Improved Folding Garden or Sea Side Chair.
Year: 1889

page_text: Date of Application, 25th Mar., 1889
Complete Specification Left. 2nd July, 1889-Accepted, 10th Aug., 1889
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improved Folding Garden or Sea Side Chair.
I GEORGE DALLAS of 19 Nuttall Street, Hoxton, N., Cabinet Maker, do hereby
declare the nature of this invention to be as follows
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An improved folding garden or Sea Side Chair fitted with lath sweeped back and
seat, with seat hinged to front part of chair by cross rail acting as hinge to seat
with fixed cross rail underneath which keeps scat firmly and allows same to work
freely.
Seat has two sweeped rails fixed to the cross rail which latter acts as a hinge to seat
so that it falls over cross rail at back; curved slots are cut in seat rails which catch
and engage with cross rail of back keeping seat firmly in position. Scat also rises and
falls allowing chair to be raised and lowered at will readily as the person using it may
require.
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1000
Dated this zoth day of March 1889.
GEORGE DALLAS.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improved Folding Garden or Sea-side Chair.
I, GEORGE DALLAS, of 19 Nuttall Street, Hoxton, in the County of Middlesex,
Cabinet 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 improvements in folding chairs and it has for its object tho
adjustment of the seat with respect to the back so that the height or inclination of the
respective parts may be varied to suit the taste of the user.
I attain this object in the manner illustrated in the accompanying drawing in
which Figures 1. and 2. are views in side elevation of the chair in two of the positions
in which it is capable of being adjusted, and Figure 3. is a view in side elevation of the
chair folded up.
Throughout these views similar parts are marked with like letters of reference.
The seat consists essentially of three parts;-The back A consisting of two rails
preferably curved having suitable cross laths a a etc., and cross rails a¹ and a¹, the
cross leg B consisting of two rails-preferably curved-pivotied to the back A at the
point b. and having suitable cross rails 661 and the seat C consisting of two rails-
preferably curved-having suitable cross laths c c etc. and cross rails c c. The cross
rail e' at the front end of the seat is extended on each side to adapt it to engage with
the rails of the cross leg B and thereby from a hinge or joint between the seat and
cross leg. In the rear ends of the curved rails of the seat A are cut hooked slots c²
adapting the said rails to engage with either of the cross bars a², a³, and aª fixed to
the curved rails of the back A.
It will be seen that the inclination of the seat and back of the chair can be varied
by attaching the back of the seat to one or other of the bars a², a² & a² on the back A,
or that by disconnecting it, the chair may be folded as illustrated by Figure 3.
It will be seen that the three parts of the chair become firmly locked together when
the chair is in use, and that there is no tendency for the seat to become unlocked or
for the chair to collapse.
I do not limit myself to the use of any particular number of cross bars a² and I hold
myself at liberty also to make such other changes and alterations as come fairly within
the spirit and scope of my invention.

page_text: 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 ;-
as.hereinbefore described
1st. The improved folding chair constructed substantially as.
and illustrated by the accompanying drawing.
2nd. In a folding chair, the combination with the 'linged seat A of the hooked
slots at the rear of the seat and the cross rails on the back of the seat as and for
the purpose set forth.
Dated this 2nd day of July 1009.
ROBT. ED. PHILLIPS, MI.M.E.,
Consulting Engineer and Patent Agent,
Royal Courts Chambers, 70, 71&72, Ohancery Lane, London, W.C.,,
Agent for the Applicant.