Applying or Fitting Seats or Supports to Lamp Posts or other Columns and Constructing such Seats.
Year: 1887

page_text: Date of Application, 16th Apr., 1887
Complete Left, 16th Jan.; 1888
Complete Accepted, 24th Feb., 1888
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Applying or Fitting Seats or Supports to Lamp Posts or other
Columns and Constructing such Seats.
I, JAMES PALMER, of 95A Mount Pleasant, Liverpool, in the County of Lancaster,
Pianoforte Manufacturer do hereby declare the nature of my said invention to be as
follows :-
This Invention has for its object to provide in a simple manner and at a cheap rate
seats, or supports, more particularly in public ways and places, and consists in applying
or fitting seats, or supports to lamp posts, or other columns and so render such
posts, or columns useful for other than their primary purposes, or objects. Other
columns, such as telegraph and telephone posts, direction posts, stems, or stumps of
trees and the like may be so fitted with seats, or supports.
The seats may be made of metal, or other suitable material and applied and fitted
in halves, or in more parts, or segments to the supporting column, or post by clamps
and bolts, or screws, or by snugs and their edges may be supported by struts, rods, or
legs, which may be also secured by clamps to the post, or column, or they may rest
upon the ground. The shape of the seats may be square, circular, oblong, oval, or
polygonal or any convenient shape that may be deemed suitable for the particular
application.
The supports are applied and fitted to the lamp, or other like post at such a height
as may be convenient to rest packages, or other burdens upon when carried on peoples
shoulders or backs and are fitted and secured and constructed substantially in the same
manner as the seats herein before set forth.
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4333 F SupporUS LO Lamp POSTS or other
Columns and Constructing such Seats.
I JAMES PALMER, of 95 Mount Pleasant, Liverpool, in the County of Lancaster,
Pianoforte Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of my said 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 has for its object to provide in a simple manner and at a cheap rate,
seats, or supports, more particularly in public ways and places, and consists in applying,
or fitting seats, or supports to lamp posts, or other columns and so render such posts,
or columns useful for other than their primary purposes, or objects. Other columns,
such as telegraph and telephone posts, direction posts, stems or stumps of trees and
the like may be so fitted with seats, or supports.
The seats may be made of metal, or other suitable material and applied and fitted in
halves, or in more parts, or segments to the supporting column, or post by clamps and
bolts, or screws, or by snugs, and their edges may be supported by struts, rods, or
legs which may be also secured by clamps to the post, or column, or they may rest
upon the ground. The shape of the seats may be square, circular, oblong oval or
polygonal, or any convenient shape that may be deemed suitable for the particular
application.
The supports are applied and fitted to the lamp, or other like post at such a height
as may be convenient to rest packages, or other burdens upon, when carried on peoples
shoulders, or backs and are fitted and secured and constructed substantially in the
same manner as the seats herein before set forth.
In the accompanying Drawings which are marked with letters of reference corre-
sponding with those used in the following explanation, there is illustrated some
examples of the carrying out of my Invention, like letters being used to denote like,
or corresponding parts throughout the figures.
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS.
Figure 1 is an elevation of the lower portion of a lamp post column with a seat
applied thereto according to my Invention."
Figure 2 is a plan of the seat and lamp post shown at Figure 1.
Figure 3 is an elevation of a modified form of seat according to my Invention.
Figure 4 is a plan of the seat support shown at Figure 3.
Figure 5 is a plan of a seat detached from the support seen from the underside.
Figure 6 is a perspective view showing various applications of my Invention.
The seat a according to my Invention shown at Figures 1 and 2 is formed in two
parts constructed with a clamping device b and to embrace the column, by which the
seat a is secured to the lamp post d, or other column by means of a bolt e on each
side. The seat a is shown constructed to accommodate two persons.
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page_text: The seat a shown in Figures 3, 4 and 5 is constructed in sections as illustrated in
Figure 5. The underside of each section is provided with catches c and the support d
which may be a post, tree, or column of any suitable kind is provided with a clamping
ring 6 constructed and attached to the support d so as to receive the catches c which
are cut away at c¹ so as to ship over the ring as shown, the seat being composed of
a number of sections such as shown at Figure 5.
As before mentioned seats according to my Invention may be applied to any suitable
columns such as lamp posts, stems, or stumps of trees, telegraph posts, and the like.
Some examples of such applications are shown at Figure 6.
The supports are applied and fitted to columns such as above set forth in a similar
manner to the seats above described but at such a height as to be suitable for resting
packages, or other burdens from peoples shoulders, or backs as will be understood.
Although in the Drawings I have shown the seats according to my Invention in
multiple form I would have it understood that my Invention is applicable to seats of
single form and of any convenient shape to suit the particular application.
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:
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First. A seat or support constructed and arranged substantially as herein described
to clamp onto, or be attached by a clamp, or clamps onto lamp posts and other columns
as set forth.
Second. The construction and arrangement of seat, or support substantially as
herein described and shown in Figures 1 and 2 of the Drawings hereto annexed.
Third. The construction and arrangement of seat, substantially as herein described
and shown in Figures 3, 4 and 5 of the Drawings hereto annexed.
Dated this 14th day of January 1000