Improvements in and relating to Down and other Cushions.
Year: 1890

page_text: Date of Application, 9th Dec., 189)
Complete Specification Left, 9th Sept., 1891-Accepted, 10th Oct., 189!
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in and relating to Down and other Cushions.
I, WALTER JUBB, of 5 Victoria Road, Barnsley, in the County of York, Down
Quilt Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
The object of this invention is to provide down and other cushions with means
for securing them in position on the chair or other article on which they are placed.
The shifting of the cushion with every movement of the body, tending as it does to
gravitate to the lowest point, is a source of great annoyance and discomfort, and my
invention is produced for the purpose of preventing this displacement.
According to this invention I provide the cushion with an elastic ribbon sewn or
otherwise secured or removeably attached at its ends to the sides or edges of the
cushion in such a position that the said elastic ribbon can be passed round the back
of the chair or other article and the cushion thus secured thereto. If desired an
additional ribbon or ribbons may be secured at an angle to the first ribbon,
that is to say, the upper end or ends being secured to the top edge of the cushion
and the lower end or ends to the first ribbon, so that when placed on the chair back
this additional ribbon or ribbons will pass over the top of the back of the chair and
will effectually prevent the cushion from slipping down. Or a silk or other hood
or canopy may be secured all round the upper edges of the cushion and provided
with an elastic ribbon or string along its bottom edge. This hood or canopy will
be placed over the top of the chair back and the cushion will be held firmly in
position by the elastic ribbon or string aforesaid.
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CASTLE SMITH,
"Invention" Office, 54, Fleet Street, London, E.C.,
Agent for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in and relating to Down and other Cushions.
I WALTER JUBB of 5 Victoria Road, Barnsley, in the County of York, Down
Quilt Manufacturer, 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 down and other cushions with means for
securing them in position on the chair or other article on which they are placed.
The shifting of the cushion with every movement of the body, tending as it does to
gravitate to the lowest point, is a source of great annoyance and discomfort, and my
invention is produced for the purpose of preventing this displacement.
According to this invention I provide the cushion with an elastic ribbon sewn or
otherwise secured or removeably attached at its ends to the sides or edges of the
cushion in such a position that the said elastic ribbon can be passed round the back
of the chair or other article and the cushion thus secured thereto. If desired an
additional ribbon or ribbons may be secured at an angle to the first ribbon, that is
to say, the upper end or ends being secured to the top edge of the cushion and the
lower end or ends to the first ribbon so that when placed on the chair back this
additional ribbon or ribbons will pass over the top of the back of the chair and will
effectually prevent the cushion from slipping down. Or a silk or other hood or
canopy may be secured all round the upper edges of the cushion and provided with
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page_text: an elastic ribbon or string along its bottom edge. This hood or canopy will be
placed over the top of the chair back and the cushion will be held firmly in position
by the elastic ribbon or string aforesaid.
In the accompanying drawings
Figure 1 is a view of a chair on which is placed a cushion made in accordance
with my invention and having vertical and horizontal ribbons, and
Figure 2 is a view shewing a cushion with a hood or canopy.
In both drawings A is the cushion and B the elastic strips, strings or ribbons.
For ornamental purposes I prefer to enclose the clastic in an envelope or casing of
silk or other material, rather longer than the elastic so as to allow for the expansion
or stretching of the elastic. When the elastic is placed in this envelope or casing
it gathers up the extra lenth in pleats or folds. In the case of a hood or canopy
the envelope or casing is attached to or forms part of the said hood or canopy.
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
The attachment of strips, strings, or ribbons of elastic, india-rubber or the like to
down and other cushions or to hoods or canopies thereon, substantially as and for
the purpose hereinbefore set forth and illustrated in the accompanying drawings.
Dated this 9th day of September 1891.
F. W. GOLBY,
Agent for the Applicant.