Year: 1887

page_text: Date of Application, 20th May, 1887
Complete Left, 14th Feb., 1888
Complete Accepted, 16th Mar., 1888
We, WILLIAM CLARK MCEWEN and MATTHEW MCEWEN, of Abbey Road Works,
Stirling, in the county of Stirling, North Britain, Smiths and Perambulator Manu-
facturers, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to improvements in or applicable to folding chairs.
Hitherto the canvas seats or bottoms of such chairs have been permanently attached
to the chairs.
Our invention consists in forming the canvas seats or bottoms of folding chairs in
such a manner that they can be readily attached to and detached from the frames of
the chairs.
Our improvements may be carried out in various ways but we have found that the
canvas can be advantageously sewn to pieces of sheet iron which are curved into the
form of hooks which can be passed over the cross rods of the chair thereby securing
the canvas to the chair frame.
Amongst the advantages connected with the use of a chair made according to
our invention may be mentioned that when the chairs are required for outdoor use
the seats or bottoms can be detached from the frames and taken indoors and be
thereby protected from the weather; this applies also in using theso chairs on ship-
board; also our chairs with detachable bottoms can be packed much more compactly
than those with permanently fixed seats or bottoms.
G. F. REDFERN,
4, South Street, Finsbury, London,
Agent for the Applicants.

page_text: Stirling, in the County of Stirling, North Britain, Smiths and Perambulator Manu-
facturers, 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 relates to improvements in or applicable to folding chairs.
Hitherto the canvas scats or bottoms of such chairs have been permanently attached
to the chairs.
Our invention consists in forming the canvas seats or bottoms of folding chairs in
such a manner that they can be readily attached to and detached from the frames of
the chairs.
Our improvements may be carried out in various ways but we have found that the
canvas can be advantageously attached to pieces of sheet iron which are curved into
the form of hooks which can be passed over the cross rods of the chair thereby
securing the canvas to the chair frame.
In order to enable our invention to be fully understood we will describe how it can
be carried into practice by reference to the accompanying drawing, in which
Figure 1 is a perspective view of a folding chair provided with a detachable seat or
bottom according to our invention.
Figure 2 is a front elevation, and
Figure 3 an edge view of the canvas seat or bottom.
Similar letters in all the figures indicate similar parts.
a and b are the pieces of sheet metal curved into the form of hooks and to which we
attach the canvas c by means of eyelets d, d, d, as clearly shown in figures 2 and 3.
These look-shaped pieces of metal a and b are adapted to be passed over the cross
Barse and respectively of the chair as shown in figure 1 thereby securing the canvas
to the chair frame g.
Amongst the advantages connected with the use of a chair made according to our
invention may be mentioned that after the chairs have been required for outdoor use
the seats or bottoms c can be detached from the frames g and taken indoors and be
thereby protected from the weather; this applies also in using these chairs on ship-
board;
also our chairs with detachable bottoms can be packed much more compactly
than those with permanently fixed seats or bottoms.

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed we declare that what we
claim is :-
1. Forming the canvas seats or bottoms of folding chairs in such a manner that
they can be readily attached to and detached from the frame of the chair, sub-
stantially as hereinbefore described.
2. The improved folding chair hereinbefore described and illustrated in the
accompanying drawing.