US996354A - Adjustable ironing-table. - Google Patents

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A. LOGSDON. ADJUSTABLE IRONING TABLE.

APPLICATION FILED NOV. 6, 1909. 7

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to the table for convenient use at different ALFRED ADJUSTABLE IBONING-TABLE To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, Amman Locsoon, a citizen of the United States, residing at Perry, in the county of Dallas and State of Iowa, haveinvented a new and useful Adjustable Ironing-Table, of which the following is a specification.

The ob ect of m invention is to perma- .nentl combine a olding table and an adjusta le ironing board in such a manner that they can be used independently at pleasure and the ironing board adjusted relative elevations relative to the top of the table. My invention consists in the construction hereinafter set orth, pointed out in my claims and illustrated in the accompanying 20 drawings in which.

Figure 1 is a perspective view of the folding tablein position as required for practical use as a table. Fi 2 is a side view and shows the ironing ard elevated for convenient use above the top of the table as required for use-by a person at the side of the table. Fig. 3 is a longitudinal sectional view that shows means for raising and low- .ering. the ironingboard and hinged braces for holding the hinged legs inoperative position.

' The numeral 10 designates the main flat portion or top of the table and 17 the legs at the ends that fold'inward as shown in Fig. 3. The ironing board 13 serves as a portion of the fiat top of the table when in its normal .;position as shown in Fig. 1. It has two U- sha ed okes or uprights 14 hinged to its un ersi e as shown in Fig. 3, by means of which the board 13 may be elevated in horizontal position as required for ractical use in ironing: clothes and Iowere on a level if vith the top of the table 10 as shown in 'io retain the board 13 atdifierent points of elevation a brace 15 is hinged to the underside of said board as shown in Figs. 2 and 3 and adjustably connected with a fixed support 16, as shown in Fig. 3, by means of notches in the lower p ion at Letters Patent. Patented June 27, 1911. Application filed November 6, 1909. Serial No. 526,924. i

edge of the brace 15 as showninFig.3. The legs 17 are hinged to the ends 19of the frame ,of the table to fold inward and LOGSDON, or PERRY, rows, assronon 'ro :anxan nnornnns iamurncm ,ms comm, or may, Iowa, a conrona'rron or Iowa.

upward, and are positioned by means of to be detachably connected withbrackets 19 fixed to the underside of the table, as shown in Fig. 3, by means of pins a, in such a manner that the legs can be readily adjusted as re uired in practical use.

drawer b is located under the table 10 as shown in Fig. 3 or in any suitable way as required for convenience in storing holders for smoothing irons, &c. g

Having thus set forth the purpose of my invention and manner of use the ractical operation and utility thereof is obvious. What I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters-Patent, is: V

1. A combined table-and ironing comprising a frame, a to forme in two sectlons mounted on said rame, one section board,

of said top being fixedto the frame, the

other section of said top being ta ered at one end, u-shaped yokes hinged to t e lower surface of the movable section of the topand at the broadest portion thereof, said yokes having pivot bearings in the frame, a notched adjusting lever ivoted at one end to and beneath the broa est end portion of the movable section, and an apertured metallic *plate secured to the frame and arran ed to embrace the free end portion of sai lever, said metallic plate adapted to engage one or another of the notches of said lever whereby the movable sectionof the table top is variably sustained.

2. An ironing table comprising a frame, legs hinged'to said frame, braces pivotally connected at one end to the legs, a top formed in two sections, one of said sections braces detachably connected to the fixed section of the top, U-shaped yokes pivoted to the lower surface of the movable sectlon of 'fixed to the frame, the upper ends of the I the top, and an apertured metallic plate on the frame, an adjusting lever pivoted at one end to one end portion of the movable section of the top and extending obliquely through said apertured plate, said adjusting lever formed with a series of notches in its lower face adapted to engage said plate whereby the movable section of the top may ALFRED LOGSDON.

Witnesses WM. BALLARD, 1 A. M. MCKEAN.

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