Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 3rd July, 1896-Accepted, 8th Aug., 1896
I, GEORGE HAMPTON, of Pall Mall East, London, House Furnisher, 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 :-
This invention relates to an improved toilet chair applicable for ladies' and
gentlemen's use, and consists in a toilet chair with which is structurally combined
a triple reflecting glass holder in such a manner that the holder with the reflecting
glasses folded thereinto, can, when not required for its intended use, be lowered
into the chair back, when the chair will not appear to be different from and may
be used as an ordinary chair, and can, when required for its intended purpose of
utility, be raised from out of the chair back, when the reflecting glasses may be
opened and set back so as to reflect images of the back and of each side of the back
part of the head of a lady or person sitting on the chair with the back towards the
back of the chair and dressing or having the back hair dressed, or to reflect images
of the face and of the profile or sides of the face or front part of the head of a
gentleman or person sitting sideways on or astride the chair and shaving or dressing
the front hair.
The improved toilet chair is illustrated on the accompanying drawings, in
which
Fig. 1, is a bird's eye view giving a general idea of the invention.
Fig. 2, represents a front elevation of the chair, and Figs. 3, 4, and 5, are sectional
views thereof respectively on the lines A-B, C-D, and E-F; which enable the.
invention to be fully understood.
I would remark, in the first instance, that the particular shape, pattern or
configuration of the chair is quite immaterial to the invention, it only. being
material to the invention that the chair back should be of such a shape and should
be so made or adapted as to permit of the reflecting glass holder being lowered
into it, so as to permit of the chair being then used as an ordinary chair, and raised
or partly raised out of it, so as to permit of the chair being then used for its
special purpose of utility, to wit, as a toilet chair adapted to serve the purposes
aforesaid.
On the drawings, a, represents the chair, the seat, legs and general formation of
which may, as aforesaid, be of any required or suitable shape, pattern, or
configuration. It is, however, made or fitted with a back frame b, which is formed
with side slides 6 1, or is otherwise equivalently adapted to guide a triple reflecting
glass holder c, and to support the same when raised and in use vide Figs. 1, to 3, or
when lowered thereinto."
The glass holder c, is fitted with a back fixed reflecting glass cl, and with
adjustable side reflecting glasses c2, c3, which are respectively pivotted to the
holder at c4, c5, and adapted to fold, the one, (c2), against the back glass c 1, and
the other, (3), against the glass c 2, vide Fig. 5, and to separately open out,
vide Figs. 1, 2 and 4.
The holder c, may simply slide within the frame b, with an easy fit enabling it to
be readily raised, but causing it to gravitate slowly when the glasses are folded in
and it is released by the hand; or, friction springs d, or any suitable brake device
may be applied to the sides of the holder and adapted to act against the sides of
the frame to slow the descent of the holder.

page_text: The holder may be prevented from being raised too high by a projecting stud e,
adapted to engage with the under part of the top rail 62, of the frame, or in any
other suitable manner.
The holder may be supported, when sufficiently raised, by the lower edge of
the frames of the side glasses c2, c3, resting on the top rail 62, of the frame,
or by spring studs f, projecting from the sides of the holder, and adapted, as the
holder reaches its position of utility, to engage with recesses formed in the side
of the frame, and to yield to the pressure of the hand in pushing down the holder
into the back.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, 1 declare that what I
claim is:
In combination, a toilet chair and a triple reflecting glass holder supported and
guided by the back thereof in such a manner that the holder can be raised
within, the chair back, when the reflecting glasses can be opened apart and set at an
angular relation to each other, and, when the reflecting glasses have been folded
thereinto can be lowered into the chair back, so enabling the chair to be used both
for its special purpose of utility, and as au ordinary chair, substantially as
herein before described.
Dated this 2nd day of July 1896.
DAY, DAVIES & HUNT,
Chartered Patent Agents,
321, High Holborn, London, W.C., Agents for the Applicant.