IMPROVEMENTS IN RECLINING, EASY, AND OTHER CHAIRS."
Year: 1862

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Alfred Charles Ebbutt, Upholsterer, of 25, Blackman
Street, Boro' of Southwark, and 20, 33, and 34, High Street, Croydon,
in the County of Surrey, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN RECLINING,
EASY, AND OTHER CHAIRS."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Alfred Charles Ebbutt
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
13th February 1862.
I, ALFRED CHARLES EBBUTT, Upholsterer, of 25, Blackman Street, Boro'
of Southwark, and 20, 33, and 34, High Street, Croydon, in the County of
Surrey, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS
IN RECLINING, EASY, AND OTHER CHAIRS," to be as follows:-
and
My Invention relates chiefly to reclining chairs, with wooden or metal
frames, of any shape or description. It consists in lowering or altering the
inclination of the back and seat by means of a wood or wood and metal frame
(to which the back is fastened) being hinged on the bottom frame of the
chair, and on which frame (or rollers attached thereto) rests a hinged seat,
which arrangement by the action of a person sitting in the chair the
back and seat may be raised or inclined to any desired position, and retained
in such position by means of a spring catch and toothed quadrant; which
catch is drawn back by handles conveniently placed at the sides or elsewhere.
Instead of a spring catch and quadrant, a spring bolt and perforated plate
may be made to answer the same purpose.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Alfred Charles Ebbutt in the Great Seal Patent Office on
the 12th August 1862.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, ALFRED
CHARLES EBBUTT, of 25, Blackman Street, Boro' of Southwark, and 20, 33,
and 34, High Street, Croydon, in the County of Surrey, Upholsterer, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Thirteenth day of February, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-two, in the twenty-fifth year
of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant
unto me, the said Alfred Charles Ebbutt, Her special licence that I, the
said Alfred Charles Ebbutt, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or
such others as I, the said Alfred Charles Ebbutt, my executors, admi-
nistrators, and assigns, should at any time agree with, and no others, from
time to time and at all times thereafter during the term therein expressed,
should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend, within the United
Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of
Man, an Invention for "AN IMPROVED SELF-ADJUSTING PRINCIPLE TO BE APPLIED
TO RECLINING, EASY, AND OTHER CHAIRS," upon the condition (amongst others)
that I, the said Alfred Charles Ebbutt, my executors or administrators, by an
instrument in writing under my, or their, or one of their hands and seals,
should particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the said Invention,
and in what manner the same was to be performed, and cause the same to
be filed in the Great Seal Patent Office within six calendar months next
and immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Alfred Charles Ebbutt, do hereby
declare the nature of my said 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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My Invention relates chiefly to reclining chairs, with wooden or metal frames,
of any shape or description. It consists in lowering or altering the inclination
of the back and seat by means of
wood and metal frame to which
the back is fastened, being hinged on the bottom frame of the chair, and on
which frame or rollers attached thereto rests a hinged seat, and by which
arrangement by the action of a person sitting in the chair the back and seat
may be raised or inclined to any desired position, and retained in such position
by means of a spring catch and toothed quadrant; which catch is drawn back

page_text: by handles conveniently placed at the sides, or elsewhere. Instead of a spring
catch and quadrant a spring bolt and perforated plate may be made to
answer the same purpose.
Figure 1 is a side view, and Figure 2 the spring catch I use for fixing the
back at the desired inclination; Figure 3 is the plan of the bottom frame of the
chair, with the wood or wood and metal frame to which the back is fastened
with the spring catch fixed thereto, and the hinged seat A, A, is the bottom
frame for the seat of the chair to be hinged to; B is the toothed quadrant fixed
to the side of the bottom frame A, A, and passing through a slot in the spring
catch C; C is the spring catch fastened to the top of the wood or wood and
metal frame E, E, in such a position that the toothed quadrant B will pass
through a slot e in the spring catch C, as shewn in Figure 2; D, D, is the
back frame fastened to the wood or wood and metal frame A, A; F, F, is the
seat, which is hinged in the front a to the bottom frame A, A, in Figure 2;
d is the spring, which presses the handle c across the slot e, through which
passes the toothed quadrant B, and which retains the back D, D, and the
seat F, F, in position until the handle C is drawn back.
And having now described the nature of my said Invention, and in what
manner the same is to be performed, I declare that I claim as my improve-
ment in reclining chairs, the altering of the inclination of the backs thereof and
the fixing of them at any inclination required by means of a toothed quadrant
and spring catch working in the manner herein-before described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Alfred Charles Ebbutt, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Thirteenth day of February, One thousand
eight hundred and sixty-two..
ALFRED CHARLES EBBUTT. (L.S.)