Improvements in Seats for Tramway Cars, Omnibuses, and other Exposed Seats.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 30th May, 1892
Complete Specification Left, 23th Feb., 1893-Accepted, 1st Apr., 1893
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Seats for Tramway Cars, Omnibuses, and other
Exposed Seats.
We, EDWARD KENDALL PAYANT, of Liverpool Chambers, New Market
Place, Manchester, in the County of Lancaster, Engineer, and EMANUEL
WILLIAMS, of 12 Norfolk Street, Manchester aforesaid, Accountant, do hereby
declare the nature of this invention to be as follows :-
Our invention relates to improvements in seats for the outside of tramway cars
omnibuses and the like, and our improvements consist essentially in a combined
cover and back rest which is arranged to lie upon and cover the scat to protect it
from wet and bad weather when not in use; but which, when the seat is required,
can be raised upon its hinges or supports and turned back against a rail or stop to
form a back rest for the person using the seat. As soon as the person leaves the
seat the back falls automatically upon and covers the seat thereby protecting it
from bad weather until the seat is again required.
We have only mentioned tramcars and omnibuses; but it is obvious that our
improvements may be applied to garden and other seats exposed to the action of
the weather.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Seats for Tramway Cars, Omnibuses, and other
Exposed Seats.
We, EDWARD KENDALL PAYANT, of Liverpool Chambers, New Market
Place, Manchester, in the County of Lancaster, Engineer, and EMANUEL
WILLIAMS, of 12 Norfolk Street, Manchester aforesaid, Accountant, do hereby
declare the nature of this invention and in what manner the same is to be per-
formed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement:-
Our invention relates to improvements in seats for the outside of tramway cars
omnibuses and the like, and our improvements consist essentially in a combined
cover and back rest which is arranged to lie upon and cover the seat to protect it
from wet and bad weather when not in use; but which, when the seat is required,
can be raised upon its hinges or supports and turned back against a rail or stop to
form a back rest for the person using the seat. As soon as the person leaves the
seat the back falls automatically upon and covers the seat thereby protecting it
from bad weather until the seat is again required.
We have only mentioned tramcars and omnibuses; but it is obvious that our
improvements may be applied to garden and other seats exposed to the action of
the weather.
And in order that our invention may be fully understood and readily carried into
effect we will describe the accompanying sheet of drawings reference being had to
the figures and letters marked thereon.
Fig. 1 is a front elevation and Fig. 2 is a plan of a seat for two persons to which
our invention is applied.
a a are the seats in this case made of perforated wood b b are strips of rubber or
other suitable material, preferably tapered, fitted round the edges of the seats to
keep the rain from entering when the covers are down; also to prevent jar and

page_text: noise when the covers fall; c c are the combined seat covers and back rests hinged
at f and d is a rail which supports the covers or back rests when they are raised;
ee are springs which bear against the back rests or covers when raised for use and
cause them to fall or cover the seats when not in use; any suitable form of springs
or counter weights may be used to cause the covers to fall.
Rubber strips may be fastened on the edges of the seat covers instead of on the
seats, or on both the seats and the covers in order to keep out water.
In dry weather the covers of the seats may he used to sit on and need not then
be raised.
Our invention may be applied to the seats of omnibuses cars tramways and
steamships and to garden seats and seats in exposed places generally and by the use
of our improvements the seats are kept dry and free from dust.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed we declare that what we
claim is
1. A combined automatically closing hinged seat cover and back rest substantially
as and for the purposes herein described.
2. The combination with a hinged seat cover and back rest of strips of rubber
or other suitable material substantially as and for the purposes herein described.
Dated this 27th day of February 1893.
H. B. BARLOW,
Agent for Applicants.