US472200A - Furniture attachment - Google Patents

Description

C SEILER 'PURNITURE ATTAGHMENT.

Patented Apr. 5, 1892.

(No Model.)

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CARL SEILER, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

FU RNITU RE 'T'TACHMENT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No.472,200, dated April 5, 1892.

Application filed June 22, 1891. Serial No. 397,034. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CARL SEILER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Philadelphia, in the county of Philadelphia and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Furniture Attachments; and I do 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, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

My invention relates to attachments to furniture-legs-such as billiard-tables and other heavy articles-whereby an exact level can be obtained. The device preferably is made simply to set under the leg without actual attachment thereto; and it consists, essentially, of two plates hinged together on one side and having a means for adjusting their relative proximity to each other. The lower plate is intended to rest either directly upon the fioor, where it may be fastened by means of screws passed through ears thereon provided for the purpose, or it mayhave beneath it a caster, which rests upon the fioor and permits the ready shifting of the table or other piece of furniture. The upper plate is provided with an adjusting-screw let through a suitably screw-threaded bore and bearing upon the lower plate to effect the ad justment. It is also provided With an annular circumferential ridge around it, which affords a seat for the bottom of the leg. Other forms of seat, however, may be provided on the upper surface of the top plate. A table or other piece of furniture may have one of such adjusting devices under each foot, or, where this is not necessary, it may be placed under one or more of the feet.

The following detail description will more fully indicate the nature and purpose of my said invention.

The accornpanying drawings illustrate the said invention, in which- Figure 1 is a side elevation. Fig. 2is a plan view, and Fig. 3 a side elevation showing a caster under the lower plate.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures where they occur.

A is the bottom plate, and B the top plate. These two plates are hinged together, as seen at a, and on the opposite side to said hinge are provided with an adj usting means, which consists, preferably, of a screw b let through a threaded lug b' on the top plate and bearing upon a lug a' on the bottom plate; but the manner of arranging the adj usting means may b'e varied, as desired. The upper plate is preferably provided with a seat for the foot of the leg, which, as shown in the drawings, is produced by forming a ridge or'elevation b* around the circumference of the top; but any other form may be provided. The bottom plate may have ears bz, through which screws or nails are let to fasten the device to the fioor. The lower plate may be provided with a caster O, as seen in Fig. 3, in order to provide means for shifting the article of furniture in the usual way. \Vhen the caster is used, it can be attached in any convenient manner-aafor instance, by casting a socket B' on the bottom of the plate, as seen in Fig. -and the adj Listing-screw may be placed in either the top or bot-tom plate, as best suits the purpose.

Having thus described my invention, what I clai'm, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. The herein-described adj Listing device for f urniture-feet, consisting of two plates setA horizontally, the upper one of which receives the leg of the piece of furniture upon its flat upper surface, said plates beinghi'nged together on one side and provided with projecting ears upon the other, through one of which a screw is threaded to bear upon the other and effect the adj ustment of the plates, as set forth.

2. An adjusting device for furniture-feet, consisting of two plates hinged together on one side, the top plate having a seat or recess for the reception of the foot and provided with a projection having a threaded bore and a screw threaded into said bore and said lower plate having an ear or 'projection against which said screw bears, as set forth.

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

OARL SEILER.

Witnesses:

(Inne. H. WHITE, THos. D. MowLDs.

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