US1186143A - Ironing-board. - Google Patents

Description

D. C. STEWART.

IRONING BOARD.

APPLICATION men SEPT. 9, m5.

1,186, 1 43. Patented June 6, 1916.

/Z 3440mm DAVID C. STEWART, 0F KNOXVILLE, TENNESSEE.

IRONING-BOARD.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented June 6, 1916.

Application filed September 9, 1915. Serial No. 49,702.

To all whom it may concern:

, Be it known that I, DAVID C. STEWART, a citizen of the United States, residing at Knoxville, in the'county of Knox, State of Tennessee, have invented a new and useful Ironing-Board; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to an improved ironing board having collapsible supporting means, and an object of the invention is to provide simple and efiicient supporting means for the board, a member of which means may be thrown up against the under surface of the board, so that skirts and the like may be hung upon the board, and in which case additional means is provided for reinforcing or bracing the board and holding the same firmly, so as to withstand all the pressure required for ironing various articles.

In practical fields the details of construction may necessitate alterations falling within the scope of whatis claimed.

The invention comprises further features and combinations of parts, as hereinafter set forth, shown in the drawings and claimed.

In the drawings :Figure 1 is a view in perspective of the improved ironing board and its supporting means constructed in accordance with the invention. Fig. 2 is a sectional view on line 22 of Fig. 1, showing parts in elevation, and showing one member of the supporting means for the board thrown up against the under surface of the board in dotted lines. Fig. 3 is a bottom plan view of the board showing the supporting means therefor collapsed.

Referring more especially to the drawings, 1 designates the usual form of ironing board, and secured on its under surface adjacent one end is a cleat 2. Secured to the ends of the cleat, by means of suitable screws 3 pivotally are supporting racks or legs 5 and 6. The supporting rack 5 consists of opposite members 7, which are connected by the rungs 8. When the racks or legs 5 are used to support the board, they extend substantially vertically. The racks or legs 6 consist of the oppositely disposed members 9, which are connected by the rungs 10 and 11. When the racks or legs 6 are used for supporting the board, they extend angularly or upon inclinations, and pivotally carried upon the rung 10 is a brace bar 12, having a notch 13 in its lower end, to receive the lower rung 8 of the legs or racks 5, to hold the two racks or two sets of legs 5 and 6 relative to each other, as illustrated in Figs. 1 and 2. Alsosecured to the under face of the board adjacent its other end are two cleats 14:, arranged spaced apart from each other and in parallelism. Extending transversely of and connecting the cleats at corresponding opposite ends of the cleats is a pin 16, which extends through a slot 17 of the brace 18. The lower end of the brace is grooved, as shown at 19, to receive or engage the rung 11 of the legs or racks 6, to support the smaller end of the ironing board. However, the brace 18 may be arranged, as shown in dotted lines in Fig. 2, adjacent the under surface of the ironing board, and between the cleats 14. In this case, however, a hook 20 pivoted in a staple 21 at the large end of the ironing board is arranged, so that its hook end will engage the lower rung 8 of the legs 5, thereby bracing or reinforcing the ironing board, and holding the same firm, in order to withstand great pressure, that may be applied upon the smaller end of the board, when ironing skirts or the like that may be fitted on the board. The cleat 2 has a V-shaped notch 22, to receive the hook, when the supporting means is collapsed, as shown in Fig. 3.

The invention having been set forth, what is claimed as new and useful is In combination with an ironing board, supporting means for one end thereof and including an angularly downwardly extending rack extending toward the other end of the board, a pair of cleats arranged in parallelism and secured to the under surface of the board at its opposite end, a pin extending transversely of the cleats at one end of the cleats, a slotted brace mounted upon the pin and between the cleats, the pin extending through the slot, one end of the slotted In testimony whereof I have signed my brace havlng' a groove to engage e rung of name to tl11s speclficatlon 1n the presence of the lower end of the angularly extendlng tWo subscrlblng wltnesses.

rack to support the other end of the board, DAVID C. STEWART. said slotted brace adapted to be disposed in Witnesses:

parallelism between the cleats when not in E. B. HENsLEY,

use. A. F. FORD.

copies: at this patent may be obtained for five eente each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents,

Washington, I). G.

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