Improvements in Chairs.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 16th Nov., 1893
Complete Specification Left, 16th Aug., 1894--Accepted, 22nd Sept., 1894
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Chairs.
I, WILLIAM STEWART, 9 Park Terrace, Govan, Lanarkshire, Cabinet Maker
do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention has for its object the adaptation to a chair stool or other seat of
a toilet mirror so fitted as to be used for enabling a person seated in front of a
toilet table to see reflected a view of the back of the head the said toilet mirror
being in general readily folded down or removed from the chair or stool.
In carrying out the invention the toilet mirror may be fitted in a frame hinged
or pivoted to the chair back so as to be folded down when out of use and raised
for use in an approximately vertical line over the chair back the mirror being -
further fitted to swing in its frame. Or the mirror frame may be carried in a
socket or sockets in the upper part of the chair back and when removed it may be
secured out of the way in similar sockets at the back of the chair. Or the toilet
mirror may be permanently secured over the back of the chair.
The invention may thus be applied in various forms the essential feature being
the combination with the chair of a mirror adapted for toilet purposes.
Dated this 15th day of November 1893.
CRUIKSHANK & FAIRWEATHER,
62, St. Vincent Street, Glasgow, Agents.
I, WILLIAM STEWART, 9 Park Terrace, Govan, Lanarkshire, 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:
This invention has for its object the adaptation to a chair, stool or other seat of
a toilet mirror so fitted as to be used for enabling a person seated in front of a
toilet table to see reflected a view of the back of the head the said toilet mirror
being in general readily folded down or removed from the chair or stool.
As illustrated by the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 being a perspective view
of a chair showing the mirror in use and Figure 2 a like view with the mirror
folded against the back of the chair, the toilet mirror A may be fitted in a frame B
hinged or pivoted at a to the chair back C so as to be folded down when out of
use and raised for use in an approximately vertical line over the chair back C the
mirror being further fitted to swing in its frame. Or the mirror frame may be
carried in a socket or sockets in the upper part of the chair back and when removed
it may be secured out of the way in similar sockets at the back of the chair. Or
the toilet mirror may be permanently secured over the back of the chair.
The invention may thus be applied in various forms the essential feature being
the combination with the chair of a mirror adapted for toilet purposes.

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 :-
The combination with a chair of a mirror adapted for toilet purposes
substantially as herein before described.
Dated this 15th day of August 1894.
CRUIKSHANK & FAIRWEATHER,
62, St. Vincent Street, Glasgow, Agents.