US118878A - Improvement in ironing-tables - Google Patents

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"V7-3 P. 0. TH-YNE.

improvement in Ironing Tables.

Patented Sep. 12,1871.

np.. neme w t m V 2 L STATES PATRICK OTHAYNE, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

IMPROVEMENT IN IRONING-TABLES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 118,878, dated September 12, 1871.

To all whom it may concern:

@Be it known that I, PATRICK OTHAYNE, of the city, county, and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Ironing-Tables, and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawing forming part of this specification, in which- Figurel is a top plan view of my invention. Fig. 2 is a side elevation of Fig. l. Fig. 3 represents atransverse section of Figs. l and 2, taken from the line x Letters of like name and kind indicate like parts in each of the gures.

My invention relates to that class of apparatus used in laundries, as well as in the household and has for its object a more speedy and perfect mode for ironing garments from the wash. The nature of my invention chiefly consists in the use of an auxiliary table, weighted lever, and binding-cord and brace, so combined and arranged as to enable the operator to spread out the garment or article to be ironed upon the said auxiliary table, and to hold the same securely in position upon the table by means of the bindin g-cord and brace.

To enable others skilled in the art to make and use my invention, I will proceed to describe its construction and operation, and method of using the same.

A is the ironing-table, having a portion of the top extended, as shown at A', which table may be of any suitable dimensions. (l is the top of the table, and is an ordinary plain board. At one end of the frame A are secured eye-screws or staples, or other suitable devices a a, through which pass and hold the lugs o, which said lugs are rigidly secured to a board, D,whicl1 extends outward horizontally from the end of the frame or surface of the table. At the outer end ofthe board D is firmly secured an upright, E, against which the brace G rests. On the extended portion of the table isvplaced the ironing-board F, upon which the fabric or garment is placed to be ironed, and is secured thereto by means of a brace, G, which is removed from the position shown in the drawing when the garment is placed in proper position for ironing, one end of the garment lapping over the end of the board F, and the brace G is pressed down upon the garment and firmly held, as fully shown in Figs. l and 2. The opposite end of the garment is held in position by passing the cord H over it, and securing one end of the cord to a hook on one side of the table, while the other end o'f the cord is attached to a jointed lever, I, at the end of which lever is a weight, K. The auxiliary table or ironingboard F may be secured to the main table by pins, or in any suitable manner. The board 1) may be used to keep the garments being ironed from the floor. L represents another plan or a modification ofthe one just described, bein g constructed and operated in a similar manner-the brace G', table L, levers and cords performing the same functions, and operated substantially the same, as before shown and described.

It will be observed that the whole apparatus may be readily detached or attached when desired. K

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

1. The arrangement of the ironing-board F, cord H, and weighted lever I, in combination with the table C, substantially as shown and described.

2. The brace G, in combination with the ironing-board F, cord H, weighted lever I, upright E, and board D, substantially" as herein shown and described.

P. OTHAYNE. `Witnesses:

WM. F. MCNAMARA, WHEELER W. PHILLIPS.

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