An Adjustable Easy Chair.
Year: 1899

page_text: An Adjustable Easy Chair.
HENRY OBSTBMAN, Upholsterer, 9, Harlow Place, Mile End Road, E., and MARKS
HARRIS, Cabinet Maker, 162, Hanbury Street, Mile End, E., do hereby declare the
nature of this invention to be as follows:
An upholstered stuffover arm chair which can be used in 3 different positions.
1. As an ordinary easy chair. 2. As before but with an additional portion to the
front upholstered and spring stuffed as the seat which can be used as a leg rest or
invalid chair. 3. By an arrangement the arms can be let down and the back
lowered level with the seat to form a bed having a bolstered end for the head.
The whole chair is upholstered & spring stuffed throughout having no loose
mattrases or bolster. The positions are easily adjusted and the whole being
castored can be readily moved about.
The chair is made in 3 frames. The first frame is the seat with four legs. The
second frame is hinged on with 2 hinges and folds underneath the seat & when
opened out is supported by two legs castored which fold in & out with iron
spring hinges. When folded underneath the seat this part is secured with a
hook & staple. The third frame is the back of the chair also hinged on the back
of the seat with 2 hinges and the arms of the chair which are hinged on the seat
each side with 2 hinges to each arm. These arms keep the back in position with
a ring and staple to each. When the staples are unhooked the arms fall outwards
& drop each side. The back falls back level with the seat & 2 boards which are
each fastened with hinges each on the back of the back frame can be opened.
and are used in place of legs to support it. When in this position these boards
are kept apart & in a perpendicular position with two hooks and staples and the
bottom edge of each board is castored with 2 castors so when opened as a bed it
is easily moved about. The whole framework is upholstered as an ordinary stuff-
over easy chair with springs hair stuffiing etc. The top of the back is upholstered
& stuffed as a bolster so when used as a bed it forms the head part.

page_text: declare the nature of this invention and in what manner the same is to be per-
formed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement:
The chair consists of 3 parts viz. A, B & C. A comprises the seat portion which
is a rectangular frame having the two arms D) attached by two hinges on the
outside of each side of it as shown Fig. (1). B comprises the extension or addi-
tional front part attached by 2 hinges to the front of the seat by the underneath
edge & having 2 moveable legs attached to the inside of the front edge which
are opened & closed by two hinged iron stays as shown Fig. (4). C comprises
the back portion which is hinged by two hinges on the top edge of the back of
the seat frame. Two doors E E fitted on the inside of the back of the frame with
two hinges each, closed to the centre board F and kent shut by a button to each
as shown in the back view Fig. (5). The top of the frame C is built round to
form the bolster or head part. Fig. (1) shows a side view of the chair in position
to be used as an ordinary easy chair. The back portion C is attached to the arm D
by a hook & staple. The part B is shown folded up underneath the seat and kept
up with a hook & staple.also. Fig. (2) shows the chair as in Fig. (1) but having
the underneath part B opened out and the folding legs adjusted with the iron
hinged stays as shown in Fig. (4) to form the seat extension. Fig. (3) shows
the chair in position to be used as a bed or couch. The arm D is unhooked from
the back' part C and hangs down at the side as shown. The back C is lowered level
with the seat frame and front portion and the two doors are opened out to support
it as shown. These doors are kept apart and in a perpendicular position by a
hook and staple on each-as-shown in-the-end-view Fig. (6). The 6 legs and also
the bottom edges of the two-doors are castored as shown.
The advantages are as follows
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(1). That it is more readily adjusted than any other convertable bedstead chair.
(2). That as it has no loose mattrasses or parts whatever-the-chair-is-always-com-
plete in itself. (3). That when in position as a chair it is to appearance an ordinary
stuffed-over easy chair & in any position shows no part of its construction.
Having now particularly described & ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion and in what manner-the-same-is-to-be-performed we declare that what we
claim is:
(1) That the arms are attached to the seat by hinges.
(2) That the back is hinged to the seat and hooked on to the arms to keep it
in an upright position.-
(3) That the front part is hinged to the
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