US290128A - Table-leg - Google Patents

Description

(No Model.)

D. N. SMITH & J. B. RAYNORI.

- TABLE LEG.

No. 290,128. 1 Patented D60. 11, 1883.

v WITNESSES UNITED A STATES PATENT OFFICEQ DAVIDN.-SMITH AND JOHN B. BAYNOR, OF MAZOMANIE, WISCONSIN.

.TABLE-LEG.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 290,128, dated December 11, 1883,

' Application filed August 31, 1883. (No model.)

To on whom it .may concern.-

Be it known that we, DAVID N. SMITH and JOHN B. RAYNOR, citizens of the United States, residing at Mazomanie, in the county of Dane and State of Wisconsin, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Table-Legs, of which the following is a specification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawings.

Our invention relates to knockdown tables;

' and it consists in the adaptation and application to the head of a table-leg constructed with an angled slot or seat of an angled brace having as bearings a shoulder cut or otherwise formed at or near theend of each of the two rails contiguous to the leg, each end of the angled brace being tapped with a screw-thread and provided with a nut, whereby each railis held separately to the leg, the leg, upon loos-- ening the nuts from pressure against the shoulders in therail, being withdrawn with facility from its seat without detaching the angle-brace from the rails, as will be hereinafter more fully set forth.

In the drawings, Figure I is a perspective view of our improved leg-attaching device, showing the head of the leg withdrawn from its seat. Fig. 2 is a horizontal section of the same cut through the plane occupied by the angle-brace; and Fig. 3 is a perspective view of the head of one of the legs, showing the slot or seat occupied by the angled brace.

To the top of atable, A, are securely attached the rails B. At or near the ends of these. rails are seated the ends of an angled brace, D, each end thereof being tapped with ascrew-thread, a, Fig. 2, upon which is seated a nut, b. A washer, d, is interposed between the nut and a shoulder, a, cut or otherwise formed at or near the ends of the rails. An angled slot, E, is cut from the top of the leg-head, and ex tends downwardly in planes parallel to the two outside faces of the said leg-head, as shown in Fig. 3. This slot is occupied as a seat by the-angled portion of the brace D, as shown in Fig. 2.

It is obvious that by tightening the nuts, which bear against the shoulders c, as hereinbefore described, the angled brace is drawn inwardly, bringing with it the leg until the latter is held firmly in its seat between the ends of the rails. It is also obvious that by tightening either nut the rail in which the tightened nutis seated is held to the leg separately from and independent of the other.

In knockdown tables heretofore in use it has been found necessary in all cases to provide a supplemental. device, either in the form of the bolt cross-head, having each end fastened to the inner surfaces of the rails, or of a molded plate, for the purpose of protecting the rails during shipment. In our device. the angled brace not only operates to clamp the leg in its seat, but it is also a substitute for the oross-head or molded plate above mentioned when the leg is withdrawn from its seat.

We are aware that iron plates attached to the under face of the table-top and provided with flanges for the purpose of guiding the head into its seat, corresponding slots being cut into the head of the leg from the top down, have heretofore been used; but no method is provided therewith whereby the leg is clamped in its seat. ing-flange seated in a groove or slot cut into the head of the leg; but

What we do claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. In atable, the leg providedwith an angled slot, the angled brace seated therein and provided with screw-bolts and nuts, and the rails We do not therefore claim a guidconstructed with openings and shoulders,

against which the nuts impinge, whereby each rail is held separately to the leg.

2. In a table, the combination of the rails provided with seats for the ends of the brace and with shoulders, as described, the angled brace having screw-threads tapped upon the ends thereof, and provided with nuts, and the leg having an angled slot or seat cut therein from the top downwardly into the head in planes parallel to the two outer sides of the leg-head, whereby the leg may be held rigidly in position or withdrawn from its seat between the rails without-detaching the angled brace from the rails. I

In testimony whereof we affix our signatures in presence of two witnesses.

DAVID N. SMITH. JOHN B. RAYNOR.

Witnesses:

A. M. SEYMOUR, A. F. CATLIN.v

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