US326857A

US326857A - Ironing-table

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Publication number: US326857A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1885-09-22
Anticipated expiration: 1902-09-22

Description

(No Model.)

J. M. ELLISON.

IRONING TABLE. No. 326,857. Patented Sept. 22, 1885. 17 71. a G ,g .A

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JOHN M. ELLISON, OF PITTSBURG, PENNSYLVANIA.

IRONING-TABLE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 326,857, dated September 2 2, 1885,

Application filed January 15, 1885. (No model.)

To all whom, it may concern.-

Be it known that I, JOHN M. ELLIsoN. a citizen of the United States, residing at Pittsburg, in the county of Allegheny and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Ironing-Boards; and I do declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to letters or figures of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

Figure l of the drawings is a representation of this invention, and is a vertical section taken on the lines 00 x of Fig. 2. Fig. 2 is a View of the under side of the board folded. Fig. 3 is a vertical section-taken through the end of the board on the dotted lines 3/ y of Fig. 2. Fig. 4 is a detail, and shows a top view of the iron-stand that is fastened to the board.

This invention has relation to ironingboards; and it consists in the construction and novel arrangement of devices, as hereinafter set forth, and pointed out in the appended claim.

In the accompanying designates the main iro B is a transverse cleat, which is secured to the under side of said board near its head, and is designed to strengthen said board at this point, and to prevent warping.

C is a block or hinge hearing, which is bolted to the ironing-board. It bears against the transverse cleat, and its extend upward through the cleat and ironingboard. Above the ironingboard is an ironholder, E, which is provided with a perforation, F, and with legs G, which are let into the board. A bolt, D, passing through the perforation F, serves to fasten the holder in place.

K K are short links, which are pivoted on the ends of a transverse bolt, L, which passes through the block or bearing 0. To the lower ends of these links are pivoted the journals or ends of the bolt m, which is secured in the lower leg, N, of the board. This leg or and is fiat on its drawings, the letter A ning-board.

support N is made tapering,

bolt or bolts D I upper and lower surfaces, so that it can be used when necessary in pressing sleeves or the legs of trousers. The upper end, P, of this support is extended beyond the points where the links are connected, and the extremity of this end is finished obliquely to form a bearing, 8, parallel, or nearly so, with the under surface of the board-extension o of the main board. In the bearing 8 are inserted several teeth, t. hen the head-extension o of the main board is placed on the edge of a table or window-sill, and the support N is turned down to rest upon the floor, the extension I? or upper arm of the lever-support rises under the table-edge or window-sill and forcibly engages the same, holding the head of the iron ing-board in position. This fastening is made secure by means of the brace Z, which is usually hinged to the under side of the main board, and is designed to engage by its lower end one of the perforations or catches a of the leversupport. a strip of metal which is secured to the leversupport; but, if preferable, the brace-support Z may be hinged to th catches provided on th board. The end of th vided with a sliding or perforations a. v

The links K K allow a free adjustment of the lever-support, both in regard to the height of the table or bearing to which the ironingboard is to be attached and in respect to the thickness of the table edge or bearing to which the clamp formed by the end of the board and the extension of the lever-support is applied.

Having described this invention, What I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, 1s

The combination, with the main board, its transverse cleat, and the block or bearing 0, of the bolt D, connecting said board and bearing, the transverse bolt L, links K K, leversupport pivoted to said links, and the brace .Z, substantially as specified.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

JOHN M. ELLISON.

e lever-support and the e under side of the main e brace should be probolt to engage the catches lVitnesses:

E. M. BLANCHARD, EDMUND BLANOHARD.

These catches are usually made in