Improvements in the Bottoms and Backs of Chairs, Seats, Sofas, and the like.
Year: 1889

page_text: Date of Application, 25th Apr., 1889
Complete Specification Left, 23rd Jan., 1890-Accepted, 15th Mar., 1890
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Bottoms and Backs of Chairs, Seats, Sofas,
and the like.
We, SAMPSON BAUGH TAYLOR, of 43 Derby Street Hulnie, Manchester, Basket
Maker, and JOSEPH HOWARD, of 21 Shudehill Manchester, Merchant, do hereby
declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
In carrying out our improvements, we bore holes through, or partly through,
(preferably through) the front rail of a seat frame; also corresponding holes through
the back rail. Through these holes we pass runners of cane, willow, wire, string, or any
suitable material.
The ends of these runners we border down on the outside of the rails, in the usual,
or any suitable manner. The ends being thus secured, the skeleton of the seat is
formed. Into this we weave or work rushes, willows, wire, twine, or any suitable
material.
In like manner we may pass the runners laterally through holes in the sides of the
seat frame, and border the ends down on the sides; and thus attain the same 'object
as if the runners were passed from front to back.
In constructing backs, we adopt the same method and materials as in the seats;
the runners passing through holes in the top and bottom rails; the ends being bordered
down on the outside; or from side to side, passing through holes, and bordered down
on the outside.
Dotud thin with 1 of Amuil 1000
WILLIAM GADD, C.E.,
64, Barton Arcade, Manchester, Agent.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Bottoms and Backs of Chairs, Seats, Sofas,
and the like.
We, SAMPSON BAUGH TAYLOR, of 43 Derby Street Hulme, Manchester, Basket
Maker, and JOSEPH HOWARD, of 21 Shudehill, Manchester, 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
In carrying out our improvements, we bore holes through, or partly through,
(preferably through) the front rail of a seat frame; also corresponding holes through
the back rail.
Through these holes we pass runners of cane, willow, wire, string, or any suitable
material.
The ends of these runners we border down on the outside of the rails, in the usual,
or any suitable manner. The ends being thus secured, the skeleton of the seat is
formed.
Into this we weave or work rushes, willows, wire, twine, or any suitable material.
In like manner we may pass the runners laterally through holes in the sides of the
seat frame, and border the ends down on the sides; and thus attain the same object
as if the runners were passed from front to back.
In constructing backs, we adopt the same method and materials as in the seats;
the runners passing through holes in the top and bottom rails; the ends being bordered
down on the outside, or from side to side, passing through holes and bordered down
on the outside.
But that the improvements may be better understood we will by the aid of the
accompanying drawings proceed more fully to describe means employed us.

page_text: DESCRIPTION OF DRAWINGS.
Fig. 1 represents an elevation or plan-as the case may be of a portion of the back
or bottom framing of a chair or other seat having cane runners with plaiting or
weaving of other canes thereon, and Fig. 2 an edge view thereof, arranged in
accordance with our invention.
The same letters indicate corresponding parts wherever they occur.
a, a, is a portion of the framing, which may be of any convenient form, either plain
or ornamental. b, b, are the runners which pass through the holes provided in such
framing and which runners are secured on the outside by being bordered or fastened
down, in any convenient way as will be readily understood..
At c, c, simple bordering is shewn; at d, d, the bordering is shewn to be covered
with a wrapping of cane round the framing; and at e, e, the bordering is covered
by a strip of wood grooved inside to allow of space for the bordering; or the
groove may be made for the bordering in the frame, and be covered by a flat or other
strip.
Although in this example cane is used and the weaving or plaiting as a consequence
is course in texture, it will be obvious that other substances such as string, rushes,
wire, or the like of any suitable thickness may be employed. Also, that the framing
may be pierced so that the runners may pass from end to end, or side to side, or
in both directions, according to the nature of the design employed, and other variations
in detail such as the mode of bordering or fastening on the outside of the frame may
be made without departing from the peculiar character of the invention.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what we
claim is :
In the construction of the bottoms and backs of cbairs, seats, sofas, and the like,
piercing holes in the frame-work of such seats in the direction of the line of the
runners employed therein and passing such runners through the holes and securing
them on the outside, for the purpose and in manner substantially as herein shewn and
described.
Dated this 22nd day of January 1890
WILLIAM GADD, C.E.,
64, Barton Arcade, Manchester, Agent.