US456052A - Table - Google Patents

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PATENT,

FFICE PHILLIP MUNTZ, OF CONIVAY SPRINGS, KANSAS.

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 456,052, dated July 14, 1891.

Application filed May 14, 1891.

T0 at whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, PHILLIP MUNTZ, a citizen of the United States of America, residing at Conway Springs, in the countyof' Sumner and State of Kansas, have invented certain new and usefullmprovements in'Tables; 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 appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to letters of reference marked thereon,which form a part of this specification. This invention relates to improvements in folding tables. v v

The object of the invention is to provide a table which can be readily folded, said table being provided with tops or leaves which can be secured to the supporting-frame in several positions; and it consists in the construction and combination of the parts, as will be hereinafter fully set forth, and particularlypointed out in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, Figure l is a side view of a table constructed in accordance with my invention. Fig. 2 is an end View of the same. Fig. 3 is a vertical sectional view showing the leaves secured to the supportingframe in a different position. Fig. at is a plan view showing theleaves in the position shown of one of the leaves detached.

The stand or support is made up of two similarly-shaped base-pieces A A, to which legs being pivotally attached to the depending side rails O of the top D.

A brace-bar E is pivotally attached to one of the base-pieces, the lower end being curved, as shown, while the upper end is apertured for engagement with one of the series of pins 6, which project from the rail 0. By means of this brace-bar the height of the table can be varied as may be desired, and when the brace is detached from one of the pins the stand or support can be folded to occupy but A bail or loop 0, which is made up of a bar of metal bent as shown in Fig. 1, is pivotally secured to. the rail to swing in its bearings, and when turned down it will lie over the brace E and prevent it becoming cle- Serial No. 392,755. (No model.)

tached from the pin e. The side rails C are provided with apertures a, b, and cl, the use of which will be hereinafter set forth.

The top D is provided atopposite ends with recesses g and intermediately with apertures 7th and 7) 1', which extend through the top. Adjacent to these apertures the top is slightly beveled, as shown in Fig. 4.

The leaves G are each provided with aturnbutton 70, loop is, and end loops H, which are so positioned on the leaves that when the loops Z Zare passed through the apertures it the sides of the loop It will pass into the recesses g g, and when the parts are so positioned theycan be looked upon the top D by rods or lock-bars m m. The leaves may be placed on the table crosswise with the top, as shown in Figs. 1, 2, and 4, and when in sucha position the center loop should be passed through one of the apertures 71, and when so positioned and locked in place the turn-button is can engage the edge of the top D. It will be noted that the leaves taper slightly on one edge, and when they are placed upon the top D, as shown in Fig. at, the top will form a parallelogram, and when placed end for end, as shown in Fig. 3, a long narrow table will be provided slightly wider at one end than the other, and may be used as an ironing-board.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. In combination with a stand having a top D, with apertures h h and c' t' and end recesses g g, leaves G, having loops Z Z and 7.2, and locking-bars m for securin g the leaves to the top, substantially as set forth.

2. In combination with a top- D, having apertures h h, leaves G, having loops k and turn-buttons 70, substantially as set forth.

In combination with the top D, suitably supported and provided with depending rails 0, having apertures a, b, and d, the top D, having apertures h h, t' t, andg g, leaves G G, having end loops 1 Z, center loop is, and turnbuttons 7r, substantially as set forth.

t A stand for the purpose set forth, consisting of the base-pieces A A, crossed legs B B, pivoted thereto, depending rails O O, to which the supporting-legs B B are pivoted, projecting pins 6 e, and brace-rod E, apertured at its upper end and provided with a curved lower end which is pivoted to one of the base to be turned over the pins a, substantially as pieces beyond the leg B, substantially as set set forth. [0 forth. In testimony whereof I affix my signature in 5. In combination withasnpportconstrnetpresence of two Witnesses. 5 ed substantially as shown and provided with PHILLIP MUNTZ.

a pivoted brace E, rails 0, having projecting Vitnesses: pins which engage the upper end of the brace J. C. DUDLEY,

E, anda loop 0, pivoted to the rail and adapted F. L. \VARBURTON.

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