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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.
MARY BLANCHE HORTON, OF VALDA, TEXAS.
MIRROR ATTACHMENT FOR BUREAUS.
SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No: 661,051, dated November 6, 1900.
Application filed February 6, 1900, Serial No. 4,204. (No model.)To all whom it may concern:
Be it known that I,MARY BLANCHE HORTON,
a citizen of the United States, residing at
Valda, in the county of Polk and State of
5 Texas, have invented a new and useful Mir-
ror Attachment for Bureaus, of which the fol-
lowing is a specification.
This invention relates to mirrors, and has
for its object to provide a supplemental mir-
ic ror having an adjustable connection with a
bureau or the like and adapted to be adjusted
to a position in front of the usual mirror of
the bureau, so-as to view the rear of a person.
To this end the present invention consists
15 in the combination and arrangement of parts,.
as will be hereinafter more fully described,
shown in the accompanying drawings, and
particularly pointed out in the appended
claims.
20 In the drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective
view of the rear portion of a bureau having
the supplemental mirror connected thereto.
Fig. 2 is a rear elevation thereof. Fig. 3 is a
detail sectional view taken on the line x x,
25 Fig. 2. Fig. 4 is a similar view taken on the
line y y, Fig. 2. Fig. 5 is a sectional view
taken through the adjustable tilting connec-
tion for the supplemental mirror. Fig. 6 is
a detail elevation of the disk members form-
30 ing the tilting connection for the supplemen-
tal mirror.
Corresponding parts are designated by like
reference characters in all the figures of the
drawings.
35 Referring to the accompanying drawings,
1 designates a bureau of any preferred form,
which is shown to more fully illustrate the ap-
plication and operation of the present inven-
tion. Fitted to the back of the bureau, ad-
40 jacent to the opposite sides thereof, is a pair
of plates 2, which are adapted to support a
pair of rods 3, spaced apart, alined vertically,
and adapted .to form a support to which the
supplemental mirror is ad justably con nected.
45 By reference to Figs. 3 and 4 it will be noted
that the opposite ends 4 of the rods are bent
inward toward the back of the bureau and
connected to the respective plates, whereby
the intermediate portions of said rods are off-
5o set or spaced a suitable distance in rear of
the back of the bureau.The supplemental mirror is designated by
the numeral 5, being of any preferred shape,
size, and construction, and is connected to
the supporting-rods 3 by means of a flexible 55
bracket, consisting of duplicate skeleton sec-
tions 6, hinged or pivoted together and adapt-
ed to be folded, so as to adjust the supple-
mental mirror to any desired position. Each
of these sections comprises opposite longitu- 6o
dinal sides 7, connected together by diagonal
braces 8 and provided at their opposite ends
with eyes 9, the contiguous ends of adjacent
sections being pivoted or hinged together by
means of a headed pivot - pin 10, passing 65
through the respective eyes 9, so as to per-
mit of the sections being folded or adjusted
upon each other. The sides of the relatively-
fixed section A are each provided with eyes
or rings 11, extending laterally from said 70
sides and loosely embracing the respective
supporting-rods 3 and adapted to slidably
mount said section upon the rods and per-
mit of a longitudinal movement thereof.
The supplemental mirror is mounted upon 75
a horizontal rod 12, which is connected to the
outer section B by means of a substantially
triangular-shaped section 13, having the op-
posite convergent sides 14, which are pivot-
ally connected at their spaced ends to the ad- 8o
jacent outer end of the section B in the man-
ner described for the other sections. The
rod 12 extends from the point of intersection
at the sides of the triangular section, and the
back of the mirror is provided with suitable 85
bearing-eyes 15, adapted to receive the rod
and mount the minrror thereon; so as to be
tilted vertically.
In order that the mirror may be held in its
tilted positions, I provide a flat disk or plate 9o
16, fixed concentrically to the rod 12 and ad-
jacent to one edge of the supplemental mir-
ror and provided with a concentric arcuate
slot 17. Pivoted loosely to the rod 12 is an-
other disk 18, arranged adjacent to one side 95
of the fixed disk opposite the adjacent edge
of the supplemental mirror and is provided
with a thumb - screw 19, passing loosely
through the disk, slidably received in the
slot 17 of the fixed disk, and engaging the ad- too
jacent edge of the supplemental miror. By
this means the thumb-screw may be loosened,
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Horton, Mary Blanche. Mirror Attachment for Bureaus., patent, November 6, 1900; [Washington D.C.]. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth514557/m1/2/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting UNT Libraries Government Documents Department.