Improvements in and connected with Outdoor Seats.
Year: 1899

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PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in and connected with Outdoor Seats.
WILLIAM ENGLISH, of 172, Russell Street, Moss Side, Manchester, in the
County of Lancaster, Assistant Foreign Clerk, do hereby declare the nature of
this invention to be as follows:-
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These improvements relate to an invention for which I have obtained Letters
Patent No. 22570 dated October, 2nd, 1897 and which consists of an endless
cover or surface adapted to be revolved around a seat board so as to bring the
upper part of the said endless seat cover or surface when wet below and the
lower or dry part on the top of the seat board, the wet being removed by a brush
or scraper below the said seat board.
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My present invention has chiefly for its object to provide an improved kind of
endless seat cover or surface which is less liable to take up and retain moisture
aud consequently when revolved at short intervals will still provide a dry seat.
To this end and in lieu of employing an endless seat cover cr surface made of
strips of wood or the like secured upon an endless belt of leather or the like, as
hitherto I employ an endless seat cover or surface of wire woven in coil fashion.
In order to facilitate the revolving of such endless seat cover or surface I
employ at the back or at the front or at both ends a roller over which the seat
cover or surface revolves.
Dated this 5th day of January 1899:
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F. BOSSHARDT & Co.,
Agents to Applicant.
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COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in and connected with Outdoor Seats.
I WILLIAM ENGLISH, of 172, Russell Street, Moss Side, Manchester, in the
County of Lancaster, Assistant Foreign Clerk, do liereby 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;-
These improvements relate to an invention for which I have obtained Letters
Patent No. 22570, dated October, 2nd, 1897, and which consists of an endless
cover or surface adapted to be revolved around a seat board so as to bring the
upper part of the said endless seat cover or surface when wet below and the
lower or dry part on the top of the seat board, the wet being removed by a brush
or scraper below the said seat board.
My present invention has chiefly for its object to provide an improved kind of
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page_text: endless seat cover or surface which is less liable to take up and retain moisture
and consequently when revolved at short intervals will still provide a dry seat.
And in order that my invention may be more fully understood I have causęd
to be appended hereunto one sheet of drawings marked with letters of reference
indicating like parts in the various figures.
:
Fig. 1 is an end view and Fig. 2 a front view partly in section at line A-A of
Fig. 4, Fig. 3 a plan, and Fig. 4 a vertical section at line B-B of Fig. 2 showing
my improvements applied to a double tram car or the like seat. Fig. 5 is an
end view and plan at an enlarged scale of a portion of my improved seat.
In taffying out my invention and referring to the figures generally, in lieu of
employing as hitherto an endless seat cover or surface made of strips of wood or
the like secured upon an endless band, I employ an endless seat cover or sur-
face a of wire woven in coil fashion, say having each two strands, see more par-
ticularly Fig. 5, the ends of each two strands being soldered or by preference
brazed togther and covered by a beading b.
The said coiled wire seat cover is woven in a straight piece and the ends
thereof connected together by twisting a coil of wire into the two end coils which
forms an invisible joint and thus renders the seat entirely smooth and continuous.
The seat cover described I may weave of galvanised, aluminium; copper or other
suitable wire and the ends of the coils or sides of the seat cover I cover by a
beading b.
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In order to facilitate the revolving of the said endless seat cover or surface a
I employ at the back or at the front or preferably at both ends, a roller c, e, see
more particularly Fig. 4, over which the seat cover or surface a is adapted to
revolve.
Between the said rollers I employ a board d and across the same, metal or
other suitable runners e, e adapted to keep the seat cover or surface a at such a
distance above the board d, that the moisture accumulating on the latter is not
liable to be absorbed by the person seated on the cover or surface a. The board d
itself I dish out so as to form a channel d in the middle, which inclines towards
each end of the seat and allows the rain passing through the cover or surface a of
running constantly off the said board.
The form of endless seat cover or surface described besides being less liable to
retain moisture, is extremely simple in construction and the coils thereof being
linked together they are capable of turning on each other so as to accommodate
themselves to the shape of the rollers at the ends of the board it and thus cause
the seat cover or surface a to turn most easily.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is:
1st. In outdoor seats of the type hereinbefore referred to, the employment of
an endless seat cover or surface a woven of wire in coil fashion, all substantially
as and for the purpose set forth.
2nd. The endless seat cover or surface a, specified in the preceding claim, in
combination with a roller or rollers c, c adapted to support the same at one or both
ends of the seat board d; all substantially as set forth.
1000
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F. BOSSHARDT & Co.,
4, Corporation Street, Manchester,
Agents to Applicant.