US54718A - Improved wardrobe, bureau, desk, wash-stand, and bed combined - Google Patents

Description

UNITED `STATES PATENT OFFICE.

E. HAMBUJEB, OF DETROIT, MICHIGAN.

IMPROVED WARDROBE, BUREAU, DESK, WASH-STAND, AND BED COMBINED.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 54,7] S, dated May 15, 1866.

To all whom it 'may concern:

Beit known that I, E. HAMBUJER, of Detroit,in the county of Wayne and State of Miclr i gan, have invented a new and useful Improve ment in Furniture; and l do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had to the annexed drawings, made part of' this specification, in which- Figure l is a perspective view, )arts being represented as broken away to show the construction. Fig. 2 is a perspective view of the back, showing` the bed; and Fig. 3 is a vertical transverse section through the center.

In the different figures the same letters represent ideniical parts.

The object otl my invention is to provide a single piece of furniture so arranged that it shall in a single article furnish a wardrobe, wash-stand, bureau, and writing-desk.

A is t-he exterior case, finished according to taste. In the front two doors, B B, close the front ot' the apartments fitted up as a wardrobe. A recess near the top receives the mirror G, in front of which is a ledge, C', answering as the top of a bureau. Beneath this is the sliding drawer I), which being drawn out, the front D', being folded down upon hinges 011 its lower side, forms a writingdesk, being conveniently fitted with pigeon-holes or little drawers, or both, as desired. A notch is cut away from the lower part of the door D' inside and a corresponding' one on the front of the bottom, so that the door may be turned down, as shown. Below this writing-desk opens in the front, the door E2 folding upon hinges againstthe door B of the wardrobe.

E and E' are sliding frames working in grooves, dovetailed so as to secure them. The frame E works on slides attached to the sides of the bureau, and the frame E' working in dovetailed grooves in the inner and opposing faces of the frames E. The frame E' is formed as a wash-stand, having a hole to receive the wash-basin and allow it to slide back, andbe- Heath it a rack, E3, for suspending the towels, while the space beneath the frames suffices for the water-pitcher, &c. ranged such drawers F F' as may be desired.

The back of the case A is shown on a reduced scale in Fig. 2. It is closed by two doors, l-I and H', inclosing a recess containing the folding bed II', made in two parts. 'The part I is hinged to the bottom of the recess, and the part I' is hinged to it, so that they maybe folded together, as shown in Fig. 8, or extended as shown in Fig. 2. The outerside ofthe section I' is supported by two hinged legs, K', which fold up against the side when the bed is folded np. is supported by the hinged legs K, which are attached to the part I, but are formed with a notch near the upper end, as shown, which ts under a projection on the side of the part l', as shown, so that these legs support both parts, and thus relieve the hinges on which the entire weight would otherwise have to be borne. A shelf, L, above the bed is intended to receive the hed-clothes when the bed is folded up.

Having fully explained the construction ot' my combined article of furniture, what Iclaim as my invention isl. A combined wardrobe, bureau, writingdesk, wash-stand, and bed, when arranged substantially as set forth.

2. In the folding bed I I', the middle legs, K, formed with a notch, as described, and hinged to one section I, in combination with a pro jection upon the end of the frame I', substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specication in presence of two subscribing witnesses.

E. HAMEUJEE.

Witnesses:

J oHN FULLER, WILLIAM HoLEY..

Under the whole is ar- The joint between the sections v

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