US496655A - Combined ironing-table and washing-machine - Google Patents

Description

(No Model.)

' W. HILTON. V COMBINED momma TABLE AND WASHING MACHINE.

No. 496,655. Patented May 2, 1898.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

YVILLIAM HILTON, OF DU BOIS, PENNSYLVANIA.

COMBINED IRONING-TABLE AND WASHING-MACHINE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 496,655, dated May 2, 1893.

Application filed January 21, 1893 $erial No. 459,152. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, WILLIAM HILTON, a citizen of the United States, residing at Du Bois, in the county of Clearfield and State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and useful Combined Ironing-Table and Washing-Machine, of which the following is a specification.

The invention relates to improvements in combined ironing tables and washing machines.

The object of the present invention is to provide a combined ironing table and washing machine, which may be readily arranged for ironing, and in which the ironing board may be folded compactly out of the way during the operation of washing.

The invention consists in the construction .and novel combination and arrangement of parts hereinafter fully described, illustrated in the accompanying drawings and pointed out in the claims hereto appended.

In the drawings-Figure 1 is a perspective view of a combined ironing table and washing machine, the ironing board being folded back out of the way. Fig. 2 is a side elevation, partly in section, of'the same, the ironing board being arranged to form an ironing table.

Like numerals of reference indicate correspondin g parts in both the figures of the drawcleats 10, which are secured to the lowerfaceof an ironing board 11 and arranged transversely of the latter. The ironing board is adapted to be arranged horizontally on top of the frame as illustrated in Fig. 2 of the accompanying drawings,and to be swung backward at the rear side of the frame, when not in use, to enable access to be readily had to the washing cylinder.

One end of the ironing board is provided with a hinged tapering extension board 12 which is adapted when the ironing boardv is not in use to be folded against the lower face of the board 11, and the adjacent cleat 10 is provided with a recess 13 'to permit the extension board or leaf 12 to fold compactly. The extension board or leaf is supported in a horizontal position when the ironing board is in use by an inclined brace 14: having its lower end hingedly connected by screw eyes 15 with one of the bottom rails 5 of the frame; and the upper end 16 is beveled and-is adapted to engage a recess or notch 17 in the lower face of the extension board or leaf 12. The brace 14. when in use is inclined, and it is composed of two sections connected by a hinge 18 arranged on the inner faces of the sections, whereby the pressure downward exerted by the extension leaf or board will prevent the brace from swinging inward.

It will be seen that the combined ironing table and washing machine is simple and comparatively inexpensive in construction, and that it may be readily arranged for either washing or ironing.

Changes in the form, proportion and the minor details of construction may be resorted to without departing from the principle, or sacrificing any of the advantages of this invention.

What I claim iS 1. In acombined ironing table and washing machine, a rectangular frame consisting of corner posts connected by suitable longitudinal rails and transverse bars, which support the body of the washing machine, the upper transverse bars being provided with extensions, an ironing board provided with transverse cleats on its lower face hinged to said extensions, one of said cleats being provided with arecess,a hinged leaf or extension at one side of the ironing board adjusted to fold compactly against the lower face of the board and to fit in the recess of the cleat, and a support for holding the said extension in a horizontal position, substantially as described.

2. In a combined ironing table and washing machine, a rectangular frame consisting of corner posts connected by suitable longitudinal rails and transverse bars which support the body of the washing machine, an

ironing board provided with transverse cleats sections hingedly connected for folding, subon its lower face hinged to the upper transstantially as described.

verse bars, one of the cleats being provided In testimony that I claim the foregoing as with a recess, a hinged leaf or extension at my own I have hereto affixed my mark in the I 5 5 one side of the ironing board adjusted to fold presence of two witnesses.

compactly against the lower face of the board and to fit in the recess of the cleat, and pro- WILLIAM HILTON vided on its lower face with a notch, and a mark o brace hingedly connected at its lower end to Witnesses: To the frame and having its upper end beveled JOSEPH GOODYEAR,

to engage said notch and composed of two A. L. TOZIER.

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