A Standard with Folding Seat for Tables or Desks.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 3rd Sept., 1894
Complete Specification Left, 11th May, 1895-Accepted, 13th July, 1895 >
"PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
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A Standard with Folding Seat for Tables or Desks.
JAMES FRANKLIN WALLER Engineer 46 Fish Street Hill London.E.C. do
hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows :✦
It is a metal standard marked A with hinged seat B, made to fold up under
the table or desk & is fitted with a curved leg C which is hinged to the seat
bearer & is kept in position by stays on either side, D, the top of leg C, is fitted
with a dowell. & the seat bearer B has a mortice to receive this, & also has a
slotted bearing which is made the length of the dowell, so that when the seat is
closed down, no movement of the desk or table can cause the leg C, to run under,
as the seat must be raised the depth of the slotted bearing before the leg is moved,
at the bottom of leg is a rubber wheel, to stop any jar in closing down the seat
& also to be able to remove them easily by raising the table on to the front leg.
Dated this Third day of September 1894.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
A Standard with Folding Seat for Tables or Desks.
1, JAMES FRANKLIN WALLER Fish Street Hill London Engineer 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, that is to say :-
For the purpose of having metal standards, with folding seats, which require no
fixing, are perfectly rigid, easily removable & take up no more room than metal
standards with folding seats which must be fixed & over which my improvement
claims considerable advantages.
The standard may be of wrot, cast or malleable iron, steel or brass or any other
metal & consists of 5 pieces
The standard marked A.
The hinged seat bearer marked B.
The curved leg marked C.
The stays marked D.
As shown on drawing left with Provisional Specification.
The improvement comprises a shaped leg made to fit the inner edge of the
standard when the same is folded up, & is affixed to the seat bearer B, the seat
bearer is hinged to the standard A. In the seat bearer is a slotted mortice or
bearing which allows a movement of the pin in the top of the leg C. & which gives
room for the dowell which is placed at the end of the leg C. to withdraw from the
mortice in seat bearer directly the seat is lifted up, the length of this mortice or
bearing is determined by the length of the dowell at the end of the leg C.
The leg C. is kept in position by two stays D. which guide the folding up & the
extention of the leg, according to the movement of the seat.
At the bottom of the leg C are two wheels either metal, wood, vulcanite or
rubber tyred which extend below the bottom of leg. These wheels make the

page_text: tables or desks or seats easily movable & when rubber tyred their movements over
a floor is noiseless.
Having now particularly described & ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion, & in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is
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That I do not make any claim to the sole use of a folding seat, but I claim the
construction of such folding seat, substantially as herein before described, to a seat
requiring no fixing; with a movable leg automatically locked when down by pin
& mortice; easily moved & taking up no more room than metal standards with
folding seats.
1
JAS. F. WALLER.