Improvements in Seats.
Year: 1888

page_text: Date of Application, 24th Oct., 1888
Complete Specification Left, 10th Aug., 1889-Accepted, 19th Oct., 1889
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Seats.
I, WILLIAM GEORGE BARRETT of 25 Great Strand Street in the City of Dublin
Wholesale Wine Merchant, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows :-
This invention relates to that class of seat which can only be used on the pre-payment
of a coin.
I provide a foot-board, the depression of which causes the seat to be locked in the
position ready for use, so that there is no necessity for the user to sit continuously on
the seat, which is not withdrawn so long as he keeps his feet upon the foot-
board.
I prefer to employ a flexible seat consisting of a number of wooden laths hinged
together or having their ends attached to a chain. The sides of these laths are curved
and fit together so as to prevent the insertion of a point or knife between them by
which the seat could be retained in its open position. For a similar reason I cause
the ends of the laths to run in grooves formed in the fixed frame of the chair.
The action of the apparatus is as follows:-
The insertion of a coin into a slit in the casing releases (by any suitable means) a
catch which has hitherto been retaining the seat within the casing. The seat is now
free to be drawn out, but unless someone is standing upon the foot-board it will be drawn
back again immediately it is released by a weight or spring and it will not be again
On the other hand, if
possible to draw it out without the insertion of another coin.
the foot-board is kept depressed the seat when drawn out is retained by a bolt or bolts
actuated by the pressure.
Antahan 1000
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Seats.
I, WILLIAM GEORGE BARRETT, of 25 Great Strand Street, in the City of Dublin,
Wholesale Wine Merchant, 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 that class of seat which can only be used on the pre-payment
of a coin.
I provide a foot-board, the depression of which causes the seat to be locked in the
position ready for use, so that there is no necessity for the user to sit continuously on
the seat, which is not withdrawn so long as he keeps his feet upon the foot-board.
I prefer to employ a flexible seat consisting of a number of wooden or metallic laths
hinged linked or otherwise connected together or having their ends attached to a
chain. The sides of these laths are preferably curved and fit together so as to prevent
the insertion of anything between them by which the seat could be retained in its.
open position. For a similar reason I cause the ends of the laths to run in grooves
formed in the fixed frame of the chair.
The action of the apparatus is as follows:-
The insertion of a coin into a slit in the casing releases (by any suitable means) a
catch which has hitherto been retaining the seat within the casing. The seat is now
free to be drawn out, but unless some one is standing upon the foot-board it will be
drawn back again immediately it is released by a weight or spring and it will not be again
מ.

page_text: possible to draw it out without the insertion of another coin. On the other hand, it
the foot-board is kept depressed the seat when drawn out is retained by a bolt or bolts
actuated by the pressure.
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS.
Figure 1 is a vertical section from front to back of the seat and Figure 2 is a
vertical transverse section of the same.
A A are the two sides, B the back and C the seat. The latter consists of a number of
slats of wood whose ends run in slots A' in the side plates A and pass over the roller (.
D is the opening into which the coin is inserted, it leads to the tube D' by which
the coin is conducted to the hopper E which pivotted to the forked end of the
counter-balanced lever F pivotted at F¹. The opening D is accurately gauged to take
nothing larger than say a penny and to prevent smaller tokens or coins operating the
mechanism the hopper E is also fitted with a slot which permits any coin less than a
penny to pass through. G G are weights attached to the back of the seat. H H are
pawls which come above the weights G when in their lowest position and prevent
the seat from being drawn out. Tho pawls H are mounted on the rocking shaft H¹
to which is fixed an arm H* connected by the rod I to the lever F. K is the
footboard pivotted at K¹ and pressed upwards by a spring K". It bears upon the
end of the lever L pivotted at L'. The other end of the lever L has pivotted to
it the rod M whose other end is slotted to receive the pin N" on the arm N¹
carried by the rocking shaft N. The shaft N has fixed to it two pawls 00 actuated
by springs as N³ which take into teeth in the weights G when in their highest
position.
The action of the apparatus is as follows:-The person desiring to use the seat
steps upon the foot-board K thereby depressing it and through the lever L raising
the rod M allowing the pawls 00 to drop into the path of the weights G. He
then inserts a penny into the opening D. The penny descends the tube D¹ into
the hopper E which it depresses thereby raising the rod and swinging the
pawls HH out of the way of the weights. G. The seat can now be drawn out
and is secured in that position by the pawls OO which take into the teeth of
the weights G and prevent them from falling so long as the footboard remains
depressed.
The rod M carries a hit and miss pawl P which allows the hopper E to descend
freely but on the downward movement of the rod M comes against the pin E' and
upsets the hopper discharging the coin.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I would state that I am
awaro of the Patent granted to John Tourtel dated the 13th day of June 1887
No. 8477 and that I make no general claim to seats of the above mentioned
class and having a flexible seat operated by a spring or weight but that what I
claim is :-
:-
1. A seat which can only be used on the pre-payment of a coin and in which the
depression of a foot-board causes the seat to be locked in position ready for use.
2. The combination of the sliding flexible seat which can only be used on pre-
payment of a coin, a weight or spring tending to draw it back and a foot-board whose
depression locks the seat and retains it in position ready for use.
Dated this 22nd day of July 1889