US1735078A - Ironing-board table - Google Patents

Description

Filed May '7. 1927 2 Sheets-Sheet /wf//rae faulen/ /ance v AUM/vins.

Patented Nov. 12, 1929 UNITED STATES EDWARD B. HANCE, F CAMDEN, NEW JERSEY IRONING-BOARD' TABLE Application filed May 7, 1927. Serial No. 189,498.k

The object of my invention is to provide an improved structure that is adapted for use alternately, either as van ordinary table or as an ironing board table, and which is readily convertible to ada-pt it to one use or the other.

A preferred embodiment of the invention is shown in the accompanying drawings, in which F ig. l is a plan View of the structure with the ironing board positioned for use.

Fig.f2 is a front view of same.

Fig. 3 is a section on the line 3-3 of Fig. 2.

Fig. 4l is a longitudinal sectional view of the structure when converted to an ordinary table.

Fig. 5 is an end view of Fig. 4.

Fig. 6 is a cross-sectional view, looking in the same direction as Fig. 5.

Fig. 7 is a view, similar to Fig. 6, with the table top removed and the ironing board raised.

a, b, c, and l are the four corner posts of the supporting frame. Posts a and o are provided with inwardly extending pins e, e.

A cross bar f is provided with slots g, each havingone long upright arm and one short upright arm. The slotted bar may be positioned as shown in Fig. 6, wherein the pins e engage the upper ends ot the long vertical arm of the slots g, or may be positioned as shown in Figs. 3 and 7, wherein the pins e engage the upper ends of the short vertical arms of the slots g. Posts Z) and l are proy vided with similar pins e and a similar slotted cross bar f is similarly suspended between the posts.

The cross bars f constitute supports for a jointed ironing board 7L, f/, which, when not in in Fig. 6 and which, preparatory to use, is raised to the position shown in Fig. 7. f

Section h of the ironing board is provided with depending end ears lo, which are slidable on guides fm, on the cross bars f. A stop n limits the inward movement of ears r: and

the ironing board. The board occupies this inward position when lowered and not in use, as in. F ig. 6, and when raised, as shownin Fig. 7, preparatory to being positioned for use, may be lowered into the position showny use, or, after use, preparatoryr to being lowered. The ironing board is slid forward into the position shown in Fig. 3 to position it for use, after which hinged section z' of the ironing board is swung out into the position shown in Figs. l and 2. A strut y', hinged to section 'L' is then suspended from hook y and is'braeed against the drawer frame fr of the supporting tramo, thus firmly supporting the y Iuti slots s that engaged fixed pins r on posts a and 7). Thereby the table top may be moved from a pendant position alongside the supporting frame, asshown in Figs. 1, 2, 3 and 7, to a horizontal position over the supporting frame, as shown in Figs. 4; and 5. In thelatter position the table top may be retained in place by means of removable pins t extending through slots s into the posts c and d. t ,Assumethat, as shown in Figs. 4, 5 and 6, the ironing yboard has been folded, moved in and lowered,'and that the table top is in position over the supporting frame. In this positionof the parts, the struct-ureis adapted for the ordinary uses for which a table is intended If it be desired to use the ironing board,pins t are removed and the table is slid laterally and swung down into the position shown in Figs. l, 2, 3 and 7, in which position the table top hangs suspended by reason of the engagement of pins r in the ends of slots s. The ironing board is then moved from the position shown in Fig. 6 to that shown in Fig. 7 ,this movement being edected by an upward movement of cross bars f to bring pins e into alignment withv the horizontal parts of slots g, followed yby a longitudinal movement of the cross bars f (laterally with relation to the supporting frame) 'to bring pins e into alignment with the short vertical partsof slots g, the cross bars f being then allowed to drop slightly to cause the pins g to rest in the upper ends of the short vertical arms of the slots g, as shown in Fig. 6. The ironing board is then moved laterally, on the 5 guides m into the position shown in Fig. 3. The section z' of the ironing board, which is hinged to one end of section h, is then swung through an are of i800 into the position shown in Figs. l and 2 and the strut j is then moved into supporting position.

The structure is now adapted for use in ironing. It will be observed, by reference particularly to Fig. 3, that a spaceis afforded, back of the rear longitudinal edge of the ironing board section h, for fabric being ironed to descend. The depending reach of fabric, however lengthy, will not drop onto the floor, but will be arrested and rest on the drawer frame gg lVhen ironing is discontinued, strut y' is unhooked, section z' is swung up and down over section It, the ironing board h, z' is moved in from the position shown in Fig. 3 to that shown in Fig. 7, the ironing board is lowered into the position shown in Fig. 6 and the table top o, p is swung up into the operative position shown in Figs. Ll, 5 and 6; the structure being thus again converted into a table.

Having now fully described my invention,

30 what I claim and desire to protect by Letters Patent is y 1. In combination, a supporting trame, an ironing board, supporting members for the ironing board, said supporting members having slots therein, each slot having a horizontal portion and vertical portions extending upwardly from the horizontal portion t0 different levels, and pins carried by the supporting frame and engaging within said 40 slots, whereby the ironing board may be supported at di'erent levels by selective engagement of the pins with the upper ends of the several vertical portions of the slots.

- 2. In combination, a supporting frame, an

5 ironing board, supporting members for the ironing board on which the board is slidable forwardly and rearwardly, said supporting members having slots therein, each slot having a horizontal portion and vertical portions extending upwardly from the horizontal portion to different levels, and pins oarried by the supporting frame and engaging within said slots, the shorter of the vert-ically extending portions 0f the slots being y5,5 to the rear of the longer whereby the ironing board may be supported at different levels by selective engagement of the'pins with the upper ends of the several vertical portions of the slots and moved to a forward position when at the higher level.

In testimony of which invention, I Ahave hereuntoset my hand, at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on this 5th day of May., '1927.

i EDWARD B. naiven

Images