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Description

(No Model.)

. S. H. HOGGSON.

STAND, TABLE, OR ANALOGOUS ARTICLE. No. 520,430. Patented May 29, 1894.

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 520,430, dated May 29, 1894. Application filed March 6, 1893. Serial No. 464,886- (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, SAMUEL H. HOGGSON, of St. Louis, Missouri, have made a new and useful Improvement in Standsor Analogous Structures, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

The improved construction under consideratlon may be regarded a stand, table, or analogous article, in itself or it may be considered the substructure or support for the top or other superstructure of a stand, table, or analogous construction, or, again, as an uprlght receptacle for various articles, merchandise, or apparatus, and which can be simply held or stored within the receptacle, or whlch, on the otherhand, may be auxiliary to, or connected with, some other construction, apparatus, or device of which 7 the present stand may be the support or frame. The construction is desirable also on account of its llghtness, portableness, and cheapness, and its knock-down feature, all substantially as is hereinafter set forth and claimed, aided by the annexed drawings, making part of this specification, in wl1ioh- Figure l is a side elevation of the improved construction; Fig. 2 a plan of the upper end thereof; Fig. 3 a vertical central section, upon an enlarged scale; Fig. 4. a horizontal section on the line 4-4 of Fig 3; Fig. 5 a horizontal section on the line 5-5 of Fig. 2, omitting the block or filling-piece at the lower end of the column.

The same letters of reference denote the same parts.

The construction, generally considered comprises a base, A, and a column, B, which is supported upon and detachably connected with the base. The base may be of any suitable style and dimensions so long as it is adapted to receive and support the column. Its preferable form is shown, it being that of an inverted dish and circular in outline. The base has a socket, a, to receive the column, and it is perforated at a, to receive a fastening bolt, 0, used in uniting the column to the base. The column, B, is mainly a tubular part b, externally reinforced at its ends and provided with means for connecting it with the base. Saidreinforcements are preferably in the form of rings, b, and b the upper one of which, in addition to strengthening it serves to adapt the part b to receive or support any superstructure, for instance the top, D, shown in broken lines in Fig. 1. The part b is composed of an inner tube, 12 of paper, and an outer tube of wood I). The outer tube in practice is in the nature of a veneer, and it is closely fitted andfastcned, as by 'ce menting it, to the inner tube. The two parts, 19 and b thus mutually strengthen each other, and the part, b in that it is capable of being made from almost any Wood, and finished in any preferred style, serves not only to protect the tube, 5 from abrasion and from moisture, but also to readily impart a desirable appearance to the structure. The bands are usually of metal, and they are fitted snugly onto the part b, and the lower band b is provided preferably with an inwardlyturned flange b which when the parts are put together comes against the lower end of the combined tubes b b, and the upper band I), may have a similarly-turned flange 12 to come against the upper end of the tubes, and lugs 6 to provide for attaching any superstructure, such as the top D, all substantially as shown. Within the part b, at the lower end thereof, is arranged a disk, block, cross-piece, or other part, D, which serves partly to strengthen the structure and partly to assist in connecting the column with the base. The preferable form of the part in question is the one shown. It is preferably of wood and it is made to fully occupy the lower end of the tube 19, and thus to form a bottom for the tube, and it is supported in position more especially by allowing it to rest upon a cross bar, b which forms part of the band 19 and additional fastenings such as the nails, b, which are driven through the shell of the tube 1) and into the disk, may be used. The bolt 0 passes through the disk, the cross-piece b and the top of the base and the columnis thereby thoroughly secured to the base, substantially as shown. But by loosening the nut c of the bolt the column can at once be detached from the base. This enables the columns and the bases to be shipped separately, the bases being nested together and the columns packed by themselves.

I desire not to be restricted to any special A stand whose column is tubular and having in its lower end a cross bar 17*, and the block D combined with the base A, socket-ed :5 at a, and the fastening bolt G, substantially as set forth.

Witness my hand this 14th day of Deoember, 1892.

SAMUEL n. HOGGSON.

Witnesses:

C. D. MOODY, A. BONVILLE.

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