Improvements in Tramcar, Garden, or other Seats or Chairs.
Year: 1899

page_text: Date of Application, 9th Mar., 1899
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Improvements in Tramcar, Garden, or other Seats or Chairs.
JAMES PICKLES, Victoria Works, Laurel Street, Bradford, Engineer, do hereby
declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention has for its object the construction of tram car, garden or other
chairs or seats in such a manner that the seat cannot become wet during rainy
weather as is the case when constructed in the ordinary manner.
In carrying out my object the laths or boards forming the seat are carried
on pivots working in the frame on the ends of which are secured small pinnion
or gear wheels each being connected by a toothed rack conveniently placed at
the end of the seat or chair and worked by a lever or other suitable means.
When a passenger or other person desires to sit down the rack is moved longi-
tudinally by the lever or other means and the whole of the laths or boards
forming the seat are brought face upwards. Immediately such person rises
from the seat, the rack is brought back into its former position automatically
by means of a spring or weight and the whole of the said laths or boards are
turned bottom side up, thus preventing the sitting surface becoming rained on
and always providing a dry surface on the side that is used for sitting upon.
Dated this Seventh day of March 1899.
Improvements in Tramcar, Garden, or other Seats or Chairs.
I, JAMES PICKLES, of Victoria Works, Laurel Street, Leeds Road, in the City
of Bradford, 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:-
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This invention relates to improvements in outside tram-car and other seats
exposed to the weather, and its object is to keep such seats from getting wet.
To fully describe my invention, reference is made to the accompanying sheet
of drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar figures of
reference indicate corresponding parts in each of the views.
Figure 1, represents an elevation of a seat made in accordance with my
invention.
Figure 2, is a sectional plan of one side of same.
Figure 3, is a side view of Figure 2 with the laths or bars forming the seat.
in their normal position that is to say reversed.

page_text: Figure 4, is a similar view to Figure 3 with the said laths in position for
sitting upon.
Figure 5, is a separate view of one of the laths.
Figure 6, is a cross section of the same on a larger scale.
Figure 7, is a separate view of the rack hereinafter referred to.
The laths 2 have metal cores 3 formed with journals 4 at one end and
journals 5 at the other end fitting bearing holes formed in the side frames 6 and 7
of the seat. Pinions S are fixed on the ends of the journals 4 which pinions
engage a rack 9 fitted in guide eyes 10 and 12 formed in the side frame 6.
The rack 9 is made with teeth 13 at the top to engage the pinions S on the inner
laths and underneath teeth 14 at each end to engage the pinions on the outer
laths 2 which are placed at a lower level than the inner ones. If the seat is
made with a fixed back instead of the reversible one 15, Figure 1, the teeth
at the bottom of the rack at the back are dispensed with as the back lath in
this case is on the same level as the others. The pinion 8 is made wider than
the others as shown in Figure 2 and engages a vertical rack 16 fitting a guide
eye 17 in the side frame and coupled at the bottom to the arm 18 projecting
from the foot piece 19 hinged at the front 20 to the top 21 of the tram-car or
other foundation.
The spring 22 stretched between the eye 23 in the side frame 6 and the
projection 24 on the rack 9 keeps the rack and laths in the reversed position
shown in Figure 3 but as soon as the foot piece 19 is depressed by a person
intending to use the seat stepping on to it the rack 16 turns the pinion 8
sufficiently to reverse the lath attached to it and a similar movement is communi-
cated to the other laths by the rack 9 coupling all the pinions together thus
bringing the laths into the position shown in Figure 4.
The laths preferably lie when not in use in a slightly inclined position as
shown in Figure 3 and a groove 26 is made along the top near the lower edge
of each lath and a rabbet 28 along the other edge so that rain or wet falling on
the top will drain off at one or both ends instead of running down to the
underside 27.
The knob.29 may be provided upon the top of the rack 16 by which the said
rack may be depressed to reverse the laths instead of or in addition to the foot
piece 19.
Having how particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said in-
vention and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what
I claim is:
1. A seat formed of reversible laths or bars, substantially as herein shown
and described.
2. A seat formed of reversible laths or bars fitted with pinions at the end
actuated by a rack operated by a foot piece or its equivalent, substantially as
herein shown and described.
3. The combination with the reversible laths or bars 2 fitted with pinions S,
of the rack 9 and the rack 16, substantially as herein shown and described and
for the purpose specified.
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Dated this Sth day of December 1899.