US480170A

US480170A - Ironing-board

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Publication number: US480170A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1892-08-02
Anticipated expiration: 1909-08-02

Description

(No Model.)

F. N. OI-IAPIN.

IRONING BOARD.

No. 480,170. Patented Aug. 2, 1892.

FREDERICK N. OHAPIN, OF AUSTIN, TEXAS.

lRONlNG-BOARD.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 480,170, dated AugustfZ, 1892.

Application filed January 21, 1892. Serial No. 418,769. (No model.)

To all whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, FREDERICK N. CHAPIN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Austin, in the county of Travis and State of Texas, have invented a new and useful Ironing-Board, of which the following is a specification.

The invention relates to improvements in ironing-tables.

The object of the present invention is to provide a simple and inexpensive ironing-table adapted to be readily attached to the edge of a table or to a cleat on the wall and capable of being adjusted vertically to accommodate itself to the height of the table or other support.

The invention consists in the construction and novel combination and arrangement of parts hereinafter fully described, illustrated in the accompanying drawings, and pointed out in the claim hereto appended.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view of an ironing-table constructed in accordance with this invention and shown attached to a table. Fig. 2 is a similar view showing the parts folded. Fig. 3 is a detail sectional view.

Like numerals of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures of the drawlugs.

I designates an ironing-board provided at its rear end with parallel slots 2, through which project the upper ends 3 of parallel bars 4 of a leg or prop 5, which is pivoted between inner and outer ribs 6 and 7, secured to the lower face of the ironing-board. The ribs 6 and 7 are secured to the lower face of the board and form ways or grooves in which the bars 4 of the prop are folded when the ironing-tableis not in use, and the inner rib 6 is shorterthan the outer ones to enable an extension foot-piece 8 to be moved inward between the bars when the parts are folded, as illustrated in Figs. 2 and 3 of the accompanying drawings.

The extensible foot-piece S is provided with a longitudinal slot 9, in which are arranged the transverse pins, bolts, nails, or screws em ployed for securing the lowerends of the bars 4 together, whereby the extensible foot-piece 8 may be moved out or in to increase or diminish the length of the leg or prop to adapt the ironing-table to the height of the supporting-table. The upper end 3 of the bars of the leg or prop are provided with recesses 10, which form shoulders adapted to clamp the edge 11 of a supporting-table 12. By employing the two bars to form the leg or prop the ironing-table is prevented to a certain extent from rocking and the strength of the table is increased, and the ribs which are secured to the lower face of the ironing-board stiffen the latter. The end 13 of the inner rib 6 is beveled, and the inner end 14 of the extension foot-piece 8 is beveled, so that the parts will fold compactly when the ironing-table is not in use.

What I claim is- An ironing-table comprising an ironingboard provided at its rear end with parallel slots, the ribs 6 and 7, secured to the lower face of the ironing-board and forming grooves or ways, a prop or leg composed of parallel bars adapted to fold in said grooves or ways and having their upper ends pivoted between the ribs 6 and 7 and arranged to project through the slots and provided with recesses, an extensible foot-piece arranged between the lower ends of the bars and provided with a longitudinal slot, and the transverse pins arranged in the longitudinal slot and passing through the bars and securing the foot-piece to the latter, substantially as described.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereto affixed my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

FREDERICK N. CHAPIN.

\Vitnesses:

JOHN DowELL, M. DowELL.