US387930A - John stoey - Google Patents

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CARPET STRETGHER. N0.'38'7,980, Patented-Aug. 14, 1888.

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SPBCIFICATON forming part oi' Letters Patent No. 381930, dated leugnet 14,-, 1888.

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Be it known that Il, Jeun STORY, a subject of the Queen ot' Great Britain, residing at the town of Godcrich, in the county of Huron and Province of Ontario, Canada, have invented a new and useful CarpelrStretcher, (for which no patent has yet been obtained or applied for in any country,) of which the following is a speci` fication.

My invention relates to the combination of two wooden bars, one of them having at one end the carpet-stretcher pointe7 similar to those ordi'naril y in use, and at the other end a red need part with a slotin it, in which it is in tended that a curved toothed or ratchet bar Shall work, and the other bar having at one end a slender metal prong or needle and at the other end a part with a slot in it, as in the lirst bar. The two bars are connected together at the joints by a pin forming a male and l'emale joint, so that the machine maybe extended or closed,and so that the prong bei nginserted in a door or other surface and held in a slant ing position,the stretcher-points maybe moved easily backward or forward by raising or depressing the center, where the two bars are joined together. fit-li the above is also coinbined a curved toothed or ratchet bar oonnected by a pin with. the inside ol' the slot below the joint in the pronged bar and working easily up and down in the opposite slot, so that when it is allowed to drop against the base of the lastnamed slot, suoli base being beveled so as to form an edge or angle on the inside, any ot' the teeth in the toothed or ratchet bar will leek with the beveled edge or' the Slot and prevent the center of the machine from being raised,and when being used for Carpetstretehing will hold it rigid in any position desired.

The accompanying drawings show the mechanism of the invention. Figure l is a drawing of the carpetstreteher partially extended. Fig. 2 is a drawing of the same closed. Fig. 3 is a plan of the carpetstretcher bar of the machine with male joint and slot beveled at the hase on the upper end of the bar. Fig. 4 is the pronged bar with joint and slot at the upper end. Fig. 5 is a drawing of the curved toothed or ratchet bar.

In the drawings similar letters refer to si milar parts throughout the several views.

A is the bar, having carpet stretcher points ,E at the lower end and the reduced part at upper end with slot n," in it, the base of which Slot is beveled from g to l1..

C is the pronged bar having the prong or needle D at the lower end and a part with a slot, @,at the npperend. Vhen theee two bars are to be united, the slotted end a ofthe one lits into and between the slot-ted endf of the other, and then those two liars are connected by a pin at a in anch manner that the prong D and Stretcher-points 1? will work easily backward and forward from the center, and so that the machine may be extended, as in Fig. l, or closed, as in Fig. 2, ol the drawings.

E is the curved toothed or ratehetbar connected with inside ofthe Slot atf by a pin, so that it will work easily up and down inside the opposite slot from a to y, and so that it may be allowed to V'all upon the beveled edge of the base ol' the slet at y, and any of the teeth will lock with such edge and prevent the center of the inaehine from being raised.

In working the machine in the operation of laying carpeta the metal prong or needle D is panaed th ron gli the carpet and into the licor er other surface in a slanting position, the metal carpet-stretcher points being then applied to the carpet in the usual way, andthe center of themachine being depressed, the points are pushed forward, drawing the carpet with them as far as the length ol' the prong l) will allow, the latter being snlliciently small to allow the carpet to move np on it without injury. The tooth-bar is then lowered so that one of the teeth will lock with the beveled edge ol the base ol' the Slot at f/ and will hold the machine rigid until the carpet can be tacked or otherwise secured by the operator.

l am aware that prior to my invention carpet-stretehers and carpet-stretcher points have been in use.

I claim-m 1. The hereindescribed carpet-stretcher, composed ol the two bars A and G, the one having the slotted end eand the other a slotted end, c, Se that their ends forni a male and l'emalejoint, the onepart fitting into the other and. the two pivoted together by a pin, and the curved ratchet-bar E, pi voted in the Slot f, substantially as shown and described.

2. A cnrpetetretcher composed of two meni- IOO bers, A and C, the first having at its lower end pin, and the ratchet-bar E, pivoted in one of the stretcherpoint B and at its upper the the slotted joints and engaging in the beveled 1o slotted part a', the latter having the needleedge of the opposite slotted joint7 all substanpoint D at its lower end and the slotted part tially as and for the purposes set forth.

e at the other, the two slotted parts forming JOHN STORY.

a male and female joint, the said male and fe- I male joint fitting the one part upon and over the other and the two hinged. together by a W'itnesses:

EDWIN ERNEST SEAGER, ROBERT CRooKETT.

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