Improvements in Seats for Operatives at Textile or other Machines.
Year: 1897

page_text: Date of Application, 29th Nov., 1897
Complete Specification Left, 26th Aug., 1898-Accepted, 15th Oct., 1898
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Seats for Operatives at Textile or other Machines.
We, JOSHUA VALENTINE EVES, of Forth River Mill Falls Road, Belfast, in the
County of Antrim, Ireland, Flax Spinner, and THOMAS LUCAS, of Forth River
Mill, aforesaid, Mechanic, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
This invention relates to seats to be applied to machines such as spread boards,
hackling machines or other machines employed in the textile or other trades, and
is designed to facilitate the movement of the operative when working, or in moving
or turning from one machine to another.
The seat is constructed in any suitable way so as to slide or travel, and also to
swivel. The frame is provided on its under side with a socket or pin to fit on to
the arm that carries it.
Hitherto the seats have been supported by a central pedestal fastened to the
floor, the swivelling movement being only on the axis of the pedestal.
Our improvements consist in mounting the seat on a radial arm which may
be carried from any suitable pivot or socket, so that in addition to merely swivelling
about its axis, the seat has a wide traverse in a circular path by which the move-
ments of the operative are rendered much more free.
The radial arm may be a single bent bar with pivots or sockets at either end, or
it may be formed of any other convenient shape or construction. This arm is
mounted in a pedestal fastened to the floor, or upon the frame of the spread
board or machine or on a bracket affixed thereto.
We at present prefer to employ a long bracket placed between the framing of
two spreadboards (or other machines) with three sockets to receive the radial or
swinging arm, one central and one nearer to each of the machines, either hole
or socket can he used as found most convenient to the work in hand. This
specially designed bridge bracket enables the seat to be set for either of two
adjacent machines, or centrally to serve both.
The height of the seat may be altered by raising and lowering the arm in the
socket, a loose adjustable bush in which the arm turns being provided for the
purpose.
On the top of the adjustable bush or on the socket may be applied a stop to
prevent the radial arm being pushed or moved beyond a required position, when
is desired to have the seat steady. Such stop may be adjustable or otherwise
as desired.
The seat, when in use, is capable of being moved near to or far off the point
of work as may be desired, and further, it may be moved clear out of the way,
when the operative wishes to stand or for any other purpose.
Dated this 21th dat ab 1907
WM. P. THOMPSON & Co..
6, Bank Street, Manchester, Patent Agents.

page_text: Improvements in Seats for Operatives at Textile or other Machines.
We, JOSHUA VALENTINE EVES, of Forth River Mill Falls Road, Belfast, in the
County of Antrim, Ireland, Flax Spinner, and THOMAS LUCAS, of Forth River
Mill, aforesaid, Mechanic, 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 seats such as are applied to spread boards, hackling
machines or other machines employed in the textile or other trades, and is designed
to facilitate the movement of the operative when working, or in moving or turning
from one machine to another.
Hitherto the seats have been supported by a central pedestal fastened to the
floor, the swivelling movement being only on the axis of the pedestal.
Our improvements consist in mounting the seat on a radial arm which may
be carried from any suitable pivot or socket, so that in addition to merely swivelling
about its axis, the seat has a wide traverse in a circular path by which the move-
ments of the operative are rendered much more free.
The invention will be fully described with reference to the accompanying
drawings.
Fig. 1. Front elevation of seat with supporting bracket and swinging arm
(partly in section).
Fig. 2. Sectional side elevation of seat on line y Fig. 1.
Fig. 3. End elevation of supporting bracket.
Fig. 4. Plan of supporting bracket.
Fig. 5. Plan of socket for swinging arm.
The seat A is of any ordinary form mounted on runners or wheels to slide
or travel from side to side and is provided with a socket B (or with a pin) at the
under side of the seat bracket Cupon which it can swivel or turn about its
vertical axis in the usual way.
The seat A and seat bracket C we now mount upon a radial arm D pivoted at its
other end whereby we obtain a wide range of movement of the seat capable of
bringing it to and from either of two machines when pivoted between them.
The radial arm 1) comprises a single bent bar with a pivot or socket at both
ends or it may be formed in any other convenient manner. The pivot fits the
socket B of the seat bracket and the pivot fits into a socket in a supporting
bracket E made fast to the frame of the machine or otherwise secured. The pivoted
arm is thus supported at one end and free to turn about thereon.
We prefer to support the arm 1 in a bracket E attached to the frames of two
machines provided with three sockets e so that the position of the arm may be
capable of adjustment as may be required by the work under operation, or it
enables the seat to be set for either of two adjacent machines, or centrally to serve
both. The sockets of the supporting bracket. E are fitted with a loose sleeve or
socket F capable of being raised or lowered for vertical adjustment and held in
position by a screw f.
Instead of the transverse supporting bracket E the radial arm may be supported
by a pedestal fastened to the Hoor or upon the frame of the spread board or
machine.
On the top of the adjustable sleeve or socket For on the socket e may be
applied a stop f to prevent the radial arm being pushed or moved beyond a
required position when it is desired to have the seat steady. Such stop may be
adjustable or otherwise as desired.
The seat, when in use, is capable of being moved near to or far off the point

page_text: of work as may be desired, and further, it may be moved clear out of the way,
when the operative wishes to stand or for any other purpose.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, we wish it to be
understood that we are aware of Girdwood's Specification No. 5960, A.D. 1897,
and we do not claim the adjustable seat arranged to slide and swivel as described
and claimed therein, but we declare that what we claim is:-
1. The combination with a sliding seat mounted on rollers for operatives at
textile or other machines of a radial arm upon which at one end the seat is pivoted
and at the other end pivoted to a suitable supporting bracket substantially as
described.
2. A seat for textile or other machines supported and having the several parts
constructed and arranged in combination substantially as described and shown.
11 11 at turust
1000
WM. P. THOMPSON & Co.,
Manchester, Liverpool and London.
Patent Agents.
WM. P. THOMPSON & Co.,
Manchester, Liverpool and London.
Patent Agents.