An improved Table Leal Bracket.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 21st Nov., 1895
Complete Specification Left, 30th July, 1896-Accepted, 5th Sept., 1896
I GEORGE HENRY MCKAY 40 Dumbarton Road in the County of the City
of Glasgow Ironmonger, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
This invention has for its object the providing of hinged table leaf brackets with
two hinges.
This double hinged bracket obviates the necessity of having to use seperate
hinges for fixing leaves to kitchen tables or other articles.
In carrying my invention into practice I take an ordinary hinged table leaf
bracket & extend the fixative side, and bend this extended portion into a horizontal
position, then turn and cut the end to form joint for hinge.
Then I make a flap out of another piece of metal and make joint by cutting
and bending it, so as to fit the joint already mentioned.
I then fix the joints by means of a metal rivet or pin.
In use the hinged bracket is fixed to the rail of table and then the hinge as
above described is fixed to the leaf which it is proposed to add to the table.
Dated this Twentieth day of November 1895.
An improved Table Leal Bracket.
I, GEORGE HENRY MCKAY, of No. 40 Dumbarton Road, Glasgow, Iron-
monger do hereby declare the nature of my invention and in what manner the
same is to be performed to be particularly described and ascertained in and by
the following statement :-
My invention relates to the metallic brackets by which the leaves of folding or
kitchen tables or other like articles are supported when in their raised or horizontal
position and consists of the improvement hereinafter described in or addition to
the said table leaf brackets, by the use of which the table leaf or leaves are hinged
to the table top without the employment of the ordinary hinges.
In constructing a table leaf bracket according to my invention I make the fixing
flap of the bracket longer than usual the additional part or length extending above
the top edge of the bracket to a distance equal or approximately equal to the
distance the edge of the table top, to which edge the leaf is to be hinged, is from
the rail or framing of the table to which rail or framing the fixing flap of the
bracket is attached. The said additional part or top length of the fixing flap is
turned down at right angles and its end is formed into a knuckle joint. There is
thus formed one of the flaps of the table leaf hinge. To the said knuckle joint of
the turned down or horizontal part of the fixing flap of the bracket I joint the other
flap of the table leaf binge. The vertical fixing flap of the bracket and its
horizontal extension as well as the flap hinged to the latter are provided with
countersunk holes for the heads of the fixing screws to seat themselves in.
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page_text: Figures 1 and 2 of the accompanying drawings represent respectively in front
elevation and plan a portion of a table provided with the improved table leaf
bracket constituting my invention the leaf of the said table being represented in its
turned down position. In Figure 1 the leaf of the table is indicated in dotted
lines only.
Figure 3 is a section on the dotted line x, x Figure 1.
Figures 4 and 5 represent respectively in plan and side elevation portions of the
table with the leaf in its raised or horizontal position.
The same letters of reference indicate the same parts in the several figures of
the drawings.
a is the leaf supporting plate of the bracket connected by the vertical hinge c to
the flap b by which the bracket is fixed to the rail or framing e of the table. The
said fixing flap b is made longer than usual its extended part at top which is
marked being turned or bent into the same horizontal plane as the top of the
leaf supporting plate of the bracket. The said bent part which constitutes one
of the flaps of the table leaf hinge, is provided with knuckles at its free end and is
connected by a hinge pin or joint to the knuckle of the flap 6 constituting the
movable flap of the table leaf hinge. The table leaf f is connected by screws to
the flap. The part 1 of the table leaf hinge b', 6 is fixed by screws to the
underside of the top g of the table as will be seen by reference to Figures 2 and 4.
In my improved table leaf bracket all the parts necessary for its connection to
the table as well as for the connection of the leaf to the table top are combined in
the same article and hence the fixing of the bracket and leaf to the said table is
facilitated.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my invention
and in what manner the same is to be performed 1 declare that I claim as my
invention ;-
The improved table leaf bracket hereinbefore described and illustrated in the
accompanying drawings, that is to say, the addition to or combination with the
fixing flap of the ordinary bracket hinge of a supplementary hinge for connecting
the table leaf to the table top substantially as described and illustrated.
Dated this Thirtieth day of July 1896.
W. T. WHITEMAN,
Agent for the Applicant.