US226362A

US226362A - Mirror

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Publication number: US226362A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1880-04-06
Anticipated expiration: 1897-04-06

Description

J.-P.v SHORT.

Mirror.

--No.-2 26,362. Patented April 6, I880.

' INVENTOR W M ATTORNEYS.

UNITED STATES PATENT Grinc JOSEPH P. SHORT, OF DODGEVILLE, WISCONSIN.

MIRROR.

SPECIFICATION formingpart of Letters Patent No. 226,362, dated April 6, 1880. Application filed September 6, 1879.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOSEPH PHILLIP SHORT, of Dodgeville, in the county of Iowa and State of Wisconsin, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Mirrors; and I do hereby declare that the followingis a full, clear, and exact description of the same.

A series of mirrors have been supported upon one or more standards and grouped or arranged in such a manner that a figure seen in one of them would be seen in all the others.

My invention is an improvement in such line; and it consists in the combination and arrangement, as hereinafter described, of four mirrors, which are suitably secured in a frame or frames, so that front and back views of the same figure will appear in opposite mirrors.

In the accompanying drawings,formin g part of this specification, Figure l is a side View of the mirror, and Fig. 2 a cross-section on line 00 0c of Fig. 1.

The frame of the mirror consists of a horizontal upper portion, a, vertical sides I) I), and horizontal base parts 0 0, which are separated sufficiently to allow space for a person to pass between them and place himself or herself in different attitudes. This frame will, in practice, be placed upon a suitable standard, pedestal, or other form of support. (Not shown.)

Two mirrors, A and B, are placed on one side of the frame a, and two, 0 D, on the other side thereof, their faces being inward. The two mirrors on each side are placed at a right angle to each other, each being at an angle of forty-five degrees to the vertical, and one of them, A or O, is placed directly over the other, B or D. Thus aperson placing himself in the space between the two lower mirrors, B and D, and facing B, will see his face and the front portion of his body reflected in the latter, while his top head will appear reflected in A and O and his back head and portion of his back in D. He will thus obtain views of the front and back of his person simultaneously. I

The lower mirrors, B D, are pivoted so as to swing in a vertical plane, and thus admit of adjustment at different angles, for the purpose of enabling one to obtain full-length views of his person when. desired. By turning his body or placing himself in various attitudes it is obvious one may obtain correspondingly different views of face and form.

The invention is adapted for ladies and gen tlemens dressing-rooms, and particularly so for use in clothing, millinery, and barber shops, 8210., where customers have occasion to inspect and determine the fit of garments and cut or arrangement of the hair.

What I claim is- The combination of the four mirrors A B O D with the frame a b c, said frame being open in its lower portion to allow a person to enter or pass between the pairs of mirrors, and the latter being arranged as shown-that is to say, the mirrors of each pair being placed at a right angle to each other, and the lower one of each pair being diagonally opposite the upper one of the other pair, as shown and described.

JOSEPH PHILLIP SHORT. Witnesses:

ORVILLE STRONG, JOHN PERRIs.