Improvements in or connected with Baby Chairs."
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 8th Jan., 1896
Complete Specification Left, 7th Oct., 1896-Accepted, 8th Jan., 1897
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
"Improvements in or connected with Baby Chairs."
We, WILLIAM SEATON MCLENNAN, of 222, Whitehill Street, in the County of
Glasgow, North Britain, Chair Manufacturer, and THOMAS MORTON, of 145, Finlay
Drive, in the same County, Foreman Chair Maker, do hereby declare the nature of
this invention to be as follows that is to say :-
The said invention has for its object to increase the advantages of certain kinds of
baby chairs in the direction of providing for the pleasurable occupation of their
occupants and diminishing the trouble of their attendants. The improvements are
specially designed to be attached to baby chairs of the kind known as American adjust-
able four-position chairs; but are also applicable to any baby chair provided with a
tray or table arranged to be adjusted in front of a child occupying the chair.
In the case of a chair tray of the usual semicircular form we attach a stout wire
which may be either permanently fixed or hinged to the rim of the tray at the sides,
and which when horizontal occupies a position sufficiently within the rim all round
to allow of colored balls or heads or other articles being strung upon it, and of such
articles being movable on the wire from side to side. The wire may be of a curved
form similar to that of the rim of the tray if curved, or it may consist of straight
parts with curved parts allowing of the balls or other articles being moved from one
part to another. The wire may be fixed at one or both ends, or it may be hinged or
journaled at the ends so that it can be turned up into an arched position so that the
child can move the balls or articles up from one side and allow them to slide down
again or to the other side. We also place on the wire one or more spring hooks made
with eyes to slide on the wire, any toy or other article such as a teething ring being
attachable by means of a hook, and being within the child's reach for his amusement
or occupation without being loose and liable to be thrown on the floor or away from
the chair.
The improved apparatus is susceptible of variation in arrangement and details.
For example, the wire may be hinged or journaled to the frame of the chair; or it
may be arranged outside instead of inside the tray or table. There may be more than
one wire or equivalent fitted in connection with each chair; or a single wire may have
branch wires fixed to it to carry separate sets of balls or beads or other articles.
Dated this Seventh day of January. 1896.
EDMUND HUNT.
Applicant's Agent.

page_text: "Improvements in or connected with Baby Chairs."
We, WILLIAM SEATON MCLENNAN, of 222, Whitehill Street, in the County of
Glasgow, North Britain, Chair Manufacturer, and THOMAS MORTON, of 145 Finlay
Drive, in the same County, Foreman Chair Maker, do hereby declare the
nature
of this invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, to he
particularly described and ascertained in and by the following statement:-that is
to say :-
The said invention has for its object to increase the advantages of certain kinds of
baby chairs in the direction of providing for the pleasurable occupation of their
occupants and diminishing the trouble of their attendants. My improvements are
especially designed to be attached to baby chairs of the kind known as American
adjustable four-position chairs; but are also applicable to any baby chair provided
with a tray or table arranged to be adjusted in front of a child occupying the
chair.
The invention consists in hanging, hinging or centering, er-otherwise-attaching
to the tray, table, or frame of a baby chair a stout bent wire on which are strung
colored balls, beads, or other articles.
And in order that the said invention and the manner of performing the same may
be properly understood we hereunto append a sheet of explanatory drawings, to be
hereinafter referred to, and showing by way of example the tray or table of a baby
chair as made with the improvements.
Figure, 1, of the drawings is a plan, and Figure, 2, is a transverse vertical section.
In these drawings the same reference letters are used to mark the same or like parts
wherever they are repeated.
In the case of a chair tray, A, (such as is shown in the drawings) of the usual semi-
circular form we attach a stout wire, B, which might-be-permanently-fixed but is pre-
ferably journaled or hinged to the rim, C, of the tray at the sides and which when
horizontal as indicated by dotted lines occupies a position sufficiently within the rim
all round to allow of colored balls or beads, D, or other articles being strung
upon it and of such articles being movable on the wire, B. from side to side.
The wire B, is of a curved form similar to that of the rim, C, of the tray, A, or
generally it may follow the contour of a tray of any shape or it may consist of straight
parts with curved parts allowing of the balls or other articles, D. being moved from
one part to another. The wire. B, might-he-fixed-at-one-or-both-ends-but-it is
preferably journaled or hinged at the ends so that it can be turned up into an arched
position and so that the child can move the balls or articles, D, up from one side and
allow them to slide down again or to the other side. I also place on the wire, B, one,
or it might be more, spring swivel double hooks, E, capable of sliding on the wire
and of attaching thereto any toy or other article such as a teething ring, (i, so as to
be within the child's reach for his amusement or occupation without being loose and
liable to be thrown on the floor or away from the chair.
The improved apparatus is susceptible of variation in arrangement and details.
For example the wire (B) may be hinged or journaled to the frame of the chair;
or it may be arranged outside instead of inside the tray or table (A). There may he
more than one wire (B) or equivalent fitted in connection with each chair; or a
single wire may have branch wires fixed to it to carry separate sets of balls or
beads (D) or other articles.

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what
we claim is :-
Hinging, or centering, or otherwise-attaching to the tray, table, or frame of a baby
chair a curved or partly curved wire on which are strung colored balls, beads, or other
articles, substantially as herein before described and as shown in the accompanying
drawings.