US951785A - Molding-board. - Google Patents

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Patented Mar. 8, 1910.

J. S. MOQUINN- MOLDING BOARD.

INVENTOR j zmes J W qwi' l 'g I fl APPLICATION FILED JAN. 23, 1909.

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MOLDING-BOARD.

Original application filed November 24, 1908, Serial No. 464,319.

January 23, 1909.

Specification of Letters Patent. Patented Mar. 8, 1910.

Divided and this application filed Serial No. 473,909.

To all whom it may concern: f and extend longitudinally of the side mold Be it known that I, JAMES S. MOQUINN, ings far enough into the latter to give a sea citizen of the United States, residing at cure bearing for nuts 19 which are let there- Newcastle, in the county of Henry and State in. By means of the bolts and nuts the ends of Indiana, have invented certain new and of the moldings are drawn closely together useful Improvements in Molding-Boards, of and are securely held in close relation so which the following is a specification. that any expansion of the body of the table- This is a division of my original applicatop will cause the nails 16 to bend or give in tion for patent for kitchen cabinet filed Nov. the grain of the wood holding same, allow- 24, 1908, Serial No. 464,319. ing the moldings at the sides of the table- This invention relates to improvements 111 top to move longitudinally. Thus, instead tabletops or molding-boards expressly de of causing the joints to open where the bolts signed for kitchen cabinets, and made of are inserted, any variation between the built-up sections securely dovetailed together, width of the table-top and lengths of the and the object is to provide front and side side moldings due to expansion or contracframe-members which are joined together at tion of material of which they are made, the corners of the table in a manner to prewill be manifest at the rear edge of the tablevent the opening of the joints by the expantop where it will be hid under the top cabinet. sion of the sections constituting the built- By bolting the corners of the moldings toup top. gether as above described, a more secure I accomplish the objects of this invention holding means is provided by the depending by the structure illustrated in the accomparts 13 of said moldings to kee th ends panying drawing, in which of the base 6 from spreading. The heads Figure 1, is a detail in Vertical CI'0SSSeC of the bolts 18 are let in below the surface tion of a kitchen cabinet embodying my of the front molding and their sockets will improvements; Fig. 2, isa detall in top plan preferably be filled in with wooden plugs view and partial horizontal section Of my corresponding to the material and finish of new table-top, and Fig. 3, a detail in vertical th ldi g, section showing the manner in which the Whil I hav d ribed and shown the built-up top is constructed. table-top 8 as not being covered, the prac- Like characters of reference indic e l tics of covering the mold-boards of kitchen. parts throughout the Several V eWS 0f e cabinets with sheet aluminum or other madrawing. terial is common and may be practiced with I will preferably construct my table top the present invention. out of a plurality of narrow wooden strips Having thus fully described the invention which are longitudinally grooved and dovehat is claimed as new and for which a tailed together at their meeting edges in the at t i de i d, i manner clearly illustrated in Figs. 1 and 3. 1. A molding board comprising edge This provides a molding-boa d Wh c C be moldings at the ends of the board secured washed and scraped to keep i file n W ho thereto by means of nails, an edge molding any metal coverlng as 18 S IIl l l ed, and at the front edge of the board overlapping without Warpmg of th p 1' p l g up the ends of said first moldings and bolts the oints. uniting the molding oints thus formed.

A frame or molding 12 will be secured to 2. A molding board comprisinga plurality the top, built up as described, by means of of strips having tongues and grooves where- 1 finishing nails 16, of comparatively small by said strips may interlock, edge moldings diameter whereby they will bend readily at the ends of the board, means for fastenunder strain. The front molding will eX- ing said moldings to said ends, an edge tend across or lap the ends of the side moldmolding at the front edge of the board ings and keep the meeting joints of these overlapping the ends of said first moldings moldings from opening up by the swelling and bolts for uniting the molding joints thus of the wooden strips out of which the main formed. portion of the top is constructed, I use the 3. A molding board comprisingaplurality bolts 18 which pass through the ends of the of strips having tongues and grooves wherefront molding transversely as shown in Fig. by said strips may interlock, edge moldings 11o nailed to the ends of the board, an edge my hand and seal at Indianapolis, Indiana, molding at the front edge of the board overthis 12th day of January, A. D. one thoulapping the ends of said first moldings, and sand nine hundred and nine.

bolts passing through the front molding into JAMES S. MGQUINN. [L. s]

5 the ends of the end moldings for uniting the Vitnesses:

' o1nts thus formed. JOSEPH A. MINTURN,

In Witness whereof, I, have hereunto set F. V. VOERNER.

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