US1093686A - Combined chair and table-leaf. - Google Patents

Description

- W.'B. GOGGER.

COMBINED CHAIR AND TABLE LEAP.

APPLIOATION FILED DBO. 26, 1911.

I Patented Apr. 21, 1914.

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W. B. COGGBR.

COMBINED CHAIR AND TABLE LEAF.

APPLIOATIONZIILED DEC. 26, 1911.

1,093,686. i Patented Apr. 21, 1911 2 SHEETS-SHEET 2.

UMTED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

WILLIAM B. COGGER, OF CLEVELAND, OHIO, ASSIGNOR T0 THEODOR KUNDTZ, OF

LAKEWOOD, OHIO.

COMBINED CHAIR AND TABLE-LEAF.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, WILLIAM B. COGGER, a citizen of the United States of America, residing at Cleveland, in the county of Guyahoga and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in a Combined Chair and Table-Leaf; and I 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 pertains to make. and usethe same.

This invention relates to improvements in a combined arm-chair and table-leaf for use in assembly-rooms, lunch-rooms, etc.

The primary object of this invention is to provide an arm of an arm-chair with a tableleaf which can be conveniently manipulated by an occupant of the chair to bring said leaf into position for use at the front of the chair and to move said leaf when not in use alongside of said arm.

Another object is to render the means employed in attaching the table-leaf to said arm simple and durable in construction.

.Vith these objects in view, this invention consists in certain features of construction, and combinations and arrangement of parts, hereinafter described, pointed out in the claim, and illustrated in the accompanying drawings.

In said drawings, Figure 1 is a top plan of an armchair provided with a table-leaf in accordance with my invention. Fig. 2 is a vertical section on line 2-2, Fig.1, looking rearwardly. Fig. 3 is a vertical section corresponding with Fig. 2, except that,

whereas in Fig. 2 the table-leaf is shown in a substantially horizontal position, Fig, 3: shows the table-leaf swung into a VBI'tlCiLl position. Fig. 4- is a vertical section on line 44, Fig. 1, looking rearwardly. Flg. 5 is an inner side view of the forward end-poi tion of the chair-arm provided with said.

table-leaf and shows the table-leaf in the position illustrated in Fig. 3. Fig. 6 shows the back of the chair in vertical section and the inner side of the aforesaid arm and shows the table-leaf swung into position alongside of said arm. Fig. 7 is a vertical section on line 77, Fig. 6, looking in the direction indicated by the arrow.

Figs. 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, and. 7 are drawn on the Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed December 26, 1911.

Patented Apr. 21, 1914.. Serial No. 667,734.

same scale but on a larger scale than Fig. 1.

6, and 7'to reduce the size of the drawings, and portions are broken away and in section in Figs. and 6 to more clearly show the construction.

Referring to Fig. 1 of said drawings, A 1nd1cates the seat-section of an arm-chair, and B, the back of the chair. 0 represents the bodyportion of an arm of the chair, which arm also comprises a metal plate'D arranged at the inner side of and suitably secured to said body-portion. As shown in Fig. 5, the plate D extends from the front side of the back B forwardly in a substantially horizontal plane and has its forward end spaced far enough from said back to permit of the swinging of a table-leaf-carrying metal bracket E, which is pivotally connected to said plate, in a vertical plane toward and from but wholly forwardly of said back. The bracket E overlaps the chair-arm comprising the plate D at the inner side of said arm. The bracket E is shown pivoted horizontally by a suitably applied bolt G (see Figs. 1, 5, 6, and 7) to said plate D. It will be observed therefore that said bracketoverl-aps the inner side of said arm and is pivotally connected to said arm at the forward end of the arm and arranged to swing upwardly and rearwardly in a vertical plane into a position in which the bracket projects rearwardly at said side of the arm,-or upwardly and forwardly into a position in which the bracket projects forwardly of the arm, according as the bracket is in the one or the other of its extreme posi tions. Preferably the plate D is provided (see Figs. 5,6, and 7) with a recess d which extends circumferentially of the pivotal bolt G, and the surrounding wall of said recess is provided with two inwardly projecting lugs 12 and 13 which are spaced circumferentially of said bolt. The bracket E is provided with a lug 14. which projects into the recess d, and said lug is arranged to revolve between the lugs 12 and 13 ofthe plate D during the swinging of the bracket E from the one to the other of its extreme positions.

The relative arrangement of the parts is such. that the lug 1 1 of the bracket abuts against the lug 12 of the plate Din the forwardly swung position of the bracket, as

shown in Fig. 5, and said lugs therefore co operate in forming a stop to limit the move ment of the bracket during the swinging of the bracket from its rearward position, shown in Figs. 6 and 7, into its forward posi* tion, shown in Fig. 5, and the lug 14 of the bracket abuts against the lug 13 of the plate D in the rearwardly swung position of the bracket, as shown in Figs. 6 and 7, and said lugs 13 and 14 coeperate in forming a stop which limits the movement of the bracket in swinging it from its forward position, shown in Fig. 5, into its rearward position shown in Figs. 6 and 7.

