Improvements in Combined Rocking and Rotating Chairs.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 11th July, 1893
Complete Specification Left, 25th Jan., 1894-Accepted, 3rd Mar., 1894
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Combined Rocking and Rotating Chairs.
I, LEROY CLEMENT LAZEAR, of 1007 Chicago Opera House Block, Chicago,
Illinois, United States of America, Gentleman, do hereby declare the nature of
this invention to be as follows:-
This invention will be best understood by reference to the accompanying
drawings.
Figure 1, being a plan view of the platform;
Figure 2, side view of chair with parts broken away;
Figure 3, a part sectional and side view;
Figures 4, 5, 6, 7 and 8 are details.
A, is the seat, B, the back, C the chair frame, D the rocker frame. The
two frames are secured together by the pieces E, shaped as shown to receive
the side bars of both frames, and secured thereto by the screws F, F. G, G are,
the side bars of the platform frame on which the rockers rest, and H J are
brackets on rocker and side bar respectively between and to which are secured
the springs K. These side bars are continuous with the funnel-shaped piece L,
which has a lower cylindrical portion M. The leg frame consists of the ring N,
the inner cylinder O, and the connecting inclined portions P, P, between which
the legs R, are secured. S, S are rollers or balls on the ends of the legs. At the
lower end of the cylinder O, is the plate T, and at the lower end of the cylinder M,
the wide screw-threaded plate T', and between the two, the ring T2, having the
apertures T3, to receive the friction balls T. Between the ring M, and the ring
shaped upper portion of the part L is the similar ring U having the recesses U³,
to receive. the friction balls U².
It is clear that the seat frame C, can be adjusted back and forth along the
rockers D to accommodate seats proper of different sizes and shapes, by the re-setting
of the screws F, and moving the pieces E. The weight of the chair falls upon
the piece L, and thence, upon the friction balls U2, which bear upon the ring N.
By setting the screw-plate T, against the friction balls T, any degree of tightness
may be made so as to keep the parts securely in position. The chair, as clearly
seen, is a rocking-chair, also a rotating chair."
Dated this 11th day of July 1893.
FREDERIC PRINCE,
Agent for Applicant.
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COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Combined Rocking and Rotating Chairs.
I, LEROY CLEMENT. LAZEAR, of 1007, Chicago Opera House Block, Chicago,
Illinois, United States of America, Gentleman, 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 will be best understood by reference to the drawings filed with
the Provisional Specification, which are adopted as part of this Specification.
Figure 1, being a plan view of the platform:
Figure 2, side view of chair with parts broken away:
Figure 3, a part sectional and side view:
Figures 4. 5. 6. 7 and 8 are details

page_text: A is the seat, B the back, C the chair frame, D the rocker frame. The two
frames are secured together by the pieces E, shaped as shown to receive the
side bars of both frames, and secured thereto by the screws F, F. G, G are
side bars of the platform frame on which the rockers rest, and H J are brackets
on rocker and side bar respectively between and to which are secured the
springs K. These side bars are continuous with the funnel-shaped piece L, which
has a lower cylindrical portion M. The leg frame consists of the ring N, the
inner cylinder O, and the connecting inclined portions P, P between which the
legs R are secured.
.
S, S are rollers or balls on the ends of the legs. At the lower end of the
cylinder is a plate T, and at the lower end of the cylinder M,.the wide screw-
threaded plate T₁, and between the two, the ring T2, having the apertures T³, to
receive the friction balls T. Between the ring N, and the ring-shaped upper
portion of the part L is the similar ring U having the recesses U¹, to receive the
friction balls U².
It is clear that the seat frame C can be adjusted back and forth along the
rockers D to accommodate seats proper of different sizes and shapes, by re-setting
the screws F, and moving the pieces E. The weight of the chair falls upon the
piece L, and thence upon the friction balls U2, which bear upon the ring N. By
setting the screw-plate T', against the friction balls T, any degree of tightness
may be made so as to keep the parts securely in position. The chair, as clearly
seen, is a rocking chair, also a rotating chair.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this inven
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is :-
:-
1. An elevated rotating rocking-chair, substantially as shown and described.
2. In an elevated rotating rocking chair, the combination of a rocking chair with
a rocker platform on which it rests, supporting legs and a platform thereon, and
intermediate rollers between the rocker platform and the supporting platform so
that the chair may be rocked and rotated simultaneously.
3. In an elevated, rotating rocking chair, the combination of a chair with
rockers, a platform on which the rockers rest, springs which tend to keep the chair
in its normal position associated with the rocker platform, supporting legs and
platform on which the rocker platform rests so that the chair rocking platform
and springs retain their relative positions, and are capable of rotation upon the
supporting platform.
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4. In an elevated, rotating rocking chair, the combination of a chair, with
rockers thereon, with a platform on which the rockers rest, springs connecting the
platform and rockers so as to tend to keep the rockers in a normal position, legs,
supporting platform, intermediate anti-friction bearings between the two platforms,
a central downwardly projecting pivot on the chair platform, and a socket to receive
the same, associated with the legs.
Dated this 24th day of January 1894.
FREDERIC PRINCE,
37, Cursitor Street, Chancery Lane, London,
Agent for Applicant.