IMPROVEMENTS IN LOUNGES, SEATS, OR OTHER APPARATUS FOR SITTING OR RECLINING ON, WHICH ATCOARESO APPLICABLE TOING
Year: 1862

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to George Crisp Burrows, of Stoke Holy Cross, in
the County of Norfolk, Yeoman, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN
LOUNGES, SEATS, OR OTHER APPARATUS FOR SITTING OR RECLINING ON, WHICH
ATCO
Sealed the 5th August 1862, and dated the 13th February 1862.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said George Crisp Burrows
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
13th February 1862.
I, GEORGE CRISP BURROWS, of Stoke Holy Cross, in the County of Norfolk,
Yeoman, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS
IN LOUNGES, SEATS, OR OTHER APPARATUS FOR SITTING OR RECLINING ON, WHICH IM-
PROVEMENTS ARE ALSO APPLICABLE TO ROCKING-HORSES," to be as follows:-
By the improvements a pleasant oscillating, adjusting, or rocking motion is
obtained.
For this purpose the apparatus is formed of one or more triangles resting
each on one line of each of such triangles; these lines form fulcra on which
the triangles (which are the legs) may turn, whilst other parts also rest on the
frame of the apparatus or against each other, and at such point of rest they
may be connected by elastic means. The parts are also connected by their
opposite upper surfaces.
Upon any one reclining on either end of tho apparatus when made up of

page_text: more than one triangle, the tendency of such part is to separate from the other,
and this tendency is controlled and counteracted by the connections by which
an oscillating or rocking motion is obtained, and which may be assisted by.
springs.
The apparatus may have castors or other wheels, and is applicable to or in
substitution of rocking-horses.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said George Crisp Burrows in the Great Seal Patent Office on
the 11th August 1862.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, GEORGE
CRISP BURROWS, of Stoke Holy Cross, in the County of Norfolk, Yeoman,
send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Thirteenth day of February, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-two, in the twenty-fifth year of
Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto
inc, the said George Crisp Burrows, Her special licence that I, the said
George Crisp Burrows, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such
others as I, the said George Crisp Burrows, my executors, administrators,
and assigns, should at any time agree with, and no others, from time to
time and at all times thereafter during the term therein expressed, should
and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend, within the United Kingdom
of Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an
Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN LOUNGES, SEATS, OR OTHER APPARATUS FOR
SITTING OR RECLINING ON, WHICH IMPROVEMENTS ARE ALSO APPLICABLE TO ROCKING-
HORSES," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said George Crisp
Burrows, my executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing
under my, or their, or one of their hands and seals, should particularly
describe and ascertain the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner
the same was to be performed, and cause the same to be filed in the Great
Seal Patent Office within six calendar months next and immediately after the
date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said George Crisp Burrows, do hereby
declare the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same
is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by
the following statement thereof, that is to say:-

page_text: oscillating, or rocking motion will be obtained, or the same effect may be
obtained by two persons sitting, one on each end inclining the upper portions
of their bodies slightly, but alternately to and from each other. In order to
control these motions I apply braces or links f, which are connected as shewn
to the respective parts d and e, at f', fi, and to each other at f.
Figures 3 and 4 represent similar views of the apparatus with a single seat,
corresponding parts are marked with like letters of reference to those already
referred to. In this case one of each pair of the braces or links f is connected
by pin to the frame a. a², a², are castors or rollers which may be used
when' desired; a³, a³, are foot rests.
Figure 5 shews the lower portions or feet g,'g, of a rocking-horse, supported
by the frame h, h, with a centre of motion i, which may be a pair of small
wheels: -
Having thus described the nature of my said Invention, and means which
I adopt in carrying the same into effect; I would have it understood that I
'do not confine myself to the precise details shewn and described, so long as
the peculiar character of the improvements be retained substantially as
explained.
In witness, whereof, I, the said George Crisp Burrows, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Fifth day of August, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-two.
GEORGE CRISP BURROWS. (L.8.)