Improvements in connection with the Construction of Resilient Surfaces for Seatings of various kinds.
Year: 1898

page_text: Date of Application. 23rd May, 1898--Accepted, 9th July, 1898
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION
Improvements in connection with the Construction of Resilient
Surfaces for Seatings of various kinds.
I, FREDERIC HUGHES, of No. 20, Paget Road, West Dulwich, Engineer, 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 :-
My invention relates to improvements in connection with the construction of
resilient surfaces for seatings of various kinds and without confining it to the
particular uses I shall in this specification assume the invention to be applied to a
syphon bottle filling machine and to the seat of a chair or stool. In the case of a
syphon bottle filling machine it renders the syphon tubes self closing and prevents
the back flow of the fluid which sometimes takes place and necessitates the syphon
being again started by the bottler. Fig. 1 of the accompanying drawings shows a
sectional side view of a trough and one syphon tube of a bottling machine. Fig. 2 is
a plan of a detail to be hereafter mentioned. Fig. 3 is a sectional side view of a chair
or stool seat. Referring to Figs. 1 and 2 is a trough to hold the liquid which is to
be bottled, ba syphon tube, c angle pieces at intervals along the front corner of the
trough, d is a plate having thereon disc like projections e in number equal to that of the
tubes b, the upper surface of e heing somewhat concave as at f. Over e is a strip of rubber
or other elastic material g and over g is the plate h having holes therein to come over
the discs e. dg & h are bolted together and to the angle pieces c. The inner ends
of b are sloped off to agree with the angle of the outer surface of g where exposed
through the openings in h and so as to come into intimate and uniform contact there-
with. I provide holes or a hole i at the bottom of f to allow the escape of the small
quantity of air displaced by the end of b striking the drum like surface of g. If
desired c, d, g, & may be made parallel to the bottom of a instead of at an angle
thereto as shown in the drawings in which case the inner end of b would be suitably
cut off.
Referring to Fig. 3 j is a more or less rigid base or hack having a concave face fat
the bottom of which is a hole i. g is a piece of elastic material strained over j by the
ring . are two of the legs of the stool or chair. The rings may be held to j
by screws or other means.
I do not confine myself to the relative proportions precise shapes or dispositions of
parts nor to the particular applications described in the above specification and
exemplified by the accompanying drawings as the various details may be adapted to
suit any particular purposes for which my invention can or may be employed or may
be useable.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what
I claim is :-
1. The improved method of constructing resilient surfaces, the said method con-
sisting essentially in straining a piece of flexible or elastic material over the concave
face of a more or less rigid base or back, the elastic material being strained and
held in place by a ring or hoop placed over it and a rim, the upper edge of

page_text: which rim is formed by the periphery of the concave face, holes or a hole being
provided in the concave face, the whole substantially as described in the above
specification and exemplified in the accompanying drawings.
2. The particular application of the invention which is the subject matter of
the above Claim 1 to syphon bottle filling machines for the purpose and substan-
tially as described in the above specification and exemplified by Figs. & 2 of
the accompanying drawings.
3. The particular application of the invention which is the subject matter of
the above Claim 1 to the seats of chairs and like articles, substantially as
described in the above specification and exemplified by Fig. 3 of the accom-
panying drawings.
DL