US338165A

US338165A - Eugene b

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Publication number: US338165A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1886-03-16
Anticipated expiration: 1903-03-16

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E. B. CROCKER.

BASEL. Nq. 338,165. Patented Mar. 16, 1886.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

EUGENE B. CROGKER, OF PAVTUCKET, RHODE ISLAND.

EASEL.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 339,165, dated March 16, 1886. Application filed October 21, 1885. Serial No. 180,474. (No model.)

To all whom, it may concern:

Beit known that l, EUGENE B. GRocKEE, of Pawtucket, in the county of Providence and State of Rhode Island, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Easels, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this speciication.

My invention relates to folding easels, and has for its object the provision of an easel that is readily folded and adjusted, and all parts of which are permanently fixed together.

To the above purpose my invention consists in the peculiar arrangement and construction ofthe shelf, brace,and side supports of the easel, as hereinafter described and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 represents a front elevation of the easel folded. Fig. 2 represents a front elevation of the easel opened and adjusted. Fig. 3 representsa side elevation of Fig. 2.

In the drawings like letters designate like parts.

The side supports consist of rods bent U- shaped at c and crossing one another at the points c d e, as shown in Figs. 'l and 2, where they are made fast, and at the point h, where they are loose. The brace-rod s has its foot bent into a snap-hook, 7c, and at a' point, h', above its center, it is loosely iiexed around the rods of the side supports (in a loop perpendicular to the axis of the said rod) at the` point h, forming a free `joint. The cross-rod r is made fast to the front of the side supports at equa-l distances above the bends a a. rlhe prop p is a V-shaped rod having its free ends loop-hinged around the cross-rod i', just within the bends a a, and hooked at Z l, forming the 4o shelf for the easel, and adapted to take into the snap-hook 7c at its apex to prop the brace s when the easel is adjusted, as shown in Figs.

2 and 3, and adapted to be folded up, as shown in Fig. l, when the easel is folded. The cylyndrical-shaped bodies tt are merely orna- Inents borne on the free ends of the supportrods. Of course the sidesupports are in their functions constructively single rods, though only shown as double, being bent at a. 5o

Having thus described my invention, I claini as new and desire to secure by Letters Patentl. An easel having the side supports crossing above their centers, and around which crossing-is looped the brace-rod, and having said side supports fixed] y connected near their bases by a cross-rod, to which is hinged a V shaped prop-rod, for the purpose described.

2. A folding easel having the side supports crossing above their centers, and around which 6c is looped the brace-rod, and having said side supports tixedly connected near their bases by a cross-rod, to which is hinged a V-shaped prop-rod, the bent free ends of said prop forming the shelfof the easel when adj usted, for the purpose described.

3. The combination, with the side supports bent at c and having the cross-rod o, of the brace-rod s, having a snap-hook, k, andlooped at h around said side supports, and of the 7o prop-rod 1J, having the bent endsZ Z, and hinged to said rod r and taking into the snap-hook k, for the purpose described.

EUGENE B. CROCKER.

Witnesses:

JAMES W. WILLIAMS, JOSEPH A. MILLER.