US2746185A

US2746185A - Ironing boards

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Publication number: US2746185A
Application number: US430917A
Authority: US
Inventors: Moore Frank Thomas Darton
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 1954-05-19
Filing date: 1954-05-19
Publication date: 1956-05-22
Anticipated expiration: 1973-05-22

Description

F. T. D. MOORE IRONING BOARDS May 22, 1956 Filed May 19, 1954 W 1mm Miami/ 27. 174mg,

United States Patent IRONING BOARDS Frank Thomas Darton Moore, Pinner, England Application May 19, 1954, Serial No. 430,917

2 Claims. (Cl. 38-123) This invention relates to ironing boards of the kind comprising a board member and crossed pivoted legs for supporting said board member in horizontal position, one leg being pivoted to the board member and the other leg being adapted to engage with stop means thereon, its object being to provide an improved construction wherein the relative position of the legs in erected position can be varied in a substantially continuous manner between limits for variation of the height of the board member.

According to the present invention such an ironing board structure is characterised by the provision of a flexible draw member secured to the other leg and fixed catch means mounted on the board member to serve for adjustable engagement of the draw member thereon, whereby the legs are securable in dilferent relative positions for adjustment of the height of the board member. The draw member may also advantageously be used for drawing the legs of the structure together for folding purposes.

The leg to which the draw member is secured may be made in two pivoted parts one of which, having the draw member attached thereto, may be folded to lie within the other part beneath the board member. With such a construction the legs may be folded up to lie flat against the underside of the board member.

To limit the possible movement of the other leg with respect to the board member the latter may be provided at the underside with a slide-way to receive the end of said leg.

The draw member is conveniently passed through an aperture at the end of the board member adjacent the pivoted leg and in a practical form of construction consists of a chain, the catch means to co-act therewith consisting of a tongue secured on the board member and adapted to engage through the links of the chain.

An example of construction of the ironing board according to the present invention is hereinafter particularly described with reference to the accompanying drawing, wherein:

Fig. 1 is a side elevation of the board in erected position; Fig. 2 is a rear elevation of the board in folded position; Fig. 3 is an elevation, to a much enlarged scale, of a chain draw member and its manner of engagement with a catch member.

In these figures a board member 1 has near one end two brackets 2 serving for the piovtal attachment of a pair of rear legs 3. Towards the other end of the board member 1 and underneath it is provided a slideway 4 receiving in it a cross-bar 5 joining the upper ends of upper portions 6 of a pair of front legs, the lower portions 7 being pivoted to the portion 6 at 8. Said lower portions 7 are also pivoted to the rear legs at 9. The crossbar 5 also carries a bar 10 to which is secured a chain 11 Patented May 22, 1956 which passes through an aperture 12 in a cross-member 13 at the rear end of the board member 1. The free end of the chain has a handle 14 secured thereon, the chain being inserted into a recess in the handle and a transverse pin being passed through the handle to secure the chain. On the cross-member 13 and adjacent to the aperture 12 is secured a rigid tongue 15 adapted to engage through the links of the chain.

In the erected position shown in Fig. l, the X-shaped structure formed by the front and rear legs would tend to slide, under gravity, to the lowest position of the board 1 determined by the outward movement of the cross-bar 5 in the slideway 4. The position of the legs is however determined by engagement of the chain 11 on the tongue 15 in the desired position such that the chain acts as a tension link. The board as a whole can therefore be adjusted through the whole range of heights represented by movement of the cross-bar 5 along the slide-way 4.

For folding the board structure the chain 11 is pulled through the aperture 12 as far as it will go to the left in Fig. 1 and the front leg upper portions 6 are then folded about their pivots 8 into a position flat against the underside of the board member 1, as clearly illustrated in Fig. 2. This movement brings the lower parts 7 of the front legs, and also the rear legs 3, into a corresponding position fiat against the underside of the board member 1.

I claim:

1. An ironing board structure comprising a board having an ironing surface, a first leg pivoted at the underside of said board, a second leg having upper and lower parts pivoted end-to-end, the lower of said parts being disposed across and pivoted to the first leg and the upper of said parts being arranged to abut against the underside of the board, a flexible draw member secured to the upper end of the upper part of the second leg, and catch means carried at a fixed point of the board remote from the second leg, said catch means serving to engage with the draw member at a selected position along the length of the latter to determine the maximum separation of the upper part of the two legs, and the height of the board.

2. An ironing board structure comprising a board having an ironing surface, a first leg pivoted at the underside of said board, a second leg having upper and lower parts pivoted end-to-end, the lower of said parts being disposed across and pivoted to the first leg and the upper of said parts being arranged to abut against the underside of the board, a chain secured at one end to the upper end of the upper part of the second leg and a tongue carried at a fixed point of the board remote from the second leg, said tongue serving for the engagement thereon of a selected link of the chain to determine the maximum separation of the upper part of the two legs and the height of the board, and a handle at the other end of the chain for manual operation thereof.

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