US484948A - Bureau - Google Patents

Description

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE,

NEMIAH H. CLARK, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

BUREAU.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 484,948, dated October 25, 1892.

Application filed April 30, 1892- $erial No. 431,316. (No model.)

To 00% whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, NEMIAH H. CLARK, a citizen of the United States, residing in the city of Philadelphia, State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Bureaus, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification.

My invention relates to bureaus, and has for its object to provide a folding-up mirror capable of being compactly stored in one of the drawers and adapted to be extended when desired for use.

To that end it consists in the combination, with a bureau, of a false drawer therein and channeled guide in the base of the latter, a sliding guide-bar therein, attached to the movable front of the false drawer, and a hinged vertical supporting-bar and mirror mounted thereon, with brackets to adapt it to be adjusted vertically and to be retained at any desired height thereon.

In the accompanying drawings, illustrating my invention, Figure 1 is a perspective view of a portionof a bureau, showing the device in position and extended for use. Fig. 2 is a like view of the false drawer, shown detached from the bureau, with the mirror and its connecting device folded away therein. Fig. 3 is a similar view showing the base of the false drawer, the sliding guide, the supportingguide, the mirror, and the parts, all in substantially the like position, as shown in Fig. 1. Fig. 4 is a vertical sectional view through the vertical supporting-bar, the mirror, and the bracket which supports the same.

The bureau is represented at A, one of the top small-drawer spaces of which is utilized for the insertion of the false drawer, which consists, essentially, of the base K and the loose front D. The base K is provided with a fixed guide-plate G, channeled longitudinally, as at g, to receive the tenoned under side of a movable extension or guide-arm G. Hinged to this arm at right angles thereto, as at h, Fig. 3, is a vertical supporting-post E, and between the base of this post and the end of the extension -arm 0 is provided a spring-support 0, upon which the post E may rest when brought into position parallel with the base of the drawer. The extension-arm O is securely attached to the front-piece D of the drawer, so as to be drawn out with it. A mirror F is provided with recessed brackets mm on its rear side, through the recess of which the post E may pass. The mirror F is thus capable of vertical adjustment upon the post. In order to adjust it at any desired height, I provide a spring n, working in a recess s and bearing against the surface of the vertical post E.

The operation of the device is as follows: The normal position of the parts are as shown in Fig. 2, the false-drawer frame being in place within the space B in the bureau, presents the appearance of an ordinary bureaudrawer. The front pieceD being pulled out when it is desired to use the mirror, the post E and its supported mirror F are then raised to'and supported in a vertical position, as shown in Fig. 3, by means of the hinge h,

I bearin g upon the spring-support c. The extension-arm C may be pulled out to any desired extent, so as to enable the user to stand between the usual mirror of the bureau and the mirror F, and the latter may be adjusted to any point vertically on the vertical bar E, and will be temporarily retained at such vertical adjustment by means of the spring n.

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

1. The combination, with a bureau having a drawer space therein, of the channeled guide G, secured therein, the extension-arm 0, working in said groove and provided with an intermediate supporting device 0, the vertical supporting-bar E, hinged to said supporting device at right angles to the extension-arrn C, and a mirror F, with supporting devices to adapt it to be adj ustably reciprocated upon said supporting-post, substantially as described.

'2. The combination, with a bureau having a drawer-space therein, of the base K of a false drawer, channeled guide G, secured thereto, the extension arm 0, working in said groove, and the drawer-front D, secured to said arm 0, the vertical supporting-post E,

hinged to the arm 0, with an intermediate fixed my signature this 8th day of April, A.

supporting-spring a between them, and the D. 1892. mirror F, with recessed supporting-brackets adapted to be vertically reciprocated upon NEMIAH CLARK 5 said snpporting-post, substantially as de- Witnesses:

scribed. JOHN R. NOLAN,

In testimony whereof I have hereunto af- H. T. FENION.

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