US763617A - Toy bench or settee. - Google Patents

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No. 763,617. PATENTED JUNE 28, 1904.

G. H. LENNON.

TOY BENCH ORSETTBB.

APPLICATION FILED NOV. 10, 1903. N0 MODEL.

UNITED STATES Patented June 28, 1904:

GEORGE H. LENNON, OF BALTIMORE, MARYLAND.

TOY BENCH 0R SETTEE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 763,617, dated June 28, 1904. Application filed November 10 1903. Serial No. 180,588. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, GEORGE H. LENNON, a citizen of the United States, residing at Baltimore city, in the State of Maryland, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Toy Benches or Settees, of which the following is a specification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawings.

My inventionrelates to toy benches or settees; and my object is to construct a bench or settee composed partly of sheet metal and partly of wood without the use of nails or brads and collapsible, so that they will be convenient for packing and, further, can be manufactured expeditiously and at a very small cost. I attain these results by means of the structure shown in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a perspective view of atoy bench or settee embodying my invention. Fig. 2 is an end View of the same. Fig. 3 is an enlarged cross-section View through one of the wooden top plates at B. Fig. 4 is an enlarged view of the supporting portion, showing clamp. Figs. 5 and 6 are detail views of the construction.

The seat and back of the toy bench or settee are formed of strips of wood C C C, Fig. 1. The supporting portions and legs of the bench are formed from strips of sheet metal A D B, Figs. 2 and 6, in the style of bench shown being bent nearly in the shape of the letter S, the lower portion of the 8 being bent downward and flanged to form the leg A and the upper portion being bent backward and doubled along itself d d, Fig. 52, forming the back clamped at F and the remaining portion flanged and bent to form the back leg. Two similar supporting portions are used near each end of the wood strips.

In forming the toy bench or settee the sheetmetal strips are stamped as shown in Fig. 6, having dart-shaped points K K K struck up out of and approximately at right angles to the plane of the blank of sheet metal, having a similar projection Fmade in the opposite direction having a hole stamped at G, and having portions A and B of sufiicient length to form the strips is shown in Fig.

legs of the bench or settee. Wooden strips are then impaled on the first-named points. (The position of a projection in one of the wooden The sheet metal is then bent so that the portion (Z (Z B folds back and is doubled along itself and so that projection F enters the hole G. The projection F is then bent over and clamped, as shown in Fig. 4. A like piece is attached to the same side of the wood strips near the opposite ends.

The article then has the shape shown in Fig.

5 and is in a form convenient for packing. Any desired shape may then be given the bench by bending the sheet metal and by varying the number of wooden strips used as seat and back portions. The legs may be straight or shaped or bent in any suitable or well known manner.

Having described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. Aflexible toy bench or settee constructed as described, and consisting of wood strips C, C, C, and supporting portions of thin, semirigid but foldable sheet metal, D, (Z, 62, having points R, R, projected out thereof and into a said wooden strips C, C, C, connecting the having one extension, A, forming the front legs, and another extension 0Z, (Z, bent back upon itself forming the support of the back of the bench and secured by a dart-shaped point F, broken out of the sheet metal in an opposite direction from the first-named points and clamped through the hole G in the lastnamed extension, and a portion, B, of the lastnamed extension forming the rearlegs of the bench.

2. A toy bench or settee composed of wood top plates, forming seat or back, and two supporting-frames of sheet metal having dartshaped points projected out of the sheet metal and penetrating the wood top plates, said frames having one extension forming the front legs, and another extension of the sheet metal bent back upon itself forming the support of the back of the bench and secured by a dartshaped point broken out of the sheet metal in an opposite direction from the first-named nesses, at Baltimore city, in the State of Marypoints and clamped through ahole in the lastland, this 6th day of November 1903.

named extension, and a portionof said lastw named extension forming the rear legs of the GEORGE LENNON 5 bench. Witnesses:

In testimony whereof I have hereunto WILLIAM G. SOWERS, signed my name, in the presence of two wit- CHARLES A. JEFFERSON.

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