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Description

(No Model.)

F. A. CLARK.

IRONING TABLE.

No. 390,754. Patented Oct. 9, 1888.

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ATTORNEYS.

UNITED STATES PATENT @EETCE.

FREDERICK A. CLARK, OF NE\VARK, NEW JERSEY.

lRONlNG-TABLE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 390,754, dated October 9, 1888.

A pplication filed February 11, 1887. Renewed April 4, 1888. Serial No. 269,547. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that 1, FREDERICK A. CLARK, of Newark, in the county of Essex and State of New Jersey, have invented a new and Improved Ironing-Table, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

The object of my invention is to'provide a new and improvedironing-table which is simple and durable in construction and can be easily folded up.

Theinvention consists in the construction and arrangement of various parts and details and combinations of the same, as will be fully described hereinafter, and then pointed out in the claims.

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 thcfigures.

Figure 1 is a side elevation of my improvement. Fig. 2 isa plan view of the same. Fig. 3 is an end view ot'thc same, and Fig. 4 is a plan view of my improvement when folded up.

The ironing-board A is provided on one end with two parallel sides. A A, adapted to fit in horizontal grooves B B, formed on the inside of the side supports, B B.

On the under side of the board A are secured the trunnions C C, which project side wise in opposite directions from each other and pass through apertures formed on the side supports, B. On the outer end of each trunnion C is hung a leg, D, held in place .by the nut E, screwing on the end of the trunnion C. The legs D are united by the cross-bar D. On the outside, near the upper end of each side support, B, is secured a wedge, F, against which operates the leg D.

The lower ends of the side supports, B, are united by the board G, and the rest H is also provided near this lower end below the board G. The upper end of the rest H is adapted to engage the cleatsI and J, secured to the under side of the frontend of the ironing-board A.

It will be seen that when the ironing-table is set up, as shown in Figs. 1, 2, and 3, then the parallel sides A of the ironing-board A are held in the grooves B by the legs D,which, pressing against the wedges F, hold the side supports, B, in contact with the ironing-board A. The table A is thus firmly supported and held in a horizontal position.

The rest Hcan be swung with its upper end against either the cleat I or J, or it may be placed downward on the floor, as shown in dotted lines in Fig. 1. When the rest is in the position shown in full lines in Fig. 1, then the ironing-board is used for general purposes.

NVhen the rest is swung against the cleat I, the table can be used for ironing shirts, and when the rest H is swung downward on the floor then a skirt can be put on the ironingboard, after which the rest H is again swung upward until it rests on the cleat J.

The table is folded up by swinging the legs D to the position shown in dotted lines in Fig. 1, whereby the side supports, B B, can move outward on the trunnions C, and the parallel sides A are thus disengaged from the grooves 13', and the board can now be swung downward after the rest is folded inward, as shown in Fig. 4.

Having thus fully described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent 1. In an ironing-board, the combination of supports having grooves on their inner sides, a board pivoted between the supports and having its edges constructed to enter the grooves thereimand means for locking the edges of the table in said grooves, substantially as herein shown and described.

2. In an ironing-table, the combinatiomwith an ironing-board and trunnions secured to the said board on one end, of side supports having grooves to receive one end of the said board, wedges fastened to the said supports, and legs hung on the said trunnions and adapted to slide over the said wedges, substan tially as shown and described.

8. In an ironing -table, an ironing board having two parallel edges on one end, trunnions secured to the said end of the said board, and cleats l'astened to the under side of the said board, in combination with side supports having grooves adapted to receive the said parallel edges, wedges secured to the said side supports, legs hung on the said trunnions and adapted to slide over the said wedges, means for holding the said legs in place on the trunnions, and a rest pivoted on one end of the said side supports and adapted to engage with its free end the said clcats,.snbstantially as shown and described.

FREDERICK A. CLARK.

\Vitnesses:

ELI A. LEWIS,

J urns A. CLARK.

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