AN IMPROVEMENT IN FOLDING CHAIRS
Year: 1879

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to William Cutler, Glass Merchant, of Birmingham, in the
County of Warwick, for the Invention of "AN IMPROVEMENT IN FOLDING
CHAIRS"
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said William Cutler at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents on the 21st November 1879.
WILLIAM CUTLER, Glass Merchant, of Birmingham, in the County of Warwick.
"AN IMPROVEMENT IN FOLDING CHAIRS."
The stepper or foot board is so constructed that it can be attached to any ordinary.
cross leg folding chair by a pin or screw, and supported in position by a prop or
stay made of metal or any suitable material having a slot or opening in the same
with a turn or curve at bottom end, and by passing a pin or screw through the slot
or opening into the chair when the stepper is raised into position the screw or pin
runs along the slot or opening, and so drops into the turn or curve at bottom end
and secures itself ready for use.
The arm is attached to the chair in the ordinary way, but has an enlarged bend
or elbow by which means I obtain room to pass a bar or rod to retain the child,
and to act also as a foot or stand when the chair is folded and not in use.
The stepper can be supported from above as well as underneath with other
shaped supports, but I make use of this one as being most suitable.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed by
the said William Cutler in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 21st May
1880.
WILLIAM CUTLER, Glass Merchant, of Birmingham, in the County of Warwick.
"AN IMPROVEMENT IN FOLDING CHAIRS."
This Invention consists in applying a stepper or foot board and an improved
shaped arm to chairs of the above description, by which means I convert it into a
childs table chair.

page_text: The stepper or foot board is so constructed that it can be attached to any
ordinary cross leg folding chair by a pin or screw, and supported in position by a
prop or stay made of metal or any suitable material having a slot or opening in
the same with a turn or curve at bottom end, and by passing a pin or screw
through the slot or opening into the chair when the stepper is raised into position
the screw or pin runs along the slot or opening, and so drops into the turn or
curve at bottom end and secures itself ready for use.
The
The arm is attached to the chair in the ordinary way, but has an enlarged bend
or elbow by which means I obtain room to pass a bar or rod to retain the child,
and to act also as a foot or stand when the chair is folded and not in use.
stepper can be supported from above as well as underneath with other shaped
supports, but I make use of this one as being most suitable.
My said Invention will be more fully understood by the aid of the accom-
panying Drawings, shewing in Figure 1 a perspective view of a chair constructed
according to my Invention, and adapted for the use of a child; Figure 2, a like
view of the same chair folded up, and keeping an erect position by standing upon
its arms, and Figure 3 being a like view of a chair for an adult.
In Figure 1 the formation of the arms A, A, are shewn, the bends in which are
sufficiently enlarged to allow of suitable holes being made therein for inserting a
bar to prevent the child from falling forward. To such bar may also be added a
moveable table. The formation of these arms as shewn have the further advantage
that they act as feet to keep the chair in an erect position when folded up as
shewn in Figure 2. The stepper or foot board C, Figure 1, is pivoted to the same
pins as those of the cross frame or legs, and is supported by the segmental
supports B, B, with slots made therein as shewn, the slots being for the purpose of
guiding the support upon two pins inserted in the front legs, and a turn or curve
in the bottom end of the slot secures the foot board in position when in use;
Figure 4 shews the formation of one of the segmental supports B, the curve
being taken with a radius of which the pin on which the step works is the centre.
Figure 3 is a perspective view of a folding chair for an adult with the improved
arms to enable it to stand erect when folded, and the lower ends of the two side
pieces supported by coming into contact with and resting upon the two back cross
legs, as shewn at d, Figure 3.
Having thus described the nature and object of my said Invention I declare that
what I claim and desired to be secured to me by the hereinbefore in part recited
Letters Patent is,-
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The general arrangement and combination of parts together forming my improve-
ments in folding chairs for children, substantially as herein before described and
shewn in Drawings, or any mere modification thereof.
In witness whereof, I, the said William Cutler, have hereunto set my hand
and seal, this Twentieth day of May, in the year of our Lord One thousand
eight hundred and eighty.
WILLIAM CUTLER. (L.S.)