US681394A - Combination table and stool. - Google Patents

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Patented Aug. 27, win. w. mug.

COMBINATION TABLE AND STOOL.

(Application filed Feb. 95, 1901.)

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ISAIAH W. HILE, on SUNBURY, PENNSYLVANIA.

COMBINATION TABLE AND STOOL.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 681 ,394, dated August 27, 1901.

Application filed February 26, 1901I Serial No. 48,844. (NomodeLJ To aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it'known that I, ISAIAH W. HILE, a citizen of the United States, residing at Sunbury, in the county of Northumberland and State of ennsylvania, have invented a new and useful Combination Table and Stool, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to a combined table and stool; and one object in view is to provide a simple and effective construction whereby less floor-space will be occupied by persons seated at the table, with convenience in engaging the seats or retiring therefrom, and always have the stools or seats in positive relation to the table. and avoid movement of the same over the floor at different distances and requiring in ordinary arrangements a resetting and by such operation frequently creating confusion in accommodating a crowd, and at least demanding the attention of waiters and the like to replace the same in proper position.

A further object is to provide a construction of the class set forth wherein lightness and durability are resident and the parts easy to tilt in cleansing beneath the same, as well as readily separable for storage or transportation.

With these and other objects and advantages in view the invention consists in the construction and arrangement of the several parts, which will be more fully hereinafter described and claimed.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view of a combined construction embodying the features of the invention. Fig. 2 is atop plan view of the improved construction. Fig. 3 is a bottom plan View of one of the stoolseats. Fig. 4 is a horizontal section on the line 4 4, Fig. 1.

Similarnumerals of reference are employed to indicate corresponding parts in the several views.

' The numeral 1 designates a table-top,which may be of any suitable form, size, and material, though the material preferred'in many instances will be hard wood. To the under side of the said top the upper outwardly-directed extremities 2 of vertical standards 3 are detachably connected by any suitable devices, the portions of the standards below the said upper extremities being closely arranged in parallel relation, and, as shown, are preferably three in number. The standards are formed with lower elbows or bends 4 to provide horizontal radially-extending members 5, connected at their outer terminations to stool or seat uprights 6, having extended bearingbases 7, and the upper terminals constructed to receive circular seats 8, formed with rigidly-secured sockets 9 to rotatably fit over the said upper terminals of the uprights.

Slightly below the upper extremities 2 of the standards 3 and above the lower bends 4 are detachable looking or tying means for the standards, the said means serving to keep the several parts in positive relation and comprising lateral enlargements 10 on two of the standards and inwardly-projecting ears or lugs 11 on the third standard, said ears or lugs, with the side portions of the standard from which they emanate, being of such form as to provide seats for the close fitting of t e inner correspondingly-shaped sides of the lat-v eral enlargements, and after the parts are assembled, as clearly shown by Fig. 4, they are connected by transversely-extending bolts 12, which are removable at will. By having the bolts removable the standards can be disconnected at any time desired for storage or transportation, and When arranged for these latter purposes the table-top will also be disconnected and the seats 8 removed from the uprights 6.

In practical use the several parts are so well balanced that it will be impossible to tip the table, though the table may be easily turned over at an angle when it is desired to cleanse the surface thereunder and will simultaneously move the uprights and seats in a similar manner for obvious reasons. Persons desiring to be seated at the table may easily do so by sitting on the seats 8 and wheeling inwardly to the table-top, andin retiring from the device a reverse movement of the seats will dispose the occupants in such positions that they can readily rise without disturbing those remaining or still occupying the seats at the time. These movements of occupancy and retirement can be carried on with grace and ease, and the entire structure will provide many conveniences for waiters in serving food and other material and avoid the many incon niences and disadvantages ICO incident to closely-crowded seats of a freelymovable character now in ordinary use. A great amount of time will be saved to attendants in view of the fact that they will not be required to continually rearrange or reset the seating devices, and the improved devices bination of a plurality of independent stand-- ards closely arranged at the center and provided with lower outwardly-extending members, means for separably connecting the said standards, seat-uprights at a distance from said standards and connected to said members, and seats rotatably and removably mounted on the upper ends of the uprights.

2. In a device of the class set forth, the combination of a plurality of detachably-tied standards having radially extending members, seat-uprights connected to'said members,a table-top secured to the upper extremities of the standards, and seats rotatably mounted on the upper ends of the uprights;

3. In a device of the class set forth, the combination of a plurality of detachably-tied standards having lower horizontal radiallyextending members, seat-uprights connected to said members, a table-top detachably secured to the upper extremities of the stand ards, and seats rotatably and removably mounted on the upper ends of the said uprights.

4:. In a device of the character set forth, the combination of a plurality of detachablytied standards having lower members, seat uprights connected to said members, a portion of said standards having lateral enlargements and a part ears or lugs to fit between said enlargements, bolts removably mounted in and extending transversely through said enlargements and ears or lugs, a table-top removably mounted on said standards, and seats removably and rotatably mounted on said uprights.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereto affixed my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

ISAIAH W. I-IILE.

IVitnessesi ALONZO L. IIILE, J. H. ROOKEFELLER;

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