Combination Couch and Settee.
Year: 1889

page_text: Date of Application, 11th Mar., 1889
Complete Specification Left, 5th Nov., 1889-Accepted, 8th Mar., 1890
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Combination Couch and Settee.
I, Lt. Col. JOHN DAVY of the Junior Army & Navy Club St. James' Street
S.W. in the City of London do hereby declare the nature of this invention to
be as follows:-
A Couch with movable back which may be lowered in one or two parts, as desired,
to form single or double Settee and with collapsible cup stand.
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COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Combination Couch and Settee.
I, Lt.-Colonel JOHN DAVY Junior Army & Navy Club St. James's Street
London S.W. 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 :-
The Combination Couch & Settee can be made in any material, and on any
lines and can be upholstered throughout. It forms, when closed up, an ordinary
couch or sofa. But the back is constructed to form, when fully opened, two extra
seats and a small table or cup-stand. Thus: The back is made in 3 sections. The
centre one, which forms the table, is fixed on the frame of the couch. The end
sections, or seats, revolve on the frame by their upright parts (A. B. in accompanying
sketch). Their upper rail (C) is continued to form a quadrant (D), which works
behind the sofa ends (being hidden by the upholstery when the couch is closed), and
is stopped by a latch or bend at the end (E Fig. 2) when the seat is lowered to
the proper position. It is then supported by the quadrant (D) at its outer angle (F).
To further support it at its inner angle (G) when lowered, a leg (H) is slung on the
upper rail (C) which must be made horizontal at that point (G), whatever its lines
elsewhere to secure the leg hanging straight; and these legs are arranged to the
proper length for any height of sofa by raising or lowering the pitch of the upper
rail at the point where they are slang (G) irrespective of its height elsewhere.
When the seats are closed up they are secured by latch, clip or bolt to the fixed
cup-stand and also to the sofa ends. The cup-stand, or table, consists of an upright
rectangular frame (I. 1') fixed to the sofa frame. On the top bar (1) two flaps hang
by hinges, and are raised independently by two vertical brackets (J), which work
inside the frame-like those of an ordinary "Pembroke table." It can, of course, be
used with the couch when the seats are closed up. I have connected one of the sofa
ends with the table frame by a fixed rail (K)-(in fact a continuation of the top rail
of the frame), the seat working within it. This gives more strength to the table
(tho' not absolutely necessary), and serves as a resting rail for both couch and seat
when the latter is lowered. The other end I have left without this rail-which
might be considered a preferable arrangement. In any case I wish to shew the
3 alternations of a fixed rail all along, or at one end only, or without any-according to
fancy. The table flaps might be made to look very handsome in figured brass or
copper-and the whole article turned out cheap or expensive as required. The dotted
lines suggest the basis of upholstering.

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is:
To have invented and designed a novel and most useful article of furniture, which
acts well and easily in all its parts, is of simple construction, is capable of being
made very handsome and can be turned out at prices to suit any purse.
Dated this 4th day of November 1889.
JOHN DAVY,
Applicant.