US2502912A

US2502912A - Furniture buffer

Info

Publication number: US2502912A
Application number: US49157A
Authority: US
Inventors: Andrew James Madison
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 1948-09-14
Filing date: 1948-09-14
Publication date: 1950-04-04
Anticipated expiration: 1967-04-04

Description

April 4, 1950 J. M. ANDREW FURNITURE BUFFER Filed Sept. 14, 1948 IN VEN TOR Patented Apr. 4, 1950 UNITED STATES PATENT [OFFICE FURNITURE BUFFER James Madison Andrew, Findlay, Ohio Application September 14, 1948, Serial No. 49,157

2 Claims. (Cl. 45-137) This invention relates to a novel and useful household device and more particularly and specifically to a buffer or bumper device for furniture and other household articles.

The primary object of this invention resides in the provision of a bumper device adapted to be removably secured to the leg of a chair, table, or like article of furniture to prevent said article of furniture from coming into contact with walls, draperies, and other pieces of furniture, and thus the device prevents the annoying damaging and disfiguring of walls and furniture which are everyday household occurrences.

Another important object of this invention is the provision of a furniture bumper of the nature set forth which may be quickly and easily attached to or detached from an article of furniture to facilitate cleaning, moving of the furniture, and for convenience when other occasions occur when removal of the device is desirable.

Still a further object and advantage of this invention is the provision of a device of the character described which is of an extremely simple, durable, and inexpensive design and construction.

Still other objects and advantages of this invention will become readily apparent when the following specification is considered in the light of the accompanying drawings.

In the drawings:

Fig. 1 is a top plan view of the bumper in an open disengaged position.

Fig. 2 is a top plan view of the bumper in an operable position.

Fig. 3 is a side elevation of the device as illustrated in Fig. 3.

Referring more particularly to the drawings in which like characters indicate similar parts throughout the views, I designates a substantially U-shaped clamp formed of a suitable length of spring wire or other suitable material having inherent resilience. The U-shaped clamp I has a straight, fiat foot portion 2 and integrally formed leg pieces 3 and 4 which are bent to normally extend in parallel and perpendicularly to the foot portion 2. The outer extremity of each of the legs 3 and 4 are provided respectively with furniture engaging jaws 5 and B. Each jaw comprises two short, integrally formed extensions 1 and 8, the extension I being bent at about 70 degrees inward the mouth of the U, while the second extension 8 is bent at right angles to the piece 1 to extend at about 85 degrees outwardly from the mouth of the U.

Each of the extensions 1 and 8 are provided with protective covering pieces 9 which are preferably in the form of hard rubber sleeves which are slidably telescoped over the extensions to be retained thereon by frictional, resilient engagement with the extensions. Two more of the protective coverings 9 are mounted in spaced relationship on the foot portion 2.

It can be seen in Fig. 3 that the leg 3 and the leg 4 are bent oppositely to such an extent so that the extremities thereof are normally maintained in adjacent planes so that they may be moved to interposed positions as illustrated in Fig. 2.

In use the device is preferably laid horizontally on the floor I!) with the foot portion 2 placed flush against the Wall H. The outer ends of the clamp are moved against their normal resilience to crossed positions so that the lower end of the leg l2 of a piece of furniture can be placed between the now substantially parallel extensions 9 of the leg pieces of the clamp. The legs 3 and. 4 are released and allowed to be urged by their resilience until they come to contact opposite faces of the furniture leg and thus resiliently clamp the bumper on the furniture leg.

Now it can be easily seen that a new and useful household device has been provided which will hold the furniture at a distance from the wall or from other pieces of furniture so that the furniture will not damage wall surfaces, drapes or the like, and similarly the furniture cannot be damaged by like contact.

Having thus described this unique and useful device which is to be limited only within the scope of the hereinafter following and appended claims, what I desire to claim in Letters Patent is:

1. A protective bumper for attachment to the leg of an article of furniture comprising, a substantially U-shaped element having parallel legs interconnected at one pair of adjacent ends by a foot portion, angular extensions provided inte- REFERENCES CITED The following references are of record in the file of this patent:

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