US677011A

US677011A - Device for adjusting cutting-boards.

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Publication number: US677011A
Application number: US3228200A
Authority: US
Inventors: Winfield S Beckett
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 1900-10-06
Filing date: 1900-10-06
Publication date: 1901-06-25
Anticipated expiration: 1918-06-25

Description

No. 677,0". Patented lune 25, |90l.

W. S. BEGKETT.

DEVHIEA FUR ADJUSTING CUTTING BOARDS.

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UNITED STATES PATENT Enron.

W'INFIELD S. BEOKETT, OF LYNN, MASSACHUSETTS.

DEVICE vFOR ADJUSTING CUTTING-BOARDS.

SEECZESAEIQN forming part of Letters Patent No.' 677,011, dated June 25, 1901.

Application filed October 6, 1900. Serial No. 32,282. (No model.)

To @ZZ whom it' may concern:

Be it known that I, WINFIELD S. BECKETT, a citizen of the United States, residing at Lynn, in the county of Essex and State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful Device for Adjusting Cutting-Boards, of which the following is a specication.

My invention relates to devices for adjusting cutting-boards; and it has for its object 1o to produce such a device that will be simple,

zo ting-board being shown in dotted lines. Fig.

2 is a plan view of the support closed, and Fig. 3 is a transverse sectional view of the same through the pivot.

Referring more particularly to the drawings, 1 indicates the main piece of my supporting device, and 2 and 3 are the braces for the same. Each of these pieces is perforated, as shown at Ll, through which is passed a rivet 5, by means of which the parts are secured 3o together and permitted to turn as a pivot for the purpose of adjustment.

The upper end of the mainpiece l is bent at a slight angle above its pivotal point, as shown at 6, and has its tip sharpened, as at 7, for engaging with the under surface of the cutting-board 8. The lower end of the main piece is pointed, as shown at 9, for engaging with the floor or other surface upon which the cutting-board and adjusting device are 4o supported. The sharpened lower end of the main piece is preferably formed by cuttingit off at an angle, the face of which is in a plane substantially parallel with the plane of the bent portion at the opposite end, whereby the Weight of the board upon the upper end would have a tendency to drive the point or sharpened edge formed by said bevel down into the support to prevent its slipping.

The upper ends of the braces 2 and 3 are straight and are held closely to the sides of the main portion by means of the rivet, and the lower ends are bent laterally, as shown at 10, and are cut off on a bevel, so as to form sharpened points for engaging with the support and. preventing slipping.

In using my improved cutting-board support one edge of the board is raised up into the inclination which will be the most convenient for the operator, and the support is placed under the raised edge. The side legs are then swung upon their pivots until their free ends engage with the surface upon which the support is mounted and the weight of the ,board is permitted to go upon the top of the main piece to correspond with the new adjustment. When the support is not in use, the legs can be swung upon their pivots until they are in the same plane with the main portion, when the device will be substantially dat and will take up but little room.

The main portion and the side legs may be formed from any suitable material, as bars or rods of steel, and can be made of suitable length for adjusting the angle or inclination of the cutting-board to suit the convenience of the workmen.

If desired, the support can be made inany desired dimensions, so as to adapt it for supporting other objects than cutting-boards, and I reserve the right to make such changes and alterations as will come within the scope of my invention.

Having thus fully described my invention, what l claim as new, and desireto secure by Letters Patent, iS-p- In a support for cutting-boards, the combination, with three perforated steel rods, the otal point, and a pivot through the perforacentral one of which is longer than the others tion, substantially as described.

and both ends of which are sharpened and I the portion between its pivotal point and the WINFIELD S' BECKETT' upper end bent upwardly, and the lower porl Witnesses:

tion of each of the other two is bent laterally FLORENCE L. LEE,

at an angle to the main portion below the piv- LEWIS A. CLOUGH.