US728695A - Combined stool and quilting-frame. - Google Patents

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I PATENTED MAY 19,1903. J. FITZGERALD. 1 COMBINED s'rooL AND QUILTING FRAME; APPLICATION FILED 111L119, 1902.

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PATENT OFFICE.

JAMES FITZGERALD, OF POINT PLEASANT, MISSOURI.

COMBINED STOQL AND QUILTING-FRAME.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 728,695, dated May 19, 1903.

' Application filed July 19, 1902. Serial No. 116,257. (No model.)

To all whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, JAMES FITZGERALD, a citizen of the United States, residing at Point Pleasant, in the county of New Madrid and State of Missouri, have invented new and useful Improvements in a Combined Stool and Quilting-Frame, of which the following is a specification.

- This invention relates to a combined stool and quilting-frame and the object of the same is to provide a simple organization of contributing elements convertible from a stool into a quilting-frame, or vice versa, and mainly overcoming the objection and disadvantage of the cumbersome and unwieldy form of the usual quilting-frame construction and also to have the frame when folded serve as a supporting means for a stool-seat.

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,cFigure lois a perspective View of the improved device arranged as a quilting-frame. Fig. 2 is a transverse vertical section through-the device as shown arranged by Fig. 1 with the quilt removed. Fig. 3 is a perspective view of the improved device arranged as a stool. Fig. 4 is a longitudinal vertical section through the improved device as shown arranged by Fig. 3. Fig. 5 is an end elevation of a portion of one of the quilt-holding elements. Fig. 6 is a detail plan viewof a stretcher-bar forming part of the quilting-frame organization. Fig. 7 is a bottom plan view of a part of the stretcherbar as shown by Fig. 6, illustrating the manner of locking the joint of the same.

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

The numeral 1 designates a base compris-' ing bars 2, intersecting each other at right angles. Extending upwardly from the basebars 2 are clamping-bolts 3,which pass through longitudinal slots 4, formed in adjustable feet 5, which are horizontally arranged on the said bars and have terminal extensions 6,whereby the base 1 may be extendedto provide a stable support for the improved device when arranged as a quilting-frame. The clampto permit them to be adjusted. Rising from the point of intersection of the bars 2 is a post 8, secured at its upper end to the under side of a horizontal platform 9, and depending from the latter are retaining-bars 10, having lower slotted ends 11 embracing the feet 5 to hold the said feet against lateral movement. The feet 5 are free to slide through the lower slotted ends 11 of the retainingbars 10, and a positive extension of said feet will result through their cooperation with or engagement by the said retaining-bars. Rising from the center of the platform 9 is a tubular upright 12,having a centrally-apertured head 13 secured on the upper end thereof and formed with oppositely-extending longitudinally-disposed arms 14, on the outer end of which buttons or clamping members 15 are pivotally secured. On opposite sides of the uprights 12 brackets 16 are secured and have outwardly-projecting upwardly-extending curved arms 17, which are terminally apertured for a purpose which will be presently explained.

To the opposite ends of the platform 9 the inner ends of opposite pairs of stretcher-bars 18 are hinged, said bars having an interme diate break-joint or hinge connection 19 at an intermediate pointineach one of the same, and inwardly from the said intermediate joints of the pairs of bars are cross connecting-strips 20, preferably formed of metal. To the centers of the strips 20 the outer ends of foldable or jointed brace-links 21 are socured, which serve to hold the stretcher-bars at a predetermined angle ofinclination when open and prevent the said bars from being depressed below a certain prearranged inclined plane. The inner ends of the links are movably connected to the apertured terminals of the arms 17 of the brackets 16 by means of hooks 22, detachably applied to said armterminals, whereby the links may be disconnected from the brackets when the stretcherarms 18 are infolded to form the improved device into a stool. The outer ends of the stretcher-bars 18 are firmly and immovably secured to transversely-extending quilt-supporting bars 23, having clamping-bolts 24 projecting through the center thereof and cooperating with pairs of expanding bars 25, each pair of bars 25 having reversely-positioned guide-slots 26 in the contiguous edges 5 thereof and which are engaged by the bolt 24 to limit the outward movement of the said bars 25. The stop-pins 27 abut against reversely-positioned shoulders 26, also formed in the bars 25, to limit the inward movement I of the said bars. The bars 25 are held in their adjusted positions by the clamping bolts 24, and by varying the outward extent of the said bars the change in widths of the quilt operated upon may be accommodated. I Each bar 25 has an outer terminal head or enlargement 28, formed with an L-shaped slot 29, which opens outwardly through the top thereof, the horizontal portions of the said slots providing the said heads with outwardly-projecting retaining members 30.

