US588693A - Foot-rest for registers - Google Patents

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O. M. DEGHANT. FOOT REST FOR REGISTERS.

No. 588,698. Patented Aug. 24,1897.

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UNITED STATES PATENT ()FFICE.

CALVIN M. DEOHANT, OF READING, PENNSYLVANIA.

FOQOT-REST FOR REGISTERS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N 0. 588,693, dated August 24, 1897.

7 Application filed December 21, 1896- Serial No. 616,420. (No model.) I

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, CALVIN M. DEOHANT, a citizen of the United States, residing at Reading, county of Berks, State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain Improvements in Foot-Rests for Registers, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to .a foot-rest attachment for side-wall registers for hot-air heaters; and my object is to provide an improved device which may be readily applied to ordinary forms of registerswithout any change Whatever in the latter, and which will form a neat inexpensive attachment adapted to satisfactorily support the feet or anything else which might be suitably placed thereon, and which at the same time may be readily removed when desired.

Figure 1 is a sectional elevation showing my improved foot-rest applied to a register, the latter being indicated in cross-section in dotted lines. Fig. 2 is a plan view of the same. Figs. 3 and 4 show one of the securing-hooks in detail.

A represents the perforated front plate of a register.

' B represents the foot-plate, which is provided with heel-pieces b b to contact with the front face of the register-plate, thus forming a bracket. The means which I employ for attaching this bracket to the ordinary perforated register-plate without necessitating any change in the latter are as follows: I provide the bracket Bwith a hinge-bar 0, running lengthwise thereof between the heel-pieces b b, said bar being located a short distance away from the face of the register A when the bracket is in normal position on the latter and also a sufficient distance away from the inner edge of the foot-plate topermit the introduction and operation of separatelyformed securing-hooks F F,by means of which the bracket is attached to the register-plate. These hooks F are preferably formed, as shown most clearly in Figs. 3 and 4, with a hooked head it to engage the hinge-bar c and a hooked end 9, adapted to enter a perforation in the register-plate and engage the latter, as indicated in Fig. 1. 'To enable these hooks to be readily secured to the hinge-bar c, I slightly reduce the thickness of the latter at one or more points d, so that the opening f of the hooked head it may pass over it at such point, but not elsewhere in the length of the bar. Having been thus placed upon the latter, they may be freely adjusted thereon, so as to permit the hooked ends g to readily enter any desired perforation in the register and engage the latter, so as to support the bracket, as indicated in Fig. 1. If desired, the foot-plate may be swung upward against the register when not in use, as indicated in dotted lines in Fig. 1, it alsobeing provided with perforations, so as not to prevent the admission of the hot air.

The simplicity and economy of my improved device and its ready applicability to ordinary registers of varying design without involving any change whatever are important I said bar and adapted to engage the registeropenings substantially as set forth.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two Witnesses.

CALVIN M. DEGI-IANT. Witnesses:

CAMERON E. STRAUSS, W. G, STEWART.

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