Improvements in Folding Stools Convertible into Tables.
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 19th Aug., 1896-Accepted, 3rd Oct., 1896
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Folding Stools Convertible into Tables.
I, LEOPOLD WORMSER, of Dinslaken in the Empire of Germany, Manager of
the Jowish Orphaunge, 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 :-
This invention relates to a folding stool so constructed and adapted that two or
more of such stools can be connected or combined together to form a table.
In the accompanying sheet of drawings
Figure 1 is a front view of a stool constructed in accordance with my invention.
Figure 2 is a front view of several such stools connected or combined together s0
as to form a table.
Figure 3 is a side view of the stools shown in Figure 2, and
Figure 4 is a side view of three stools similar to that shown in Figure 1
connected together so as to form a table.
The cross shaped metal sockets b, which are pivotted on a bolt a, receive the
legs o, preferably made of hard wood; the lower end of each of these legs is
provided with a ferrule d; the upper ends of the legs c are connected together by
means of the cloth e which forms the seat, and are also provided with ferrulos d.
Sockets are fixed to these latter ferrules, and they serve to receive the longi-
tudinal bars g. To these lattor bars are hung the table leaves i by means of the
chains .
If, for example, four such stools are to be connected or combined together so as
to form a table, they are placed in pairs one on the other and each pair in juxta-
position with the next pair, as shown in Figures 2 and 3, so that the lower ends of
the legs of one stool rest on the upper ends of the legs of the ono below. The
ends of the legs thus resting on one another are then connected together by means
of pins m; the table leaves i of the uppermost stools are then or previously turned
up from their respective sides and laid over on to the bars g, enda of which are
then connected together by pins o passing through the said bars and their sockets n,
and the table thus prepared is ready for use.
In Figure 4 is shown a table which consists of three of the stools arranged and
connected together side by sido without other stools below them.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said
invention, and in what mauner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is :-
First. A folding stool provided with table leaves i which can be turned up from
their respective sides, aud laid over on to the bars g fixed to the upper ends of the
legs, and carrying the cloth forming the seat; so ns to enable the stool to be used
as a table substantially as described.
Second. In a folding stool of the kind herein described the devices which
consist of the table leaves i, and the sockets f secured to the upper ends of the
legs of the stool, and having the said table leaves hung thereto, the said sockets
receiving the ends of the longitudinal bara g, and serving to connect the stcol

page_text: sidewise to another of similar construction so as to form a table, substantially as
described.
Dated this 18th day of August 1896.
L. WORMSER,
Per W. H. Beck,
115 Cannon Street, London, E.C., Agent.