An Improved Metal Form or Seat Support.
Year: 1890

page_text: Date of Application, 18th July, 1890
Complete Specification Left, 18th Apr., 1891-Accepted, 23rd May, 1891
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Metal Form or Seat Support.
I, JAMES WHITTON of No. 15 West Graham Street Glasgow North Britain
Wright or Joiner do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:--
This invention relates to metal supports for forms or continuous seats such as
those which are combined with school desks and has for its objects 1st to enable
each seat to be folded back when done with -2nd to afford more space for passing
between the seats.
In carrying out my invention, in conjunction with a school desk I furnish the top
end of each metal leg for supporting the seat with a hinged member for attachment
to the seat so that when the occupants rise from the seat and wish to pass out from
between it and the desk the said scat can be turned back out of their way and leave
a wider space for their exit.
This invention is applicable also to continuous forms or seats for use in restauraunts,
halls, vehicles or other places. It is designed also for the purpose of keeping out-
door seats dry during wet weather by enabling each seat to be partially turned over
when it is unoccupied.
I am aware that metal chairs for use in theatres and for such like purposes have
been made with hinged seats capable of being folded back when done with also that
seats for use in lobbies and vestibules have been hinged to adjacent walls and
supported by folding brackets, and that seats for combination with school desks
have been made which were pivotted to their metal supports, somewhat like loover
plates, with their axis near the centre (back to front) of each scat.
It will therefore be understood that I do not claim, broadly, as my invention the
pivotting of seats to metal frames. The construction of my improved seat support
enables each seat to be turned back upon its extreme back edge-like a box lid-
and not upon its centre, like a loover plate. By this means a large space can be
obtained when the occupants require to stand up (or pass out from) between the
seats and desks.
Dated this 17th day of July 1800
JOSEPH LOCKWOOD.
263, Argyle Street, Glasgow, Agent for the Inventor.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Metal Form or Seat Support.
I, JAMES WHITTON of No. 15, West Graham Street Glasgow North Britain
Wright or Joiner 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 relates to metal supports for forms or continuous seats such as
those which are combined with school desks, and has for its objects
1st to enable each seat to be folded back when not in use, and
2nd to afford more space for persons passing out from between such seats.
In carrying out my invention, in conjunction with a school desk I furnish the top
end of each metal leg for supporting the seat, with a hinged member for attachment
to the seat so that when the occupants of such a seat rise therefrom and wish to
pass out from between it and the desk (or adjacent seat) the said seat can be turned
back out of their way and leave a wider space for their exit.

page_text: This invention is applicable also to continuous forms or seats for use in other
places than schools.
The particular form or manner, in which my improved metal seat support is
constructed enables each seat to be turned back upon its extreme back edge-
similarly to a box lid-and.not. upon. a. central axis, like.a- louvre plate.
By means of this simple and improved mechanism, a larger space can be obtained
between such seats (or seats and desks) when the occupants thereof require to stand
up or pass out from between them than can be obtained without its aid.
.
In order that my invention may be more clearly understood and readily carried
out, I have prepared the accompanying sheet of drawings in which
:-
Figure is an end view, in elevation, shewing my improved seat support
combined with a school desk; the seat being turned down into its position ready
for use;
Figure 2 is a similar view to Fig. 1, but shewing the seat turned up (and back)
for the purpose before named.
In carrying out my invention, I construct the upper part, A, of my improved
metal seat support B. (Figures 1 and 2 of the above named illustrations) with a
hinged part C, made of metal and pivotted to A at the part marked D.
The seat, marked E, is united.to the hinge parts C so that, when required, the
seat can be turned up, and back, upon the pivots D, as shewn in Figure 2, and leave
a large space between the part marked A and the edge of the desk F.
The pivot D, is inserted in the head-piece A as far as possible to one side of it,
in the manner shewn in the drawings, so as to afford a good support for the hinge
part C to rest upon, when the seat is folded down upon the head-piece A.
I am aware that, previous to my invention, metal chair frames for use in theatres
and other places have been made with hinged seats, capable of being folded back,
also that seats for use in lobbies and vestibules have been hinged to adjacent
walls and supported by folding brackets, also that seats for combination with school
desks have been made which were pivotted to their metal supports somewhat after
the manner of louvre plates, working or swivelling upon an axis fixed near the
centre (back to front) at each end of the seat. It will therefore he understood that
I do not claim, broadly, as my invention, the pivotting of seats to metal frames.
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 :-
First. In a metal desk-and-seat support, the combination therewith of the hinged
parts A and C, all substantially as herein described and shewn, or any mere modifi
cation thereof, for the purposes specified.
Second. In a metal scat-support, the combination therewith of the hinged parts
A and C, all substantially as herein described and shewn, or any mere modification
thereof, for the purposes specified.
JOSEPH LOCKWOOD,
263, Argyle Street, Glasgow, Agent for the Inventor.
JOSEPH LOCKWOOD,
263, Argyle Street, Glasgow, Agent for the Inventor.