A New or Improved Device for use of Travellers and others as a Seat, Leg-rest, Card-table, and for other purposes.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 20th June, 1892
Complete Specification Left, 20th Mar., 1893-Accepted, 22nd Apr., 1893
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
A New or Improved Device for use of Travellers and others as a
Seat, Leg-rest, Card-table, and for other purposes.
I, GEORGE NEWTON PEAKE, of Lime Villa, Klea Avenue, Clapham, in the
County of Surrey, Commercial Traveller, do hereby declare the nature of this
invention to be as follows:-
The object of this invention is to provide a means of making up a couch or
seat, leg-rest, or card-table for the use of travellers and others in railway and other
vehicles, tents, and other places.
According to this invention I make a folding framework of wood, metal, or other
suitable material, which may be covered with canvas, netting, or any other flexible
material, and the whole when extended may be made to rest one end on each of the
seats of railway or other carriages, or upon two chairs or other convenient
supports. In construction this device may be made of several parts sliding one
within the other after the manner of a telescope, or it may be of lattice work, or of
separate parts hinged to each other. In this latter construction the device is
provided with a number of arms or buttons pivoted thereto so that they may be
turned across the hinged joints to maintain the whole in a rigid form.
I wish it to be understood however that I do not limit myself to any particular
means as the details of construction may be varied by the skill of the mechanic
without departing from the nature of my said invention.
It will be seen that this device when constructed according to any of the herein-
before mentioned plans may be readily folded in a small compass when not required
for use.
Dated thi. Doch
£1000
CASTLE SMITH,
Invention " Office, 54, Fleet Street, London, E.C.,
Agent for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
A New or Improved Device for use of Travellers and others as a
Seat, Leg-rest, Card-table, and for other purposes.
I, GEORGE NEWTON PEAKE, of Lime Villa, Klea Avenue, Clapham, in the
County of Surrey, Commercial Traveller, 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 provide a means of making up a couch or seat,
leg-rest, or card-table for the use of travellers and others in railway and other
vehicles, tents, and other places.
According to this invention I make a folding framework of wood, metal, or other
suitable material, which may be covered with canvas, netting or any other flexible
material, the whole when extended may be made to rest one end on each of the
seats of railway or other carriages, or upon two chairs, or other convenient supports.
In construction this device may be made of several parts sliding one within the
other after the manner of a telescope, or it may be of lattice work or of separate
parts hinged to each ether. In this latter construction the device is provided with
a number of arms or buttons pivoted thereto so that they may be turned across the
hinged joints to maintain the whole in a rigid form.

page_text: It will be seen that this device when constructed according to any of the herein-
before mentioned plans may be readily folded in a small compass when not required
for use.
And in order that my invention may be more readily understood and carried
into practice I will now proceed to describe the same with reference to the accom-
panying sheet of drawings showing several different methods of construction.
Figures 1 and 2 are respectively elevation and plan of a light portable form of
this invention.
According to this arrangement I provide two bars a of wood, or other suitable
light material of sufficient strength and rigidity, which I secure in any suitable
manner to the opposite edges of a strip 6 of canvas or other suitable fabric or
material.
In order to maintain the bars a at a suitable distance apart so as to properly
stretch the fabric 6 I employ two stretcher-bars c one of which is pivoted to one
end of each of the said bars a. The free ends of the said stretcher-bars are notched
or recessed on one side so as to hook or catch on to studs d projecting from the
opposite bars a in the manner shown in the drawings. The said studs d are
provided with button heads so as to prevent the notched bar c slipping off the
same.
The canvas or other fabric b is of greater length than the bars a which are
placed towards one end of the same so that a portion b of the said fabric projects
from one end of the frame formed by the bars a and the stretchers c.
. In use the ends of the bars a are supported upon the opposite seats of a railway
carriage, or upon the edges of two stools, chairs, or other articles, upon one of which
the end of the canvas or other fabric lies so as to protect the same from injury by
the boots of the person resting upon the device.
When not required for use, the stretcher-bars c may be turned upon their pivots
and caused to lie along the bars a. These bars may be brought close together and
the canvas or other fabric a wound round them so as to form a neat and compact
package which may be secured by means of straps e attached to the underside of
the canvas b for that purpose.
In some cases it is desirable to form the bars a in different lengths jointed
together. In this case I connect these bars by hinges as shewn at Figs. 3, 4 and 5.
If these hinges are placed on the lower side of the bars (as shewn at Fig. 6) the
weight of the person resting upon the device will act to maintain the bars rigid.
In order to afford additional strength and to make the whole rigid when the hinges
are fixed on the upperside. I provide each of the hinged joints with a latch or
bar c (Figs. 3 4 and 5) placed on the opposite side of the bars to that to which the
hinges are secured. This latch is similar in construction to the stretcher-bar c
shewn in Fig. 2 except that it is considerably shorter, and is pivoted to one of the
bars a and arranged to engage with a button-headed stud d upon the other bar a.
Figs. 6 and 7 shew a device in which the bars a are hinged upon their under
sides. This device is provided with a head rest hinged to the same and which may
be set at any convenient angle, its upper end resting against the back of the seat
of the carriage, chair, or any other convenient object. In some cases I secure this
head rest at a suitable angle by means of latches similar to that shown at Fig. 4
pivoted at one end to the frame a and made to engage with studs on the frame of
the head rest.
In some cases I support the free end and sides of the piece of cloth by an
additional section of framing a c hinged to the end of the device shewn at Figs. 6
and 7 so as to support the whole of the body when at full length.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
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The hereinbefore described device for the use of travellers and others as a seat,

page_text: leg-rest, card-table, and other like purposes in all of its modified forms substantially
as and for the purpose hereinbefore set forth and described and illustrated in the
accompanying drawings.
Dated thin 17th day of Wouch 1902
CASTLE SMITH,
"Invention" Office, 54, Fleet Street, London, E.C.,
Agent for the Applicant.