A Portable Folding Seat with or without Footboard.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 6th July, 1891
Complete Specification Left, 4th Apr., 1892-Accepted 21st May, 1892
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
A Portable Folding Seat with or without Footboard.
JOHN CALLIE Builder 8 Roscommon Street Liverpool Lancashire do hereby
declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
A seat made in either wood iron or a combination of both, the seat back & legs
are hinged to the seat and fold inwards, the legs pass each other on under side of
seat thereby saving space, the hinges are flanged to form a stop for seat back & legs
when open the legs are kept in position by a wood or iron stretcher or stay fastened
to side of legs, or a rod or crank worked on a pivot or pin from the seat and
running at either end in slides or slots fixed to or formed on the end of seat back
& legs will cause them to open or close automatically and also act as a stop for the
seat back & legs independent of the flanged hinge. A spring fixed on rail of back
leg & fastened to rail of seat back keeps the legs in position when open
dispenses with a rail or stretcher, the foot board is fixed on front legs & can be
taken off if required or fixed permanently & worked in conjunction with the other
parts of the seat.
Dated this Fourth day of Jule 1901
JOHN CALLIE,
8, Roscommon Street, Liverpool, Lancashire.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
A Portable Folding Seat with or without Footboard.
I, JOHN CALLIE, of 8 Roscommon Street, Liverpool; Lancashire, England,
Builder, do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what manner the
same to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by
the following statement :-
My invention relates to a portable folding seat.
In order that my invention may be properly understood and readily carried into
effect I have hereunto appended two explanatory sheets of drawings in the
several figures of which corresponding parts are marked with the same letters of
reference.
Figure 1 is a side elevation of a garden or outside seat, while Figure 2 is a view
of it in a collapsed state.
Figure 3 is a side elevation of a seat preferably to be used on board ship, while
Figure 4 is a view of it in a collapsed state.
Figure 5 is a detached view showing the spring for keeping the back legs in
position when the seat is open.
With reference to Figures 1 and 2, A are the standards which constitute the
back legs, and B are the front legs. C is the seat, and D is the back. Each end
of the back D is hinged or pivoted to the standards A at a, and the two front
legs B are connected to the seat C by means of metal bands H screwed or other-
wise secured to each end of the seat. Screwed or otherwise connected to each end
of the back D there is a metal band F having a slot c, and to each of the front
legs B there is secured a similar band F¹ having a slot c. Working in these
slots C, c¹ there is a rod E pivoted at to keep the back of the seat and the front
legs in position when the seat is open.
In folding up the seat I take the back D and seat C and bring them together, by
which action the front legs B are drawn simultaneously on underside of seat C, all
as shown more particularly in Figure 2.

page_text: To prevent rain from lodging on the seat when in this collapsed position I
make the lower end of the back D camsiled, as shown in Figures 1 and 2, and
I may provide a waterproof or other covering on the back to keep the seat C
always dry..
On referring to Figures 3 and 4, the several parts of the seat having been
already described, I need not herein further refer to them, but will describe the
manner in which the seat is collapsed. I may state here however that in place of
having the back D and back legs A. connected to the seat C as described with
reference to Figures 1 and 2, the hinges a connecting these are provided with teeth
which gear into one another. In order to keep the back legs A in position I fix
one end of a spring K to the rail of the back legs, and the other end fits into a
clasp L secured to the rail of the back D, as seen more particularly in Figure 5.
M is a handle for carrying the seat, which also acts as a bearing for the spring K
when the seat is open.
In collapsing the seat the back D is folded inwards until it lies on the top of the
seat C, and the legs A and B also folds inwards passing each other until they are
under the seat C, as shown more particularly in Figure 4.
I may also attach a footboard G to the front legs B, which can be taken off if
required, or fixed permanently thereto and worked in conjunction with the other
parts of the seat.
I prefer also to have the centre of the seat C made of cork, and the panels in
the back filled in with a like material, and also the space between the two back
legs, so that in the case of a storm and the seat getting into the water it will have
sufficient buoyancy to hold several persons, the back legs A and back D lying
in a horizontal position and being provided with life saving lines or rods.
In order to give the seat a better hold in the water I may also provide a false
bottom underneath the seat C which when the seat would turn over in the water
could slide out and form a kind of keel or centre-board.
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 :-
1. The general arrangement and combination of the parts constituting my
portable folding seat, all operating in the manner and for the purposes herein-
before described and shown in Figures 1 and 2 of the accompanying sheets of
drawings.
2. The general arrangement and combination of the parts constituting my
portable folding seat, all operating in the manner and for the purposes herein-
before described and shown in Figures 3, 4, and 5 of the accompanying sheets of
drawings.
Dated this 1st day of April 1892.
BOTTOMLEY & LIDDLE,
154, St. Vincent Street, Glasgow.