AN IMPROVED NURSERY OR CHILDREN'S CHAIR CONVERTIBLE INTO A CHAISE, OR CARRIAGE, OR CRIB, OR CRADLE
Year: 1878

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Frederick Jacob Roth at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents on the 27th August 1878. A communication
from abroad by Auguste Krimmel, of Zeitz, in the Empire of Germany.
FREDERICK JACOB ROTH, of 4, South Street, Finsbury, in the County of
Middlesex, Commission Merchant. "AN IMPROVED NURSERY OR CHILDREN'S CHAIR
CONVERTIBLE INTO A CHAISE, OR CARRIAGE, OR CRIB, OR CRADLE." [A communica-
tion from abroad by Auguste Krimmel, of Zeitz, in the Empire of Germany.]
This Invention consists in the combination of a high and low nursery or
children's chair, a chaise, or carriage, and cradle, and crib, in such a manner that
the high chair may be easily and quickly changed to either one or other of these
articles, thus combining several pieces of furniture in one.
By this Invention one piece of furniture may thus be used, either as a high or
n low nursery chair, a chaise, or carriage, a crib, or a cradle, and may be changed
from one to the other with great ease, and as the article can be manufactured at a
moderate price an economy both of expense and space are obtained.
The construction of the improved nursery chair is as follows:-The seat frame
rests upon four legs, which are connected together by rails or stretchers, the main
stretchers between the two bind legs carrying on their outer ends four wheels.
The upper and lower side and back rails or stretchers are connected by a series of
vertical rails or rods, the whole forming a complete railing on three sides of the
chair. The upper stretchers of the sides are also connected horizontally by a cor-
responding number of cross bars, which will form the body of the chaise or carriage
when the chair is changed to such. Exactly between the top of the seat and the
lower side of the last-named cross bars, all four chair legs are cut through, the
whole chair being thus divided into two parts, the two front legs being connected
by means of hinges, so that the whole lower part of the chair may be swung round
so as to form a chaise or carriage. In this position the horizontal cross bars,
together with the chair seat, now form the bottom, while the side and back
stretchers, with their vertical rods, together with the back and arms of the chair,
form the body or railing of the chaise or carriage. Further, the main stretchers
are placed in such a position that when the lower part of the chair is swung round
as herein-before described, the four herein-before described wheels will rest on the

page_text: floor, thus forming a complete chaise or carriage. Hooks are provided on each side
of the seat which engage with corresponding eyes, fastened inside the front legs,
and in this manner both parts of the chair are held firmly together in the carriage
position, while in the position as a high nursery chair both parts are held in the
same way by a hook fastened to tho stretcher, and engaging with an eye in the
other stretcher. A swinging table is fastened to the sides of the chair back by
scrows, and serves not only as a play board for the child and to hold the child in
the soat, but also forms when swung back a complete handle, being held in the
required position by pins. A number of the cross bars in the bottom of the
carriage are connected by two side pieces, so as to form a separate frame, which is
hinged to the adjoining cross bar.
If the carriage should be used for two children to sit in, this frame should be
opened and laid back, whereby sufficient room would be obtained for the feet of the
children, so that they may be placed in a comfortable position opposite each other,
the table being between them for their toys. If the table is swung back, and the
frame again shut, the whole is at once converted into a small bedstead or crib.
The two upper wheels are set near enough together to leave sufficient room
between the two lower wheels, which is of importance.
The chaise or carriage is changed into a cradle by means of two rockers or
runners so shaped that two slots in the runners correspond with the side stretchers
of the chair in such a manner that the carriage can be set into the runners. By this
operation the four wheels become raised from the floor, thus changing the carriago
into a cradle in a very simple manner.
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The pins in the two front hinges are removeable, so that when the pins are
removed the whole upper portion of the chair may be taken off and used as a
separate low nursery or children's chair, as also may be the lower portion of the
high chair when turned over.
If required a separate railing may be fastened in front of the high chair to pre-
vent the child from slipping underneath the play-table, such railing being so
constructed that it may be easily taken away.
In some cases the back railing of the back of the lower part of the chair is hinged
to the upper stretcher, so that it may be opened out to form a prolongation of the
body.