Improvements in Folding Chairs.
Year: 1899

page_text: Date of Application, 2nd Feb., 1899
Complete Specification Left, 2nd Nov., 1899-Accepted, 2nd Dec.,
1899
Improvements in Folding Chairs.
We, HORACE PALMER TASSIE, of 53, Castle Road, Colchester, Bookkeeper, and
SAMUEL ROOT, of 144, Romford Road, Stratford, Accountant, both in the County of
Essex, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to chairs of the kind known as folding chairs and has
for its object to provide means whereby such chairs may be used either in the
ordinary way or as rocking-chairs.
According to the said invention the frame which carries the seat or in the case
of a hammock chair the front end or seat portion of the canvas and which forms
the back legs of the chair has pivoted to it a frame having curved bars which
form the rockers and the lower end of the back frame of the chair is designed
to be connected with the rocker freme by pins, screws or other suitable means.
It will be understood that in a chair provided with rockers as herein before
described the usual strut or support for the back frame of the chair is dispensed
with the said rockers forming ties between the lower ends of the two frames.
When the chair is to be used as an ordinary chair the rocker frame is turned
upwards and connected with the upper end of the back frame of the chair the
said rocket frame in this case also obviating the necessity for using the ordinary
struts.
In practice the free end of the rocker frame is formed with a series of holes
or the like to enable the inclination of the chair to be varied. We prefer that
our chair should have arranged in conjunction with it jointed arms adapted to
fold up with the chair.
We sometimes provide the chair with a cushion or head support the position
of which can be adjusted to suit the occupier of the chair.
DL 91st dove of Tanuary 1899
Improvements in Folding Chairs.
We, HORACE PALMER TASSIE, of 53, Castle Road, Colchester, Bookkeeper, and
SAMUEL ROOT, of 144, Romford Road, Stratford, Accountant, both in the County of
Essex, 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:-
This invention relates to chairs of the kind known as folding-chairs and has

page_text: for its object to provide means whereby such chairs may be used either in the
ordinary way or as rocking-chairs.
According to the said invention the frame which carries the seat, or in the case
of a hammock chair the front end or seat portion of the canvas, and which forms
the back legs of the chair has pivoted to it a frame having curved bars which
form the rockers, and the lower end of the back frame of the chair is designed
to be connected with the rocker frame by pins, screws or other suitable means.
It will be understood that in a chair provided with rockers as herein before
described the usual strut or support for the back frame of the chair is dispensed
with, the said rockers forming ties between the lower ends of the two frames.
When the chair is to be used as an ordinary chair the rocker frame is turned
upwards and connected with the upper end of the back frame of the chair the
said rocker frame in this case also obviating the necessity for using the ordinary
struts.
In the accompanying drawings,―
Figure 1 is a side elevation of a chair made according to the invention, the
parts being assembled to form a rocking chair;
Figure 2 is a plan of the same; and
Figure 3 is a view similar to Figure 1 but shewing the parts assembled to form
an ordinary chair.
a is the hammock seat of the chair and 6 is the frame which carries the front
end of the said seat the said frame being rectangular in shape. c is the rocker
frame, also rectangular in shape, the side bars of which are curved so as to form
the rockers; the rear end of this frame is pivoted to the back or lower end of
the frame b, as clearly shewn. d is the back frame of the chair to the upper
end of which the upper part of the hammock seat a is secured and to the lower or
upper end of which the rocker frame c is designed to be attached according as
to whether the chair is to be used as a rocking chair or as an ordinary chair in
the manner hereinafter described. The frame b is of such a width that it can
fit into the frame d, to which it is hinged at the point d, and the frame d is
of such a width that it can fit inside the frame c which is of sufficient length to
enable it to be passed over the two frames for converting the chair from a rocking
chair to an ordinary chair and vice versa.
To enable the rocking frame e to be connected to the back frame & of the
chair we advantageously provide the said back framed with laterally projecting
pins e, e at its lower end and with similar pins f, f at its upper end, the said pins
being designed to enter curved recesses e¹, el and f¹, f respectively formed upon
the inner surfaces of the lateral bars of the rocker frame c.
With this arrangement when it is desired to use the chair as a rocking chair
the rocker frame c is turned down (in the direction of the arrow Figure 3) into
the position indicated in Figures 1 and 2 and the lateral pins e, e upon the lower
end of the back frame d'are passed into the recesses e¹, e¹ upon the inside of the
curved rocker bars of the frame c, as clearly shewn in the said figures, thereby
connecting the whole of the frames rigidly together.
When, however, the chair is to be used as an ordinary or rigid chair the rocker
frame c is released from the pins e, e upon the lower end of the back frame d and
the said rocker frame is then turned up (in the direction of the arrow Figure 1)
into the position shewn in Figure 3, in which position the lateral pins f, f can
be passed into the recesses f¹, f¹ upon the said rocker frame thus rigidly holding
the whole together. In this case the lower ends of the seat and back frames form
the legs of the chair.
.
In lieu of one pair of recesses e¹ and f¹ we can form a series of such recesses in
the lateral bars of the frame c so that the inclination of the seat can be varied
as desired.
The chair is furnished with arms comprising the arms proper g, which are
hinged to the back frame d and the supporting arms h, h which are hinged to
the seat frame and to the said arms, g. We may also, if desired, provide a

page_text: cushion or head support the position of which can be adjusted to suit the occupier
of the chair.
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;-
1. A folding-chair comprising a seat frame, a back frame, a seat connected to
these two frames, a curved rocking frame which is hinged to the rear end of the
seat frame and is adapted to pass over the seat and back frames and means for
connecting the said rocking frame to the lower or upper end of the said back
frame, substantially as herein before described.
2. Folding-chairs constructed substantially as herein before described and illus-
trated in the accompanying drawings.
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Novembe 1800
G. F. REDFERN & Co.,
4, South Street, Finsbury, London, Agents for the Applicants.