An Improved Reversible Seat.
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 5th Aug., 1896
Complete Specification Left, 17th Apr., 1897--Accepted, 22nd May, 1897
An Improved Reversible Seat.
FREDRICK HOWARD SMITH, University Terrace, Belfast, in the County of
Antrim Ireland, Civil Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to
be as follows:-
A new arrangement, adaptation, or application of reversible seats adapted to
open air or out door meetings, or to the tops or roofs of passenger conveyances;
by this arrangement passengers can have dry seats in wet weather.
The arrangement consists in fixing in the centre of both ends of a board or seat,
metal axles or pivots turning in journals on a frame supported on legs, the board
or seat is kept in a level or horizontal position from turning on the axles or pivots,
by forming slots in the supports that carry the back rail, and fixing a bolt or pin
at one or both ends of the seat close to the right angle formed by the front line or
edge of seat, these pins or bolts are to run or traverse in the slots, which must be
long enough to allow the pins or bolts at the angles of the seat to traverse up and
down the slots by moving the back rail across the seat, which will be reversed at
the same time by the pins or bolts sliding in the slots; these slots must be a little
wider at the lower ends to enable the bolts or pins to pass the dividing tongues or
pins which are fixed at the lower ends of the slots; the slots to have two circles
or notches about one inch in diameter taken out of each of them at the lower ends
to enable the pins or bolts to catch and fasten the seat in a horizontal position
after being reversed; the board or seat to have a groove or throating across the
ends on both sides about half inch wide to prevent the return of water on the
lower surface of the seat.
FREDRICK HOWARD SMITH, No. 5 University Terrace Belfast, Ireland,
Architect and Civil Engineer, 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:-
A new arrangement, adaptation, or application of reversible seats adapted to
open air or out-door meetings, or to the tops or roofs of passenger conveyances;
by this arrangement passengers can have dry seats in wet weather. The arrange-
ment consists in fixing in the centre of both ends of a board or seat, metal axles or
pivots turning in journals on a frame supported on legs, the board or seat is kept
in a level or horizontal position from turning on the axles or pivots, by forming a
slot or slots A. A. in the supports or levers D. D. that carry the back rail, E. E.
and fixing a bolt or pin B. B. at one or both ends of the seat close to the right
angle formed by the front line or edge of seat, these pins or bolts B. B. are to run
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page_text: or traverse in the slot or slots A. A. which must be long enough to allow the pins
or bolts B. B. at the angles of the seat to traverse up and down the slot or
slots A. A. by moving the back rail E. E. across the seat, which will be reversed
at the same time by the pins or bolts B. B. sliding in the slot or slots A. A., these
slots A. A. must be a little wider at the lower ends to enable the bolts or pins B. B.
to pass the dividing tongue or tongues C. which are fixed at the lower ends of
the slots A. A.; the slots A. A. to have two circles or notches about one inch in
diameter taken out of each of them at the lower ends to enable the pins or
bolts B. B. to catch and fasten the seat in a horizontal position after being
reversed; the board or seat to have a groove or throating across the ends on both
sides about half inch wide to prevent the return of water on the lower surface of
the seat.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is;
The slot or slots A. A. in the levers D. D. with a bolt or pin B. B. rising and
falling, causing the seat to reverse when moving the back rail E. E. across the
seat.
Dated this 14th day of April 1897
FREDRICK HOWARD SMITH.