The bracket E is preferably offset laterally and inwardly, as at 15, Fig. 1, relative to the chair supporting said bracket at a point between the axis and free end of the bracket, but in proximity to said axis. The bracket E is provided (see Figs. 2, 3 and 5) between the said axisandits free end with a recess 6' which extends laterally through the bracket and in the forwardly swung position of the bracket extends from the top of the bracket downwardly from a substantially horizontally arranged seat 16 formed by the top surface ofthe bracket in said position of the bracket. 4

A swinging woodentab'le-leaf H is supported from the bracket E and arranged forwardly of the aforesaid chair-arm in the forwardly sw 'ing position of the bracket. Preferably said bracket is provided with two joi'irr'ials 17 and 18 arranged in line endwis'e and longitudinally of the bracket and substantiallyat a right angle to the axis of the b acket. The journals 17 and 18 are preferably spaced endwise as shown. Preferably the bracket E terminates at its free end in the journal 17 and the journal 18 extends across said recess 6 and is arranged in proximity to the xis of the bracket. The tableleaf H has bearing on the journals 17 and and is therefore pivotally connected to the bracket E and arrangedto swing in a vertical plane when said bracket is in its forwardly swung position and has its axis substantially at a right angle to the axis of said bracket. The table-leaf H is preferably provided with a suitably applied metal strap 19 which connects said leaf with the journal 17 and has a suitably applied metal strap 20 which connects said leaf to the journal ls. The formation of the journals 17 and 18 in the manner hereinbefore described does not impair the strength of the bracket and renders the connection between the table-leaf H and the bracket inexpensive. The table-leaf H in the forward position of said bracket is arranged forwardly of the chair-arm supportin" said bracket and extends over and lateral y of the bracket and rests on the seat 16 formed on the bracket as shown in- Fig. 4, or is in a substantially vertical position and abuts at its strap 20 against the outer side of the bracket as shown in Fig. 3, according as said table-leaf has been swung into the one or the other of its extreme positions independently of the bracket. Said table-leaf in its substantially vertical position, shown in Figs. 3 and 5, is movable with the bracket in swinging the bracket upwardly and rearwardly from its forward position.

Thrlisetting of the bracket E laterally inwardly, as at 15, in proximity to the axis of the bracket, as hereinbefore described, permits the swinging of the table-lcaf-carryin'g bracket, when said bracket is in its forwardly swung position and the table-leaf is in its upwardly swung position shown in Figs. 3 and 5, rearwardly into position at the inner side of the bracket-supporting chairarm, as shown in Figs. 6 and 7, without having said arm and said leaf interfere with each other. I would also remark that, as shown in Figs. 6 and 7, the table-leaf H, when it is in its rearwardly swung position, is interposed betweenthe chainarm G and the offset portion of the bracket E, and has its top edge substantially even with the top edge of said chair-arm, and said leaf has such thickness as to take up the space between said chair-arm and the offset portion of the bracket. This arrangement of parts prevents any lateral movement of the tableleaf in the rearwardly swung position of said leaf so as to obviate any liability of the occupant of the chair being pinched between the parts. Also, as the table-leaf is arranged at the inner side of the chair-arm and the top edge thereof is substantially flush with the top of said chair-arm, the chair is rendered neat in appearance and compact, and it will be observed that two chairs can be placed very close together without interfering with the manipulation of said leaf.

What I claim is The combination, with an arm of a chair, of a swinging bracket overlapping the inner side of said arm and pivotally connected to the arm at the forward end of the arm and arranged to swing forwardly and rearwardly in a vertical plane, which bracket is ofi set laterally and inwardly relative to said arm at the forward end of but adjacent to the arm; a swinging table-leaf pivotally connected to the offset portion of the bracket and having its axis arranged substantially at a right angle to the axis of the bracket and being forward of said arm in the forward position of the bracket, which tablc=leaf lies on said offset portion of the bracket, or is in a substantially vertical position and abuts against the outer side of said portion of the bracket, according as the leaf. has been swung into one or the other of its extreme positions independently of the bracket, and has a thickness substantially equal to the amount of offset of said portion of the bracket, said leaf in its substantially vertispecification, in the presence of two Witcal position being movable with the nesses. bracket and in its rearwardly swung position being arranged at the inner side of and WILLIAM COGGER 5 in close proximity to the chair-arm and be- Witnesses:

tween said arm and the bracket. B. 0. BROWN,

In testimony whereof, I sign the foregoing N. L. MCDONNELL.

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