US781264A - Ironing-board. - Google Patents

Description

, Patented January 31, 1905.

PATENT OFFICEo ySAMUEL J. BECKVVITI-I, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 781,264, dated J anuary'l, 1905. I Application iled May 18, 1963- -Serial No. 157,600.

To wZwh/Um t may concern. 4 Be it known that I, SAMUEL J. lBnoKwrlH, a citizen of the United States, residing at Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in 'Ironing-Boards, of which the following is a specification.

Myinvention relatesto ironing-boards; and more particularly to that class of ironingboards especially adapted for the ironing of sleeves of shirts, shirt-waists, and other sleevegarments in which it is desirable to secure a smooth-ironed surface without the formation of creases therein; and the primary object of my invention is to provide a simple and cheaply-constructed ironing-board for this purpose and one which may be knocked down and reduced to small compass for purposes-of shipment or storage.

Another object of my-invention is to. pro-V vide an ironing-board capableof being usedeither side up, for which purpose the top and bottom horizontal members are duplicates of each other.

To these and other ends my invention resides in an improved knockdown or collapsible ironing-board having the novel features of construction and manner of manipulation substantially as hereinafter described, and pointed out in the claims.

The improved article constituting the subject-matter of my invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, wherein- Figure 1 is aside elevational view partly broken out. Fig. 2 is a top plan view, and Fig. 3 is a detail view of one of the intermediate supporting and spacing blocks.

Referring to the drawings, 5 designates each of the main horizontal boards of the device, which are duplicates in form and construction, each consisting of a relatively `long tapering board of a length and width suitable to accommodate the sleeve of any sleeve-garment, suoli as a shirt-waist, when slipped over the smaller end thereof. These boards are provided in the end portions'of their inner opposed facesA with holes or sockets 6,adapted to receive and snugly fit the end pintles 7'of a pair of duplicate blocks 8, which latter serve the double function of supporting the top board 5in 0p- .erative position and of spacing the two boards a suitable distance apart to allow of the introduction and proper manipulation of a garment over the upper board and between it and the lower board, which serves as a supporting 'base. rlhe detachable connections between the respective ends'of the blocks 8 and the inner surfaces of the boards 5 are such that said connections arelocated entirely within the planes of the operating-surfaces of the boards. More specifically, the sockets 6 eX- tend but partly through the boards 5 and the pins 7 are of suicient length only to be inserted into said sockets` until the ends of the blocks engage the inner surfaces of the boards. In manipulating the device the parts are assembled inthe relative positions shown in with the taper of the board. When the sleeve has been fully placed on the board, the narrow end of the board is swung back and re- AFigs. 1 and '2, the lower board resting upon c engaged with the supporting-block 8, lwherel upon the sleeve may be ironed without the l formation of creases by simply turning it as necesssary around upon the board on which it c has been placed. It will be observedthat the supporting and spacing blocks 8 are of a substantial width relatively to the transverse dimensions of the ends of the boards,vvhichy affords a broad and -stable support for the upper board and a substantially rigidgconnection with the lower board constituting the baseplate or rest of the device, and this is obtained without the necessity of any positive connections or uniting and securing means between the parts. When the device is not in use, the parts can readily be separated and laid away in close and compact order, requiring but a minimum of space, until required for subsequent use, whereupon they can be reassembled in operative form with a minimum of time and work. It will also be observed as constituting a meritorious feature of the device that it is double in character-that is` capable of being used either side up-the boards 5 5 being twins and likewise the spacing and supporting blocks 8 8. rlhis construction also conduces greatly tO lessening the cost of manufacture, as it reduces the number of diiferently-formed elements to only two.

1 am aware that foldable ironing-boards the members whereofl are united partially or wholly by hinge-joints are old; but my invention is distinguished therefrom in that it employs no hinge-joints at all, but merely pinand-socket joints to unite the relatively-foldable elements, which latter are capable of being separated by merely drawing them apart and subsequently disposed of in iiat surface contact when collapsed and out of use.

I claimi l. A collapsible ironing-board for the purposes described comprising a pair of parallel duplicate boards interchangeable to form ironing and supporting members, respectively, and intermediate duplicate supporting and spacing blocks having pin-and-soclet connections with the end portions, respectively, of the opposed inner faces of said boards, said pin-and-socket connections being located inwardly beyond the planes of the Operatingsurfaces of the boards, substantially as described.

2. A collapsible ironing-board for the purposes described comprising a pair of parallel duplicate boards having holes or sockets formed in the end portions of their inner opposed faces and interchangeable to forni ironing and supporting members, respecti \'ely,and intermediate duplicate supporting and spacing blocks Of a width suiiicicnt to constitute a broad rest for the upper board, said blocks having at their Opposite ends pintles removably engaging the holes or sockets in the boards, substantially as described.

3. A collapsible ironing-board for the purposes described comprising a pair of parallel duplicate boards having holes or sockets formed in and partially through the end portions Of their inner opposed faces and interchangeable to form ironing and supporting members, respectively, and intermediate duplicate supporting and spacing blocks of a width sufiicient to constitute abroad rest for the upper board, said blocks having at their opposite ends pintles adapted to removably and interchangeably engage said holes or sockets in the boards, substantially as described.

SAMUEL J. BECKVVITH.

Witnesses:

SAMUEL N. POND, FREDERICK C. GOODWIN.

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