US1750678A - Supports of articles such as furniture and the like - Google Patents

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March 18, 1930.

SUPPORTS OF ARTICLES SUCH AS FURNITURE AND THE LIKE Filed March 30, 1928 FRITZ XNVENTGR;

F. MENG 1,7505678 Patented Mar. 18, 1930 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE FRITZ MENG, OF BERN, SWITZERLAND Application filed March 30, 1928, Serial No.

This invention relates to the supports of articles, such as furniture and the-like, and is particularly applicable to benches, such as are used in rows as seats in tents, pavilions 6 and other temporary accommodation for galas and performances, and such as are placed out on the roads and streets on the occasion of processions. In order better to ile such benches one on another when not 1n use they have been provided with folding supports. Heretofore they were all the same length, and the benches were of a predetermined invariable height depending on the length of their supports, so that the persons using them were seated at the same height in all the rows.

This invention has for its main object to obviate this defect and to enable the height of the seats to be adjusted.

According to the present invention, a support of an article, such as a bench, comprises two struts which slant one relatively to the other and have their lower ends abutting one another.

Three embodiments of the invention are diagrammatically illustrated by way of example in the accompanying drawing, where- 1n Figure 1 is a side elevation showing a bench, partly broken away, having one form of support according to the invention,

Figure 2 is a bottom plan view thereof,

Figures 3 and 4 show details thereof on an enlarged scale, and

Figure 5 is a cross-section, also enlarged taken on the line VV in Figure 1;

Figures 6 and 7 are elevations of two other forms of support according to the invention.

Figure 7 is a detailed view on an enlarged scale showing the means used to prevent collapse of the seat shown in Figure 6.

Referring to Figures 1 to 5, the bench comprises a seat a having below at each side a flange constituting a reinforcement. The

supports comprise each two struts c, 61? connected together by a hinge e to form a V. The strut 0 is attached by a pivot pin Z) to the said flanges. The free end f of the strut d is bevelled and can be placed against various stops g g 9 so that the slant of the 266,019, and in Switzerland April 12, 1927.

struts in relation to the seat a and with it the height of the bench can be adjusted. The struts 0 and d form with the seat a a triangle having the hinge e at its lowest angle resting on the ground.

In order that the struts d shall not leave the stops when a person rises from the seat, an angle iron 2' may be provided which can be inserted into a staple in of flat iron.

For transport and storage in piles, the struts d are removed from the stops, the hinge e is straightened out, and the struts 0 and d are laid flat between the flanges against the seat and the stops. The collapsed benches can be readily piled one on another with the seats downwards. If desired, the free ends of the struts d may carry spring-pressed latches for engaging in recesses in the flanges.

In the embodiment shown in Figure 6 the struts 0 and d are pivotally connected together by a hinge e to form a V. The strut e is pivoted to the flanges of the seat a, and the strut d is ivoted to slides s which can be fixed below the seat a at several places by any convenient means, such as bolts, not shown, in order to vary the height of the bench. For transport or storage the slides s are so shifted that the struts 0 and d of each support lie flat under the seat.

The blocking device comprises the two struts 0 and d of which the one a is directly joined to the reenforcing bar of the seat plate, while the other (i is provided at its upper end with a slide 8 movable in a groove 1" of the reenforcing bar. The slide 8 has an orifice t and the reenforcing bar has also a number of orifices u, the purpose of which is to receive a pin '0 in different positions and thus to be able to vary the vertical plane of the struts.

In the examples described above the sup ports can be place-d at various heights. They may, however, be so constructed that the struts are not adjustable.

It is to be understood that the supports may be employed also for tables and other articles of furniture.

I claim 1. Supports, for an article, each thereof"- comprising two struts that slant downwardly towards each other, and pivotally connected at their lower ends against one another at an angle which is adjustable, one of the struts being pivotally connected at its upper end to the article being supported, and means whereby the free end of the other strut is adjustable along the article to be supported for the purpose of adjusting its elevation.

2. An article of furniture comprising in combination a part to be supported, supports therefor each thereof comprising two struts pivotally connected together at their lower ends the upper end of one of which struts is pivoted to said part to be supported, and a plurality of stops on said part against any of which the upperend of the other strut can bear and hold the struts in the form of a V.

In testimony whereof I aiiix my signature.

FRITZ MENG.

CERTIFICATE OF CORRECTION.

Patent No. 1,750,678. Granted March 18, 1930, to

FRITZ MENG.

It. is hereby certified that error appears in the above numbered patent requiring correction as follows: In the heading to the printed statement, line 4, date of filing foreign application, for "April 12, 1927" read "April 2, 1927"; and that the said Letters Patent should be read with this correction therein that the same may conform to the record of the ease in the Patent Office.

Signed and sealed this 20th day of May, A. I). 1930.

M. J. Moore, (Seal) Acting Commissioner of Patents.

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