US622335A

US622335A - Kitchen-cabinet

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Publication number: US622335A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1899-04-04
Anticipated expiration: 1916-04-04

Description

No. 622,335. l y Patented Apr. 4, |899. A. W. & VT. J. EALES. KITCHEN-CABINET.

(Application led Feb. 9, 1898.)

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UNITED l STATES r-iTiaNTl OFFICE.

Anon w. nALEs AND THoMAs'J. EALES, or DUNKINSVILLE, OHIO.

, KITCH EN-GAB'IN ET.

SPECIFICATON forming part of Letters Batent No. 622,335, dated. April 4, 1899. Application led February 9, 1898i Serial No. 669,657. (No model.)

. improve the construction of kitchemcabnets,

more especially the manner of mounting bread-boards, and to provide an efficient support for the same which when free yto-act will automatically return the bread-board to its position within vthe kitchen-cabinet.

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

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view of a kitchen-cabinet constructed in accordance with this invention. Fig. 2 is a vertical sectional view illustrating the manner of mounting the bread-board.

Like numerals of reference designate correspondin g partsin both figures of the drawings.

and a top or back 2.

1 designates a kitchen-cabinet constructed o any suitable material and designed to be ornainented in any desired manner and consisting of a lower rectangular portion or body The body or lower portion is provided with an upper horizontal series of drawers 3 and 4, and it has at one side, beneath the drawer 3, which is preferably wider than the other drawers, a bin 42.

The kitchen-cabinet is provided atits front, below 'the drawers 4, with doors 9, which have their free edges abutting against strips 10, and the latter are spaced apart to provide an opening which is extended vertically above the doors 9 andis adapted to receivea brace .1. The brace 11, which is hinged or pivoted' at its lower end at 12, is adapted to support.

a bread-board 13, which when not in use is arranged wit-hin the kitchen-cabinet at a point below the horizontal series of drawers between the drawers 4 and the doors 9. Parting-strips `14 and 15 are arranged beneath the drawers 3 and 4 and at the upper edges of the bin 4 and the doors 9, the space between .maintain them in such.

the same being open adjacent to the doors 'and the drawers 4 for the reception of the bread-board.

The bread-board is provided in 1ts lower face, near its outer edge, with a recessl, adapted to be engaged by lthe upper edge of the brace 11, which engages the outer wall of the recess. When the upper end of the brace is Vinterlocked with the recess of the lower face of the bread-board, the latter is supported and is locked in its extended position. A spiral spring 17 is connectedat its outer end to theupper portion of the brace 11 and at its inner end to .the cabinet at the back. there'- of and is'adapted, when the brace is disengaged from the recess, to return the breadboard and brace to their closed positions and -The bread-board is provided at its upper face, near its rear edge, with a transverse cleat 18,forming a stop, and adapted to abut against the upper parting-strip 14 tolimit the outward movement of the bread-board. The parting-

strips

14 and 15 and that portion of the frame of the cabinet directly above the opening between the strips 10 are recessed to form the extension of said opening. The bread-board is provided at its outer edge with a centrally-arranged bail 19, which receives the upper end of the brace when the parts are folded, as illustrated in Fig. 1 of the accompanying drawings, and the front edge of the bread-board is recessed at 2O to permit the brace to lie ilush with the outer face of the cabinet. l

The drawers 3 and 4 and the compartments below the drawers 4 may be divided and arranged in any desired manner, and various other compartments may be provided if necessary or desirable.

The invention has the following advantages: The bread-board is firmly supportedl in its `extended position, and it is automatically returned within the cabinet when the brace is disengaged from the recess and arranged at the front edge of the board.

.Changes in the form, proportion, and minor details of construction may be resorted to without departing from the spirit or sacrificing any of the advantages of this invention.

1.. The combination of akitehen-cabiiwt pro- ICO vided with an extensible'board, and a springactuated brace pivoted at its lower end beneath the board and having its upper end free, said brace being arranged to engage the lower face of the board to support the saine in its extended position and adapted also to engage the outer edge of the board to slide the same inward and retain it in its position within the cabinet, substantially as described.

2. The combination with a kitchen-cabinet 'provided with an extensible board and having a vertical opening at its front, a brace pivoted at its lower end in the opening and having its upper end free and arranged to engage the lowerV face of the board to support the same and adapted also to engage the outer edge of the board to return the same to and retain it in its closed position,.and a spiral spring secured to the kitchen-cabinet and to the brace and adapted to be drawn ont through the vertical opening, substantially as de scribed.

3. lThe combination with a kitchen-cabinet provided with an extensible board and having a vertical opening, said board being provided at its lower face with a recess 16 and having a recess 2O at its outer edge in advance of the said recess 16, a bail secured to the outer edge of the board at opposite sides of the recess 20, a brace pivoted at its lower end within the opening and having its upper edge free and ladapted to engage either of the recesses 16 and 2O and capable of supporting the board in its extended position and of returning to and retaining it in its closed position, substantially as described.

In testimony that we claim the foregoing as our own we have hereto affixed our signatures in the presence of two witnesses.

ARCH W. EALES. THOMAS J. EALES. Vitnesses: J .W. LITTLE, J. L. FOSTER.