A pair of quilt-holding bars 31 (shown in detail by Figs. 6 and 7) are used with the improved device when it is arranged as a quilting-frame, each bar 31 comprising a pair of sections having their inner ends connected by a hinge 32, and adjacent to the joint thus formed on the under side of the bar is a locking-latch 33, having one end pivoted to one of the sections of the bar and the opposite 0 end formed with a hook 34 to removably engage a stud 35 on the adjacent section, whereby the sections of each bar 31 may be immow ably or rigidly held while in use as a part of the quilting-frame or be folded in compact 35 form for storage when not in use. Secured to the upper edge of each bar 3 by suitable staples or analogous devices 36 is a rope 37 or the like, which extends almost full length of the bar for attachment of the quilt thereto 40 by means of pins, stitches, or other fastenings. The rope 37 or the like being flexible will not interfere with the reduction of each bar to compact form by folding and will serve as very, efficient means for securing the quilt for obvious reasons. The end of each bar has an outwardly-projecting stem 38, with a terminal head 39, having a disk 40 bearing thereagainst, the diameter of the stems 38 being slightly less than the width of the slots 29, in which they are fitted. When the stems 38 are inserted in the slots 29 and the quilt is drawn taut in relation to the two bars 31, said stems will be pulled under the outwardly-proj ecting retaining member 30 of the heads 28 of the bars 25 to prevent accidental disengagement of. the bars 31 from the heads 28. When the bars 31 are placed in engagement with the heads 28 of the bars 25,

the outer pairs of sections of the stretcherbars 18 will be held against inward or infolding movement, and a rigid quilting-frame will 'thus be provided. The bars 31, carrying the quilt, may be detached from the heads 28 and remain in connection with the quilt in the event that the quilting operation is not completed and it is desired to suspend such operation fora time and reduce the improved device to compact form, or if the quilting operation has been completed the quilt is removed from the bars 31 and the latter are folded and stored.

When the improved device is reduced to compact form, the inner ends of the links are first detached from the terminals of the bracket-arms l7 and the outer sections of the stretchers 18 are folded inwardly over the latter and both sections brought up close to the upright 12, the turn-buttons 15 being first turned vertically to permit the arms 14 of the head 13 to pass through the spaces between the parts of the folded stretchers, and after said arms 14 are projected through the part of the stretchers the turn-buttons 15 are rotated to bring them into horizontal position against the outer faces of the lower sections of the folded stretchers 18. When the stretchers 18 are in the connected position just described, the supporting-bars 23 and the pairs of bars 25 carried thereby will rest on the platform 9 in inverted position, as clearly. shown by Figs. 3 and 4, and the intermediate joints of the stretcher-sections will stand elevated above the head 13.

The improved device comprises inits organization a stool-seat 41, having a central depending post 42 and apair ofparallel longitudinally-extending cleats 43 on the under side thereof. When the parts of the quilting-frame are infolded, as set forth, the post 42 is passed down between the folded stretchers18, through the apertured heads 13, and into the upright'12, the upper ends or intermediate joint portions of the stretchers 18 being located between the cleats 43 to hold the stool-seat against rotative movement.

It will be seen that the stool attachment may be readily applied or detached and the entire device quickly converted into one form or theother. It is also apparent that changes in the form,-proportions, dimensions, and minor details may be resorted to without departing from the spirit of the invention.

Having thus fully described the invention, what is claimed as new is 1. In a device of the class set forth, the combination of 'a base, a platform supported by the base and having depending guide-bars, extensible feet mounted on the base and engaging thesaid guide-bars, quilting members supported by said platform, a stool-engaging means disposed on the platform, and a stool member removably applied to the said stoolengaging means.

2. In a device of the class set forth, the combination of a supporting means, infolding stretcher-s movably attached to said supporting means and having terminal quilt-supporting devices, and foldable quilt-holding bars removably mounted in the said latter devices.

3. In adevice of the class set forth, the combination of supporting means,pairs of stretchers movably attached to opposite sides of said supporting means and madeu p of infolde'dsections adapted to be immovably locked against said means, quilt-supporting devices held at the outer terminals of the stretchers and having pairs of expansible arms thereon, and quilt-holding bars made up of foldable sections and provided with reduced terminals to removably engage said expansible arms.

4. In a device of the class set forth, the combination of a supporting means, infolding stretcher arms movably attached to said means, devices connected to said stretcherarms for holding the quilt, and braces comprising a series of movably-connected links attached to said stretcher-arms and detachably connected to the said supporting means.

5. In a device of the class set forth, the combination of a supporting means, stretcher arms movably and foldably attached to said means and comprising pairs of arms with spaces between them, a head held by said supporting means and having oppositely-projecting arms with turn-buttons on the endsth ereof, the stretchers when folded being drawn over the said arms and removably secured by the turn-buttons, and quilt-holding devices held by the said arms.

6. In a device of the class set forth, the combination with supporting means, of folding stretcher-arms movably attached thereto and having quilt-holdin g devices connected to the terminals thereof, and foldable quilt-holding bars. having ropes secured to and extending longitudinally of the upper edges thereof.

In testimony whereof I aflix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

JAMES FITZGERALD.

Witnesses GORDON TREADWELL, RICHARD EVANS.

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