Improvements in or relating to Seats, Cushions, and the like.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 23rd Aug., 1893
Complete Specification Left, 23rd May, 1894--Accepted, 18th Aug., 1894
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or relating to Seats, Cushions, and the like.
I, HENRY WESTON, of 64 Church Street, Shoreditch, in the County of
Middlesex, Doctor of Dentistry, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to
be as follows:-
My invention relates to seats, cushions, saddle covers, and the like and has for
its object to produce such articles that shall be very airy or well ventilated, light
and cheap to make.
The chief feature of my invention relates to the provision of open channels or
passages through the articles to allow of the free circulation of air therethrough
whereby the said articles are kept cool and fresh.
My said improved seats, cushions, saddle covers, and the like are made of two or
more layers of flexible material separated by narrow strips, blocks or standards of
the same or of different material arranged at suitable intervals to form the said
channels. The said strips, blocks, or standards are preferably fastened to the said
layers by cement or otherwise. In some cases the said articles may consist of one
layer only of material with its appropriate strips or blocks. I prefer also that
the layer or layers of material shall be perforated in addition to having the
channels formed therein by the strips or standards before mentioned.
I may make my improved seats, cushions, saddle covers, and the like of felt,
cloth, rubber, leather and the like, or of combinations of these materials, either
of the natural, or self-colour, or coloured and otherwise ornamented as may be
desired.
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1000
HASELTINE, LAKE & Co.,
45, Southampton Buildings, London, W.C., Agents for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or relating to Seats, Cushions, and the like.
I, HENRY WESTON, of 64 Church Street, Shoreditch, in the County of
Middlesex, Doctor of Dentistry, 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:-
My invention relates to seats, cushions, saddle covers, and the like and has for
its object to produce such articles that shall be very airy or well ventilated, light
and cheap to make.
The chief feature of my invention relates to the provision of open channels or
passages through the articles to allow of the free circulation of air therethrough
whereby the said articles are kept cool and fresh.
My said improved seats, cushions, saddle covers, and the like are made of two or
more layers of flexible material separated by narrow strips, blocks or standards of
the same or of different material arranged at suitable intervals to form the said
channels. The said strips, blocks, or standards are preferably fastened to the said
layers by cement or otherwise. In some cases the seats or the like may consist of
one layer only of material with its appropriate strips or blocks supported upon a
rigid or other base. I prefer also that the layer or layers of material shall be

page_text: perforated in addition to having the channels formed therein by the strips or
standards before mentioned.
In the accompanying drawing
Figure 1 is a plan of a portion of a seat or the like constructed according to my
invention.
Figure 2 is a section on the line a, a, Figure 1.
A is one layer of material and B is a second layer of material separated from
the first by strips C, C. The space between the layers is thus divided into
channels Ď through which air can freely pass. The two layers A and B are
perforated as shewn at A', A'¹, B', B¹.
I sometimes use blocks or standards instead of the strips so that the seat will be
channelled in two or more different directions instead of in one direction only as
shewn in the drawing.
I may make my improved seats, cushions, saddle covers, and the like of felt,
cloth, rubber, leather and the like, or of combinations of these materials, either
of the natural or self-colour, or coloured and otherwise ornamented as may be
desired.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
A seat, cushion, saddle-cover or the like made of two or more layers of flexible
material, perforated or not, and separated by strips, blocks or the like arranged to
form channels or passages between the layers, substantially as described and for the
purpose specified.“
Dated ins zoru uay or may 1074.
HASELTINE, LAKE & Co.,
45, Southampton Buildings, London, W.C., Agents for the Applicant.