US505306A

US505306A - Easel attachment for lace-curtain stretcher-frames

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Publication number: US505306A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1893-09-19
Anticipated expiration: 1910-09-19

Description

(No Model.)

A. P. BOHLINGER.

EASEL ATTACHMENT FOR LACE CURTAIN STRETGHER FRAMES.

Patented Sept. 19, 1893.

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EASEL ATTACHMENT FOR LACE- CURTAIN STRETCH ER-FRAM ES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 505,306, dated September 19, 1893.

Application filed May 12, 1893.

To aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, ALFRED P. BOHLINGER, a citizen of the United States, residing at the city of St. Louis, in the State of Missouri, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Easel Attachments for Lace-Curtain Stretcher-Frames, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description, reference being bad to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification.

My invention relates to means forsupporting lace curtain stretcher frames, and the like, in an inclined position convenient for using the frame in securing thereto a curtain or in removing the same.

The object of my invention is the production, in a simple and cheaply constructed de' vice, of an easily applied easel leg or back; one adapted to be used with any pre-existing frame; one that is self-adjusting with reference to the inclination at which it supports the frame to which it is attached; and one that, in the manufactured article, as an article of merchandise, shall be adapted to be conveniently packed for shipment.

It consists, essentially, in an easel leg removably secured to the frame which is to be supported, and in the details of improvement, hereinafter described, in the means employed for securing the easel leg to the supported frame, and for effecting the self-adj usting feature of the angle of inclination at which the frame is supported thereby.

In the accompanying drawings, in which like letters of reference denote like parts where they occur,-Figure 1 is a perspective view of one end of a lace curtain stretcher frame with an easel leg attached thereto, illustrating the manner of application. Fig. 2 is a perspective view of one end of the easel leg and, secured thereto, the device for attaching the same to the frame. Fig. 3 is a perspective view of the screw-plate by which the easel leg is pivotally secured to the frame 5 and Fig. 4 is a longitudinal section of the screw-plate, taken diametrically across its foot flange.

A represents the side bars of an adjustable frame on which to stretch a curtain for drying the same, by securing the curtain on the pins a near the inside edges of the frame pieces.

Serial No. 473,961. (No model.)

a represent the bolts, with the thumb nuts, for adjustably securingthe bars A together at the corners of the frame.

B represents a screw-plate, provided witlia screw-end b, and formed with a foot flange B. See Figs. 3 and 4.

0 represents an easel leg, which at one end is centrally slotted out or bifurcated, as at c, for the reception of the flat plate portion of the screw-plate B, which is secured therein by a pivot bolt D (preferably in the form of a split spring cotter pin, as shown), forming a hinge joint therebetween. The end of the leg 0 is beveled off, as at c to allow the leg, when the same is secured to the frame A, to

assume a relatively inclined position as shown in Fig. 1. See Fig.2. The screw plate B is formed with a perforation b in the flat end portion for the reception of the pivot bolt or pin D. The foot flange B is formed with notches 1), preferably two, as shown in Fig. 4, to accommodate a pin or screw (not shown) to prevent the plate from turning when it has once been screwed into the frame A. The

screwplate B, as a whole, is preferably a casting, cast with a wood screw 11 therein as shown. See Fig. 4. There are preferably two easel legs 0, such as shown, secured to the frame A in the manner shown in Fig. 1-one at each end of the frame-thereby making a strong and reliable support for the frame A, which, when used in this manner, rests itself on the floor. Originally there are places marked on the end pieces of the frame A for the insertion of the screw-plates B to give the frame the desired inclination, this, of course, being decided by the relative distance from such point to the floor-end of that side bar and the length of the easel leg 0 and the angle between the frame and the leg, which is decided by the angle of the bevel c, which is designed to have a flat bearing against the side of the frame bar A.

The prime feature of advantage in the use of my improved device is that, in packing the easel legs 0 for shipment, the cotter pins D can readily be removed and the screwplates B be detached from the legs and packed separately, a feature of no little importance.

The device, as awhole, as an attachment to a frame, such as described, is easily secured to the frame, and when it is desired to use the frame in any other position other than as an easel, or for any other reason, it is desired to remove the easel legs from the frame, it is readily accomplished by the withdrawal of the cotterpins D, without removing the screwplates B from the bar of the frame A.

Having thus described my invention and its method of application, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, isv

1. An easel support for lace curtain stretcher frames and the like, consisting in the combination with the frame, of an easel leg and a hinge device adapted to be rigidly secured to the frame and pivotally connected to the leg, substantially as and for the purposes speci fied.

2. An easel support for curtain stretcher frames and the like, consisting, in the combination with the frame, of an easel leg, and a hinge device, adapted to be screwed to the frame, formed with a flat plate portion, and means for pivotally securing the leg to the plate, substantially as and for the purposes specified.

3. An easel support for curtain stretcher frames and the like, consisting in the combination with the frame, of an easel leg, a hinge plate adapted to be screwed to the frame, and

formed with a flange portion adapted to bear against the frame, and a pivot bolt to pivotally secure the leg and plate together, the leg being slotted for the reception of the plate, and the leg and plate being perforated for the accommodation of the pivot bolt, substantially as and for the purposes specified.

4:. The combination wit-l1 a frame for stretching lace curtains, and the like, and an easel leg with a beveled end for supporting the frame in an inclined position, of the hereindescribed means for pivotally and removably securing the leg to the frame, consisting in a hinge plate having a wood screw cast therein,

for secu ring the plate to the frame, and being formed with a laterally extending flange, circumferentially disposed notches in the flange, a perforation in the plate, a slot in the leg, and a split cotter pin, all combined and coacting substantiallyin the mannerand for the purposes specified.

In testimony whereof I hereunto affix my signature, in presence of two Witnesses, this 6th day of May, 1893.

ALFRED P. BOHLINGER.

lVitnesses: 1

A. RAMEL, HUGH K. WAGNER.