US631404A - Bench. - Google Patents

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N0. 63|,404. Patented Aug. 22, I899; M. A. MILLER BENCH.

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MARCUS A. MILLER, OF BINGHAMTON, NEIV YORK, ASSIGNOR TO THE NINETEEN HUNDRED IVASHER COMPANY, OF SAME PLACE.

BENCH? SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 631,404, dated August 22, 1899.

Application filed March 27, 1899. n'erial No. 710,641. (No model.)

1b all whom it may concern.

Be it known that I, MARCUS A. MILLER, of Binghamton, in the county of Broome, in the State of New York, have invented new and useful Improvementsin Benches, of which the following, taken in connection with the accompanying drawings, is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention relates to improvements in benches for supporting tubs.

My object is to produce afolding bench adapted to support a tub and at the same time provide means for looking it to the tub of a washing-machine, so that the clothes from the washing-machine may be passed through the wringer into the tub upon the bench, my object being to provide it with a vertically-adjustable locking device, so that the tub of machines of various heights may be secured thereto. I having found by experience that all of the machines are not ofa uniform height, and in the event of their being so the floor is not always even or of the same pitch, so that it becomes essential that some provision be made to overcome this condition of things.

My further object is to produce a bench which may be folded so as to occupy a minimum amount of space when it is desired to invention consists in several new and novel features of construction and operation, which are hereinafter described, and specifically set forth in the claims hereunto annexed. It is constructed as follows, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 shows a side View of the bench complete folded. Fig. 2 is an end view of the bench extended ready for use. Fig. 3 is a top plan View thereof. Fig. 4 is a section on line X X in Fig. 3, but showing the'tub of the machinein cross-section and showing how it is held in position. Fig. 5 is a View on line y y in Fig. 2. ing device detached.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

care the standards, suitably mounted upon bases a, which may be provided with casters under one or both ends or not, as desired.

b is a cross-bar secured across the top and serves two purposes, one of which is to pro- Fig. 6 is a detail of the lock- 'vide a suitable means for sec uring the wringer and the other to provide means against which the upper edge of the tub of the washing-machine is held when locking the bench to the machine.

b is a rotating shaft mounted between the uprights,'as shown, and having upon one end a ratchet-wheel c and a hand-wheel 0. Upon the shaftb are pivotally'mounted and adapted to swing vertically frame-bars (Z. At the free end of each are hinged legs d. The framebars 61 are provided with cross-rounds e and e, and f and f, respectively, are rounds mounted in the legs d and uprights a, as shown, and serve the double purpose of not only giving strength to the frame formed by the legs and the uprights, but also serve as bars with which swinging braces Z and Z engage to complete the frame forming the bench and which supports the tub. The bracesl and Z are swingingly mounted upon the central round 6 and have recesses 02 adjacent their ends to engage with the rounds fand f, so that the legs are not only prevented from being forced outward by the strength which is in the central round 6, but the central round e is supported by the brace Z, connecting with the round f between the standards.

When I desire to use the bench in connection with a washing-machine in which the tub may be mounted a little higher or a little lower than the frame of the bench, I place the upper edge of the tub A of the washingmachine (in case the tub is mounted higher) beneath. the lower edge of the bar I), as shown, and the lower end'of the stave rests upon the hook 0' of the eccentrically-mounted cam 0, which in turn is rigidly secured to the shaft 17. By the handpiece 0 I then turn the shaft and hook upon the cam and force the tub up against the bar I), where it is securely held by V the gravity-pawl p, engaging the ratchet c,

cam 0, and then rotate the cam sufilciently t0 shaft for the purpose of engaging the bottom cause the hook 0' to engage the lower end and 1 and the cross-bar, and means for locking said inner face of the stave, as shown in Fig. -1

The cam is rotated until the tub is clamped r is a hook of the tub, and looking it between the cam shaft.

2. The herein-described bench, comprising uprights, having a cross-bar secured to the upperends, an intermediate shaft, frame-bars as the same result can be accomplished with a cam without a hook, although not so well.

Having described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, 1S

1. The herein-described bench, comprising uprights, having a cross-bar secured to the upper ends, an intermediate shaft, frame-bars rotatably mounted on said shaft, legs hinged to said bars, and auxiliary braces hinged to the frame, and detachably engaging the standards and the legs, an eccentrically-mounted cam having a hook secured to said intermediate I rotatably mounted on said shaft, legs hinged to said bars, and auxiliary braces hinged to the 1 frame,and detachably engaging the standards and the legs, an eccentrically-mounted cam secured to said intermediate shaft for the purpose of engaging the bottom of the tub, and locking it between the cam and the cross-bar, and means for locking said roller.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand this 18th day of March, 1899.

MARCUS A. MILLER. Witnesses:

E. C. D. BLAVAN, ROLLIN W. MEEKER.

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