US256839A - Carpet-stretcher - Google Patents

Description

(N0 Model.)

w. E. HENDERSON.

CARPET STRETGHER.

No. 256,839. Patented Apr.Z5, 1882.

In veJa 1301 F UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

WlLLIAM E. HENDERSON, OF IRON MOUNTAIN, MISSOURI.

CA RPET STRETCJH ER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 256,839, dated April 25, 1882.

Application filed December 20, 1881. (X model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM E. HENDER- SON, of Iron Mountain, Missouri, have made a new and useful Improvement in Carpet- Stretchers, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description, reference being had to the annexed drawings, making part of this specification, in which- Figure l is a view in perspective of the improved stretcher; Fig.2, a View looking toward the underside of the stretcherplate, the draft-cord being attached; Fig. 3, a side elevation of the stretcher as in use; Fig. 4, a side elevation, the plate and carpet being raised from the floor; and Fig. 5, a detail.

The same letters denote the same parts.

I have heretofore made an improvement in carpet -'st-retchers, wherein a stretcher plate armed with teeth for the purpose of hooking the plate into the carpet and for fastening the plate to the floor is used in connection with a crab that is stationed in front of and connected with the plate, and by operating which the plate is drawn forward, stretching the carpet.

The present construction IS a modification ot the construction referred to, and in this the same stretchenplate and draft'cord are used;

1 but in place of the crab alever is used, the lever being pointed at its lower end to engage 0 in the floor, and being suitably slotted to receive the draft-cord of the plate, as seen in the drawings, where A represents a carpet being laid upon the floor F and being stretched in the direction of the arrow in Fig. 4.

B represents the stretcher-plate, having in its under side the hooked or inclined teeth I), at or toward the rear edge, I), of the plate, and the straight teeth b at or toward the forward edge of the plate, and having the draft- 4o cord 0, leading from the under side of the plate, all as in the former construction.

D represents the lever used in drawing the stretcher-plate. It is provided with a point, d, to enable the lever to be fixed in the floor at 5 any desired point, and is slotted at d to re ceive the cord 0. To stretch the carpet, the plate B, by means of the teeth b, is engaged therewith, the cord 0 is inserted in the slot cl of the lever D, and the latter is fixed in theiioor F, and so that by throwing the upper end of the lever forward the plate is drawn and the carpet stretched, and when the carpet needs to be stretched a second time, or when the carpet, after being 5 stretched, needs to be held from slipping back, the carpet and plate are depressed from the position shown in Fig. 4 into that of Figs. 3 and I. claim- 6o 1. The combination of the plate B, the teeth I), the cord C, and the lever D, substantially as described.

2. The combination of the plate B, the teeth I) and b the cord 0, and the lever D, substantially as described.

Witness my hand.

WILLIAM E. HENDERSON.

Witnesses:

CHAS. D. MooDY, SAML. S. BOYD.

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