US292884A

US292884A - Leopold wolf

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Publication number: US292884A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1884-02-05
Anticipated expiration: 1901-02-05

Description

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S L. WOLF.

GOMBINEDTOILRT MIRROR AND PHOTOGRAPHIG ALBUM.

Patented Feb. 5, 1884.

N0. 29Z,884i

' WITNESSES r r I @SRM WW2 BY ATTORNEYS UNITED STATES PATENT FFIGE.

LnoroLn WOLF, on NEW YORK, N. v.

COMBlNEDTOlLET-MIRROR AND PHOTOGRAPHIC ALBUM.

SPECIFICATION. forming part of Letters Patent No. 292,884, dated February 5, 1884.

' Application tiled May 3;, 1883. x model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, Lnorom) Worm, of the city, county, and State of New York, have i11 vented certain new and: useful:Improvements 1n Combined Toilet-Mirrors and Photograph- Albums, of which the following is a specification.

This invention has reference to an improved combination of toilet-mirror and photograph-. album, which are so arranged in connection with each other that an elegant and useful device for the parlor or dressing-room is obtained; and the invention consists of an upright supporting-frame carrying a centrally-pivoted mirror-frame, to the back of which is applied the cover of an axially-turning photographalbum of a size equal to the mirrorframe.

After the mirror-frame has been reversed, the

bum in the act of being turned in the supporting-frame. Figs. 2 and 3 are perspective views, showing the photograph album respectively in position ready to be opened and after it has been opened. Fig. 4 is a vertical transverse section on line as m, Fig. 1; and Figs. 5, 6, and 7 are. details of the locking device and pivots of the mirror-frame.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

A represents the supporting-frame of my improved combination toilet-mirror and photograph-album, which frame is rigidly secured in a vertical or, preferably, a backwardlydnelined position on a base, A. The frame A is provided with an oblong opening, which is filled by a panel, B, that is applied by center pivots, dd, to opposite sides of frame A.- The pivoted panel B carries at its front a mirror,

B, and at its back a photographalbum, O, that is equal in size, or nearly so to the panel B. The rear cover of the photograph-album is pivotally attached to the panel B, the pivot mechanism shown in the drawings consisting, preferably, of a disk, I), that is rigidly attached to the back of the rear cover of the album, and provided with a metallic circular flange, b, the latter extending into an annular gnidegroove, 1)", arranged in the panel B, immediately back of the mirror, as shown clearly in Fig. 4. By means of this connect-ion the album C may be turned at the back of the panelB without wabbling or. shaking. When the longitudinal axis .of the album is in line with the longitudinal axis of the panel B and supporting-frame A, the album-clasps are located at one side. and the back of the album at the other side of the panel but when the album is turned around its center into position so that its longitudinal axis is at right angles to the longitudinal axis of the panel B and frame A, as shown in Figs. 2 and 3, the album extends across the frame and the clasps are at the upper part, so that when they are opened the album can be opened downwardly, so as to expose the pictures therein, as shown in Fig. 3. 111 this position the supporting-frame holds both parts of the album in slightly-inclined position, and enables thereby the more convenient inspection of the pictures. After the pictures are inspected, the album is closed again by the clasps and turned into vertical position back of the panel B. The latter is then turned on its pivots through an angle of one hundred and eighty degrees, whereby the mirror is brought to the front of the supporting-frame and the album stored away at r guided in a hole of the panel B and a hole of an outer retaining-plate, d, of the supportingframe A. The laterally-extending bar (I is guided in recesses d d1 of the frame A and panel B, respectively.

Between the retaining-plate d of frame A and the lateral] y-exten ding bar (1 is interposed 'a spiral spring, d", which tends to press the pivot din downward direction. \Vhen it is desired to turn the mirror-panel B, the pivot (I, together with its bar (1 is raised by 1ts button d against the tension of the spring at until the bar d clears the recess d of the mirrorpanel B. In this position the panel B may be readilyturned on its pivots (Z d. When the panel B arrives in line with the main frame A, the button cl is released, so that the spring cl presses the bar d into the recess d of the mirror-panel B, and produces thereby the looking of the mirror-panel B to the sup-portingframe A. The lower pivot, e, is preferably set by a square or oblong portion, e, into a socket of the supporting-frame A, as shown in Fig. 7. Aspiral spring, 0 is arranged around the-same, said spring being attached at one end to the pivot 0, while its opposite end is laterally extended and attached to the mirrorpanel B. This spring 6' facilitates the turning of the mirror-panel and album in one direction, while the tension of the spring is re-established by the turning of the mirror-frame in the opposite direction. WVhen the locking device on the upper part of the supportingframe A is raised, the mirror-panel B is. released, so that it turns by the action of the spring e of the lower pivot, e, readily around its axis, so as to bring either the mirror or the album to the front of the supporting-frame. When the album is at the front, it is next turned on its center pivot into the position shown in Fig. 2, and then opened, as shown in Fig. 8, so that the pictures can be conveniently look ed at.

After the photograph-album has been used, it is closed, turned into upright position, and then turned with the mirror-panel on the pivots d d, so that the album will be at the back of the panel and the mirror at the front of the same, the whole forming a very attractive and useful ornament.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- 1. The combination, with an upright supporting-frame, of a centrally-pivoted and reversible panel having a mirror at one side and a photograph-album attached at the other side, the album being centrally pivoted to the back of the mirror-panel, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

2. The combination, with an upright supporting-frame,- A, of a centrally-pivoted and reversible panel, B, having a mirror at one side and a photograph-album, G, at the other side, the rear cover of said album being connected by a fixed disk, I), having a circular flange, b, to an annular guide-groove of the mirror-frame,substantially as set forth.

3. The combination of the upright support ing-frame A and a centrally-pivoted and reversible mirror-panel, B, with alocking device applied to one of the pivots, said pivot being provided with a laterally-extending looking bar, d, button d, and interposed spiral spring, d, the locking-bar being guided in recesses d and d of the supporting-frame and mirror-panel, substantially as described.

4. The combination, with an upright supporting-frame, A, of a reversible mirror-panel B, turning on center pivots, d and e, the upper pivot,d, being provided with a spring-pressed locking device, while the lower pivot, e, is provided with atorsion-spring, 6 by which the turning of the mirror in the supportingframe is facilitated when the locking device of the upper pivot, d, is released, substantially as and' for the purpose set forth.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my invention I have signed my name in pres ence of two subscribing witnesses.

. LEOPOLD XVOLF.

\Vitnesses:

CARL KARP, SIDNEY MANN.