AN IMPROVED SUPPORT FOR PERSONS SEATED, PARTICULARLY APPLICABLE IN RAILWAY TRAVELLING
Year: 1876

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to John Imray, of No. 20, Southampton Buildings, Chancery
Lane, in the County of Middlesex, for the Invention of "AN IMPROVED
SUPPORT FOR PERSONS SEATED, PARTICULARLY APPLICABLE IN RAILWAY
TRAVELLING." A communication from abroad by Jean Benoit Granjon and
Louis Musy, of 42, Rue de Sèze, Lyons, France.
Sealed the 12th December 1876, and dated the 3rd July 1870.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said John Imray at the Office of
the Commissioners of Patents on the 3rd July 1876.
JOHN IMRAY, of No. 20, Southampton Buildings, Chancery Lano, in the County
of Middlesex. "AN IMPROVED SUPPORT FOR PERSONS SEATED, PARTICLARLY
APPLICABLE IN RAILWAY TRAVELLING."
According to this Invention a band or strap of leather, or other suitable
material adjustable in length by means of a buckle, has attached to it a hook
consisting of a bent blade of metal, which may be covered with leather and padded.
This hook being hung on the back edge of a seat, the strap adjusted to the desired
length is passed under the arm of a person seated, and serves as a support. Two
such straps, one for each arm, may be employed to give more complete support, and
these may be connected by a strap across the body.
Although the means of support, above described, are applicable in any case
where the hook or hooks can be engaged on the back of a seat, they are more par-
ticularly applicable in railway carriages separated into compartments by low
partitions, on the edge of which the hooks can be engaged, enabling a traveller to
obtain a steady support by suspension for more or less of the weight of his body,
according as he may adjust the length of the strap or straps.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed by
the said John Imray in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 1st January
1877.
JOHN IMRAY, of No. 20, Southampton Buildings, Chancery Lanc, in the County
of Middlesex.
"AN IMPROVED SUPPORT FOR PERSONS SEATED, PARTICULARLY
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page_text: APPLICABLE IN RAILWAY TRAVELLING." A communication from abroad by Jean
Benoit Granjon and Louis Musy, of 42, Rue de Sèze, Lyons, France.
According to this Invention a band or strap of leather, or other suitable material
adjustable in length by means of a buckle, has attached to it a hook consisting of
a bent blade of metal, which may be covered with leather and padded. This hook
being hung on the back edge of a seat, the strap adjusted to the desired length is
passed under the arm of a person seated, and serves as a support. Two such straps,
one for each arm, may be employed to give more complete support, and these may
be connected by a strap across the body.
Although the means of support, above described, are applicable in any case
where the hook or hooks can be engaged on the back of a seat, they are more
particularly applicable in railway carriages separated into compartments by low
partitions, on the edge of which the hooks can be engaged, enabling a traveller to
obtain a steady support by suspension for more or less of the weight of his body,
according as he may adjust the length of the strap or straps.
The accompanying Drawing is a perspective view of a support according to this
Invention.
The band or strap a, provided with a buckle b by which its length can be
adjusted, is passed through the rectangular ring or runner c. This ring is attached
to the metallic hook d, which is preferably covered with leather and padded inside,
so that it can be hung on the back of a seat or other fixed object without indenting
or otherwise injuring it.
The form, material, and proportions of the parts of the apparatus may obviously
be varied without departing from the principle on which it acts for the support of
the person using it.
Having thus described the nature of this Invention and in what manner the
same is to be perforined, as communicated to me by my foreign correspondents, I
claim, the use for supporting the body of a person seated, of a band or strap adjustable
in length combined with a hook by which it can be hung on the back of a seat,
substantially as herein described.
In witness whereof, I, the said John Imray, have hereunto set my hand and
seal, this First day of January, in the year of our Lord One thousand
eight hundred and seventy-seven.
JOHN IMRAY. (L.S.)