Improvements in or connected with Pivoted or Swinging Toilet Mirrors or the like.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 13th Sept., 1894-Accepted, 13th Oct., 1894
UUMI LEIE
Improvements in or connected with Pivoted or Swinging Toilet
Mirrors or the like.
I, MABEL GILLESPIE, of Norfolk House, Romsey Road, Winchester, no
occupation, 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 relates to improvements in, or connected with, toilet mirrors or
the like, articles of that class that are pivoted between vertical supports, for
the purpose of being adjusted to any desired angle, and the object of the invention
is to provide novel means, whereby such mirrors or the like can be readily
adjusted to any desired angle between the supporting pillars, and be maintained
at that angle by their own weight, a further object being to render the pivotal
connections such, as to allow of the mirrors or the like, being easily and speedily
removed from the said supporting pillars, for cleaning, transport or other similar
purposes.
In order that the said invention may be the more readily understood, reference
is made to the accompanying sheet of illustrative drawings forming a feature of
this Specification, in which drawing,
Fig. 1 is a front elevation of my invention with portions removed therefroir.,
Fig. 2 being a similar view of the invention complete, and
Fig. 3 a section of Fig. 1 through line X-X.
Figs. 4 and 5 are a front and a side view respectively of a detail of the invention,
while
Fig. 6 is a front elevation of a toilet mirror with my invention applied thereto.
Referring to the drawings in which like letters of reference indicate corre-
sponding parts throughout the figures a is a bed-plate formed of metal, wood or
other suitable material and substantially of the form shown, that is to say, the
upper and lower edges are parallel one with the other, while the sides diverge,
the upper end of the plate a being the wider.
The said bed-plate a is provided with raised sides a¹ of suitable width, which
sides a are cut away or bevelled upon their inner or opposing surfaces a² as
shewn by the sectional view in Fig. 3 to form wedge shaped grooves for the
purpose hereinafter explained, prolongations a' being also provided at each end
of the said bed-plate a having screw holes a for the purpose of attaching such
plate to the vertical supporting-pillars b. A wedge c divided vertically in the
centre is provided the two halves of which wedges are adapted to slide in or fit
between the raised bevelled sides a', such portions c being bevelled upon one of
their sides cas shewn more particularly by Figs. 4 and 5, in order to fit the
grooves above mentioned, formed by the bevelled sides a' and the flat bed-plate a.
In lieu of thus bevelling the sides a' and the corresponding sides of the divided
wedge c, I may groove the former and provide the latter with an ordinary tongue
if found desirable.
Each half of the wedge c is formed in any suitable manner with a semi-,
circular recess, so that when the two said halves are fitted together between
the raised sides of the bed-plate a, such recesses will together form a central
opening or socket c'.
One of the bed-plates a provided with the wedges c is fixed by screws or their
equivalent a to each of the vertical supports d (Fig. 6) the mirror e being
mounted between same by inserting the pivots el into the circular openings or

page_text: sockets formed in the wedges c, the relative sizes of the pivots e¹ and the
sockets being such, as to enable the former to fit securely within the latter.
The said openings or sockets care diminished in size and the pivots thereby
gripped firmer between the two halves of the wedges. c, by forcing the latter
downwardly further toward the narrow, end of the bed-plate a. In course of
wear, should the openings or sockets c become enlarged so as to cause the
pivots el to fit same loosely the two halves of the wedge c may be removed and
their opposing edges filed down to a suitable extent, thereby diminishing the
size of the opening or socket c³.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
1. The means for pivotally suspending upon, or connecting toilet mirrors or the
like to their supports consisting in bed-plates having oppositely inclined or
diverging raised sides, bevelled or grooved upon their opposing surfaces; longitu-
dinally divided wedges bevelled, or tongued upon their outer sides and provided
with recesses or sockets capable of being diminished or increased in size, and
means for attaching the above to the vertical supporting-pillars in combination
with laterally projecting pivots upon the frame of a mirror or the like substan-
tially as described and illustrated.
2. The improvements in or connected with pivoted or swinging toilet mirrors
or the like, substantially as specified and illustrated by the accompanying drawing.
Dated this 13th day of September 1894.
HUGHES & YOUNG,
12, Basinghall Street, London, Agents.