US955554A - Ironing-board. - Google Patents

Description

B. W. ROSS'.

IRGNING BOARD.

APPLICATION FILED Nov. 19, 1908.

Patented Apr. 19,1910.

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BERNARD V7. ROSS, OF EASTON, MARYLAND.

IRONINGr-BOARD.

To ciZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, BERNARD W. Ross, a citizen of the United States, residing at Easton, in the county of Talbot and State of Maryland, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Ironing-Boards, of which the following is a specilication.

This invention relates to laundry apparatus, and more particularly to ironing boards, and has for its object to provide such a device which may be detachably engaged upon the edge of a table and which is provided with a floor-engaging support to sustain the outer end of the board.

Another object of the invention is to provide a board of the class described comprising a table portion adapted for ordinary ironing uses, and having a pivoted floorengaging lever connected therewith and adapted to coengage with one end of the board against the edge of a table the outer end of which lever is adapted to engage against the floor to support the outer end of the board, and so shaped that it is adapted for use as a sleeve board upon reversal of the device.

A most important object of this invention is to provide a device of the character described so designed that all structural parts thereof may be manufactured from wood, thus cheapening the article and making it desirable as a means of using portions of wood stock in mills, which might otherwise be Wasted.

Other objects and advantages will be apparentfrom the following description and it will be understood that changes in the specific structure shown and described may be made within the scope of the claim without departing from the spirit of the invention.

In the drawings forming a portion of this specification, and in which like numerals of reference indicate similar parts in the several views, Figure 1 is a side view of the device engaged with the edge of the table, for use as an ironing board Vof the ordinary type, Fig. 2 is a side view of the device adapted for use as a sleeve board to be disposed upon Specification of, Letters Patent.

Application led November 19, 1908.

Patented Apr. 19, 1910.

serial No. 463,421.

view of the device, Fig. 41 is a cross sectional view through the t-runnions and standards of the device.

Referring to the drawings, there is shown an ironing board 10 of the usual type which near the head end is provided with the wooden cleat 13, to the ends of which are secured the brackets 11, also of wood -having t-he apertures 12. The cleat is of a length less than the width of the board 10. The engagement of the brackets with the board is thus reinforced and their attachment thereto simplified. Disposed revolubly in the openings 12, are the trunnions 15 of a bolster 14 comprising a short beam of wood extending between the brackets. Secured to the bolster 111 is a board or lever member 16 having its outer end shaped suitably for use as a sleeve board. 1t will be noted that the brackets 11 are spaced inwardly of the edge of the board 10 and the adjacent end of the sleeve board projects beyond the member 1-1, the project-ing end portions thus being adapted for clamping engagement on opposite sides of a table top upon divergent oscillation of the outer ends of the sleeve and ironing board.

Secured to the under face of the board 10 adjacent to its outer end, is a laterally extending carrying block 19 supporting hingedly a brace member 20 adapted to engage in the notches 21 formed upon the inner face of the sleeve board 16, to hold it in divergent position with respect to the board 10 for clamping engagement upon a table and supporting engagement with a Hoor at its outer end. A seat 21 is formed inwardly of the first named notches, and adapted to engage with the brace to hold the ironing and sleeve boards in parallel spaced relation so that if desired the device may be so adjusted and inverted upon a table, as shown in Fig. 2 for the ironing of sleeves.

Vhat is claimed is In combination, an ironing board, a cleat transversely secured near the head end of said board said cleat being of a length less than the Width of said board, a bracket havthe top of a table, Fig. 3 is an outer end l ing an aperture secured to each end of said cleat, a bolster having trunnions held Within said apertures, a sleeve board secured to said bolster having a seat and a plurality of adjacent notches, a carrying block secured transversely to said ironing board, a hinge carried by said block, and a brace secured to said hinge arranged to have its end adl Witnesses:

hold said sleeve board parallel to said iron- 10 ing board as and in the manner set forth.

In testimony whereof I aliix my signature, in presence 0i' two Witnesses.

BERNARD W. ROSS.

justably held by said notches When said iron- EMORY A. Ross, ing board is used7 and held by said seat to SAMUEL NORRIS.

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