Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1911-02-11
OTTUMWA WOMAN INvENTS USE
Full DINING TABLE THAT
SERVES ITS OCCUPANTS
PATENTS DE VICE
Informed That She May Put Invention
On the Market-Idea Resulted
From Experience in Feeding
Boarders.

the patent Office at Washington, D. c.,
| Mrs. M. B. Green, 632 West Mill
| street, who invented a unique dining
! table, is given the right to go ahead
rand manufacture the invention and
place 1t on the market. 1t will be re-
called that several months ago the In
vention OF Mrs. Green was first given
publicity but the arbitrary stand taken
by another who had been led into the
secret Of the invention, threatened for
time the chance to patent the lnven-
ton. However, the steps were taken
to get the patent papers on the device
last fall when the drawings and de-
scription of the table were filed in the
patent office October II. Since that
time several communications has
passed between the patent Office and
the inventor leading up to the last
communication of day or two ago
when she was told to go ahead and
manufacture the table and place it on
the market If she saw fit as no one
could interfere with her patent.
Movable Center.
The device is a unique dining room
table which accommodates any num-
Der one cares to sit at it according to
she had in use in her boarding house
while keeping boarders, was SUI
ficiently large enough to accommodate
eleven persons. Other sizes will be
made when the manufacture begins.
The feature of this very handy house
hold convenience is that it saves the
need of maid to wait upon the table
regardless of how many may be seated
thereat. A huge center is made to re-
volve at the will Of the persons gath
cred about the board, and this center
contains the several dishes of foods
for consumption by the persons about
the table. An outer rim or board about
a foot wide surrounds the movable
center and this contains the places for
the table guests. Rubber tired wheels
counter sunk in. the base as well as
roller bearings enable the center to
turn round without danger of spilling
anything on the table, and without
noise or creaking of the bearings. The
center operates in track that
steadies it and finds it's chief bearing
on steel center plate that surrounds
the pivot about which it turns. Little
brass knobs at convenient intervals
furnishes a means for the persons
about the table to manipulate the CEN
ter in order to bring within easy reach
anything they desire to use.
Will Begin Manufacture.
Mrs. Green says that she will begin
soon to manufacture the tables for the
market and add to the numerous Of
tumwa inventions that have made the
city famous as the home of mechanical
geniuses. She Is not decided as to the
place OF manufacture as yet. but ex-
poets to let out the work to local mill
men, preferring to have the device
made in Ottumwa out Of feeling OF
loyalty to home industry. Already big
furniture manufacturers are getting IN
touch with the inventor with view to-
either securing the patent or the right
to manufacture it under conditions OF
royalty.
Fruit Of Conditions.
The idea that gave birth to the
handy service was the drudgery that Is
q part of keeping boarding house
where trips from dining room to
kitchen are wear on the average !
woman that soon tells upon the
and energy Of the strongest.
The solution of the labor saying prob
lem came by her submitting the idea |
to mechanically inclined boarders who
lent their practical aid to the board
ing house keeper with the result that a |
crude example Of what in perfected
state has since been patented. Mrs.
Green says that waiting on tables in
a boarding house where her table Is
used will be pleasure.
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