US1770856A - Ironing table - Google Patents

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G. w. LEWIS July 15, 1930.

IRQNI NG TABLE Filed Feb. 12, v1929 Patented July 15, 1930 P Aft GEORGE W. LEWIS, OF BERLIN, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR T0 JOHN S. HOFFMIRE 00.,

INQ, OF AUBURN, YORK, A CORPORATION 01? NEVJ YORK IRONING TABLE Application filed. February 12 1929. Serial No. 339,353.

This invention relates to a folding ironingtable, which includes an ironing board and a base structure supporting the board and adapted to be folded. for storage and erected 5 for use, and to horizontally support the board against downward pressure.

The invention is embodied in certain improvements hereinafter desribed and claimed whereby the folding and erection of the structure with a minimum of frictional resistance is permitted, a maximum resistance to downward pressure exerted on any part of the board is provided, and other useful results are obtained.

Of the accompanying drawings forming part of this spccification,

Figure 1 is an ed e view of an ironing-table embodying the invention.

FigureQ is a perspective view, showing the ironing-board only.

Figure 3 is a perspective view of the boardsupporting structure without the board.

' Figure 4 is a fragmentary perspective View, showing details.

. Figure 5 is an edge view, showing the table folded. a

' figure 6 is a section on line 6-6 of Figure 1. p

Figure 7 is a section on line 77 of Figure 1, and a fragmentary elevation of parts at the right of said line.

Figures 8 and 9are fragmentary perspective views, showing a modification.

The same reference characters indicate the same parts in all of the figures.

'My improved table includes ironingboard 12, and preferably includes also a pivot-engaging frame fixed to the board, said frame being composed of spaced apart pivotreceiving stringers 13, and cross-bars 1r, fixed to and connecting the stringers and fixed to the board 12 by any suitable means, preferably rivets 16, inserted in coinciding holes 15 in the board and cross-bars, and cement-coated nails 17, driven into the board and cross-bars. The stringers are offset by the cross-bars from the board 12, and the frame as a whole constitutes a truss which stiifens and prevents warping of the board.

The frame constitutes a desirable element of the top, adapted to receive pivots connectmg the legs and the strut herelnafter described with the ironing-board. Said pivots may, however, be engaged with the board by other means.

The top is supported by a foldable suptwo members 18, abutting and fixed to each other at one end of the leg, and diverging from eachother to the opposite end, a double leg composed of members 20 spaced apartby spacing connections 21, fixed to and extend ing between said members, and a strut composed of spaced apart members 25,- and a transverse foot 27, which is preferably a pin fixed in and extending between the members 25, as shown by Figures Sand l.

The legs and strut are pivotally connected in tandem order with the top, the pivotal connections of the double leg with the top being between the connections of the single leg and the strut with the top. Said connections are preferably provided by pivots 19 connecting the single leg members 18 with the stringers 13, pivots 23 connecting the double leg members 20 with the stringers, and pivots connecting the strut members 25 wlth the .crosses and extends between the members of the double .leg, and between the members of the strut, as shown by Figure 3.

The transverse foot 27 of he strut bears separably on the upper edge of the singleleg, to support the downward end thrust of the strut. The single leg is provided with stop means, to limit the swinging movement of the strutin one direction, the strut bearing separably on the stop means when the table is erected. The stop means is preferably provided. by the end portions of a transverse rod 28, extending through the single leg, said end portions projecting from opposite sides of said leg.

The lower ends of the strut members 25 are connected with the double leg members :20 by links 29, which are connected bypivots and 31 with said members and maintain the strut in separable contact with the stop means 28, and the strut foot 2? in separable contact with the single leg when the table is erected, so that the legs and strut are maintained in the relative positions shown, and are caused to rigidly support the top against downward pressure exerted on any part of the elongated work-supporting surface.

The-table is foldable by a rearward swinging movement of th double leg towardthe under side of the top, from the position shown by full lines in Figure l, to and beyond the position shown by dotted lines, and to the position shown by full lines in Figure 5. This movement releases the strut from the stop means, and releases the strut foot 27 from the single leg, during the entire folding operation, and during the operation of erecting the table, so that frictional resistance to the folding and erection is reduced to a minii'num, the only frictional resistance being that caused by the turning of the several pivots in their bearings.

In the modification shown by Figures 8 and 9, the strut is composed of a single member 25 extending between the member 18 of the single leg, and its foot is provided by the end portions of a rod 27 extending transversely through the member 25 and adapted to bear separably on the upper edge of-the single leg. The stop means is provided by the central portion of a rod 28 extending.

transversely through the single leg, the strut bearing separably on the central portion of the rod 28 when the table is erected.

The foldable supporting structure is characterized chiefly by the transverse strut foot, and the stop means carried by the single leg, the arrangement being such that the foot is confined in separable contact with the single leg by the links 29, and the strut is held by said links in separable contact with the stop means, when the table is erected.

Iv claim:

1. An ironing-table comprising a top, and a foldable supporting structure, including a single leg, a double leg composed of spaced apart members, and a strut unconnected with said single leg, said legs and strut being pivotally connected with the top in tandem order, so that when the table is erected the single leg crosses and extends between the members of the double leg, and the strut is forwardof the double leg, and links connecting the strut with the members of the double leg, a transverse foot constituting a member of the strut and bearing separably on the single leg, to

support downward end thrust of the strut,

and stop means fixed to the single leg, to limit swinging movement of the strut in one direction, the strut being held in separable contact with the stop means by the links when the table is erected.

2. An ironing-table as specified by claim 1, the strut including spaced apart members between which the single leg extends, the transverse strut foot being a rod extending between said members above the lower ends thereof, and the stop means being the end portions of a transverse rod extending through the single leg, and projecting from opposite sides thereof for engagement by the portions of the single leg members below said transverse strut foot.

3. A foldableironing-table as specified by claim 1, the top comprising an ironing-board and a frame attached at the under side thereof, and composed of spaced apart stringers receiving the pivots of the legs and strut, and cross bars between and fixed to the string- 'ers and board.

4. An ironing table comprising a top, and a foldable supporting structure, including a single leg, a double leg composed .of spaced apart members, and a strut unconnected with said single leg, said legs and strut being spaced apart and pivotally connected in relatively fixed position at their upper ends with nature.

GEORGE W. LEWIS.

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