Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 11th Jan., 1895
Complete Specification Left, 11th May, 1895-Accepted, 13th July, 1895
We ALFRED EDWARD WILCOX and HERBERT ESPIN PITMAN Brassfounders
both of Paragon Works Henryetta Street Birmingham in the County of Warwick
do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows :—
This invention relates to the articles generally known under the technical name
toast-stands-namely a stand or table used before a fire-place, on which to place a
plate of toast, toast-stands are in general use formed out of a frame having three,
four or more legs surmounted by a flat top; considerable commercial enterprise
has been devoted to the production of toast-stands of an ornamental and useful
configuration but hitherto such toast-stands have all been made out of a combination
of separate parts fixed together permanently.
Our invention consists in making a toast-stand on an entirely new system, namely
with the top part so connected to the supporting pillar or supporting-frame that the
top can be oscillated or moved out of its flat position into a vertical position in
a similar or equivalent manner to that in which a pillar-table-top is oscillated
or radiated into a vertical position to enable it to be placed against a wall and
thereby occupy less space than when in its ordinary horizontal position ready to be
used as a table.
By our invention we provide a central pillar which may be made in one piece
or in several pieces secured together into one permanent piece, such central
pillar may be made out of cast metal, sheet metal, or out of any other suitable
material.
We next provide a top of any suitable size and of any suitable shape and
configuration, on the underside of the top we provide ears or brackets, the ears or
brackets are connected to the top part of the pillar in such a manner that the
ears or brackets will move over or on a suitable pivot or on suitable pivots, so that
the top can be moved into an horizontal position and thereby form with the pillar
an improved toast-stand; our improved toast-stand so made can be used in the
usual manner before a fire to receive plates of toast plates of meat, kettles of
water, smoothing-irons and for other such like purposes in the same manner that
ordinary toast-stands are now used but when our improved toast-stand is not
required for use the top can he moved into the vertical position and so enable the
toast-stand to be lifted onto the mantel-piece or to be placed in any other position
where it will occupy a small space, altho the weight of the top combined with
the bracket-fastenments will usually support the table firmly in its horizontal
position ready for use, nevertheless we prefer in some cases to provide a spring-
bolt on the under-side of the table taking into a bolt-hole provided in the upper
part of pillar, or conversely, a spring-bolt on the pillar taking into a bolt-hole
provided on the underside of top-plate.
In the production of the stand part of our improved toast-stand we use
metal or other suitable material as herein before described in reference to the
pillar.
In some cases we make the pillar out of porcelain, paper-mache, metal, and
other different kinds of material secured together to form the pillar, and in a
like manner, the top can be formed out of several different kinds of material
secured together to form a top or table suitable to receive a plate of toast or a
kettle, or such like.

page_text: What constitutes our invention is the making of a toast-stand in such a manner
that the top can be moved from the horizontal flat usable position into the vertical
unusable position, irrespective of the manner in which the top or table part is
made movable, as we claim to be the first inventors of a toast-stand with a radiating
or movable top.
Dated this 9th day of January 1895.
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ALFRED WILLIAM TURNER,
Cobden Buildings, Corporation Street, Birmingham,
Agent for the Applicants.
We ALFRED EDWARD WILCOX and HERBERT ESPIN PITMAN, Brassfounders,
both of Paragon Works, Henryetta Street, Birmingham, in the County of Warwick
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:—
This invention relates to the article generally known under the technical name,
toast-stand-namely a stand or table used before a fire-place on which to place a
plate of toast; toast-stands are in general use formed out of a frame having three,
four or more legs surmounted by a flat top.
Considerable commercial enterprise has been devoted to the production of toast-
stands of an ornamental and useful configuration but hitherto such toast-stands
have all been made out of a combination of separate parts fixed together
permanently.
Our invention consists in making a toast-stand on an entirely new system, namely
with the top part so connected to the supporting pillar or supporting frame that
the top can be oscillated or moved out of its flat position into a vertical position
in a similar or equivalent manner to that in which a pillar-table-top is oscillated or
radiated into a vertical position to enable it to be placed against a wall and thereby
оссиру less space
than when in its ordinary horizontal position ready to be used as a
table.
We will now proceed to describe with reference to the accompanying drawings
the manner in which our invention is constructed and used.
Figure 1 represents a side elevation of complete toast-stand with the moving-
table secured in the horizontal position ready for use, the table being also shewn
by dotted lines as moved into a vertical position.
Figure 2 represents an enlarged plan of pillar-top after the table bas been
removed.
Figure 3 represents a broken-off isometrical view of the under-side of table
centre-part.
Figure 4 represents a broken-off isometrical view of table secured to top part
of pillar.
Figure 5 represents a broken-off isometrical view of the table secured to top of
pillar, the locking-bolt being so arranged as to take into the pillar.
Figure 6 represents a side view of table in horizontal position over pillar and
secured to pillar by means of linch-pin.
Figure 7 represents a plan of Figure 6 on the line A. B.
Figure 8 represents a side view of the pillar part of Figure 6 but with the table
removed into its vertical unusable position.
In carrying out our invention we provide a pillar a which may be made in one
piece or which may consist of three, four or more legs secured together into one
permanent piece, the upper portion of which would constitute the pillar-top b;

