US1741487A - Floor plate - Google Patents

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Dec. 31, 1929. w. N. VANCE 1,741,487

FLOOR PLATE Filed March 22, 1928 UNITE STATES PATENT OFFICE WALTER N. VANCE, OF CHICAGO I-IEIG MENTS, TO LYON METAL PRODUCTS, I

PORATION OF ILLINOIS This invention HTS, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR, BY MESNE ASSIGN- NCORIORATED, OF AURORA, ILLINOIS, A COH- FLOOR PLATE Application filed March 22, 1928. Serial No. 263,936.

relates to floor plates, and

has more particularly reference to floor plates which are adapted for use in leveling articles of furniture, such as lockers and the like, 5 which have angle It is the principal object of this invention to provide floor plates which may be readily built up into compact stack Another object iron legs.

form. is to provide such floor plates which are adapted to be used in leveling up articles of furniture that have angle iron lugs, whereby the stacking lugs on the floor plates serve as holding lugs for the legs.

Numerous other objects and the invention will be understood from advantages of apparent as 1t is better the following description,

which, taken in connection with the accompanying drawing bodiment thereof.

Referring now F1 gure 1 1s a pl bodying my invention,

, discloses a preferred emto the drawing, an view of a floor plate emdotted lines showing of angle iron legs with re- Fig. 2 is a side elevation of a built-up stack of such floor plate Fi g. 3 is a cross-sectional view taken along the line 33 of Fig.

tu ral details and Fig. 1 is a view similar 1, showing certain structo Fig. 1, dotted lines showing the position of iron legs with respect to the lugs when two articles rest on the same plate.

Heretofore floo bodying lugs for r plates similar to that emmy invention have been used but the holding the legs of furniture were of the same size or larger than the recesses produced in pressing the metal to provlde the lugs. stack This caused if more than one plate was necessary.

difficulty in building up a A floor plate embodying my invention comprises a body 11 of sheet metal having holes 12 punched therethrough for the purpose of securing said plat of progecting but e to the floor and a plurality tens or lugs 3.3 underneath the plate relative to the position of the angle irons, a double thickness of iron may be inserted between two ldJiLCBllt lugs to accom-' l modate two angle irons, whereby two articles may be supported upon the same plate.

It is to be noted that a lug 13 has a diameter smaller than that of the recess 14 beneath it, and that the depth of the recess is the same or slightly greater than the thickness of the lug,

as shown in Fig. 3. This feature permits the stacking of the plates in such a way that a practically solid steady stack is obtained with no tendency of the individual members to shift or to lie at an angle to the others. Such lugs and recesses may readily be formed by embossing.

It is thought that this invention and many of its attendant advantages will be understood from the foregoing description, and it will be apparent that many changes may be made in the form, construction and arrangement of the parts without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention or sacrificing any of its material advantages, the form hereinbefore described being merely a preferred embodiment thereof.

I claim:

1. A metal floor plate adapted for use in leveling articles of furniture, comprising a substantially flat body, said body having a plurality of embossed lugs upon one face, said lugs being spaced apart along the arc of a circle, and a plurality of recesses on the other face, said recesses being immediately beneath said lugs and having interior dimensions greater than the exterior dimensions of said An example of such a leg in adaptd to receive and engage said lugs on another plate.

2. A floor plate adapted for use in leveling articles of furniture, comprising a substantially flat body, said body having a plurality of embossed lugs extending up from its upper face to engage the leg of an article of furniture being leveled, and havinga plurality of recesses beneath said lugs of larger diamefer than the diameter of said lugs, whereby said recesses of one plate are adapted to re ceive lugs on another plate.

WALTER N. VANCE.

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