Patent ID: 6266902
Filing Date: 2001-07-31
Classification: D06F

Abstract:
An ironing board, adapted to use with a hand-held iron, the ironing board comprising:a main board and a smaller sleeve board;a slide mechanism comprising a runner telescopically slidable within a guide tube, said slide mechanism coupling the main board to the sleeve board, the slide mechanism adapted to motion of the sleeve board between(1) an offset position in which a gap separates the main board and the sleeve board, and wherein the main board and the sleeve board are coplanar, and(2) a juxtaposed position in which the gap is substantially absent and the main board and the sleeve board are coplanar;the slide mechanism further comprisinga first stop releasably holding the sleeve board at the juxtaposed position, anda second stop releasably holding the sleeve board at the offset position;whereby the sleeve board is releasably held at either one of the juxtaposed position and the offset position.