Improvements in "Camp Stools."
Year: 1889

page_text: Date of Application, 10th Dec., 1889-Accepted, 11th Jan., 1890
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in "Camp Stools."
I, AUGUST SCHNEIDER, a member of the firm of Schneider & Werner, of Grossen-
hainerstrasse 21, Dresden-Neustadt, in the Kingdom of Saxony and German Empire,
Manufacturers, do hereby declare the nature of my said Invention and in what
manner the same is to be performed to be particularly described and ascertained in
and by the following statement:
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The object of this Invention is to construct stools of that kind commonly called
Camp stools" which will be considerably simpler and more easy to handle than the
Camp stools hitherto in use, and which can also be used as a walking stick or staff.
The seat can also be detached and used without its supporting standard.
In the drawings hereto annexed,
Figure 1 shows the camp-stool ready for use as a seat.
Figure 2 is a front elevation of the camp-stool arranged as a walking staff.
Figure 3 is a side elevation of Figure 2..
Figure 4 is an enlarged detail of the seat and staff connection.
Figure 5 shows a modified form of the camp-stool shown at Figure 1.
Figure 6 shows the camp-stool illustrated at Figure 5, when used as a walking
stick, and
Figure 7 is a side elevation of the same shown partly in section.
Figures 8 and 9 are details in section of the upper parts of the camp-stool.
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The camp-stool according to this Invention consists of a seat J ; a metallic socket
fixed to the seat J, and provided with two lugs and 12, which carry by means of the
pin a link device consisting of the two side members 61 and 62 and pin in
such a manner that the link 612 is free to turn on the pin ¹; a coned ring r
pivotted at in the projections a of the lugs and ; and finally of the
standard O, the upper end e of which is adapted to fit into the socket P of the
seat, and also into the ring r, and is provided with a central slot z, adapted to
receive the pins and 2 of the link 12; the lower extremity of the standard is
provided with a ferrule S, points, and a flange t.
The camp-stool according to this Invention can be used as a seat without the staff
i.e., as a simple seat, in cases where a stool is not required, as for instance on
eminences etcetera, or where a low seat is convenient. In such cases the staff O is
simply detached from the seat J.
In order to use the campstool as a walking stick, the upper forked end e of
the staff O is passed over the link 61 6, so that the pins and lie in the slot z,
and takes into the coned ring r; and, as the ends e of the staff O are conical, the
pins,, are clamped between the two sides of the slot z as is apparent from
Figures 2, 3 and 4 of the drawings. The ring is provided with a washer w so that
a joint may always be effected.
According to the modification shown in Figures 5 to 9, the fastening of the seat J
to the staff consists of a pin v which passes through a hole o in the staff O and
over the pin 2; and when the camp-stool is to serve as a staff, as far as the hole o' in
the seat J, as shown in Figure 6 of the drawings.
To prepare the camp-stool as a seat, the staff O is withdrawn from the ring r, so far
as to enable it to be turned with the link 61 62, on the pin i, until it assumes the
position shown in Figures 8 and 9; the end e is then inserted into the socket p, and
ecured as before explained.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said Inven-
ion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I claim
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1. A “ camp-stool" consisting of the seat J, socket p, ring r, link device 6ª, 6ª, and

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constructed and operating as above described, and capable of being used
either as a stool, a walking stick, or a flat seat, substantially as herein set forth and as
illustrated in the drawings hereto annexed.
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2. The "Camp-stool "substantially as herein set forth and illustrated with reference
to Figures 1 to 4 of the Drawings hereto annexed.
3. The "Camp-stool" substantially as herein set forth and illustrated with reference
'to Figures 5 to 9 of the drawings hereto annexed.
Dated this 9th day of December 1889.
CHEESBROUGH & ROYSTON,
15, Water Street, Liverpool, Agents for the Applicant.