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Description

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H. GROGKER.

INFANTS TOILET TABLE.

No. 849,875. Paten ed Sept. 28, 1886.

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UNITED STATES PA'IENT OFFICE.

HANNAH CROOKER, OF PLAINFIELD, NEhV JERSEY.

INFANTS TOILE-T-TABLE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 349,875, dated September 28 1886.

Application filed June 17, 1886. Serial No. 205,425.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HANNAH CROOKER, of Plainfield, in the county of Union and State of New Jersey, have invented a new and Improved Infants Toilet-Table, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention, which is intended for use in the nursery in dressing young infants and in performing the necessary duties attendant thereon, consists in a combination of attached tables of peculiar construction and provided with special conveniences, substantially as hereinafter described.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure 1 represents a view in perspective of the combination toilet-table when adjusted ready for use; Fig.' 2, a partly-sectional inverted plan of the same; and Fig. 3, a vertical section upon the line at x in Fig. 1, when the table is not inverted and is closed.

The whole table,which is a low one,convenient for use by the nurse when sitting and having the child onher lap,'is made up of two tables, A and B, hinged to each other, as hereinafter described. The one of these tables, A, may be called the main one. Itis represented as of slightly oblong shape, and as having four legs, I), and has a raised back strip, 0, along the one margin of its top d, also the usual skirt-boards, e, below said top. The top (I is designed to carry uponit, or, if desired, have seated within an aperture in it, the bowl 0, used in washing the infant, and is further provided with apertures f g h 43, for holding, respectively, a sponge-basket, k, vaselinebottle Z, tumbler m, and soap-dish n, or other accessories necessary or useful in dressing infants.

The table B is what may be called an outer table, it having its top and skirt-boards o raised to occupy a position above the top (I of the main table, with which it is connected at one end of the back thereof, as by hinges 1', so that it may be swung to close over as ahollow cover the top d of the main table, or be swung to one side from over the same, as shown in Fig. 1. It is left without a skirt-board on one of its sides, 8, so that it may be shut to or opened from over the top of the main table Without coming in contact with any of the (No model.)

articles arranged upon the top d of the main table. This table Bis carried atone of its corners or angular margins by the hinges r, and is supported on what form, when it is closed, its front angular margins by two legs, t, but it has no leg to support its remaining angular margin, as a leg there would be in the way when closing the table. It, however, is supportedthat is, when it is swung openat such point by a leaf, a, hinged, as at v, to one of its end skirt-boards, 0, and arranged to rest upon the top d of the main table, and it is held in such position by a bolt or catch, 10, made to engage with a keeper or hole in the top d of the main table A. This leaf u is hinged to its place in order that it may be swung in and back, as shown by dotted lines in Fig. 2,against and on the inside of the skirt-board 0 to which it is attached, so that it may be out of the way from coming in contact with any of the articles upon the table A when closing or opening the swinging table. \Vhen the tablcBis closed over the main table A,the open part 8 and leaf u shut against the back strip, 0, of the main table.

The several legs of either or both tables are or may be provided with casters to facilitate their movement over the floor, and the legs 25 of the table B are so. arranged that when said table is closed over the main table, said legs will come against the front legs, I), of the main table, and may enter cut-away parts y in the top (I for such purpose. \Vhen the swinging upper or outer table is closed over the main one, then the two tables will appear as a single table, the sizes of their tops and adjacent parts and moldings being made to match, and the two tables may then be used as a single table for general purposes in the room; but when the table B is swung outward, as shown in Fig. 1, then the main table A,with the several accessories upon it, is exposed for use in performing the toilet of the infant, and the other table,B,occupies a convenient position to one side for carrying the clothes or basket containing the clothes, or for any other use that may be needed in dressing and undressing the infant.

As it is frequently or generally necessary in dressing an infant to air or warm the clothes before a fire, I provide the table A with an adjustable rack composed of a series of rods, D,

fitted to slide in and out through one of the end skirt-boards, e, and any suitable number of additional supports, 2, on the under side of the top d. These rods I prefer to make independent of each other, so that any one or more of them may be drawn out at pleasure for suspending the clothes to be aired over them. When not required, said rods or rack should be wholly slid in, so as to be out of the way.

From this description it will be seen that I provide a nursery or infants toilet-table that combines in the one piece of furniture the uses of several pieces heretofore necessary in performing nursery toilet duties and furnishes many conveniences besides.

Having thus fully described my invention, I

. claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- 1. The combination, with the main table, of

the supplementary table hinged to the main table at one end of the back thereof, and having a raised top constructed to form a hollow cover over the top of the main table, substantially as specified.

2. In combination with the main table A, the swinging table B, provided with legs adapted to support one of its sides, and with a hinged supporting-leaf upon another of its sides, said table'B being hinged at one of its corners to the main table at one end of the back there- 'of, and having a raised top constructed to form a hollow cover, open on its closing side, over the top of the main table, essentially as shown and described,

HANNAH OROCKER. Witnesses:

SARAH D. KEENEY,

WILLIAM R. CODINGTON.

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