Improvements in or relating to Seats and Desks for use in Schools and like places.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 4th Feb., 1892
Complete Specification Left, 4th Nov., 1892-Accepted, 31st Dec., 1892
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or relating to Seats and Desks for use in Schools
and like places.
I, JOSEPH MOORE of Nursery Street Pendleton, in the County of Lancaster
Clerk of Works, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
"
The improvements which form the subject of this invention relate to seats and
desks for use in schools or like places, and the object of this invention is to construct
a combined seat and desk, in which is a seat that may when required be used as
a desk, and a desk that may be used as a seat with any preferred angle, capable of
being reversed from back to front, or from front to back.
:
I attain this object by the means hereinafter described and as illustrated in the
accompanying sheet of drawings.
In this invention I form a semicircular frame a with standards b to rest firmly
on the floor. I attach to the ends of said semicircular frame the rollers c and c¹
with fixed lugs or ears d and d' on each side thereof. I construct a semicircular
frame e whose radius is the same as the aforesaid semicircular frame a but longer
than said frame and with a flange e¹ formed thereon, of a width that will fit in
between the lugs d and d¹ and rest on the rollers c and c¹.
I place a clip f over the frame e and secure said clip to the frame a.
I construct the ends of the frame e with pivotted brackets g and g¹ and attach
thereto the boards h, h'.
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In applying my invention as herein before described for use as a seat I place the
frames a and e in the positions shown on the drawing.
If it is required to be used as a seat and a desk, the screw is slackened and the
swivel bracket g is turned so as to place the board h either in a horizontal or in
an angular position as shown in dotted lines. If it is required to reverse the position
of the seat, or seat and desk, the stud is slackened, the frame e is lifted at the
lower end, which on the drawing is shown with the stop resting against the lug d',
and the opposite end is lowered until the stop j rests against the lug d. The
frame e is retained firmly in position by means of the set screw f'. The inner faces
of the pivotted brackets g and g' are serrated, and by these means are held firmly
in the required position when the screw is tightened.
Dated this 2nd dow of Fahmu 1805
THOMAS PRESCOTT,
53, Arcade Chambers, St. Mary's Gate, Manchester,
Agent for Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or relating to Seats and Desks for use in Schools
and like places.
I, JOSEPH MOORE, of 12 Nursery Street, Pendleton, in the County of Lancaster,
Clerk of Works, 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 :-
The improvements which form the subject of this invention, relate to seats, and
desks for use in schools or like places, and the object of this invention is to construct
a combined seat and desk, in which is a seat that may when required be used as a

page_text: desk, and a desk that may be used as a seat with any preferred angle capable of
being reversed from back to front or from front to back.
I attain this object by the means hereinafter described, reference being made to
the drawings which accompanied the Provisional Specification.
In this invention I form a semicircular frame a with standards b to rest firmly on
the floor. I attach to the ends of said semicircular frame the rollers c and c¹ with
fixed lugs or ears d¹ on each side thereof. I construct a semicircular frame e
whose radius is the same as the aforesaid semicircular frame a but longer than said
frame and with a flange el formed thereon of a width that will fit in between the
lugs d and d' and rest on the rollers c and c'.
I place a clipfóver the frame e and secure said clip to the frame a.
I construct the ends of the frame e with pivotted brackets g and gl and attach
thereto the boards h, h¹.
In applying my invention as heréinbéfore described for use as a seat, I pláce
the frames a and e in the positions shown on the drawing.
If it is required to be used as a seat and a désk, the screw is slackened and the
swivel bracket g is turned so as to place the board h either in a horizontal or in an
angular position as shown in dotted lines. If it is required to reverse the position
of the seat, or seat and desk, the stud 1 is slackened the frame e is lifted at
the lower end which on the drawing is shown with the stop j resting against the
lug and the opposite end is' lowered until the stop; rests against the lug d.
The frame e is retained firmly in position by means of the set screw f': The
inner faces of the pivotted brackets g and g¹ are serrated and by these means are
held firmly in the required position when the screw is tightened.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is:
A combined seat and desk in which the seat when required may be used as a
desk, and a desk that may be used as a seat with any preferred angle and capable
of being reversed from back to front or from front to back in the manner and for
the purpose substantially as herein before described.
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THOMAS PRESCOTT,
53, Arcade Chambers; St. Mary's Gate, Manchester,
Agent for Applicant.