Improvements in Furniture for Swinging Toilet Glasses.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 19th July, 1895-Accepted, 24th Aug., 1895.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Furniture for Swinging Toilet Glasses.
I, EDWIN HAINES of Brooker's, Paddock Wood, in the County of Kent,
Mechanic, do hereby declare the nature of this 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 refers to the pivots and bearings, commonly called "furniture
for swinging toilet glasses which, while permitting of the easy and instant adjust-
ment of the angle at which the mirror is hung, shall, at the same time, allow of the
removal of the said mirror at desire without any necessity for the alteration of
position, or unscrewing, of any part in connection therewith.
The glass at or about its centre on each side of its frame, is provided with a
pivot or stud, by preference either flanged or bevelled, which is made to drop into
a correspondingly flanged or bevelled recess in a plate inside each of the standards
of the mirror and these two recesses are formed by preference to a certain
extent V-shaped, that is to say, one side of each recess is made more or less straight
and the other side curved, the object being to allow of a slight wedging between
the stud and its bearing and this wedging is further accentuated in using the flanged
or bevelled form of stud and its correspondingly shaped hearing or housing. One
or more of the parts may be made of or be lined or covered with some such material
as vulcanite to increase the friction between them.
Fig. 1 of the accompanying drawings is a side view of a toilet glass A in the
side members or standards B of the frame provided with the pivots (on the glass)
and the bearings or fittings (on the standards) made according to my invention,
A is the front or glazed side and A2 the back of the mirror. The form of the
pivots and bearings is shown more clearly by the other views which are drawn to a
larger or full size scale.
Fig. 2 is a side view showing the pivot fitting on the glass, Fig. 3 a side view
showing the bearing or housing to be fixed on the standard B and also the pivot
therein, and Fig. 4 a side view with the bearing in section. The pivot C is formed
with a head or flange C' and is fixed to the glass A in some suitable manner such
for instance as by the angle plate C3 and the screws C³. The bearing or housing
for the pivot is a plate D which is fixed to the standard in some suitable manner
such for instance as by screws D'. The bearing is formed with a recess some-
what shaped one side D2 being more or less straight and sloping and by
preference slightly downwardly inclined towards the front while the other
side D is curved as shown. The entry for the pivot C is about vertical or slightly
inclined from front to back. Moreover the fitting is by preference recessed as
shown at D' for the head or flange C₁ of the pivot to work in; the pivot might be
plain that is to say without a flange, but 1 prefer the flange on the pivot and the
recess in the fitting D as that construction adds a little friction to the wedging
action of the pivot in the V recess.
Figs. 5, 6 and 7 are views illustrative of a modified form wherein the pivot C is
conical and the V recess is made with corresponding bevelled edges D. The
pivot C may be covered with a bush of vulcanite or the like.
The bearings D may in some cases be fixed on the top of the side members B of
the frame by means of flanges or feet, but I do not restrict myself to the modes
hereinbefore named for fixing the bearings to the frame or the pivots to the mirror
frame.

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is :-
:
1. Toilet glass pivot fittings or furniture consisting of pivots on the glass and
bearings or housings on the frame such bearings being of a V like shape
substantially as described.
2. The constructions of conical or flanged pivots and the corresponding bearings
as shown on the drawings.
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