Improvements in Music Stools, Applicable also to other Seats.
Year: 1888

page_text: Date of Application, 15th Dec., 1888
Complete Specification Left, 14th Sept., 1889-Accepted, 9th Nov., 1889
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Music Stools, Applicable also to other Seats.
We HERBERT ASHTON of Rushbank Middleton Road, builder and GEORGE LEES of
122 Greengate Street, Professor of Music, both of Oldham in the County of Lancaster
do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention is designed principally to be applied to music stools for the purpose
of raising and lowering the level of the seat as required, but it is also applicable to
other kinds of seats which require to be raised or lowered.
A
The seat is arranged to rise and fall in the following manner. At each corner a
vertical rack is secured to the scut, and works in suitable slides in the frame.
vertical motion is given to these racks by four toothed wheels carried by two
horizontal shafts.
Each of these shafts also carries a worm wheel and the two worm wheels are actuated
by two worms (one right hand and the other left hand) carried by a horizontal shaft,
mounted at right angles to the former ones.
This shaft projects beyond the ends of the stool, and is provided with two knobs or
handles for actuating the same by hand.
AT
3000
GEORGE DAVIES,
4, St. Ann's Square, Manchester, Agent for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Music Stools, Applicable also to other Seats.
We HERBERT ASHTON of Rushbank Middleton Road, builder and GEORGE LEES of
122 Greengate Street Professor of Music both of Oldham in the County of Lancaster,
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 is designed principally to be applied to music stools for the purpose
of raising and lowering the level of the seat as required, but it is also applicable to
other kinds of seats which require to be raised or lowered.
The nature of the said invention and the manner in which the same is to be
performed or carried into practical effect will be readily understood on reference to
the annexed sheet of drawings and the following explanation thereof.
Fig. 1 on the drawing is a vertical section through the seat of a music stool with
this invention shown as applied thereto. Fig. 2 is a horizontal section through the
same, and Fig. 3 is a vertical section of the stool taken through a line at right angles
to Fig. 1.
At each corner a
The seat a is arranged to rise and fall in the following manner.
vertical rack 6 is secured to the seat a and works in suitable slides in the frame. A
vertical motion is given to these racks b by four toothed wheels c carried by two
horizontal shafts & mounted in the frame a*.
Each of these shafts & also carries a worm wheel e and the two worm wheels are
actuated by two worms ✓ (one right hand and the other left hand) carried by a
horizontal shaft g mounted at right angles to the former ones.
This shaft g projects beyond the ends of the stool and is providod with two knobs
or handles for actuating the same by hand.

page_text: 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 :
The combination of worm gearing toothed racks and pinions substantially as
herein before described and illustrated by the drawings annexed for the purpose
of raising and lowering the seats of music stools or other seats requiring to be
similarly adjusted.
101
2
GEORGE DAVIES,
4, St. Ann's Square, Manchester, Agent for the Applicants.