Improvements in Folding Stools or Seats suitable for Bars, Shops, and other Situations.
Year: 1889

page_text: Date of Application, 16th Mar., 1889
Complete Specification Left. 16th Jan. 1890-Accepted. 15th Mar.. 1890
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Folding Stools or Seats suitable for Bars, Shops,
and other Situations.
I EDWARD WILLIAM GOUGH POMROI of 137 Great Dover Street in the County of
Surrey Gentleman do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows
The object of this invention is to provide a stool or seat capable of being folded
under and against the counter when not in use but when in use the pressure due to
the weight of the person sitting thereon is transmitted through a vertical column
or pillar instead of through an inclined bracket as heretofore..
According to this invention I hinge the seat of the stool 'to a vertical column or
pillar and I support the said column or pillar in a vertical position by means of a
strut or struts attached thereto at the upper end and also attached by means of pivots
or hinges to the floor at the lower end thereof and I further connect the column or
pillar to the strut or struts by means of a rod pivoted at one end to the strut or struts
the other end sliding up and down the column or pillar.
The seats are attached to the column or pillar by a hinge the hinge plate carrying
a fixed or pivoted strut abutting against a stop on the column to keep the seat in
position.
When it is desired to allow the stool to move in a direction other than perpendicular
to the counter I use a strut or struts fastened to the floor by a vertical pivot so as to
allow of a rotary motion of the stool round the said pivot and I further support the
column by means of struts or feet attached thereto.
Dated this 16th day of Marah 1880
BROWNE & Co.,
Agents for the Applicant.
-COMPLETE
SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Folding Stools or Seats suitable for Bars, Shops,
and other Situations.
I EDWARD WILLIAM GOUGH POMROI of 137 Great Dover Street in the County of
Surrey Gentleman 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 stool or seat capable of being folded
under and against the counter when not in use but when in use the pressure due to the
weight of the person sitting thereon is transmitted through a vertical column or pillar
instead of through an inclined bracket as heretofore.
According to this invention I hinge the seat of the stool to a vertical column or
pillar and I support the said column or pillar in a vertical position by means of a strut
or struts attached thereto at the upper end and also attached by means of pivots or
hinges to the floor at the lower end thereof and I further connect the column or pillar
to the strut or struts by means of a rod pivoted at one end to the strut or struts the
other end sliding up and down the column or pillar.
The seats are attached to the column or pillar by a hinge the hinge plate carrying
a fixed or pivoted strut abutting against a stop on the column to keep the seat in
position.
When it is desired to allow the stool to move in a direction other than perpendicular
to the counter I use a strut or struts fastened to the floor by a vertical pivot so as to
permit of a rotary motion of the stool round the said pivot and I further support the
column by means of struts or feet attached thereto.

page_text: in the accompanying drawing:-
Figure 1. represents front view of part of a counter fitted with a seat constructed
according to my invention.
Figure 2. side view of same, shewn in position ready for use and also closed.
Figure 3. front view of part of a counter fitted with seat also constructed according
to this invention shewn in closed position.
Figure 4 side view of same shewn in position ready for use and also closed.
a. is the seat hinged at b. to the vertical pillar c. preferably hollow. d. d are struts
pivoted to the pillar c. at e and pivoted at f. to the floor. g. is a rod pivoted to the
struts at h. the other end sliding up and down the pillar or column c.
i is a light
rod or chain attached to the rod g. at one end and at the other to a small handle j. for
the purpose of raising the rod g. when the seat is to be folded.
When the seat a. is turned into the position for sitting on the stop k. abuts against
the column or pillar c. Figure 2, or I may use the strut 1. shewn in Figures 3 and 4
such strut sliding in a slot or between collars in the pillar c.
A. shews the seat folded against the counter B. and C. shews the seat ready for use.
The stools shewn in Figures 1. and 2. are capable of motion round the pivot f. and
also the pillar is capable of rotation in the collars m. and n.
Although I have shewn this seat applied to counters it is obvious it may be placed
in other situations for instance for seats for the drivers of tram cars when it could be
made to fold against the splash board.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said Inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed 1 declare that what I
claim is :-
I. In a folding stool or seat the vertical pillar c. as and for the purpose stated.
II. The improved folding seat or stool substantially as described and shewn in
Figures 1, 2, 3, and 4.
Dated this 11 1
1000
1890.
BROWNE & Co.,
59 and 60, Chancery Lane, Agents for Applicant.

page_text: This Specification was, upon the 23rd day of July, 1890, amended
under Sections 18 to 21 of the Patents, Designs, and Trade Marks Act, 1883,
by the addition, as a Co-applicant, of the name of