Improvements in Adjustable Seats for Wheeled Carriages.
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 20th Feb., 1896
Complete Specification Left, 19th Nov., 1896-Accepted, 30th Jan., 1897
Improvements in Adjustable Seats for Wheeled Carriages.
I, THOMAS SMITH, of 30 Grange Street Kilmarnock, in the County of Ayr,
North Britain, Coach Builder, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be
as follows, that is to say :-
My said invention has for its object to improve the construction and working of
parts which have to do with the adjustment of movable seats of wheeled carriages,
and to facilitate the accurate fitting or fixing of such parts.
In carrying out my invention I fix by screws to each side of the carriage body
the vertical web of a metal angle bar having a narrow horizontal web at its top
edge. To slide or run on each angle bar I provide a single long metal piece which
may be made in a single casting. This metal piece is made with sides fitting easily
on the inner and outer sides of the top web of the angle bar, and with two or more
plates which whilst connecting the sides project on each side, the projecting parts
being formed with holes to receive screws which fix the piece to the bottom of the
seat. By having the metal piece in a single length the difficulty in accurately
placing separate parts in relation to each other is avoided. At two suitable parts
of the metal piece antifriction rollers are fitted to it to run on the top of the angle
bar; and the metal piece has cast on it, or otherwise fixed to it a flange or two or
more short flanges which extending under the top horizontal flange of the angle
bar prevent the seat from rising off the angle bar.
One of the angle bars has holes formed in its vertical web, and the seat is fixed
in any position in which it is adjusted by a bolt fitted in a box which is fixed to
the seat bottom without that part having any recess formed in it to receive it.
The bolt is acted on by a hand lever which has applied to it a strong volute spring
tending to force the bolt into a hole of the angle bar and keep it there until it is
drawn out by means of the handle when the position of the seat is to be altered.
Dated this Nineteenth day of February 1896.
EDMUND HUNT,
Applicant's Agent.
Improvements in Adjustable Seats for Wheeled Carriages.
I, THOMAS SMITH, of 30, Grange Street, Kilmarnock, in the County of Ayr,
North Britain, Coach Builder, 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 has for its object to improve the construction and working of
parts which have to do with the adjustment of movable seats of wheeled carriages,
and to facilitate the accurate fitting or fixing of such parts.

page_text: The manner of carrying out my invention is hereinafter particularly described
with the aid of a sheet of explanatory drawings which is hereunto appended.
Figures, 1, and 2, of the drawings are transverse and longitudinal vertical
sections showing parts of the carriage body with the adjustable seat and parts
connected therewith.
Figures, 3, and 4, are a plan and a side elevation showing parts to be fixed to
the under side of the seat.
Figure, 5, is an inner side elevation of a piece to be fixed to the inner side of the
carriage body.
Figure, 6, is an enlarged transverse vertical section of some parts shown in
Figures, 1, and 2; and
Figures, 7, 8, and 9, are views of a lock applied to hold the seat in any position
in which it may be adjusted.
In these drawings the same reference letters are used to mark the same or like
parts wherever they are repeated.
In my improved arrangement there is fixed by screws to each side, A, of the
carriage body the vertical web of a metal angle bar, B, having a narrow horizontal
web at its top edge. To slide or run on each angle bar, B, I provide a single long
metal piece, C, (shown enlarged in Figures, 3, and 4) which may be made in a
single casting. This metal piece, C, is made with sides, D, fitting easily on the
inner and outer sides of the top web of the angle bar, B, and with two or more
plates, E, which whilst connecting the sides, D, project on each side, the projecting
parts being formed with holes to receive screws which fix the piece to the bottom
of the seat, K. By having the metal piece, C, for each side of the seat, in a
single length the difficulty in accurately placing separate parts in relation to each
other is avoided. At two suitable parts of the metal piece, C, antifriction
rollers, F, are fitted to it to run on the top of the angle bar, B; and the metal
piece, C, may have cast on it or otherwise fixed to it a flange or two or more short
flanges or equivalent parts which extending under the top horizontal flange of the
angle bar, B, prevent the seat from rising off the angle bar. I find a convenient
arrangement of this part of the apparatus to consist of downward extensions, G,
of the inner side of the metal piece, which parts involve no difficulties in casting,
and in which inwardly extending pins, H, are riveted.
The angle bar, B, at one side has holes, J, formed in its vertical web, and the
seat, K, is fixed in any position in which it is adjusted by a bolt, L, fitted in a box
or lock, M, which is fixed to the bottom of the seat, K, without that part having
any recess formed in it to receive it. The bolt, L, is acted on by a handled
lever, N, which has applied to it a strong volute spring, P, tending to force the bolt
into a hole in the angle bar, B, and keep it there until it is drawn out by means of
the handle when the position of the seat is to be altered.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inveu-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
1. The combination of parts constituting my improved apparatus for adjustable
seats for wheeled carriages substantially as berein before described.
2. The fixing. to each. side. of an adjustable carriage, seat. a single long metal
piece fitted with two or more antifriction rollers and formed with guide flanges
substantially as herein before described.
Dated this Eighteenth day of November 1896.
EDMUND HUNT,
Applicant's Agent.