US415374A - Combined table and bench - Google Patents

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(No Model.)

H. WOLLHEIM. COMBINED TABLE AND BENCH.

No. 415,374. Patented Nov. 19, 1889.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

HENRY IVOLLHEIM, OF MILIVAUKEE, IVISCONSIN.

COMBINED TABLE A ND BENCH.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 415,374, dated November 19, 1889.

Application filed July 8, 1889. Serial No. 316,844. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern: through the slots K K in brackets G G, and

Be it known that I, HENRY \VOLLHEIM, of on the outerends of which studs the nuts I 55 Milwaukee, in the county of Milwaukee and I turn against the brackets G G. By these State of \Visconsin, have invented a new and means the table can be made rigid inthe pouseful Combined Table and Bench; and I do sition shown in Figs. 1 and 2 or in the posihereby declare the following to be a full, tion shown in Fig. 3. The slots K K are so clear, and exact description of said invention, located and curved as to permit the legs E E 60 reference being had to the accompanying E to rest on their flat edges F on the top of drawings, and to the letters or figures of refthe bench B and also to permit the tilting of erence marked thereon, which form a part the table-top over to one side of the bench B of this specification. in the position shown in Fig. 3, whereby the The object of my invention is to providea top D becomes a back for the bench B. 65 device which maybe used as a table provided \Vhen the device is in the form shown in with a shelf, and which may be readily 0011- Figs. 1 and 2, in which it is adapted to be I5 verted, when desired, into a bench having a used as a table, the bench B can be used asa supporting-back to its seat. shelf, the device being thus adapted fora ta- Figure 1 is an end view of the device as ble and shelf while in the position shown 70 used for a table. Fig. 2 is a side view of the in Fig. 1, and having the double use of a. same device shown in Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is an bench when in the form shown in Fig.

end view of the device converted into a \Vhat I claim as new, and desire to secure bench. by Letters Patent, is-

A pair of double legs A A support there- 1. The combination, with a bench B, sup- 75 on a flat shelf or bench B, which is perported on legs A A, of a table-top D, legs E manently attached to the legs A A. B'race- E, secured to the table-top and provided with rods 0 O, inserted in the legs near the feet, a fiat bottom edge resting on the bench, and hold the legs in position. Above and upon brackets G G, secured to the tabletop and the bench B a table-top D is supported by pivoted to brackets secured to the bench, 8o bent legs E E E, of which there are prefersubstantially as described. ably three, one at each end and one central. 2. The combination, with a bench B, sup- These legs are conveniently made of bent ported on legs, of table-top D, provided with wood, and are fastened at their ends to the legs E E E, having flat lower edges F F F, under side of the table-top, the central porand brackets G G and H H, secured, respect- 85 tion having a downwardly-exposed flat edge ively, to the table D and bench B, and con- F, adapted to rest on the shelf B. The tablenected adjustably together-by studs fixed in 3 5 top D is adj ustably secured to the bench B by the brackets H H, which studs are provided means of brackets G G, secured to the under with binding'nuts I I, substantially as deside of the table-top, and brackets H H, sescribed. 0 cured to the bench B, the brackets G and H, in The combination, with a bench B, of a sets, being secured together by studs and table-top D, provided with legs that rest on 40 binding-nuts I I. The brackets G G are afthe bench and support the table-top, as a tafixed, one at each end, to the under side of ble, brackets G G, secured to the table-top the table-top D, and are each provided with and provided centrally with curved slots, 5 a curved slot K near its lower end. The brackets H H, secured to the bench and probrackets H H are secured rigidly, one at each vided with studs which enter the slots in the v end, to the bench B, and the two sets of brackets G G, and nuts I I, turning on the brackets G G and H H are so located With studs against the brackets G G, substantially reference to each other, when the tabletop as described. D is in position on the bench B, that one set In testimony whereof I affiX my signature in of brackets is just inside of and partly oppresence of two witnesses.

5o posite to the other set of brackets. The ta- HENRY \VOLLHEIM.

ble-top D is secured pivotally and adjust- WVitnesses: ably to the bench B by means of studs fixed O. T. BENEDICT, in the brackets II II, which studs pass ANNA FAUsT.

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