Improvements relating to the Seats of School Desks.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 14th Nov., 1891
Complete Specification Left, 15th Aug.. 1892-Accepted, 24th Sept., 1892
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements relating to the Seats of School Desks.
I, TOM CRUWYs, of 49, Caroline Street, Camden Town, in the County of
Middlesex, Manufacturer of School Furniture etc., do hereby declare the nature of
this invention to be as follows:-
My invention relates to that class of seats for school desks which are adapted to
be turned to afford standing room between the seat and the desk.
According to my invention I mount the seat upon two or more short pivots in
the form of bolts, passed through sockets secured to the seat and through the seat
standards. The supports for the back of the seat are formed with, or connected to
the seat standards at a short distance below the tops thereof and extend backwards
and upwards, whereby the seat can be turned up into a vertical position behind the
standards and thus afford greater standing room than heretofore between the seat
and the desk on a given amount of floor space as by my construction I am enabled
to place the seat standards and back-support nearer to the desk than hitherto.
The bolt sockets are advantageously provided with recesses in which are placed
pieces of leather, india-rubber or like material, adapted to be forced more or less
tightly against the pivots by means of set-screws or the like, in order to produce
sufficient friction to prevent the seat from falling and for rendering the pivots
noiseless.
I sometimes curve the bases of the seat standards inwards in order to bring the
standards and pivots at a greater distance from the ends of the seats than hitherto,
whereby the risk of the fingers being pinched between the seat and standards when
lowering the seat is avoided.
Dated the 14th do…. £ N
1001
G. F. REDFERN & Co.,
4, South Street, Finsbury, London, Agents for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements relating to the Seats of School Desks.
I, TOM CRUWYS, of 49, Caroline Street, Camden Town, in the County of
Middlesex, Manufacturer of School Furniture &c. 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 that class of seats for school desks which are adapted to
be turned to afford standing room between the seat and the desk.
In the accompanying drawing,
Figure 1 is a plan of a school desk embodying my improvements :
Figure 2 is a vertical section of the same on the line A B of Figure 1; and,
Figure 3 is a section drawn to an enlarged scale on the line C D of Figure 2.
Similar letters in all the figures indicate similar parts.
a is the desk, and b, b are the desk standards of ordinary construction.
c is the seat, d, d are the seat standards which in the drawing are shewn as cast
in one with the desk standards b; e the back, f,f the supports therefor, and g, g
the bases of the seat and desk standards.
According to my invention I mount the seat c upon two or
more short
pivots, in the form of bolts, passed through sockets i, i secured to the
seat and through the seat standards, as most clearly shewn in Figure 3.
The supports, ƒ for the back e of the seat are cast with (or connected
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page_text: to) the seat standards d, d at a short distance below the tops thereof, as shewn at j,
in Figure 2 and extend backwards and upwards, whereby the seat can be turned
up into a vertical position behind the standards d, d, as indicated by the dotted
lines in Figure 2, and thus afford greater standing room than heretofore between'
the seat c and the desk a on a given amount of floor space. By this construction
also I am enabled to place the scat standards d, d and back supports f, nearer to
the desk a. than heretofore, thus economizing floor space.
The bolt sockets i, i are advantageously provided with recesses k, k (shewn in
Figure 3) in which are placed pieces of leather, india-rubber or like material 1, 1
adapted to be forced more or less tightly against the pivots h, h by means of set-
screws m, m or the like, in order to produce sufficient friction to prevent the
-seat c from falling and for rendering the pivots noiseless.
I sometimes curve the bases g, g of the standards inwards, as shewn at n, n in
Figure 1, in order to bring the seat standards d, d and pivots h, hat a greater
distance from the ends of the seat c than hitherto, whereby the risk of the fingers
being pinched between the seat and standards when lowering the seat is avoided.
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 improvements relating to the seats of school desks herein before described and
illustrated in the accompanying drawing.
D
1000
1003
16th day of August 1892.
G. F. REDFERN & Co.,
4, South Street, Finsbury, London, Agents for the Applicant.
G. F. REDFERN & Co.,
:
4, South Street, Finsbury, London, Agents for the Applicant.