US1342820A - Sewing-machine cabinet or casing - Google Patents

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Patented June 8, 1920 kill Y ATTORNEY UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ALBERT EDWARD LEE,-OF YOKER, SCOTLAND, AND EDMUND GEORGE MILSTED, OF EPSOM, ENGLAND, ASSIGNORS TO THE SINGER, MANUFACTURING COMPANY, OF ELIZABETH, NEW JERSEY, A CORPORATION OF NEW JERSEY.

SEWING-MACHINE CABINET OR CASING.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented June 8, 1920.

Application filed March 13, 1920. Serial No. 365,448.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, ALBERT EDWARD Lnn and EDMUND GEORGE MILsTnD, subjects of the King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and residing at Yoker, Dumbartonshire, Scotland, and Epsom, Surrey, England, respectively have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Sewing- Machine Cabinets or Casings, of which the following is a specification.

The subject of this invention is a sewing machine cabinet or casing serving as a cover for the machine when the machine is out of use and as a stand or support when the machine is in use.

A preferred embodiment of the invention comprises-a portable box-like structure or casing, to one of the side walls of which may be fitted an external handle.

Two adjoining side walls, of which, when the sewing machine is in use, one forms the front wall of the casing, are each formed of sections or leaves, each of said side walls including a section rigidly fixed to the remaining walls. Hinged to the fixed sections of one of the said adjoining side walls so as to be foldable outwardly is the complemental section of that side wall, rigidly connected with which in perpendicular relation is one section of the adjoining side wall to the edge of which rigidly connected section another section of said'adjoining side wall is hinged so as to be foldable inwardly. The free edge of the said inwardly foldable section is adapted, when the casing is closed, to be locked or otherwise secured in abutting relation with the free edge of the fixed section of the last-named side wall.

The bed-plate of the sewing machine frame is hingedly connected along one longitudinal edge with the last named fixed section and can thus be swung into and out of the casing. When the machine is to be used, the machine is swung out of the casing and the sections are so folded that the second named of the two rigidly connected sections serves to support the longitudinal edge of the bed-plate opposite the hinged edge of the latter, the inwardly foldable section being folded out of the Way into the casing. A receptacle for holding accessories, etc., may be hingedly connected to the same fixed section as the bed-plate, the receptacle and bed-plate. closing the aperture in what is then the upper side wall of the casing resulting from the folding of the inwardly foldable section.

The lnvention is illustrated in the accompanymg drawings in which Figure 1 is a rear perspective view of the casing with the sewing machine exposed. Fig. 2 is a perspective vlew showing the casing partly open.

The structure illustrated is constituted as a box-like casing, to one side wall of which may be fitted an extdl nal handle 2.

The said side wall and an adjoining side wall are each formed of sections or leaves, each of said side walls including a section 1 or 3 rigidly fixed to the remaining walls. Hinged to the fixed section 1 so as to be foldable outwardly is the complemental section 1 of the relative side wall, rigidly connected with which in perpendicular relation is the section of the adjoining side wall to the edge of which section 3 another so"- tion 3 is hinged so as to be foldable inwardly. The free edge of the section 3 is adapted, when the casing is closed, to be locked or otherwise secured in abutting relation with the free edge of the fixed section 3 The bed-plate at of the sewing machine frame is hingedly connected along one 1011- gitudlnal edge with the fixed section 3 and can thus be swung into and out of the easing. When the machine is to be used, it is swung out of the casing and the sections are so folded that the section 3 serves to support the longitudinal edge of the bed-plate l opposite the hinged edge of the latter, the section 3 being folded out of the way into the casing. A receptacle 5 for holding accessories, etc, is hin edly connected to the section 3 the receptacle 5 and bedplate l closing the aperture in what is then the upper side wall of the casing resulting from the folding inward of the section 3 By reference to the drawings it will be seen that the sewing machine bed-plate is adapted to replace the inwardly foldable section 3 so as to supplement the sections 3 and 3 in providing a continuous table for supporting the work, the top of the receptacle 5 constituting an extension of the bedplate for such purpose when the casing is of suitable dimension to accommodate the same.

Though the construction illustrated is particularly intended to be used by Orientals accustomed to sew while sitting cross-legged on the floor, it is also of great utility to travelers and others employing hand-driven sewing machines in circumstances where it is convenient to employ the same structure as a casing and as a stand or support.

The structure herein described is shown in its simplest form as a readily portable selfcontained unit adapted for a hand-driven sewing machine; it will be understood, however, that, with suitable modification, it may be adapted to form a component part of a cabinet for use with a sewing machine otherwise driven.

What we claim is LA sewing machine cabinet comprising a casing having at least one sectional wall comprising sections hingedly connected together, one of said sections having a hinge connection to another wall of said casing, a sewing machine having a bed-plate hinged to said casing along one longitudinal edge in parallelism with the hinges connecting said sections, said sections being foldable so as in one position to cover said sewing machine and in another position to present a support for the other longitudinal edge of said bed-plate.

2. The combination of a casing including sectional walls and a sewing machine having a bed-plate hinged atone edge to one section of one of said walls, the sections of said walls being i'oldable to cover said ma chine when said machine is out of use and to support the opposite edge of the bed-plate of said machine when said bed-plate is turned on itshinges to bring said machine into position for use; 7

3. The combination ofa casing of which two adjoining side walls are formed in sections, each of said side Walls including a rigid section, one of said Walls including a section hinged to and complemental to the relative rigid section, the other side wall including a section fixed to the hinged section of said first named wall and a section hinged to said fixed section, and a sewing machine havinga bed-plate hinged along one edge tothe rigid section of said second named side wall. V a

4. The combination ofa casing including sectional walls anda sewing machine having a bed-plate hinged to asection of one of said walls, the sections of said walls being foldable to cover said machine when out of use and one of said sections being hingedto an adjacent section and replaceable by the sewing machine bed-plate when turned to bring said machine into position for use.

In testimony whereof we have signed our namcs to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses. V

ALBERT EDWARD LEE.

EDMUND GEORGE MILSTED.

lVitnesses:

KATE FOTHERINGHAM,

ISABEL RoLLo.

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