US1915180A - Bench leg - Google Patents

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E. C. BOTT June 20, 1933.

BENCH LEG Filed July 17, 1930 wi lllllllllllllllllll ll INVENTOR.

ATTORNEY.

Patented June 20, 1933 FATENT OFFICE EDWARD G. BOTT, OF CINCINNATI, OHIO BENCH LEG Application filed July 17,

The principal object of my invention is to provide a bench in which the legs are so con structed as to wedge the plank or top member into place positively preventing wabbling 5 or loosening of the member. s This construction obviates the necessity of braces or extra members to make the bench stable and yet provides a bench which has additional strength and stiffness more easily and cheaply constructed.

In the particular object of my invention selected for illustration:

Figure 1 is a side elevation of a pair of bench legs with the top rail and top planks secured in place.

Figure 2 is an end elevation of the same.

Figure 3 is a top end View of one of the legs.

Figure 4 is an end view of one of the rails.

Referring now to the drawing, the device comprises the upright members or legs 5 havingfeet 6 which may be bolted or otherwise secured to the floor. A cross member 7 may be secured between these legs to add additional strength and stiffness. The legs are formed in the shape of channel members as shown in Figure 3 and have a turned in portion 8 which adds additional strength and stiffness to the legs. The top rail 9 secured to the legs 5 in any suitable manner has the flanged outside portions 10 and a depressed central portion or valley 11, the purpose of which is hereinafter explained.

The plank or top 12 which may be either of metal or wood is secured to the top rail 9 by bolts 13 or in any other suitable manner so that when the plank is drawn down to the top rail 10, portions of the plank 12 have concentrated bearings 011 the edges 14 with the intermediate part of the plank being drawn down toward the valley 13 of the top rail. This causes the top plank to become locked or wedged so that it cannot become displaced readily and will present a structure of greater stiffness and strength.

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

A bench construction comprising a top member, a channel rail with its side flanges 1930. Serial No. 468,569.

depending and its web bent down on a longitudinal median line, leaving narrow inwardly sloping areas along the junctions of the web with the flanges, a channel leg fitting up between the rail flanges and rigidly secured thereto, having the upper end of its web formed to fit closely to the under side of the bent down web of the rail and in rein forcing relation thereto, and fastening means connecting said top member to said channel rail on its median line of bending, cl'amping said top member to said narrow areas and drawing it down between said areas whereby a wedging relation is maintained between the top member and the channel rail to resist de- 63 fiection and displacement of said leg on said top member. 7

EDWVARD C. BOTT.

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