A New or Improved Interchangeable Table and Invalid's Chair.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 10th Nov., 1892-Accepted, 10th Dec., 1892
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
A New or Improved Interchangeable Table and Invalid's Chair.
I CHARLES EDWARD DENING of 15, Hawley Street, Margate, Cabinet Maker,
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 new or improved interchangeable table and invalid's
chair, and has for its object a table and chair combined, (the latter for use more
especially for spinal affections) that can be rapidly and readily interchanged or
altered from one form to the other, and also be capable of packing into a small
compass for transport and similar purposes.
And in order that my invention may be the more readily understood, I have
shewn same upon the accompanying sheet of drawings, wherein :
Fig. 1 is a perspective view of my invention as it appears when used as a
table.
Fig. 2 being a view of same when transformed into an invalid's chair, or back-
board, while
Fig. 3 shews the combined table and chair folded and packed ready for transport
or the like.
A. is the main leaf, having hinged to either end the leaves a¹, which are
provided respectively with pivotal supports or other suitable and well known
means for maintaining the said end leaves or flaps in a horizontal position when
necessary.
Legs or trestles bare provided, hinged to the underneath of the main or central
leaf a and capable of folding up and lying close along the underside of same as
shown at Figs. 1 and 2.
A seat d and foot-rest e are provided, being fixed in the position shown in Fig. 2,
by means of pins which are passed through the eyes d¹ and e¹ of the seat and
foot-rest, and enter slots or perforations 7 provided for the purpose in the sides of
the main or central leaf a as shown.
When the invention is in use as a table the seat d and foot-reste will hang down
beneath same as shown in Fig. 1, but when transformed into a spinal-chair or back-
board, the said seat and foot-rest will be caused to assume the position on the upper
side of the same shown in Fig. 2.
The seat d and foot-rest e would further be provided with bracket-pieces e', e²,
for the purpose of maintaining the said seat and foot-rest in the desired position.
When the combined interchangeable table and spinal chair or back-board is
required to be packed for transporting or similar purposes, (Fig. 3) the legs or
trestles are folded close to the main or central leaf a (over the seat d and foot-
rest e which have previously been folded down). The two end leaves a¹ are then
folded and kept in that position by means of a cross-bar a².
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
ion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
The combined interchangeable table and invalid's chair or back-board, com-
prising hinged legs or trestles, and a removably fixed seat and foot-rest, in
combination with a central or main leaf and two end hinged leaves, one of which
as, together with the said central or main leaf, perforations or slots formed in
Price di

page_text: the sides thereof for the insertion of pins for holding the seat and foot-rest in
position, substantially as described and illustrated in accompanying drawings.
Dated this 10th day of November 1892.
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HUGHES, SON & Co.,
38, Chancery Lane, London, W.C., Agents for the Applicant.