US599395A - Hans liebkeich - Google Patents

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(No'ModeL) H. LIEBREIGH. CORNER PLATE.

No. 599,395. Patented Feb. 22, 1898.

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IIANS LIEBREIOH, OF DETROIT, MICHIGAN, ASSIGNOR, BY DIRECT AND MESNE ASSIGNMENTS, 'IO CHRISTAIN VOLZ, OF SAME PLACE.

CORNEPR PLATE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 599,395, dated February 22, 1898.

Application filed October 27, 1897. Serial No. 656,577. (No model.)

To ctZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, HANS LIEBREICH, a citizen of the United States, residing at Detroit, in the county of \Vayne and State of Michigan, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Corner-Plates andIdo hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to-make and use the same.

My invention has relation to corner-plate protectors; and it consists in the novel construction and arrangement of its parts, as hereinafter described.

The object of the invention is to construct a plate especially adapted to fit in a corner and thus prevent the collection of dirt and filth in the corner, the plate being so constructed that by forcing it in it adjusts itself to the corner and retains itself in the position therein. The plate is preferably made of a blank, said blank being concaved, and thus when the blank is in position in the corner the edges of the plate will be curved and will appear more artistic than if they were straight.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a perpective View of a plate or protector located in a corner. Fig. 2 is a sectional view out on the line 2 2 of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is an elevation of the under side of the corner plate or protector, as shown in Figs. 1 and 2. Fig. 4: is a plan view of the blank forming the corner plate or protector.

The corner plate or protector consists of a sheet of metal 1, said sheet being trihedral in its general shape and being provided with the three-pointed end 2 2. At intermediate points between the ends 2 2 the points 3 3 are located, the said points 3 3 extending radi-. ally from the center of the plate 1tl1at is, before the points have been formed up-as shown in Fig. 3. The points extend radially when the blank is first cut, as shown in Fig. 4. The points 3 are bent back, forming the sections 4 and the points proper, 5.

The corner plate or protector, as shown in Fig. 1, is imperforated, and the said plate is held in its proper position in the corner by means of the points 2 2 and the points proper, 5 5, of the points 3. The blank, as shown in Fig. &, is formed up in the top, as shown in the corner, and by pressing a convened object against the outer side of said plate the points proper, 5 5, are made to stick into the wood and also the corners 2 2 are forced into the Wood,and thus the plate is secured in its proper position. During the process of forcing the plate 1 into its position the elasticity of the plate 1 permits the force applied to the convexed object to come directly against the bases of the points 5 5that is, the inner face of the plate 1 (see Fig. 2) comes fiat against the inner face of the portion 4, and thus the points 5 5 are driven in the wood. lVhen the pressure upon the oonvexed object is removed, the elasticity of the plate 1 causes the inner face of said plate to spring out away from the inner faces of the portions 4; 4, and thus the corner-plate is secured in position, as shown in detail in Fig. 2.

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

A protector for corners consisting of a trihedral-shaped plate, said plate being made of sheet metal, radially-extending protrusions located intermediately between the points of the plate, said protrusions being bent back against the under side of the plate, the extreme ends of said protrusions being bent out at an angle to the inner portions of the protrusions, the extreme ends of the said protrusions being pointed and adapted to stick into the wood and thus hold the corner-plate in its proper position.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

HANS LIEBREIOH.

IVitnesses:

A. E. GLASOOGK, BERTHA L. DANA.

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