Improvements in or connected with Chair and other Furniture Seats.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 16th Feb., 1891-Accepted, 21st Mar., 1891
COMPLETE DIBUIFICATION.
Improvements in or connected with Chair and other Furniture
Seats.
I, CHARLES MELBOURNE WHITE, of 27, Southampton Buildings, in the
County of Middlesex, Patent Agent, do hereby declare the nature of this inven-
tion, which has been communicated to me from abroad by John Tye, of Hanover,
in the County of Grey and Province of Ontario, in the Dominion of Canada,
Manufacturer, to be as follows :-
Reference being made to the accompanying drawings in which similar numbers
of reference refer to similar parts throughout and
1
Figure represents a plan of a chair seat constructed according to the above
mentioned invention.
Figure 2 represents a cross section on the line a-b of Figure 1 toshow the con-
struction of the said invention and
Figure 3 represents a detail about full size, of a portion of the woven metallic
fabric employed, and representing different numbers of strands therein.
The objects of the invention are:-first to provide a seat that will endure
considerably longer than the cane seat heretofore in use, second, that can be
produced at less than half the cost of the present cane seat in use.
The invention consists essentially in the construction and the means of the
application to chair and kindred furniture seats, of a woven wire fabric to replace
cane generally in use.
The fabric 1 is constructed of wire of any suitable metal woven in the corrugated
form shown in Figure 3 of the drawings and composed of one, two, or three
strands of said wire laid parallel between the interlocking of the longitudinal rows.
In the absence of special machinery for weaving the fabric as shown the ordinary
spiral woven wire fabric may be made to answer by passing it through adapted
rollers set to roll it flat thereby forming a fabric of corrugated wire instead of,
and from, the spiral fabric it originally represented.
A piece of the required size and shape is cut out of the fabric to form a seat
for a chair or other article of furniture for which it is required; the edge may
be bound by curling the ends of the strands together so as to form binding.
In the chair seat frame 2 and parallel with the inner edge thereof a channel or
groove 3 is formed into which the margin of the seat is pressed and by a lacing of
wire or any other suitable means secured to the said frame 2.
When wire or other lacing is employed to secure the seat to the frame 2 holes +
are made similar to those employed in the cane seated chairs and shown more
particularly in Figure 2 of the drawings.
Above the lacing in the groove 3 is next secured leather gimp 5 or such other
material as is adapted to the use and which is secured by finishing tacks or other
suitable means in position so as to cover the margin and occupy the groove 3.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is
1. As a new article of manufacture for chair and kindred furniture seats the
fabric composed of a series of continuous parallel corrugated wires in which each
member of the said series is composed of one or more strands and is interlocked
with the adjacent series substantially as shown and described.
2. The combination of the woven wire fabric hereinbefore specified and claimed

page_text: with chair and kindred furniture seats the marginal groove in said seats in which to
secure the edge of the said fabric by means as described and the finishing binding
to cover the margin and fill said groove. substantially, as shown and described.
Dated this 16th day of February 1891.
WHITE & WOODINGTON,
27, Southampton Buildings, London, Agents.