US398297A - Ironing-board and step-ladder - Google Patents

Description

(No Model.)

J. H. WHISLER.

, IRONING B ARD AND STEP LADDER. No. 398,297. Patented Feb. 19, 1889.

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 398,297, dated February 19, 1889. Application filed July 21, 1888. Serial No. 280,623. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN H. \VHISLER, of Broadway, in the county of Rockingham and State of Virginia, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in a Combined Ironing-Board and Step-Ladder; and I do hereby 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 pertains to make and use it, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, which form part of this specification.

My invent-ion relates to an improvement in a combined ironing board and step ladder; and it consists in the combination of the legs or supports, which are united together in pairs by cross-bars which have their ends project beyond the sides of the legs to form stops, side bars between which the pairs of legs are pivoted, the ironing-board loosely connected to one of the pairs of legs, hooks to brace the legs to the side bars, a brace-rod loosely connected to the board at one end, and eyes in which the hooked end of the brace-rod catches, as will be more fully described hereinafter.

The objects of my invention are to combine an ironing-board and a step-ladder in a single implement and to connect the legs or supports together by means of the side bars, in between which the .imning-board and supports will snugly fold when closed, and thus take up very little room.

Figure] is a side elevation of a device which embodies my invention complete, the parts being so arranged as to form an ironing-board. Fig. 2 is an end view of the same. Fig. 3 is a side elevation of a device arranged so as to form a step-ladder. Fig. 4: is a plan view showing the parts folded together.

A represents the legs or supports, which are connected together in pairs by means of the cross-bars or rungs B, the two lower ones of which project at their ends a suitable distance beyond the sides of the legs, so as to form stops 0, which'catoh against the under edges of the cross-bars D, by means of which the legs or supports are joined together in pairs, and thus limit the movemen 0f 1-1 6 legs- The rear legs are joined together at their upper ends by means of the cleat E, which extends across under the end of the ironing-board F, and which has pivots G formed upon its ends to pass through suitable openings prepared to receive them in the upper ends of the legs. The front pair of legs are united together at their upper ends by the cross-bar G, which does not form one of the rungs of the ladder, because it rests upon the floor while the implement is being used as a ladder, and which is provided for the purpose not only of bracing the upper ends of these two legs together, but for forming a cross-bar under which the revolving button H on the under side of the ironing-board F is made to catch for the purpose of locking the front end of the board in posit-ion. Secured to each pair of legs is hook, I, which, when the parts are being used as an ironing-board, have their lower ends catch in holes made in one of the side bars,D, and thus lock the parts rigidly in position. The side bars, D, serve not only to connect the legs together in; pairs, but as fulcra in which the legs or supports turn, both when the parts are being closed together, as shown in Fig. 4-, and when being arranged to form a ladder, as shown in Fig. 3. The ends of the cross-bars B form stops 0, so as to limit the angle at which the legsA shall be set in forming a support for the ironing-table by striking against the under edges of the side bars, D, and to limit the distance that the legs A shall move inside of the cross-bars D when the legs are folded in a line therewith, either for the purpose of forming a step-ladder or when the parts are folded together to be packed away or for transportation.

Then the parts are being used for an ironing-board, the legs are locked in position in relation to the side bars, D, by means of the hooks I, and the ironing-board is locked by the button H. Y

The iron brace J, which is secured to the under side of the board F, passes through the loop or staple O, secured to one of the crossbars B of the rear legs or supports A, but without engaging therewith. If the front end of the board is to be raised upward, so that a garment can be passed over it, the button H is loosened and the front end of the board is raised upward until the hooked end of the brace J engages with the staple 0, when the l parts only take up the thickness ot the side front end of the board will be held in a raised 1 bars, B, and cross-bars D.

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\Vhen the parts are to be used as a stepladder, the hooks l have their ends loosened from the bars l), the legs or supports A are folded up inside of the bars D, the ironing;-

board F is set at a suitable an gle, so as to term a brace or support for the ladder, and the rod J is made to hook in an eye or staple, P, soeured to the inner side oi one of the side bars, I). To hold the ladder and the boari'lrigidly in relation to eaeh other when the legs or supports are folded inside of the side bars, the stops 0 strike against the outer edges of thebars and prevent the weight of the person upon the ladder from forcing the legs or supports through the bars, to which they are only pivoted.

\Vhen my invention isno longer needed For immediate use, the legs or supports are folded inside of the side pieces from one side and the board folded inside of the legs and the side pieces from opposite sides, so that the The parts are light, cheap, and durable, and, as they ean be converted either into a stepladder or an irmiing-board, are a great eonvenienee.

Having thus described my invention, l elain1 The eonibination ot' the legs or supports A, the eross-pieees l,'whieh project at their ends beyond the sides of the legs, the side bars, between which the legs or supports are pivoted, the iimiing-board pivoted at one end between one of the pair of legs, the hooks I, the brace-rod fastened to the board at one end and hooked at the other, and the eyes in which the hook eatehes, substantially as shown.

In testimony whereof I at'fi X my signature in presence of two witnesses.

JOHN H. lVI-lISLER.

Witnesses:

O. E. lARG-LEBAUGH, GEo. S. ALDHIZER.

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