US784711A - Adjustable foot-rest for radiators, &c. - Google Patents

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No. 784,711. PATENTED MAR. 14, 1905,

E. TERRY. ADJUSTABLE FOOT REST FOR RADIATORS,-&o.

APPLICATION FILED MAY 8, 1903.

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UNITED STATES Patented March 14, 1905.

PATENT OFFICE.

EUGENE TERRY, OF 1TH AGA, NElV YORK.

ADJUSTABLE FOOT-REST FOR RADIATORS, 81.0.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 784,71 1,

dated March 14, 1905.

Application filed May 8. 1903. Seria No. 156.153.

To (all whom it may (SON/00772,.

Be it known that I, EUGENE TERRY, residing at Ithaca, in the county of Tompkins and State of New York, have invented certain new fi? a f0 rest or shelf for use in connection 1 radiators or similar articles which may ,be readily secured to the radiator, removed therefrom, and adjusted to various positions thereon.

An embodiment of the invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a face View of the radiator, showing the foot-rest in position thereon. Fig. 2 is an end view with parts broken away. Figs.

3 and 4 are sectional views showing two different positions of the foot-rest. Figs. 5 to 9, inclusive, are details of various parts.

Similar reference characters refer to similar parts throughout the several views.

The invention is herein shown in connection with a radiator A of usual construction. The foot-rest is shown as a shelf 1, pivotally mounted upon arms 2, projecting inwardly from rods 3, which are adapted to pass between adjacent sections of the radiator and which are provided at one end thereof with heads 4:, preferably loosely slipped thereover, as shown, and adapted to serve as abutments against which pressure may be exerted when nuts 5 at the opposite ends of the rods are turned up to hold the rods in any desired position vertically of the radiator. There are preferably two of these adjustable pivotrods-one at each end of the shelf-and the parts 4: and 5 are also preferably provided with faces adapted to fit between the radiator to hold the parts firmly in place Without slipping. Below the plane of the shelf a rod 6 passes between the two adjacent radiator-sections, preferably at about the middle of the shelf, as shown, one end of said rod carrying an adjusting-nut 7 and the other a plate 8, provided with an aperture through which passes a notched arm 9, having an upwardly-projecting lug or handle 9 and pivoted between lugs 10, depending from the shelf. The plate 8 is preferably beveled, as at the point 11, to facilitate the engagement therewith of the notched teeth bf the arm 9. e 1

it will be seen that the foot-rest and its support constructed as described may be removed bodily from the radiator Without in any way affecting the appearance thereof, that it may be adjusted to any desired height by moving the supporting-rods 3 and 6 up or down between sections after having loosened their clamping-nuts, and that the foot-rest itself in addition to this vertical adjustment may be given a swinging or angular adjustment by raising the arm 9 slightly and moving it to engage different teeth with the beveled edge 11 of the detent-plate.

The fact, which is especially applicable to simple constructions of this character, should be obvious that various changes in detail arci in construction of parts may be made, that elements may be substituted, or otherchanges made in the construction illustrated which might materially change the appearance thereof, while still involving the ideas and appropriating the utilities suggested by the invention here disclosed.

Having described my invention, What I claim as new, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is

1. In combination with a radiator, rods passing between the sections thereof, each of said rods having an adjusting-nut at one end and a head at the other end, a shelf pivotally mounted with respect to said rods and a notched arm pivotally connected to said shelf and adapted to engage a detent-plate connected to said radiator.

2. In combination, with a radiator,rods passing between the sections thereof, each of said rods having an adjusting-nut at one end and a head at the other end, a shelf pivotally mounted with respectto said rods and a notched arm pivotally connected to said shelf and adapted to engage a detent-plate adjustably connected to said radiator below that part upon which said shelf is mounted.

oo mMM-Wm m 3. In combination, means adapted to be adjustably secured to a radiator, a shelf pivotally mounted thereon, a member adapted to be secured to the radiator at a lower point, and a notched arm pivotally secured to said shelf and adapted to rest with its notched surface in engagement with said member.

4:. In combination, means adapted to be adju'stahly secured to a radiator, a shelf pivotally mounted thereon, a member adapted to be secured to the radiator at a lower point, a notched arm pivotally secured to said shelf and extending downwardly into engagement with said member, and a handle upon said shelf.

2 5. In combination, two rods adapted to extend between the sections of a radiator and having adjustable means thereon adapted to engage said sections and maintain said rods l l i ri REST AVNL C 784,711

in fixed relation thereto, each of said rods being provided with a portion extending sub stantially at right angles with the body thereof, a shelf pivotally mounted upon said lastmentioned portions of said rods, a detentplate, a rod connected with said detent-plate adapted to pass between sections of the radiator and be adjustably secured thereto, a notched bar pivotally mounted upon said shelf having a portion extending downwardly into engagement with said detent-plate, and a handle projecting upwardly from said shelf.

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

EUGENE TERRY.

C. M. Trrus.

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