Improvements in Rocking Chairs.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 4th Aug., 1894
Complete Specification Left, 3rd May, 1895-Accepted, 8th June, 1895
Improvements in Rocking Chairs.
We, WILLIAM SEATON M LENNAN, of 222 Whitehill Street, in the County of
the City of Glasgow, North Britain, Chair Manufacturer, and TномAS MORTON,
of 145 Finlay Drive, in the same county, Foreman Chair Maker, do hereby
declare the nature of this invention to be as follows, that is to say :-
Our said invention relates to the kind of rocking chair known as base or platform
rocking chairs, and made with a base or bottom non-rocking part carrying the
rocking part connected to it by strong springs at about the middles of the sides.
Our object is to provide convenient means for raising the front part of the base so
as, when desired, to adjust the weight of the chair and sitter somewhat backwards
from the ordinary position, and thereby render backward rocking movements more
easily attainable.
In carrying out our invention according to one modification, we joint to the front
part of the base and within its sides, a small frame which can be turned up out of
the way under the chair seat, but which when required, will on lifting the front of
the chair, and with it the base, turn outwards and downwards and form a support
for the front of the base. This added frame is constructed with two or more
resting parts at each side, and it will turn down into one or other of two or more
positions accordingly as the chair base is raised less or more, and will then support
the base steadily at about the height to which it has been raised. The added frame
may be constructed as, or with a foot rest; and it may be upholstered or otherwise
finished in agreement with the rest of the chair.
Dated this Third day of August 1894.
EDMUND HUNT,
Applicants' Agent.
Improvements in Rocking Chairs.
We, WILLIAM SEATON MCLENNAN, of 222, Whitehill Street, in the County
of the City of Glasgow, North Britain, Chair Manufacturer, and THOMAS
MORTON, of 145, Finlay Drive, in the same county, Foreman Chair Maker, do
hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what manner the same
to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement, that is to say :-
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Our said invention relates to the kind of rocking chair known as base or platform
rocking chairs, and made with a base or bottom non-rocking part carrying the
rocking part connected to it by strong springs at about the middles of the sides.
Our object is to provide convenient means for raising the front part of the base so
as, when desired, to adjust the weight of the chair and sitter somewhat backwards
from the ordinary position, and thereby render backward rocking movements more
easily attainable.

page_text: And in order that our said invention and the manner of performing the same may
be properly understood we hereunto append a sheet of explanatory drawings to
be hereinafter referred to and showing a rocking chair as made with our
improvements.
Figures, 1, 2, and 3, are side elevations showing our improved rocking chair in
different positions.
Figures, 4, and 5, are, respectively, a plan and a sectional back elevation showing
the part for adjusting the position of the chair.
In these drawings the same reference letters are used to mark the same or like
parts wherever they are repeated.
In carrying out our invention, as shown in the drawings, the chair, A, which is
of the kind known as base or platform rocking chairs, has jointed to the front part
of its base, B, and within its sides, a small frame, C, fitted to turn on a cross
bar, D; and which can be turned up out of the way under the chair seat as shown
in Figure, 1, but which when required will on lifting the front of the chair, A, and
with it the base, B, turn outwards and downwards and form a support for the front
of the base. This added frame, C, is constructed with two (or it might be more)
resting parts, E, F, at each side, and it will turn down into one or other of two
positions, as shown in Figures, 2, and 3, accordingly as the chair base, B, is raised
less or more, and will then support the base steadily at about the height to which
it has been raised. The added frame, C, is constructed so as to serve as a foot rest
when in the position shown in Figures, 2, 4, and 5, and it may be upholstered or
otherwise finished in agreement with the rest of the chair.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said
.invention and in what manner the same is to be performed we declare that what
we claim is :-
In base or platform rocking chairs jointing to the base a frame constructed with
two or more resting parts and capable of turning down into one or other of two or
more positions so as to raise the chair front less or more, substantially as and for
the purpose herein before described.
Dated this Second day of May 1895.
EDMUND HUNT,
Applicants Agent.