Year: 1899

page_text: I, EDWARD WRIGHT, of Greenhill Park, Harlesden, in the County of Middlesex,
Gentleman, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
My invention consists in making forms or seats of such simple construction
that they can be readily folded and packed for storage or transit in the smallest
possible space; when so folded they are adapted for use as camp bedsteads ;
and, when unfolded, they are immediately ready for use as seats.
The mode in which I carry out. my invention is as follows: I form the seat
of two, three or more standards. Each standard is made of two pieces of batten,
one longer than the other, bolted together in the course of their length, so that
when they are set up for use they form a St. Andrew's cross, X, one of the
ends, however, being longer than the others. The longer one, in each case,
forms the support to which the thick laths that form the back are permanently
fixed.
At a convenient point along the rear of the back supports I fix a wooden or
metal bar which forms, when the seat is unfolded, the stop on which rest the
ends of the cross-bearers to which the thick laths are fixed that form the seat. The
other end of each of the cross-bearers is halved for a portion of its length to fit
into similarly halved ends at the top of the front legs of the standards. These
are so hinged together—the cross-bearers and the front leg of the standard-at
the point of meeting that, when the seat is folded up, the two halved ends fit
into one another and lie flat alongside the long back leg of the standard.
In order to arrest the unfolding of the seat at a certain fixed point I cut a
notch or recess in the lower side of the end of the cross-bearer in such a position
that it shall engage the wooden or metal bar at the back of the standards, thus
locking the standards and the seat together and preventing further movement.
By these means the form is held in a firmly rigid position when required for
use as a seat, at the same time they are easily folded for removal or storage.
When thus folded the thick laths which form the seat and the thick laths that
form the back coincide with each other in the same plane. When the folded
seat is laid down the standards keep the thick laths from touching the ground
and leave an air space between, thus rendering these folding forms admirably
adapted for camp bedsteads by night and for seats by day.
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page_text: the same is to be performed to be particularly described and ascertained in and
by the following statement:-
My invention consists in making forms or seats of such simple construction
that they can be readily folded and packed for storage or transit in the smallest
possible space; when so folded they are adapted for use as camp bedsteads ;
and, when unfolded, they are immediately ready for use as seats
The mode in which I carry out my invention is as follows: I form the seat
of two, three or more standards. Each standard is made of two pieces of batten,
one longer than the other, bolted together in the course of their length, so that
when they are set up for use they form a St. Andrew's cross, ✗, one of the
ends, however, being longer than the others. The longer one, in each case,
forms the support to which the thick laths that form the back are permanently
fixed.
At a convenient point along the rear of the back supports I fix a wooden or
metal bar which forms, when the seat is unfolded, the stop on which rest the
ends of the cross-bearers to which the thick laths are fixed that form the seat. The
other end of each of the cross-bearers is halved for a portion of its length to fit
into similarly halved ends at the top of the front legs of the standards. These
are so hinged together the cross-bearers and the front leg of the standard-at
the point of meeting that, when the seat is folded up, the two halved ends fit
into one another and lie flat alongside the long back leg of the standard.
In order to arrest the unfolding of the seat at a certain fixed point I cut a
notch or recess in the lower side of the end of the cross-bearer in such a position
that it shall engage the wooden or metal bar at the back of the standards, thus
locking the standards and the seat together and preventing further movement.
By these means the form is held in a firmly rigid position when required for
use as a seat, at the same time they are easily tolded for removal or storage.
When thus folded the thick laths which form the seat and the thick laths that
form the back coincide with each other in the same plane. When the folded
seat is laid down the standards keep the thick laths from touching the ground
and leave an air space between, thus rendering these folding forms admirably
adapted for camp bedsteads by night and for seats by day.
Figure 1 is an end elevation and Figure 2 a front elevation of a seat con-
structed according to this invention. Figure 3 is an end elevation of the same
seat partly folded up.
a and bare the battens or bars forming the standards, they are pivotted together
at c. d are the cross bearers to which the laths e forming the seat are fixed.
These bearers are hinged at f to the bars b and have hooks at their ends which
engage with a longitudinal bar g fixed to the bars a. hare laths fixed to the
bars a and forming the back. Preferably the bars a are also tied together by
diagonals but these are not shown in the drawings.
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 combination, substantially as described, of the bar a with the halved
and hinged bars b and d and means for supporting the rear ends of the bars d.
2. Folding seats substantially as described and illustrated in the drawings.
Dated this 12th day of July 1900
EDWARD WRIGHT.