Improved Attachment for Chairs to hold Hats, Coats, and other Articles.
Year: 1899

page_text: Date of Application, 27th Jan., 1899-Accepted, 4th Mar., 1899 -
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improved Attachment for Chairs to hold Hats, Coats, and other
Articles.
I, PHILIPP MEYER, of Magdeburg, in the Empire of Germany, 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:-
The object of this invention is to provide a holder for hats coats or other
articles for attachment to chairs in. hotels assembly and concert rooms, in short
for all places where it appears necessary or desirable for the visitor without in-
convenience to himself or trouble to the attendants to have his articles of clothing
which he has taken off close at hand and under his own eyes.
In the accompanying drawings the holder is illustrated in connection with a
chair two methods of construction being shown.
Fig. 1 is a side view when hat and umbrella or stick only are in use.
Fig. 2 is a plan partly in section of Fig. 1 with hat and umbrella or stick
removed.
Fig. 3 is a side view showing construction when hat, umbrella, coats, wraps
or other articles of clothing are in use.
Fig. 4 is a back view.
The invention consists of a flat iron or other bar a fixed in the middle under
the seat frame of a chair and fastened to the front and back rails in such manner
that a nose-shaped bend is formed turned downwards at the end of the bar
which is towards the back of the chair. The bar is provided from about the
centre to the back of the chair with a slot c in which a hook e provided with a
holding-up plate d. nut or other device is free to slide by means of a rod f which
has a ring g at its free end and is guided in the nose piece b. To the hook e is
suspended by the handle ia removable hemi-spherical or other shaped net h.
The net can be drawn out by the draw-rod f so far towards tae back of the
chair that the hat or other article of clothing if desirable can conveniently be
placed therein and pushed back until it rests completely hidden under the middle
of the seat of the chair. The handle g for drawing out and pushing back the
draw-barf is intended for the reception of an umbrella or stick.
If in addition to the above objects overcoats and wraps are to be held, then the
handle is omitted from the apparatus as constructed for this purpose and in
place thereof an eyelet k is formed which receives the bar the lower end of which
is bent into a semicircular form and the upper end being held by a hook m
attached to the top of the chair-back. Close under its upper point of suspen-
sion the rod is fitted with an eyelet o which carries a double bow n made oval
or of other suitable form and lying parallel with the chair-back. This bow n
is provided on one side with a sliding ring p such ring p serving in this form
of the apparatus as a holder for umbrella or stick whilst the lower side of this
oval bow is for holding the heavier articles of clothing and the lower bend of
the rod Z serves for smaller articles.

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said in-
vention and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is:-
1. An attachment for chairs to hold hats coats and other articles formed of
an iron bar a fixed under the front and back rails of the seat-frame which serves
as a guide by a slot e a sliding hook e carrying a net h for holding a hat and
eyelet g of the sliding bar f formed for use as a receptacle for an umbrella or
stick substantially as described and shown with reference to Figs. 1 and 2 of
the drawings.
2. The improved device for attachment to chairs for holding hats coats and
other articles comprising an. iron or other bar fixed under the front and back
rails of the seat frame which acts as a guide for a sliding hook from which 18
suspended a receptacle for a hat a sliding bar and eyelet to receive the bent bar!
reaching from the top of the chair back bent at its lower end into a semicircle
and which serves as a carrier for an oval shaped double bow for holding overcoats
and a sliding ring p at one side for an umbrella or stick holder substantially
as described and shown with reference to Figs. 3 and 4 of the drawings.
3. The improved device in combination with a chair for holding hats coats
and other articles substantially as described and shown with reference to either
of the figs. of the drawings.
Dated this 26th day of January 1899
WM. P. THOMPSON & Co.,
6, Bank Street, Manchester, Patent Agents.