IMPROVEMENTS IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF CHAIR SETTEES
Year: 1862

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Marc Antoine François Mennons, of the British and
Foreign Patent Offices, 24, Rue du Mont Thabor, Paris, in the Empire
of France, for the Invention of. "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE CONSTRUCTION
OF CHAIR SETTEES."-A communication from Victor Wéry, residing at
T
the Kindow of Bolsium
Sealed the 30th December 1862, and dated the 25th September 1862.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION filed by the said Marc Antoine François
Mennons at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his
Petition and Declaration, on the 25th September 1862, pursuant to the
9th Section of the Patent Law Amendment Act, 1852.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, MARO
ANTOINE FRANÇOIS MENNONS, of the British and Foreign Patent Offices, 24,
Rue du Mont Thabor, Paris, in the Empire of France, send greeting.
WHEREAS I am in possession of an Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN
THE CONSTRUCTION OF CHAIR SETTEES," a communication from Victor Wéry,
a person resident at Liège, in the Kingdom of Belgium, and have petitioned
Her Majesty to grant unto me, my executors, administrators, and, assigns, Her
Royal Letters Patent for the same, and made solemn declaration that it is a
communication.

page_text: NOW KNOW YE that 1, the said Marc Antoine François Mennons, do
hereby declare that the following Complete Specification under my hand and
seal fully describes and ascertains the nature of the Invention, and the manner
in which the same is to be performed, reference being had to the Figures of
the accompanying Drawing, and to the letters marked thereon, that is to
say:
This Invention consists in an improved combination of mechanism, by means
of which an article of furniture having all the external appearance of an
ordinary easy chair may be converted at the will of its occupier into a couch or
settee inclined to any desired angle.
Figures 1, 2, of the Drawing represent in section the frame of the chair the
covering being removed to shew the mechanism; A, A, are fixed standards
provided with a centre pivot m; B, B, moveable bar mounted on the pivot m,
and fitted with a notched segment B¹; C, rod fixed by one extremity to the
bar B, and by the other to the back of the chair; D, tie rod articulated by one
end to the bar B, and by the other to the tablets I; E, catch with spring a,
working in the notches of the segment B', and serving to fix in the required
position the back of the chair and the tablets I; G, G, seat board fitted with
hinges c, c, and a spring b serving as counterpoise to. raise the back of the
chair; and throw into position the tablets I; H, curved piece mounted on the
back of the chair, and giving motion to the board G; f, roller of the same;
I, I, I, collapsing tablets fittted with hinges d; K, tie rod secured by the
upper binge p, to the front cross bar of the chair, and by the second hinge p',
to the lowest tablet I', which it maintains in a horizontal position; L, iron
rod connected by the hinge e with the back board, and by e² with the lever M,
by which is raised the circle 0, 0, 0, serving as cushion, and secured to the
back at each side of the chair by the binges o. To form a settee or couch of
the chair constructed as above the sitter presses the catch bar E, leaning
backwards at the same time until the required position is obtained, when the
movement is checked by the notches of the segment B¹. Figure 3 represents
a chair thus opened out. When desired to reform the chair, the catch bar is
freed by a counter movement, while the sitter leans forward, and the mechanism
being thrown back to its original position the whole assumes the form shewn
in the vignette Figure 4.
Having now described the nature of the said Invention, and the manner
of carrying it into effect, I declare that I claim the improved combination of
mechanism as herein set forth, and shewn in the Drawing, by means of which
a piece of furniture having the form and appearance of an easy chair may be

page_text: converted at the will of the setter into a settee of any required degree of
inclination.
In witness whereof, I, the said Marc Antoine Francois Mennons,
have hereto set my hand and seal, this Twenty-fourth day of
September, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred
and sixty-two.
M. F. MENNONS. (L.S.)