Furniture for concealing a wash basin
OwnerHorace S. Meldahlinventor
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Abstract
This disclosure relates to an article of furniture which includes the basic components of any type of furniture but additionally has incorporated therein lavatory means, such as hot and cold running water, ice water tappets, a sink, drainage means, etc. which when enclosed provide the appearance of a "normal" piece of furniture in that it cannot be determined from casual observation that the piece of furniture is other than a normal piece of furniture. The primary feature of the invention is that of forming the article of furniture with two upstanding walls and a cover having two depending walls with the walls being disassociated from each other except for performing the functions of totally enclosing a section of the article of furniture and providing a splash or drain board to a side of the article of furniture.
Claims1
An article of furniture comprising a desk, chest or the like having a plurality of sliding drawers, a front, opposite sides, a back, a bottom and a top, said top being divided into at least a pair of top sections by fixed first upstanding wall means between said front and back, a first of said top sections being in part defined by said first upstanding wall means, a second of said top sections being defined by second upstanding wall means disposed at said back between said first upstanding wall means and one of said sides, said second top section further being defined by a cover, said cover being defined by a top panel and first side and second front depending wall means, hinge means having a horizontal axis pivotally connecting said cover to said article of furniture at said one side along said first depending wall means whereby said cover can be pivoted between a first position at which said cover is disposed sidewise away from said one side and a second position at which said cover overlies and covers a portion of said top and rests upon said first upstanding and second upstanding wall means thereby providing the appearance of a unitized immovable part of the article of furniture in conjunction with said first top section, and lavatory means within said second top section and concealed thereby when said second top section is in said second position, said first depending wall means comprising a triangular strip being attached to the end wall and under the edge of said cover to prevent water from accumulating in the exposed port area of the cover when said cover is pivoted to its upstanding opened position, the water being diverted by said triangular strip toward said lavatory, said first upstanding wall means and said first depending wall means are in generally parallel relationship to each other in said second positions;
- and said second upstanding wall means and said second depending wall means are in generally parallel relationship to each other.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.