US290466A

US290466A - Fender for furniture

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Publication number: US290466A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1883-12-18
Anticipated expiration: 1900-12-18

Description

I (No Model.) D. G. PEOK & F. L. GAYLORD.

FENDER FOR. FURNITURE.

No. 290,466. Patented Dec. 18, 1883.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

DON C. PECK AND FREDERICK L. GAYLORD, OF ANSONIA, CONNECTICUT.

FENDER FOR FURNFI'URE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 290,466, dated December 18, 1883.

' Application filed September 10, 1883. (NomodeL) To aZZ whom, it may concern:

Be it known that we, Don C. PEoK and FREDERICK L. GAYLORD, of Ansonia, in the county of New Haven and State of Connectiout, have invented new Improvements in Fenders for Furniture; and we do hereby declare the following, when taken in connection with accompanying drawings and the letters of reference marked thereon, to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, and which said drawings constitute part of this specification, and represent, in

Figure 1, a vertical central section Fig. 2, the base detached; Fig. 3, the ring detached; Fig. 4., the plate detached; Fig. 5, the cushion detached.

This invention relates to an improvement in attachments for furniture and other articles to prevent their injurious contact with the Walls of an apartment, and such as are made in the form of a cushion, with provision for securing it to its proper position, the object being a simple, cheap, and serviceable construction; and the invention consists in the construction as hereinafter described, and more particularly recited in the claim.

In horizontal section the article may be of any desirable shape, preferably round.

A is the base or foundation for the fender, and consists of a block of wood having its upper and lower surfaces substantially flat, and corresponding in its extreme outline to the desired shape of the fender.'

B is the cushion, which may be of any soft material, and is placed upon the upper side of the base A.

O is a plate struck from sheet metal, its edge struck into inverted-U-shaped form, as at a, Fig. 3. To this plate the screw 1) is centrally fixed, said screw to serve the purpose of attaching the fender. The base A is recessed at its lower edge to set within the flange a of the plate 0, the outer portion of the flange a forming a continuation of the surface of the base A. The base, plate, and cushion bein set together, as seenin Fig. 1, the covering D, made from fabric or other suitable material, is placed over the parts thus set together, its edge turned into the groove of the U-shaped flange a. Then into the groove of this flange, and against the turned-in edge of the covering, a ring, E, is driven. This ring is of a diamter corresponding, substantially, to the interior of the U-shaped flange, and so that driven therein, as seen in Fig. 1, it grasps the covering between it and the flange, so as to securely retain it in place, and the article is complete.

We are aware that fenders presenting aspherical-shaped cushioned surface have been made, and that such have been covered with a fabric or equivalent material, the said material closed onto the back, after the manner of making buttons. We therefore do not claim, broadly, such a fender, the essential feature of our invention being the U-shaped flange a on the back, and the ring E, introduced therein to secure the covering.

We claim The herein-described fender, consisting of the base A, cushion B, metal disk 0, constructed with the inverted-U-shaped flange a, the covering D, placed over the cushion, base, and flange, its edge turned within the flange, and the ring E, forced into the groove of the flange against the covering, the Whole constructed and combined substantially as described.

DON O. PEGK. FREDK. L. GAYLORD. Witnesses:

GEORGE H. HAWLEY, CHAS. F. KUOH.