US2693041A - Attachment for ironing boards - Google Patents

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Nov. 2, 1954 H. W. WINTERS ATTACHMENT FOR IRONING BOARDS Filed Oct. 2, 1955 F, g 4 INVENTOR.

Ham/d W. W/hzers 2,693,041 Patented Nov. 2, 1954 ATTACHMENT FOR IRONING BOARDS Harold W. Winters, Hattiesburg, Miss.

Application October 2, 1953, Serial No. 383,758

3 Claims. (Cl. 38-140) This invention relates to improvements in ironing board attachments and has particular reference to means for securing to the ironing board a covering cloth and an iron support.

The principal object of this invention is to provide means for applying the cloth pad to an ironmg board 1n a simple and efiicient manner and eliminating the customary draw strings.

A further object is to provide a means for preventing the wrinkling of the pad or cover of an ironing board.

A further object is to provide means for preventing damage to the board or more extensive fires through the accidental igniting of the pad or cover by a hot mom.

A further object is to produce a device of this character which will enable the user to use either side of the board with equal facility.

Other objects and advantages will be apparent during the course of the following description.

In the accompanying drawings forming a part of this specification and in which like numbers are employed to designate like parts throughout the same,

Fig. 1 is a perspective view of an ironing board and my attachment secured thereto;

Fig. 2 is a fragmentary cross sectional view taken on the line 2-2 of Fig. 4;

Fig. 3 is a cross sectional view taken on the line 3-3 of Fig. 1; and

Fig. 4 is a fragmentary side elevation showing the tension spring arrangement.

It has been customary to apply a padding and a cover to an ironing board so as to provide a smooth ironing surface having a limited resiliency.

These pads heretofore have been placed over the ironing board and either tacked thereto or secured by a draw string or spaced spring elements. Such arrangements, however, have been proven unsatisfactory due to the cover oftentimes slipping or wrinkling, being difiicult to put on, and, when burned or scorched or soiled, hard to remove and replace.

Also, this type of cover ordinarily provides no place where a hot iron may be set without danger of burning the cover.

Applicant has therefore devised an arrangement which will hold the pad and cover to the ironing board, and at the same time will provide a place for resting the hot 1ron.

In the accompanying drawings, wherein for the purpose of illustration is shown a preferred embodiment of my invention, the numeral 5 designates an ironing board having the customary legs 6. It is upon such a board that I place a padding 7, and over this padding, a cover 8.

My invention consists in a frame 9, which frame has an outwardly turned lip 11 which engages a plastic strip 12. This frame has its two ends in close proximity to an inverted pan 13 and is connected thereto through the medium of springs 14. Both the frame and the pan are punched so as to form inwardly projecting portions 16, the purpose of which will be later seen.

Secured to the pan is an iron support 17, directly beneath which is an insulating member 18. In order to keep the two ends of the frame adjacent the edge of the board, I provide a clip 19, which passes beneath the board and has its ends bent about the ends of the frame, as best shown in Figs. 1 and 4.

The result of this construction is that after the pad and cloth cover have been laid over the board, the frame is positioned downwardly so that the punched out portions 16, which are rough in character, will engage the cloth, tensioning it and holding it smooth. The pan is now placed over the end of the board and springs 14 connected between the pan and the end of the frame.

By now placing the clip 19 in position, the ends of the frame will be held and the board will be ready for use.

It will be apparent that when an iron is set upon the rest 17, heat therefrom cannot pass through the separating space between it and the cover, due to the fact that the insulating member prevents any dissipation of heat to the cover.

It is to be understood that the form of my invention herewith shown and described is to be taken as a preferred example of the same and that various changes relative to the material, size, shape and arrangement of parts may be resorted to without departing from the spirit of the invention or the scope of the subjoined claims.

It is also apparent that when ironing, the iron cannot engage the plastic strip due to the portion 11 of the frame protecting the same, and at the same time the plastic strip presents a neat appearance, as it covers the punched openings in the frame.

Having thus described my invention, I claim:

1. Means for removably securing a cover to an elongated ironing board having a smooth edge surface, comprising an elongated generally U-shaped frame for dis- I posal opposite said edge surface at one end of the board and major portions of the opposite sides thereof, said frame having inwardly punched roughened portions engageable with the edge of said cover upon downward movement of the frame along said edge surface for tensioning the cover, said frame being provided with an outwardly directed lip, and a strip disposed beneath said lip and engaged with said frame for concealing said punched portions, and means engaged with opposite ends of said frame for holding same in cover-engaging position.

2. Means for removably securing a cover to an elongated ironing board having a smooth edge surface, comprislng an elongated generally U-shaped frame engageable with the margin of said cover along said edge surface at one end of the board and major portions of the opposite sides thereof, a clip extendable transversely beneath said board and being engageable with said frame adjacent the ends thereof for retaining same in operative position, an inverted pan having an edge portion engageable with said edge surface at the opposite end of the board, and springs connecting said pan with the said ends of the frame. 3. The structure according to claim 2, together with an ron support overlying the base of said pan having an iron supporting surface in vertically spaced relation thereto, and an insulating member disposed between said iron supporting surface and said pan base.

References Cited in the file of this patent UNITED STATES PATENTS Number Name Date 1,257,116 Ramrn Feb. 19, 1918 1,3 37,936 Martindale Apr. 20, 1920 2,408,145 Johnson Sept. 24, 1946

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