US695951A - Adjustable stand for mirrors, tables, or the like. - Google Patents

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` l Patented Mar.. 25, |902. H. A., sEYMounE.

ADJUSTABLE STAND FOR HEROES, TABLES, DBYTHE- LIKE.

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IhniTnn STATES PATENT OFFICE.

HARRY A. SFYMOURE, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO JACOB LOVENTHAL, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

ADJUSTABLE STAND FOR MIRRORS, TABLES, OR THE LIKE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Vlhetters Patent No. 695,951, dated March 25, 1902.

Application filed August 30, 1901. Serial No. 73,828. (No model.)

To all whom, it N11/Cty concern:

Be it known that I, HARRY A. SEYMOURE, a citizen of the United States, residing at Chicago, county of Cook, and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Adj ustable Stands for Mirrors, Tables, or the Like, of which the following, when taken in connection with the drawings accompanying and forming a partI hereof, is 1o a full and complete specification, sufficient to enable those skilled in the art to which it pertains to understand, make, and use the same. Y This invention relates to improvements in adjustable supports for mirrors, tables, books,

and other articles; and the object of the invention is to obtain an adjustable stand which may, if desired, be rotatable and which is provided with an easily-adj ustable head by zo means of which the upper face or surface of the mirror, table, book-support, or other article supported thereby may be placed in any desired plane.

The invention consists in the particular construction and arrangement of parts, as hereinafter more fully set forth and claimed. vIn the drawings referred to, Figure l is a side elevation of an adjustable stand embodying this invention, and Fig. 2 is a rear elevago tion of such adjustable stand. Fig. 3 is a top plan view of a blank of ductile sheet metal from which the head of the standard is formed up, and Fig. et is a side elevation of a portion of the upper end and head of the adjustable stand in a differently-adjusted position from the one thereof shown in Fig. l. A reference-letter applied to designate a given part is used to indicate such part wherever the same appears throughout the several 4o figures of the drawings.

A is the thing supported bythe adjustable stand embodying this invention and may be a mirror, table, or other article.

B is the head of the adjustable stand embodying this invention and is secured to A, as by the bolts b b passing through ears b b of the head B. Head B is formed up of the sheet-metal blank illustrated in Fig. 3 of the drawings. The ears b' b are punched out of 5o the body of the blank, and the sides of such blank are bent on broken lines C C into planes substantially at right angles to the central part of the blank and to the ears b' b'. The ears b b' are provided with holes b2, through which the bolt b is placed in attaching the head B to A, and the blank is also provided with holes d d, in which pin E on upright F loosely fits when head B is mounted on such upright.

e is a pin in upright F, and e e/ are later- 6o ally-extending peripheral grooves, into which grooves, respectively, such pin e fits when the head B is adjusted to a given position. (See Fig. 4.)

The relative position of pins E e, holes d d, and laterally-extending peripheral grooves e e is such that sufficient vertical movement may be obtained in head B to raise the head so that the pin e is not in engagement with any one of the laterally-extending grooves 7o e' e (as is well shown in Fig. l of the drawings) when head B is being adjusted and to permit the pin e to be in engagement with laterally-extending grooves e/ e when head B is in the lowest position permitted by pin E in holes d d, as is shown in Fig. 4 of the drawings. The periphery of the respective sides of the blank from which head B is obtained is concentric with holes d d, respectively.

G is the base of the adjustable stand, and 8o H (see Fig. 2) is the lower and turned end of the upright F, rotatably mounted in base G.

h is a washer on the lower end of the upright F, and 7L is a nut on such upright. Upright F is thus rotatably mounted in base G.

The operation of this adjustable stand is extremely simple and is as follows: When nut h is not screwed onto the lower end of the upright F sufficiently to set washer 71, to the under side of base G, such upright F 9o is rotatable in such base G, and as such upright is rotated the head B and mirror, table, or other article attached thereto and supported thereby is turned. To set the surface of the mirror, table, or other article A in a desired plane, such mirror, table, or other article is raised until pin e is out of engagement with laterally extending peripheral grooves e/ e', after which such head B and mirror, table, or other article A is tilted or turned around pin E until the upper surface of the mirror, table, or other article A is in IOO c c', when, the operative parts being in substantially the position illustrated in Fig. 4 of the drawings, the mirror, table, or other article A will be maintained in its adjusted position by gravity and without the use of springs, friction-plates, set-screws, or other devices. l

Havingthus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure byLetters Patent, is-

1. In an adjustable stand, an upright, projections on the sides of the upright forming upper and lower pins, one thereof on each side of the upright located adjacent to the upper end of such upright, in combination with a head consisting of a sheet-metal blank having ears cut out of the body thereof and sides bent substantially at right angles to the ears, such sides provided with holes, the axial lines whereof are substantially identical, the peripheral edges of the sides concentric with the holes and provided with laterally-extending grooves, the upper pins fitting loosely in such holes and the lower pins positioned in the upright, relative to the upper pins, so as to engage with the laterally-extending peripheral grooves when the upper pins are adjacent to the upper edges of the holes and to not engage with such grooves when the upper Vpins are adjacent to the lower edges of such holes; substantially as described.

2. In an adjustable stand, the combination of a base, an upright rotatably mounted in the base, pins at the upper end of the upright, and additional pins in such upright below the first-named pins, and a head consisting of a central part provided with ears and provided with sides 4substantially at right angles to the central body part, the sides provided with holes therethrough, the axial line of one of such holes being substantially a prolongation of the axial line of the other hole, and such sides provided with peripheral edges concentric to the holes, respectively, and such edges provided with laterally extending grooves, the head and the upright related so that the upper pins loosely fit in the holes in the sides and the lower pins positioned relative to the pins in the holes and to the laterally-extendin g peripheral grooves so that such lower pins are in'one of the laterally-extending grooves as such head is there maintained by gravity; substantially as described.

HARRY A. SEYMOURE.

Witnesses:

CHARLES TURNER BROWN, JACOB LOWENTHAL.

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