US2172297A - Electric iron cord control - Google Patents

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Sept. 5, 1939; A, SNYDER 2,172,297

ELECTRIC IRON CORD CONTROL Filed May 5, 1938 3 J. Q r Q 2-- 2 Inventor 22526 6: azyder A ttorneys Patented Sept. 5, 1939 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFIQE 2 Claims.

This invention relates to controlling means for the cord of an electric iron when the iron is being used, the general object of the invention being to provide an elongated slotted member, through the slot of which the cord passes, with means for holding the slotted member at one edge of the board and spaced above the board, so that the cord will be guided by the member as the iron is passed back and forth over the board, and thus the cord will not get in the way and will be prevented from kinking and looping.

This invention also consists in certain other features of construction and in the combination and arrangement of the several parts, to be hereinafter fully described, illustrated in the accompanying drawing and specifically pointed out in the appended claims.

In describing the invention in detail, reference will be had to the accompanying drawing wherein like characters denote like or corresponding parts throughout the several views, and in which:

Figure 1 is a perspective View showing the invention in use with an ironing board.

Figure 2 is an end view of Figure 1, showing the device in operative position in full lines and in inoperative position in dotted lines.

Figure 3 is a fragmentary rear view, showing the latch means for holding the device in raised position.

In this drawing, the letter A indicates an ironing board and the letter B an electric iron resting on the board and provided with the usual cord 1) which leads from the iron to a wall socket.

In carrying out the invention, I provide an elongated fiat member l, which is provided with an elongated slot 2 through which the cord passes. At one end this member is hingedly connected to an edge of the board by the long hinged straps 3 which are connected with the member I and the short straps 4 which are connected with the edge of the board, the hinge pin being shown at 5. These hinge parts are so arranged that the member can be swung downwardly to rest on the board, as shown in Figure 2 by dotted lines, when not in use, and when in upright position, as

shown in full lines in Figures 1, 2 and 3, a latch 6 carried by one of the long parts 3 is engaged with a keeper pin 1 on the corresponding short member :3 of the hinge parts, as shown in Figures 2 and 3.

As will be: seen, when the iron is moved back and forth or crosswise of the board, the slotted member I will guide the cord and thus prevent it from getting in the way of the ironing operation and will also prevent looping of or kinking 10 of the cord.

It is thought from the foregoing description that the advantages and novel features of the invention will be readily apparent.

It is to be understood that changes may be 15 made in the construction and in the combination and arrangement of the several parts, provided that such changes fall within the scope of the appended claims.

What I claim is:

1. An electric cord support for an ironing board comprising short hinged leaves adapted to be connected to one edge of an ironing board adjacent one end thereof, long leaf hinges pivotally connected with the short leaves, an elongated 25 slotted member extending at right angles to the leaves and having one end portion connected with the upper ends of the long leaves, a latch connected with one of the long leaves, and a keeper carried by the adjacent short leaf for engaging 30 the latch for holding the device in upright position, the slot in the elongated member being adapted to have the cord pass therethrough.

2. An electric cord support for an ironing board comprising an elongated member having an elon- 35 gated longitudinally extending slot therein, through the slot of which the cord is adapted to pass, hinge means connected with the slotted member and adapted to be connected to one side edge of an ironing board, said hinge means permitting the member to be folded upon the board or swung upwardly to a position above but adjacent a side edge of the board and latch means for holding the member in raised position.

ARLINE STELLA SNYDER.

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