figure 3 is a transverse section taken vertically substantially on the line of Figure 1.

Figure l is a detail perspective of two of the pivoted bracing links, and

Figure 5, is a detail section onv an enlarged scale taken substantially ,on the line 5--5 of Figure 1. i

Referring to the drawing it will be seen that suitable rollers are providedon shafts for the reception of the quilt or comfort 6 in the usual and well known manner. These shafts 5 and the side rails 7 form the frame. At both ends of each end of each shaft .3 there is provided a ratchet and pawl structure which is indicated in detail in Figure 5. The pawl is indicated by the numeral 8, the ratchet wheel by numeral 9, andthe tenon or end of the shaft by numeral 1.0. Each ratchet wheel 9 is welded or otherwise fixed on a sleeve 11 which extends through. the adjacent side rail 7 and a spacing collar '12 is formed on the sleeve between the ratchet wheel 9 andthe adjacent rail 7 so as to hold this ratchet wheel in proper position to be engaged by the corresponding pawl 8. A cotter pin 13 is inserted through the sleeve 11 and the tenon 10 so as to lock the former on the latter. These ratchet wheels 9 and their spacing collars and sleeves are interchangeable so that no study is necessary in assembling the device. hen these ratchetstructures are provided on each shaft it ispossible to remove the cotter pin and thus unlock the ratchet wheel from the shaft so that complete operation may be accomplished from the other side of the frame.

The under edges of the side rail 7 are notched as is indicated at 14% for receiving bolts 15 forming part of the leg structure about to be described. The leg structure supporting each side rail 7 is shown to advantage in Figures 2 and 3 and consists of two pairs of legs 16. The legs in each pair converge from their bottoms toward their top ends and receive at their top ends the bolt 15 which holds the legs one on each side of the rail and these bolts are provided with thumb nuts 17 in order that they may be tightened causing the legs to be brought into tight engagement with the side rails. Two brace bolts 18 and 19, one above the other, are provided to hold the legs 16 of each pair in proper spaced relation to each other as shown to advantage in Figure 2. On the upper bolts 19, the links 20 and 21. are pivoted and the link 20 is pivoted at one end to an intermediate point of the link 21 as at 22 and the inner end of the link 21 is provided with an offset hook 23 engageable over the upperedge of the 'link20, The links 24k and 25 correspond in formation to links 21 and 20 respectively except that they are longer and are attached pivotal-1y to the bolts 18 so that the pairs of legs associated with each side rail converge toward each other upwardly as is shown to advantage in Figures 1 and 8. The links2 et and 25 are provided with transversely extending lugs 26 engageable by the notched end oi' rods 27 pivoted on the bolts 19 thus preventing the pivot point 22 between the rods 25 and 24 from being moved upwardly and of course this also prevents the pivot 22 of rods 21 and 20 from being moved upwardly.

It is thought that the operation of the quilting frame will be readily understood without a more detailed description thereof.

Vhen it is desired to store the frame overnight the thumb nuts '17 are loosened and the rails 7 may be lifted from theleg structures and the frame may be leaned against the wall of the room or the like in an out of-the-way position, The rods 27 may then be swung so as to disengage their notched ends from the lugs 26, the pivot point 22 moved upwardly so as 'to fold the pairs of legs 16 against each other. It will also be apparent that the device may be just as easily set up again. VJhen the device is to be stored for any great length of time when not in use, the cotter pins 18 may be removed and the side rails 7 may then be removed so that they may be tacked alongside of the rollers and shaft. Thus the whole frame may be stored in a relatively small space. It will further be apparent that this device possesses a very simple, efiicient and inexpensive structure which will attain all the features of advantage enumerated as desirable in the statement of the invention and above description, and that numerous changes in the details o1 construction, in the material, and in the combination and arrangement of parts may be resorted to without departing from the spirit or scope of the invention as hereinafter claimed or sacrificing any of its advantages.

Having thus described the invention, what I claim as new is:

In a quilting structure of the class described, a frame including a pair of side rails, and a pair of knock-down leg structurcs for said side rails, each knock-down le structure including two pairs of legs, the legs of each pair being inclined toward each other upwardly, boits connect 'ing the upper ends of the legs of each pair, the side rails of the frame adapted to rest on said bolts, a pivot pin piercing the l of each pair below the bolt thereof, a ond pivot pin piercing the legs of each pair below the first mentioned pivot pin, links pivotally enga ed with the first pins and pivotally engaged with each other and provided with means preventing the breaking of said. links downwardly when in alinement with each other, a second pair of links pivoted on the second pins and pivoted, to each other and provided with means to prevei'it them from being broken downwardly, rods pivoted on the first pins and having notches in their free ends, the second links provided with pins engageable by the notches, to prevent the breaking of the links upwardly.

In testimony whereof I atiix my signature.

iELTvlER E. KLEE.

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