Improvements in or connected with Chairs.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 1st June, 1891
Complete Specification Left 1st Mar 1892-Accepted 2nd Apr. 1892
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or connected with Chairs.
ALFRED FRANCIS RUBERY 14 Manor Road Leyton Essex Upholsterer dö
hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows :-
A bracket & plate combined for the protection of chair joints or tenons to be
made of metal, to be screwed to the back frame, side frames and back uprights of
5 chair and thus prevent the possibility of the joints or tenons giving way or
breaking.
Dated the 20th 1...
1001
ALFRED F. RUBERY.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or connected with Chairs.
I, ALFRED FRANCIS RUBERY of 21 Great Eastern Street in the City of
London late of 14 Manor Road, Leyton, in the County of Essex, Manufacturing
Upholsterer 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 :-
My invention is designed so as to provide a ready and economical means for
strengthening protecting and repairing the joints of chairs and like structures.
The joints mortises and tenons of chairs and similarly constructed articles tend
to considerably weaken the same and when broken or strained it is often necessary
to send furniture some distance to manufacturing centres for the purpose of
repairing the same the upholstery having to be removed to effect such repairs.
The appliance which is the subject of my present invention is intended to be
affixed to new chairs and like furniture so that the risk of breakage is reduced to a
minimum and also to be purchased by small or retail dealers or kept in stock by
them so that they may readily repair or strengthen a chair without damaging the
upholstery morcover when my appliance is used there is no necessity for the usual
bracing in the angles between side and back framing of the chair.
Referring now to the sheet of drawings accompanying this Specification whereon
Figure 1 is a view of a chair having two of my appliances fixed thercon and
Figure 2 is an enlarged drawing of one of such appliances
I will proceed to further describe my invention thus:
I provide a malleable metallic plate or casting A Figure (shown more fully
by Figure 2) carrying a bracket or upright flange B secured by screws or the like
to each back foot C of the chair the base plate A. being likewise and by similar
means being attached to the side and back framing E and F when it is practically
impossible for the back of the chair to move from the front framing or "give way."
The vertical flange or bracket being of malleable metal may be bent in fixing so as
to correspond with the rake or sweep of the back foot.
The base plate is formed with inward curves at convenient points say as at GH
so as to allow of the upholstery being attached or detached without interfering
therewith.
It will be well understood that my improved appliance may be primarily attached
to chairs and the like for the purpose of strengthening the same or may be easily
affixed to chairs for the purpose of repairs in either case without materially inter-
fering with the upholstery and in such a manner that the said appliance is entirely
concealed by the aforesaid upholstery.

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
The device or appliance for strengthening or repairing the frames of chairs and
similar structures, consisting of a peculiarly formed base plate (shaped so as not to
interfere with the upholstery) carrying a vertical bracket or flange and manufactured
from malleable metal substantially as and for the purpose described and as
illustrated by the accompanying sheet of drawings.
Dated this 29th day of February 1892.
POPPLEWELL & Co.,
17 & 18, Southampton Buildings, London, W.C.,
Agents for the Applicant.