Improvements in Seats for Gardens, Omnibus, Tramcars, Ships, and the like.
Year: 1898

page_text: Date of Application, 24th Feb., 1898
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Seats for Gardens, Omnibus, Tramcars, Ships,
and the like.
CHARLES BRAWN, Gentleman, Loretto, 51, The Chase, Clapham Common,
London, S.W., do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
I take a number of wood slats about an inch wide and a quarter thick and as
long as the seat is wide. I then place the slats parallel with each other standing
on their square edge, the top having been rounded off. Three or more holes having
been made in each slat an equal distance apart small metal rods are then passed
through the slats which are separated from each other by washers made of wood
or leather about a quarter of an inch in thickness. The seat is then screwed up
tight by the nuts on the ends of the rods and is now ready for the frame. These
seats can also be used for the back of outside seats to prevent pocket-picking, and
as they do not hold the rain the advantage to outside passengers is less danger
and greater comfort.
Improvements in Seats for Gardens, Omnibus, Tramcars, Ships,
and the like.
CHARLES BRAWN, Gentleman, Loretto, 51, The Chase, Clapham Common,
London, S.W., 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:-
My invention relates to an improved seat for use upon omnibuses, tramcars and
in gardens or other situations, where such seats are exposed to rain and where
it is desirable that as far as possible the rain may immediately drain or pass away
from the surface of the seat.
The invention consists of a seat made up of wood slats connected together as
hereinafter described.
The accompanying sheet of drawings illustrates my invention.
Figure 1 is a plan of a seat separate from the supporting frame or legs,
Figure 2 is a section corresponding thereto.
Figure 3 is a part plan, and
Figure 4 an end elevation of a seat secured upon a supporting frame showing
the means I prefer to employ to effect the connection.

page_text: In carrying my invention into effect I take a number of wood slats A of the
length required to form the seat, such slats having preferably a rounded upper
edge E and being preferably of the section illustrated in Figure 2 as at present
in use for window beading and about one inch in width and half an inch thick.
I arrange these slats parallel one with the other and provide them with a series
of transverse holes, through which metal rods B of any number are passed, and
I interpose between each slat A a small washer C of wood or metal so that thereby
the slats may be maintained apart. As shown in Figure 1 a number of the slats
at about the centre of the seat have their ends cut away a short distance to provide
a space in which the swinging arms of the seat may move. The slats A are held
and tied together by means of the rods B which may have nuts 1 screwed upon
their extremities so as thereby to effect a rigid and staunch construction.
To secure the seats to their supporting frame I use any ordinary form of attach-
ment, but prefer to provide hooks L upon the frame which engage with the rod B
of the seat.
As illustrated in Figures 3 and 4 which are part plan and end elevation respec-
tively of a seat and its supporting frame, the frame being made up of feet F, G,
carrying the horizontal bars G₁, diagonal cross bars H and longitudinal cross
bars J, J.
The washers are omitted from the rod between those slats where the supporting
hooks are carried and two or more such hooks are adopted for each of the metal
rods.
.
A seat made in this manner is readily removable and reversible on its frame-
work, and any rain or water falling on the rounded edges of the slats will trickle
through the spaces between the slats and ensure that the seat shall be kept dry.
The back of a tramcar or omnibus seat can also be readily made up from slats
in the manner herein before described with reference to a seat, and by its use pocket
picking from the back of the seat is prevented.
The seats made in this manner are portable and inter-changeable and can be
adjusted to or disconnected from the framework very readily.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is:
1. An improved seat constructed from slats, such slats being arranged side
by side and connected together by means of rods passed transversely through the
slats, wood or metal washers being interposed upon the rods and between each slat
for the purpose and substantially as described.
2. An improved seat for use on tramcars, omnibuses, or elsewhere constructed as
herein before described and illustrated in the drawings.
Dated this 30th day of Jan 1800
MARKS & CLERK,
18, Southampton Buildings, London, W.C., and
13, Temple Street, Birmingham, Agents.