Improvements in Stools.
Year: 1897

page_text: Date of Application, 29th Oct., 1897
Complete Specification Left, 28th July, 1898-Accepted, 10th Sept., 1898
Improvements in Stools.
I, JOHN DEAM, of Penybryn, Llanfyllin, in the County of Montgomery, do
hereby declaré the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to a combined foot and kneeling stool suitable for churches
and other places.
The stool has two cushions or faces at right angles or nearly so to each other one
being for the feet and the other for the knees. These cushions or faces are carried
by plates or brackets so shaped that they form with the cushions or faces
approximately squares or rectangles.
The plates or brackets are pivotted to the floor or other support at the angles
opposite to the junction of the cushions or faces. By turning the stool about
these pivots either cushion or face can be brought uppermost their distances from
the seat when they are respectively in that position being different.
I, JOHN DEAM, of Penybryn, Llanfyllin, in the County of Montgomery, 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:-
This invention relates to a combined foot and kneeling stool suitable for churches
and other places.
The stool has two cushions or faces at right angles or nearly so to each other one
being for the feet and the other for the knees. These cushions or faces are carried
by plates or brackets so shaped that they form with the cushions or faces
approximately squares or rectangles.
The plates or brackets are pivotted to the floor or other support at the angles
opposite to the junction of the cushions or faces. By turning the stool about
these pivots either cushion or face can be brought uppermost their distances from
the seat when they are respectively in that position being different.
Figure 1 is a side elevation and Figure 2 a front elevation of a stool constructed
according to this invention.
The stool consists of the side frames marked A in drawing which are made of
[Price 8d7

page_text: cast iron or brass to which the kneeling or foot boards C are secured by screws
(these boards may be covered with felt, carpet or other suitable. material) and the
brackets B by which the whole is attached to the floor of the pew and which carry
pins B on which the side frames are pivotted. The flat edges of above frames to
which foot and kneeling boards are attached are preferably made at such an angle
to each other as always to present to the feet or knees of user a convenient inclined
plane. At points in frame marked D) are suitable recesses for rubber buffers which
protrude in such manner as to form the contact between stool and floor and thus
enable the operation of reversing from the foot to the kneeling position and vice
also fit
versa, to be carried out in a noiseless manner, to further which object
washers E of leather or other suitable material between the face of bracket and
the face of frame.
The stool is placed in such a position in pew that when in use as a foot stool it
is in its farthest position from the seat and close against pew front and the
front of stool is open enabling the users feet to be placed on top or under stool at
will. Again when the stool is altered to the position for kneeling it is brought
nearer to the centre of floor of pew in the most convenient position.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what
I claim is:
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Dated this 27th day of July 1898.
JNO. DEAM.