Improvements in Headrests.
Year: 1886

page_text: Date of Application, 18th June, 1886.
Complete Left, 18th Mar., 1887.
Complete Accepted, 19th Apr., 1887.
I, FRANK PROCTOR, of Suffolk House, Cannon Street, in the City of London,
Engineer do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows
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The invention consists essentially in the use of a bracket capable of being screwed
or otherwise attached to the backs of chairs or other seats which bracket is provided
with a tapered socket in which is inserted a tapered projection from a boss milled on
its face and kept against the face of another milled boss by means of a clamp or set-
screw passing through the centres of the bosses.
The second boss is provided with a socket through which is passed a rack on one end
of which is fitted a suitable pad or head-rest. The rack is prevented from falling by a
pawl pressed against its teeth by a spring the said pawl being fitted in the socket and
provided with a head to allow of its being moved back when the rack is required to be
lowered.
FRANK PROCTOR.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Headrests.
1, FRANK PROCTOR, of Suffolk House, Cannon Street, in the City of London, 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 and accompanying drawing, (that is to say) :-
My present invention relates to moveable and adjustable supports or rests for the
heads of persons using armchairs or other chairs, and it has for its object a novel
method of constructing and arranging such headrests, so that they are easily and

page_text: quickly adjusted or altered in their position, and are sufficiently firm when fixed, whilst
they are light, cheap, and easily made and used.
In the accompanying drawing which is in illustration of my invention, figure 1 is a
side view, and figure 2 a front view of the improved headrest.
a is a bracket or plate fixed by screws or other means to the back of a chair or other
seat to which the rest is to be applied.
This bracket a is provided with a socket 6 (shewn in plan in figure 5) having a hole
through it (preferably somewhat taper) into which is fitted a corresponding taper
projection c formed upon the lower edge of a boss or disc d, preferably milled or other-
wise roughened upon its face which fits against a corresponding boss or disc e, the two
being kept together by a central set screw or bolt, or preferably being held together
by a central pivot the second disc e being capable of turning round upon the pivot and
adjusted in any desired position by the slot and set screw ff.
A spring catch m (shewn in figure 4) keeps the projection c in its place in the
socket b.
The second boss e has formed upon or fixed to it a socket g (a back view of which
is shewn in figure 3), through which is passed a bar h having ratchet teeth upon its
edge, to the front end of which is screwed or otherwise fixed a pad or cushion i of
suitable shape and material, which forms the headrest or support.
I
The bar can be drawn in or out through the socket to any required position and
it is prevented from falling back by a pall k pivotted to the socket and provided with a
spring, and with a handle or head by which it can be pushed back out of gear with
the teeth when it is desired to lower the bar h and headrest.
The socket e carrying the bar h is also capable of being adjusted and fixed in any
desired position round the pivot upon which the boss or disc e turns.
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 :-
1. The socket b, corresponding projection c upon the boss or disc d, adjustable upon
the corresponding boss e, a socket g upon which carries the headrest bar h, substantially
as described and shewn.
2. The socket g in combination with the bar having ratchet teeth, the spring pall k,
and the headrest or cushion i, substantially as described and shewn.
Dated this 18th day of March 1887.
EDWARDS & Co.,
35, Southampton Buildings, London,
Agents for the Patentec.