Improvements in Rocking and other Chairs.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 13:h Nov., 1894
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Complete Specification Left. 12th Aug., 1895-Accepted, 14th Sept., 1895
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Rocking and other Chairs.
I, WILLIAM SEATON MCLENNAN, of 222, Whitehill Street, in the County of
the City of Glasgow, North Britain, Chair Manufacturer, do hereby declare the
nature of this invention to be as follows, that is to say:-
My said invention comprises improved constructive details which whilst capable
of ornamental rendering, provide adjustability of certain parts of rocking and other
chairs so that when the chairs are used at different times or by different persons
the parts can be disposed in the most comfortable manner possible.
In carrying out my invention in the case of a rocking chair I have the seat with
the part of the back extending upwards from the seat, with the arms and with the
front legs or supports all rigidly connected. The bottoms of the front legs are
jointed to a pair of ordinary rockers, and there are also jointed to the rockers the
lower ends of a back frame constituting the back legs or support, whilst the upper
part of the back frame is connected to the upper back of the chair in a manner
allowing of the chair being more or less inclined backwards from an upright or
nearly upright position accordingly as the user of the chair desires a more or less
reclining position. In one simple modification of the parts the back frame is
provided with pins at its upper corners to engage each in one or other of a series
of notches formed in the side pieces of the upper back part; and locking devices
are provided to prevent displacement of the pins when placed as may be desired.
The rockers have jointed to them near their front ends, a foot rest which can be
turned over outwards when desired.
A further improvement applicabie to rocking and other chairs consists in fitting
an adjustable head rest or top roll to the top of the chair back. According to one
modification the head rest is of a horizontal cylindrical or oval form and is held by
end spindles fitted to it eccentrically and admitting of its being adjusted with its
front surface higher or lower or forward or backward. The spindles pass through
the upper ends of the side pieces of the chair back, and the head rest is fixed in
any position by a screwing or other device.
The head rest, whether held eccentrically or not, may be made adjustable up or
down on the chair back by means of vertical screws or equivalent mechanism.
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Dated this Twelfth day of November 1894.
EDMUND HUNT,
Applicant's Agent.
Improvements in Rocking and other Chairs.
I, WILLIAM SEATON MCLENNAN, of 222, Whitehill Street, in the County of
the City of Glasgow, North Britain, Chair Manufacturer, 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, that is
to say :-
My said invention comprises improved constructive details which whilst capable

page_text: of ornamental rendering, provide adjustability of certain parts of rocking and other
chairs so that when the chairs are used. at different times or by different persons
the parts can be disposed in the most comfortable manner possible.
In carrying out my invention in the case of a rocking chair I have the seat with
the part of the back extending upwards from the seat, with the arms and with the
front legs or supports all rigidly connected. The bottoms of the front legs are
jointed to a pair of ordinary rockers, and there are also jointed to the rockers the
lower ends of a back frame constituting the back legs or support, whilst the upper
part of the back frame is connected to the upper back of the chair as hereinafter
described in a manner allowing of the chair-being more or less: inclined backwards
from an upright or nearly upright position accordingly as the user of the chair
desires a more or less reclining position.
The invention also comprises, an improved adjustable bead rest. hereinafter
described.
And in order that my said; invention and the manner of performing the same
may be properly. understood, I hereunto appendi a sheet of explanatory drawings,.
to be hereinafter referred to, and showing by way of example, a rocking chair as
made with my improvements.
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Figures, 1, and 2, are elevations as at right angles to each other a detail' in: the
latter being broken away for clearness.
Figure, 3, is a vertical section of a detail, taken to correspond with Figure; 1.
In these drawings the same reference letters are used to mark the same or like
parts wherever they are repeated.
I have. the seat, A, of the rocking chair, with the part, B, of the back extending
upwards from the seat, with the arms, C, and with the-front legs or supports, Dj.
all rigidly connected. The bottoms of the front legs, D; are jointed to a pair of
ordinary rockers, E, and there are also jointed to the rockers the lower ends of: a
back frame, G, constituting the back legs or support, whilst the upper part off the
back frame is connected to the upper back, B, of the chair in a manner allowing of:
the chair being more or less inclined' backwards. The back frame, G, is provided
with pins, H, at its upper corners to engage each in one or other of a series of
notches, J, formed in the side pieces, L, of the upper back part, B; and locking
devices, (consisting at each side of a strap, M, centered at its upper end to the side
piece and held near its bottom end by a lever cateh, N, fixed to the side piece) are
provided to prevent displacement of the pins when placed as may be desired. In.
Figure, 1, one strap, M, is shown in dotted lines as swung clear from the side
piece, L, and in Figure, 2, the right hand strap is shown broken away to enable
the notches, J, in the side piece to be seen. The rockers, E, have jointed to them,
near their front ends, a foot rest, P, which can be turned over inwards wher
desired.
A further improvement applicable to rocking and other chairs consists in fitting
an adjustable head rest or top roll, Q, to the top of the chair back, B. As shown
in the drawings the head rest, Q, is of a horizontal cylindrical form (or it might be
of an oval form) and is held by screws, R, forming end spindles, screwed into it
eccentrically, and admitting of its being adjusted with its front surface higher or 4
lower or forward or backward. The screw spindles, R, pass through the upper
ends of the side pieces, L, of the chair, back, B, and the. head rest, Q, is fixed in
any position by tightening them.
The head rest, Q,,whether held eccentrically, or not, may be made adjustable up
or down on the chair back, B, by means of vertical screws or equivalent mechanism.
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 l
claim is:
1. In a rocking chair making the seat with the part of the back extending
upwards from the seat with the arms and with the front legs or supports all rigidly
connected, the bottoms of the front legs being jointed to rockers, and there being

page_text: also jointed to the rockers the lower ends of a back frame the upper parts of which
are adjustably connected to the chair back substantially in the manner and for the
purposes hereinbefore described.
2. In rocking and other chairs a head rest of horizontal cylindrical or oval form
held in the chair back by screws, formning end spindles and screwed into it
eccentrically substantially as and for the purposes hereinbefore described.
Dated this Tenth day of August 1895.
EDMUND HUNT,
Applicant's Agent.