US2283279A - Support - Google Patents

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May 19, 1942. c. E. MURPHY SUPPORT Filed April 24, 1940 INVENTOR. CAa/mer i/V/r Patented May 19, 1942 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

SUPPORT Ohalmer E. Murphy, Cleveland Heights, Ohio, as signor to Porcelain Steels, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio, a corporation of Ohio Application April 24, 1940, Serial No. 331,359

3 Claims. (01. 248-450) g This invention relates to supports of the class known as stands.

The support or stand of my invention maybe used to support a variety of objects, but perhaps its most important use is as the stand for supporting a hot water tank or range boiler and in some aspects thereof will be illustrated and described in the following as applied to that use.

It is desirable that stands of this class be compact and neat in design; and that they admit of being ornamented when that is desirable; and that they be of the knock down type of construction whereby the parts thereof may be packed and transmitted with the minimum of bulk, and be quickly and easily assembled at the point of use without tools; and that the parts thereof be simple and cheap to manufacture.

It is the primary object of this invention to provide a support or stand of the class referred to, embodying in an improved manner and construction, the properties and qualities referred to in the foregoing.

Another object is to provide a support of th class referred to comprising a base and legs therefor, constructed to interlock together in an improved manner.

Other objects will be apparent to those skilled in the art to which my invention appertains.

My invention is fully disclosed in the following description taken in connection with the accompanying drawing, in which:

Fig. l is a side elevational view of a stand embodying my invention, and illustrating in broken lines as an article to be supported thereby, a hot Water tank or range boiler;

Fig. 2 is a top plan view of the stand of Fig. 1;

Fig. 3 is a side elevational view of a leg element of the stand of Figs. 1 and 2, and showing, in cross section, part of a ring element of the stand; and Fig. 3 may be considered as taken from the plane 3 of Fig.

Fig. 4 is a View taken from the right hand side of Fig. 3;

Fig. 5 is a top plan view of the parts of Fig. 4.

Referring now to the drawing I have shown gether, for exampleas indicated at 3, in Fig. 2; and the ri-ngIZ is preferably formed-to lie. in a plane. 7

The leg elements |I may all be alike, and are There is an outer wall 4, top and bottom walls 7 5 and 6, and side walls l'1. The top wall 5 has a perforation 8, and the side walls 1- 7 have notches99 therein, the perforation and the notches constituting an aperture or recess ill in the top wall 5, in which the ring base '2 is seated; and when, as preferred, the ring base 2 is of circular configuration, the perforation 8 and the notches 9 are formed and disposed to define a circular arcuate aperture or recess [0, as plainly shown in Fig. 5, concentric with the ring 2.

In assembling the stand, one of the leg elements l is placed upright on a floor or the like and the ring 2 is laid in the aperture l0; and then the other leg elements are disposed'upright with the base ring in their apertures.

It will be observed that any tendency of a leg element to tip out of the vertical is counteracted by the engagement of the ring 2 with the wall of the aperture I0, and to this end the aperture is made substantially of the same shape and size Obviously the shape of the aperture H! and the cross-sectional shape of the ring 2 may be varied without sacrificing the above described interlock between the ring and the leg elements, which not only supports the ring on the leg elements but holds them in upright position. 7

The ring 2' is preferably flush with the upper side of the top wall 5, but obviously may project thereabove or therebelow. The upper faces of the top wall 5 of the leg elements, or the ring 2, or both, may provide the surface upon which the object to be supported rests. In Fig. 1, at H, is indicated in broken line profile, a range boiler or hot water tank resting upon the stand, as illustrative of a characteristic use of this stand.

Obviously no tools are needed to assemble the stand at the point of use, nor to dis-assemble it for packaging and transporting.

The outer walls 4, or if preferred, also the side walls I of the leg elements, may be ornamented welding the abutting end portions thereof toby forming thereon ornamental designs in the aperture It) need not conform to the configu-- ration of the ring, but has been shown as conforming in this respect because it renders the appearance of the stand as a whole more neat when the ring has been assembled with' the legs.'

The ring base and the leg elements as ;de-.

scribed above may be plated with nickel or the like, which when they are assembled, together into a stand, gives it the appearance of a unitary structure.

Y My invention is not limited to the exact details 'of construction illustrated and described.- Changes and modifications may be made within the spirit of my invention without sacrificing its advantages and within the scope of the appended claims.

I claim: 7

1. In a stand, a ring element of rectangular cross-section, a plurality of upright leg elements each having a foot portion at its lower end. and

in the upper wall and notches in the side walls conforming to the configuration of corresponding portions of the ring element, the ring element being seated in the apertures, and the walls of the rectangular section ring element engaging the walls of the apertures to interlock the ring element to the leg elements to hold the leg elements in upright position.

2. In a stand, a ring element of rectangular cross-section, a plurality of upright leg elements each having a foot portion at its lower end, an upwardly open aperture in the upper wall portion of the leg conforming'to the configuration having side walls and an. upper wall, an aperture of corresponding portions of the ring element, thering element being seated in the apertures, and the walls of the rectangular section ring element engaging the walls of the apertures to interlock the ring element to the leg elements to hold the leg elements in upright position.

3. In a stand, a plurality of elongated upright legs each having a foot portion to rest upon a floor or the like, and each having above the foot portion an upwardly-open aperture comprising spaced apart mutually confronting apertured side walls extending upwardly and downwardly, and a generally ring formelement supported by the legs and having a corresponding plurality of ring portions disposable in the apertures respectively and the ring portions having a cross sectional form which interlocks the ring portions with the said apertured side walls to hold the legs in upright position.

. CHALMER. E. MURPHY.

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