page_text: the pillar a may be made out of cast-metal, sheet-metal, or out of any other
suitable material.
We next provide a top or table c of any suitable size and of any suitable shape
and configuration, on the underside of the top c we provide ears or brackets d,
the ears are connected to the top part b of pillar in such a manner that such ears d
will move over a suitable pivot-pin e or over suitable equivalent pivots, so that the
top c can be moved on the pivot or pivots e into the horizontal position shewn at
Figure 1, and thereby form with the pillar an improved toast-stand.
Our improved toast-stand so made can be used in the usual manner before a fire
to receive plates of toast, plates of meat, kettles of water, smoothing-irons and
for other such like purposes, in the same manner that ordinary toast-stands are
now used, but when our improved toast-stand is not required for use, the top c can
be moved into the vertical position shewn in dotted lines at Figure 1 and so enable
the toast-stand to be lifted onto the mantel-piece or to be placed in any position
where it will occupy a small space, altho the weight of the top or table c combined
with the weight of the bracket fastenment attached to table c will usually support
such table c firmly in its horizontal position ready for use, nevertheless we prefer
in some cases to provide a spring-bolt f on the underside of the table c taking into
a bolt-hole g provided in the upper part of pillar, or conversely a spring-bolt h
on the pillar taking into a bolt-hole j provided on the underside of table or
top c or on one or both ears d secured to underside of table or top-plate c.
In the production of the table-part c of our improved toast-stand we use
metal or other suitable material as herein before described in reference to the
pillar.
In some cases we make the pillar out of porcelain, paper-mache, metal, and
other different kinds of material secured together to form the pillar, and in a like
manner, the top c can be formed out of several different kinds of material secured
together to form a table or top suitable to receive a plate of toast or a kettle, or
such like.
As an equivalent to the spring-actuated bolt for h we in some cases provide a
linch-pin taking into the holes and m of ear and pillar-top as shewn at
Figures 67 and 8.
The spring-actuated bolts f and h are shewn with square ends n, taking into
square receiving-hole at ; and g, but we prefer in some cases to provide round
receiving-holes at j and at g and also to make the ends n of securing-bolts round
instead of square, the car o is provided for use between finger and thumb, as a
means of moving the bolt and in a like manner the lug p is provided as a ready
means of moving the bolt fin and out of its locking-hole g.
We have not shewn a supporting-frame nevertheless we in some cases make a
supporting-frame instead of a pillar, the top part of such supporting-frame being
a single central part similar or equivalent to the part marked b.
What constitutes our invention is the making of a toast-stand in such a manner
that the top can be moved from the horizontal flat usable position into the vertical
unusable position, irrespective of the specific manner in which the top or table-
part is made movable, as we claim to be the first inventors of a toast-stand with
radiating or movable top or table c.
We do not confine ourselves to any specific dimensions as we prefer to make our
improved toast-stands in various sizes, to suit various sizes of fire-places, the
smallest size of improved toast-stand being used as a toy-toast-stand.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion and the manner in which the same is to be performed, we declare that what we
claim is :-
1st. The invention as illustrated and described, for use in the manner described.
2nd. The making of a toast-stand by the combination of a movable table with
a pillar the table being hinged or pivotted to the upper part of pillar to move into
a horizontal position when in use and into a vertical position when not in use.

page_text: 3rd. The making of a toast-stand by the combination of a moveable table with
a frame or stand the table being hinged or pivotted to the upper part of frame or
stand to move into a horizontal position when in use and into a vertical position
when not in use.
4th. The locking or securing of a toast-stand-table to its pillar or frame or
stand, by means of a spring-actuated bolt as illustrated and described.
5th. The locking or securing of a toast-stand-table to its pillar or frame or
stand by means of a linch-pin or bolt as illustrated and described.
6th. The making of a toast-stand as illustrated and described for use as a toy-
.toast-stand.
Dated this 9th day of May 1895.
ALFRED WILLIAM TURNER,
Cobden Buildings, Corporation Street, Birmingham,
Agent for the Applicants.