IMPROVEMENTS IN ADJUSTABLE OR FOLDING TABLES, CHAIRS, AND SIMILAR ARTICLES
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by William Robert Lake at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents on the 14th September 1883. Communicated
to him from abroad by Charles Edmond François Couturier of Paris, France,
Dramatic Author.
WILLIAM ROBERT LAKE, of the firm of Haseltine, Lake, and Co., Patent Agents,
Southampton Buildings, London "IMPROVEMENTS IN ADJUSTABLE OR FOLDING
TABLES, CHAIRS, AND SIMILAR ARTICLES" [A communication to him from abroad
by Charles Edmond François Couturier of Paris, France, Dramatic Author]
This invention relates to folding tables chairs or stools and comprises a folding
table or stool the legs of which are jointed to a central cross-bar provided with a
slot in which moves a pin secured to a sliding piece which carries two flaps forming
the seat of the stool or the top of the table.
When the said sliding piece is pushed to the end of its course the said pin
impinges against an upper part of the above mentioned slot whereby the said
sliding piece is caused to turn upon the said pin and assume a horizontal position
with its flaps, in which position it may be secured by any suitable locking
mechanism, the flaps being supported by two legs which are secured in place by
means of springs fixed upon the said flaps.
When the table or stool is folded up the flaps which are hinged to the sliding
piece fold back into a space formed between the said legs.
In carrying this invention into practice I provide a central bar integral with a leg
to which are hinged the two other legs of the table or stool. This arrangement
permits the folding of the said two legs upon the other leg.
Upon the said central bar is screwed laterally a bar of copper or other suitable
metal which forms a slide; and the upper part of which is folded back upon one of
the legs. In a slot forined in the said central bar moves a pin which is fixed to the
sliding piece upon which are articulated, by means of hinges, the flaps forming the
sent of the stool or the top of the table.
The above described arrangement is not only applicable to stools but also to all
kinds of seats tables and like articles, and I may modify the shape and dimension
of the different parts and make use of any suitable material in their construction
without departing from the nature of this invention

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Alfred Julius Boult at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents on the 14th September 1883. A_communi-
cation from Louis Maurier of Montreuil, Bellay in the Republic of France
$4
ALFRED JULIUS BOULT of 323 High Holborn in the County of Middlesex,
Engineer, IMPROVEMENTS IN FASTENINGS FOR BOOTS, LEGGINGS, GLOVES AND
SIMILAR ARTICLES [a communication from Louis Maurier of Montreuil, Bellay in
the Republic of France]
"
This invention relates to improvements in fastenings for boots shoes, leggings
gloves and the like.
One form of this fastening consists of two independent pieces each furnished at
one end with an eyelet (or its equivalent) for attaching it to the article for which
it is to serve.
The one part, which may be called the female part may be made in two pieces
hinged together, so as to facilitate the use thereof. The front end has an opening
of peculiar shape bounded by curves and presenting a larger diameter in one
direction than in another.
The second, or male, part carries a stud which is free to rotate and corresponds
in shape with the opening of the female part so that when properly adjusted it
will readily pass in or out of said opening, but when turned will be firmly locked
therein
In a modified form of this fastening the female part has two hinged pieces each
with an aperture; by either opening out or folding up this female part the length
of the fastening is readily varied, the stud of the male part passing either through
one or both hinged pieces.
In a further modification the female part has a straight piece on which there is
a spring carrying a tooth or cam; there is another piece with two or more
openings for receiving this tooth, the second piece sliding on the first. At the end
of the second or sliding piece there is provided the aperture for receiving the stud
on the male part. By causing the spring-tooth to engage in different apertures the
length of the fastening is varied.