Year: 1886

page_text: Date of Application, 12th Oct., 1886.
Complete Left, 12th Aug., 1887.
Complete Accepted, 13th Sept., 1887.
I EDWARD LLEWELLYN WHITE of 32 Queens Road, Ilford, Essex, Engineer, do
hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
The object of this invention is to arrange a seat in such a manner that it can be
released for folding down to be sat upon on a catch or holder being withdrawn or
removed by the weight of a coin say a penny, said seat to return to its first and locked
position on a person getting up.
H. GARDNER,
166, Fleet Street, London,
Agent for the said E. L. White.

page_text: I, EDWARD LLEWELLYN WHITE, of 32 Queens Road, Ilford, Essex, 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 :-
The object of this invention is to arrange a seat in such a manner that it can be
released for folding down to be sat upon, on a catch or holder being withdrawn or
removed by the weight of a coin, say, a penny, said seat to return to its first and
locked position on a person getting up.
The invention is shown by the annexed drawings, in which at Figure 11 represent
a chair in section with the seat A folded up against the back B and locked in that
position by the catch or holder C engaging in an aperture and in front of a staple or
plate, over which the catch passes by an uprising action as the seat is closed up. The
catch is pivotted at D and has a back plate E on to which a coin, say, a penny when
inserted into the slit F can fall and over-balance, the opposite end to release the catch
from its hold of the seat A, the coin remaining on the plate E until the seat is folded
down to enable a person to sit upon it, during which action of folding, the extension G
of the seat A presses up the paul H, the opposite end I of which is lowered and pulls
on the cord J for a further downward movement of the plate E for the coin to slide
off it and fall into the till or receptacle K. The lowering of the seat puts the spring L
into tension as indicated by dotted lines for the return of the seat under action of said
spring directly the sitter rises clear of the seat.
M is a handle by which the seat A can be lowered and said handle may be a fixture
or turnable to remove a second catch N which can only be moved after the catch C
has been tilted by the weight of the coin on its plate E to be clear of the notch of the
catch N.
This will be clearly understood by reference to Figures 2, 3, and 4.
I have only shown a chair with my invention adapted thereto, but the same
appliances with the necessary alterations or modifications can be fitted to any kind of
seat according to any particular construction, the object being as before stated, to
provide a seat which can be folded down to be sat upon, on a catch being withdrawn
or removed by the weight of a coin, say, a penny, said seat returning to its folded
up position and there locked until a fresh coin is inserted for the release of the
catch by the weight of such coin.

page_text: The particular arrangement of appliances as shown at Figure 1 I have proved to
be the most simple and efficient, but instead of the catch C being part of a balanced
lever it may be a kind of pocketed wheel which by a partial rotation due to the
weight of a coin falling into one of the pockets a catch or bolt can be withdrawn or
removed from its hold of a seat.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this invention
and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I claim is :—
1. Freeing a folddown-seat by the movement of a catch operated or released
by the weight of a coin in the manner substantially as described and shown in the
annexed drawings.
2. The particular arrangement of appliances shown at Figure 1 when in connection
with a fold down seat releasable on the removal of a catch due to the weight of a
coin inserted into a slit as and for the purpose set forth.