Improvement connected with Deck and other like Chairs or Seats.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 11th Apr., 1895
Complete Specification-Left, 13th Jan., 1896-Accepted, 29th Feb., 1896
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvement connected with Deck and other like Chairs
or Seats.
I, STEPHEN WINCKWORTH SILVER, of 67 Cornhill, London, Merchant do
hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention has for object, constructing a skeleton chair or seat, and a canvas
seating forming also a back rest, and if desired a curtain to protect the legs of a
sitter from wind, or to be set at an angle as a leg rest, the chair and the canvas
being separable from each other for compact packing and for ease of moving or
placing them in any desired position.
The invention is specially applicable for deck use on board ship but is equally
useful as a garden, library, or sick room lounge.
If for use on board ship, a person can with facility arrange the seat at any
desired spot and should he leave the seat temporarily, the canvas can be removed
and be rolled up as to render the skeleton chair perfectly useless against interlopers,
whereby a person can retain his seat for private use only.
For the purpose of my invention, I make the side frames such as to constitute
the seat, legs, back and rest singly, and joint them with the necessary stretcher
rails and stops. The upper back is provided with depending hooks, or they may
be notches as also the lower backs of the front legs and at the back of the seat
frame.
My canvas is looped at each end and have rollers placed in them, the ends of the
rollers being reduced in diameter to enable them to be easily placed in the books
or notches and the canvas be stretched over and under the stretcher or distancing
rails to make the seat perfect and ready for use.
The skeleton frame is so arranged that when folded it only occupies a couple or
three iuches of space, and with the canvas drawn over the frame it is bound
together and can be readily carried in the hand through narrow passages and be
opened out for use.
Dated this 11th day of April 1895
Improvement connected with Deck and other like Chairs
or Seats.
I, STEPHEN WINCKWORTH SILVER, of 67 Cornhill, London, Merchant 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 has for object constructing a canvas or like seating forming also
a back rest, in connection with a skeleton chair or seat, the chair and seating
being separable from each other.

page_text: The invention is specially applicable for deck use on board ship but is equally
useful as a garden, library, or sick room lounge.
If for use on board ship, a person can with facility arrange the seat at any desired
spot, and should he leave the seat temporarily, the canvas or seat cushion can be
readily removed and be rolled up as to render the skeleton chair perfectly useless
against interlopers, whereby a person can retain his seat for private use only.
The seat may be stuffed with horse hair or other material, buoyant or not and
may be fitted with tapes to attach quickly to the body to serve for life saving, said
seating being easily removed from the frame.
For the purpose of my invention, and as shown in the annexed drawings,
Figures 1 and 2, I make a canvas life saving seating or cushion A looped at each
end and having round bars B B placed in it, the ends of the bars being reduced in
diameter to enable them to be easily placed in notches or slots C C formed in the
upper back D and in the legs EE of the seat frame F, and the seating A be
stretched over the top distancing rail G and over lower seat rail H to make the
seat complete and ready for use.
The canvas or seating can be readily detached from the frame and carried in the
hand and taken away, so that the frame is thereby rendered temporarily useless
until the seating is again attached to it by the owner or other authorised person.
The seating when detached may be used as a cushion or short mattress, or it
may merely be stored in a dry place.
I am aware that folding frames for seats and lounges have been previously
constructed and used, therefore I make no claim to such in a general sense.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
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In connection with a deck and other like skeleton chair or seat; forming
detachable seating or cushion as at A with looped ends for the reception of
bars B, B, the ends of which bars are adapted to take into notches or slots C C
formed in the upper back D and in the legs E E of the seat frame, substantially as
shown and described.
Dated the 19th T 1000