Improvements in Folding or Bed Chairs.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Anglication 24th Dec., 1891-Accepted. 30th Jan., 1892
COMPLETE SPECIFY
Improvements in Folding or Bed Chairs.
I, KOSSUTH THIERFELDER of 43 Arcadia Street, Poplar, London E., Cabinet
aker, do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what manner the
me is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by
e following statement :—
The object of this invention is an easy chair which can be converted into a bed
sofa without being moved from its standing place and has a double adjustable
ck and an adjustable bolster.
Referring to the accompanying drawing
21 section of the chair with the back in normal
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COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Folding or Bed Chairs.
I, KOSSUTH THIERFELDER of 43 Arcadia Street, Poplar, London E., Cabinet
aker, do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what manner the
ame is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by
e following statement :-
The object of this invention is an easy chair which can be converted into a bed
sofa without being moved from its standing place and has a double adjustable
ock and an adjustable bolster.
Referring to the accompanying drawing
Fig. I is a vertical longitudinal section of the chair with the back in normal
position.
Fig. 2 a vertical longitudinal section of the chair couverted into a bed.
Fig. 3 a front view to Fig. 2.
Fig. 4 a rear view to Fig. 2.
Fig. 5 shows the seat as let down so as to form a kind of sofa.
Fig. 6 illustrates on an enlarged scale the mechanism for adjusting the back.
When using the chair as a bed, the covering of the back and seat is not being
worn as shewn by Fig. 2; the seat c which may be provided with a looking glass
on the underside, is folded up and suitably held by a spring bolt p or other
convenient device; or the back may be so disposed that the seat when folded up
retains its position without the aid of a bolt or other device. Mattress part 61
Fig. 1, the feet of which are lodged in corresponding openings ss Fig. 3, is
turned out about hinges. The seat turns about bows q pivoted to frame a, and
the double back de hinged together at t to the frame a at io and to the seat at u
assumes the position shewn in Fig. 2 when the seat is folded up.
The bolster has a solid underlayer by means of which it can be placed high
Bolts m m of the solid underlayer
and low by the mechanism shewn in Fig. 4.
rest in recesses of levers 1 pivoted at n n' to a stationary platek so that by
turning the eccentric lever i likewise pivoted to plate k, to the left, the bolster fis
raised as shewn by Fig. 2.
The back de of the chair can be turned from position Fig. 1 into position Fig. 5
by means of a lever / provided under one arm of the chair and adapted to press
parte of the back forward by means of hook g as shewn by Fig. 6.
To make a kind of sofa of the chair, part b₁ of mattress is turned out
and the seat c after taking off the detachable part o is let down as shewn by
Fig. 5.
The double back and the mechanism for adjusting the same may also be applied
to ordinary easy chairs and sofas.
When the seat c is turned up, the upper mattress part 6' may also be disposed as
and used for a seat.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :
1) A folding or bed chair consisting of frame a, mattress parts 6 61 hinged
together in front, seat c adapted to be turned up with part o and an adjustable
5 double back de substantially as set forth.
2) In bed chairs or beds, the application of a mechanism for adjusting the bolster
consisting of bolts m m' secured to a solid underlayer of the bolster and resting in
recesses of levers pivoted at n n' to a stationary plate k and an eccentric lever i
substantially as set forth.

page_text: 3) In easy chairs or sofas the application of an adjustable back consisting of
two parts d and e hinged together and to the frame and seat respectively and adapted
to be turned forward from the seat by means of a lever arrangement gh substantially
as set forth.
Dated this 22nd day of December 1891.
KOSSUTH THIERFELDER,
By Huelser & Co.,
His Agents.