IMPROVEMENTS IN STOOLS OR RESTS FOR THE FEET
Year: 1878

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Edward Griffith Brewer, of 33, Chancery Lane, in the
County of Middlesex, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN STOOLS OR
RESTS FOR THE FEET."
A communication from abroad by Messieurs
Letourneur Frères, of Paris, France.
Sealed the 13th May 1879, and dated the 15th November 1878.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Edward Griffith Brewer at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 15th November 1878.
EDWARD GRIFFITH BREWER, of 33, Chancery Lane, in the County of Middlesex.
"IMPROVEMENTS IN STOOLS OR RESTS FOR THE FEET." (A communication from
abroad by Messieurs Letourneur Frères, of Paris, France.)
This Invention refers to a double stool, the characteristic feature in which is the
combination of a back piece and rounded foot or feet, whereby the legs can be
supported no matter what inclination it may be desired to give to them.
Footstools made according to this Invention are constructed preferably of metal,
and are chiefly intended for garden use, but the same principle may of course be
applied to footstools for use in other places, and may be made of wood or other
material or combination of materials as desired.
The seat of the stool is made of metallic lattice work between two flat pieces or
bars, and rounded, forming the frame of the seat. Two bands of inetal of same
section take between them the back to support it, then spreading out pass into an
opening formed in the stool and are bent horizontally under the frame on which
they are rivetted. These bands are afterwards bent into a volute or volutes or
otherwise to form rounded feet which do not offer any resistance to the foot stool
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page_text: being placed at any required angle, but in order to prevent this angle becoming
great enough to risk the upsetting of the stool the seat proper extends perpendicu-
larly from the feet sufficiently to form a stop when the stool is too much inclined.
It should be understood that the latter may be used for different purposes inherent
to its mode of construction, and it will be seen that if the feet are placed on the
inclined footsool, the latter has the tendency to adjust itself and consequently
always supports the legs, thereby forming a true stool rest. Without changing the
characteristic feature of the stool, the shape or form and dimensions, as well as the
details of construction and degree of ornamentation, may be varied without
departing from the Invention.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed by
the said Edward Griffith Brewer in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 15th
May 1879.
EDWARD GRIFFITH BREWER, of 33, Chancery Lane, in the County of Middlesex.
"IMPROVEMENTS IN STOOLS OR RESTS FOR THE FEET." (A communication from
abroad by Messieurs Letourneur Frères, of Paris, France.)
This Invention refers to a double stool, the characteristic feature in which is the
combination of a back piece and rounded foot or feet whereby the legs can be
supported no matter what inclination it may be desired to give to them.
The accompanying Drawings illustrate the manner in which the Invention is
carried into effect according to a very simple arrangement. Figure 1 is an eleva-
tion; Figure 2, a section through the line A, B, of Figure 1; Figure 3, a vertical
section; and Figure 4 shews the stool in use. Similar letters of reference refer to
like parts in all the Figures.
Footstools made according to this Invention are constructed preferably of metal
and are chiefly intended for garden use, but the same principle of construction may
of course be applied to footstools for use in other places, and they may be made
of wood or other material or combination of materials as desired.
As seen in the Drawings the seat a of the stool is made of metallic lattice work.
between two flat pieces or rounded bars b forming the frame of the seat.
Two bands of metal c of same section take between them the back to support
it, then spreading out pass into an opening formed in the seat of the stool, and are
bent horizontally under the frame b on which they are rivetted.
These bands are afterwards bent into a volute or volutes, or otherwise to form
rounded feet which do not offer any resistance to the foot stool being placed at
any required angle, but in order to prevent this angle becoming great enough to
risk the upsetting of the stool, the seat proper a extends perpendicularly from the
feet sufficiently to form a stop when the stool is too much inclined. It should
be understood that the latter may be used for different purposes inherent to its
mode of construction, and it will be seen that if the feet are placed on the inclined
foot stool the latter has the tendency to adjust itself and consequently always
supports the legs, thereby forming a true stool rest. Without changing the
characteristic feature of the stool, the shape or form and dimensions, as well as
the details of construction and degree of ornamentation, may be varied without
departing from the Invention.
Having now described the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner
the same is to be performed, I declare that I claim as the aforesaid improvements in
stools or rests for the feet,-
The combination of a back piece of variable height with the rounded feet whereby
the inclination in one sense or the other is allowed, all constructed and arranged in
the manner and for the purposes before described, and illustrated in the accompanying
Drawings, together with any mere modification thereof.
In witness whereof, I, the said Edward Griffith Brewer, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Fourteenth day of May, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and seventy nine.
E. G. BREWER. (L.S.)