Safety Seat or Cover for Closet Seats and a Bag or Carrier for the same.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 20th Sept., 1892-Accepted, 29th Oct., 1892
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Safety Seat or Cover for Closet Seats and a Bag or Carrier for
the same.
I, ELISA LIEPMAN PRINS of 7 Rue de l'Empereur, Antwerp, in the Kingdom
of Belgium, Merchant, 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, reference being had to the accompanying
drawings and to the figures and letters marked thereon:-
The herein described safety seat or cover for closet seats has the object of
protecting the public, and especially the travelling public, against contagion which
takes place daily and which may prove fatal.
For greater convenience and to facilitate transport the apparatus is made in
two pieces capable of being folded together and it is preferably made of aluminium
although other suitable kind of material may be employed and the seat or cover
may be conveniently placed upon any closet.
Figure 3. is an end view, and
Figure 4. is a plan or top view of a bag with the seat or cover arranged therein
for transport. The side of the bag in Figure 2 is removed for facility of
explanation.
The apparatus is composed of two half cylinders which when placed together
form the cylinder a see Figure 1, which is connected at its upper side or end with
a flange which is more or less nearly round. The flange is also made in two
pieces which are joined together truly by two hinges d and when out of use may
be placed one against the other.
This safety seat or cover will be placed in a specially constructed bag or carrier
which is provided with spaces or recesses in the end portions of the mouth frame
adjacent to the hinges to receive the extended or projecting ends of the hinges
of the safety seat or cover which extended or projecting ends of the hinges rest
upon the hinges of the bag or carrier.
When the apparatus is about to be used the safety seat or cover is taken out
of the before mentioned bag or carrier and the halves of the flanges b. b. which
were closed together are opened out so that the half cylinders a form a cylinder.
When in this position the safety seat or cover may be placed upon any closet
with the flanges & resting on the closet seat and the cylinder a passing a short
distance down the opening.
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 :-
:-
1. A safety seat or cover for closets and a bag or carrier for the same con-
structed and used substantially as herein shown and described.
2. A safety seat or cover for closets consisting of two half cylinders, forming
when placed properly together a cylinder, flanges connected to such half cylinders
and hinges connecting the two flanges together, the said flanges and half cylinders
being capable of being folded together for transport and of being opened out for
use substantially as herein shown and described.
3. A bag or carrier for a safety seat or cover for closets formed with recesses
or spaces in the end portious of the mouth frame to receive extended or projecting
portions of hinges connecting the two parts of the seat or cover together, such
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page_text: projecting or extended portions of the hinges when in the bag or carrier resting
on the hinges of the latter substantially as herein shown and described.
Dated September 20th 1892.
E. L. PRINS,
By Harris & Mills,
23, Southampton Buildings, London, W.C., Agents.