MUSIC SEATS AND RECEPTACLES
Year: 1880

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Howard Busby Fox at tho
Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 27th November 1880.
HOWARD BUSBY Fox, of Oxton, in the County of Chester.
MUSIC SEATS AND RECEPTACLES."
"
IMPROVEMENTS IN
This improved combined seat and receptacle has the appearance of an ottoman,
the top being by preference stuffed, and has in it one or two round seats which
screw up like an ordinary music stool, the screw or screws passing into the inside of
the ottoman, and being protected by a tube or the like. The inside of the ottoman
forms a convenient receptacle for sheet or other music, or may be used as a
cupboard for books or other things.
Instead of making the rising seats round they may be square or of some other
convenient shape, and may rise without turning round, being held up by suitable
stops, rack and pinion movement, or in some other convenient manner.
The larger
sized ottoman has two rising seats placed at a convenient distance apart for duett
playing, and one of the sides is hinged so as to fold down for access to the interior.
When desired, a back can be added, and this may be movable or fixed, according
to taste. I prefer to place castors to the feet or under the bottom for convenience
in moving it about, and, when desired, ornaments and decorations can be employed
to taste.
The smaller form has only one rising seat, but in other respects resembles the
large one.
Where the screws are used the nut may with advantage be made long, and
reach to the bottom of the inside, and be there fixed, so as to form a guide for the
end of the screw; or the tube previously mentioned may be formed so as to act as
a guide; or a bracket may conveniently be fixed inside to hold the screw steady
and keep it from wobbling.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed
by the said Howard Busby Fox in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
27th May 1881.
HOWARD BUSBY Fox, of Oxton, in the County of Chester.
MUSIC SEATS AND RECEPTACLES."
"IMPROVEMENTS IN
This improved combined seat and receptacle has the appearance of an ottoman,
the top being by preference stuffed, and has in it one or two round seats, which
screw up like an ordinary music stool, the screw or screws passing into the inside
of the ottoman, and being protected by a tube or the like. The inside of the
ottoman forms a convenient receptacle for sheet or other music, or may be used as
a cupboard for books or other things.
Instead of making the rising seats round they may be square or of some other
convenient shape, and may rise without turning round, being held up by suitable
The larger
stops, rack and pinion movement, or in some other convenient manner.
sized ottoman has two or even three rising seats placed at a convenient distance
apart for duet or trio playing, and one of the sides is hinged so as to fold down for
access to the interior, or it can be left open, as in the Drawing. When desired, a
back can be added, and this may be movable or fixed, according to taste. I prefer
to place castors to the feet or under the bottom for convenience in moving it about,
and, when desired, ornaments and decorations can be employed to taste.
The smaller forin has only one rising seat, but in other respects resembles the
large one.
Where the screws are used the nut may with advantage be made long, and
reach to the bottom of the inside, and be there fixed so as to form a guide for the
end of the screw; or the tube previously mentioned may be formed so as to act as
a guide; or a bracket may conveniently be fixed inside to hold the screw steady
and keep it from wobbling.
The Drawing shows a double music stool with two seats and an open front. If
there be only a single seat the music is placed on each side of the partition
containing the nut of the screw, which nut in the stool shown in the Drawing is
the same as that of ordinary music stools.
Having now described my Invention, and illustrated it with the only style of
stool I have as yet manufactured, I wish it to be understood that what I believe to
be new and desire to protect under Letters Patent is,-
First. The combination with a music stool or stools of a cupboard or stand for
holding music and other like articles, substantially as described.
Second. The combination of two or more music stools in one piece of furniture,
forming, when the seats are lowered, an ottoman, bench, or sofa, substantially as
described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Howard Busby Fox, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Twenty sixth day of May, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and eighty one.