Improvement in Chairs.
Year: 1889

page_text: Date of Application, 7th May, 1889
Complete Specification Left, 7th Feb., 1890-Accepted, 19th Apr., 1890
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvement in Chairs.
OWEN TOWNSEND 116 High Street Homerton in the county of Middlesex Chair-
maker do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows .-
My invention relates to Improvement in chairs the several parts of which may be
made to adjust to any desired position by the person sitting thereon.
I make two frames the one consisting of two back legs and stayed together by
transverse stays to be called the back the other consisting of two front legs preferably
stayed together near their lower ends by transverse stays or rods to be called the
front legs.
A seat consisting of a frame or solid piece of wood or other material to be called
the seat I take two rails or arms of wood or other material to be called the arms.
Also two or more plates of iron or other metal straight or curved and slotted and
notched so that by simply touching them with the finger the sitter can adjust the
chair to any position without rising from their seat to be called the adjusting irons.
Now 1 take the back A and the seat (and pivot them together at I now I take the
front legs B and pivot them on the seat Cat G and carried upwards and pivotted on
the arms D at H and the back of the arm D and pivotted on back A at I now we take
the adjusting iron E and pivot it on to the seat Cat J and on to the front leg B at K.
Fig 1 shows the chair open Fig. 2 shows the chair closed and Fig. 3 shows the
adjusting iron
D. L
S M
1000
Dated this 7th day of Ma
May 1880.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvement in Chairs.
OWEN TOWNSEND of 116 High Street Homerton in the County of Middlesex, Chair
maker 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 :—
My invention relates to folding chairs, the several parts of which may be made to
adjust to any desired position by the person sitting therein.
I make two frames; the one consisting of two back legs and stayed together by
transverse stays to be called the back, the other consisting of two front legs preferably
stayed together near their lower ends by transverse stays or rods, to be called the
front legs.
The seat consists of a frame or solid piece of wood or other suitable material.
I take two rails of wood or other suitable material to form the arms.
The adjustable irons consist of two plates of iron or other metal or suitable
material, straight or curved slotted & notched; so that by simply touching the irons
with the fingers, or pressing with the heel on the treadle that is attached thereto, the
sitter can adjust the chair to any position without rising from the seat.
Now I take the back A and the seat C, and pivot them together at ff¹; then I take
the front legs B and pivot them on to the seat C at 9 g¹; and carried upwards &
pivotted on the arms D D₁ at h ; and the backs of the arms D D' are pivotted on
backs at. Now I take the adjusting irons E E' and pivot them on to the seat C
at 22, and on to the front legs B at k k
'
The figure 1 shews the chair open; figure 2 shews the chair closed; and figure 3
shews the adjusting iron. These were attached to Provisional Specification.

page_text: I claim the Improved arrangement by which the sitter can adjust the angle of the
back of the chair and lock the same to any desired position by lifting the adjusting
irons E E with either the hand or foot
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said Inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what 1
claim is
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The improved arrangement by which the sitter can adjust the back of the chair to
any position by lifting adjusting irons E E with the hand or foot and locking the
same to any angle.
Dated the Seventh day of February One thousand eight hundred and ninety
OWEN TOWNSEND.