A New or Improved Combined Chair and Lounge.
Year: 1888

page_text: Date of Application, 1st Nov., 1888
Complete Specification Left, 19th July, 1889-Accepted, 7th Sept., 1889
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
A New or Improved Combined Chair and Lounge.
I FRED PALMER of La Trobe Street Melbourne in the Colony of Victoria Builder
do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
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My invention consists of a new or improved combined chair and lounge the parts
of which are constructed combined and used substantially in the manner hereinafter
described.
The said combined chair and lounge consists principally of four rectangular frames
so connected together and arranged that with the seat or bed hereinafter referred to
they can at pleasure be made to form either a chair or a lounge.
Two of the said frames which are nearly of the same shape and construction constitute
the body of the chair or lounge and the other two frames in the case of a chair aro
used for supporting the back of the chair and adjusting the inclination of the said
back and in the case of a loungo the said supporting frames for the end props or
stays of the body of the lounge.
The two principal or body frames are fitted one within the other and aro jointed
together at a short distance from their ends by a strong bolt or pin. The front or
short part of the inner body frame constitutes the frame of the front of the seat and
the long part of the said inner body frame constitutes the back legs of the chair. The
longer part of the outer body frame constitutes the frame of the chair back and the
shorter part constitutes the front legs of the chair.
The longer parts of the two body frames are supported near their middles and
maintained at the required distance apart by the two supporting frames described the
outer ends of which are respectively jointed to the said longer parts of the body frames and
their inner ends are connected together and are made capable of adjustment to permit
of the back of the chair being used at different inclinations by means of slotted plates
on the outer bars of one of the supporting frames with which slotted plates pins or
studs on the outer bars of the other supporting frame engage. Hooks are jointed to the
longer parts of the body frames and eyes are fitted into the supporting frames for the
said hooks to engage with for the purpose herein after described. The seat or bed of
the chair or lounge is made of canvas or other strong fabric the length of which is
made adjustable and is connected to the end bars of the body frames.
When the chair is to be converted into a lounge the canvas seat is disconnected
from the seat or short part of the inner body frame the two jointed supporting frames
are disconnected from one another and the two principal or body frames are opened
and turned back on their joint so as to invert the said body frames and make them
form a very obtuse angle with one another and bring the canvas scat or bed when it
has been adjusted into a horizontal position.
The supporting frames are also turned back on their joints so as to form supports
or props for the ends of the principal or body frames the said supporting frames and
body frames being connected together by the hooks on the said body frames being
engaged with the eyes on the supporting frames or props.
The length of the canvas seat or bed having been adjusted it is fixed to the end of
the longer part of the inner -body frame and tho chair is thus converted into a
ounge.
Dated this 1st day of November 1888
W. T. WHITEMAN,
Agent for the Applicant.

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
A New or Improved Combined Chair and Lounge.
I, FRED PALMER of La Trobe Street, Melbourne in the Colony of Victoria
Builder do hereby declare the nature of my invention and in what manner the
same is to be performed to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement :-
My invention consists of a new or improved combined chair and lounge the parts
of which are constructed combined and used substantially in the manner hereinafter
described.
The said combined chair and lounge consists principally of four rectangular frames
so connected together and arranged that with the seat or bed hereinafter referred to
they can at pleasure be made to form either a chair or a lounge.
Two of the said frames which are nearly of the same shape and construction
constitute the body of the chair or lounge and the other two frames in the case of a
chair are used for supporting the back of the chair and adjusting the inclination of
the said back and in the caso of a lounge the said supporting frames form the said
props or stays of the body of the lounge. The two principal or body frames are fitted
one within the other and are jointed together at a short distance from their ends by
strong bolts or pins. The front or short part of the inner body frame constitutes the
frame of the front of the seat and the long part of the said inner body frame constitutes
the back legs of the chair. The longer part of the outer body frame constitutes the
frame of the chair back and the shorter part constitutes the front legs of the chair. The
longer parts of the two body frames are supported near their middles and maintained
at the required distance apart by the two supporting frames described, the outer ends
of which are respectively jointed to the said longer parts of the body frames and their
inner ends are connected together and are made capable of adjustment to permit of the
back of the chair being used at different inclinations by means of slotted plates on the
outer bars of one of the supporting frames with which slotted plates pins or studs on
the outer bars of the other supporting frame engage. Hooks are jointed to the longer
parts of the body frames and eyes are fitted into the supporting frames for the said
hooks to engage with for the purpose hereinafter described. The scat or bed of the
chair or lounge is made of canvas or other strong fabric the length of which is made
adjustable and is connected to the end bars of the body frames.
When the chair is to be converted into a lounge the canvas seat is disconnected
from the sheet or short part of the inner body frame, the two jointed supporting frames
are disconnected from one another and the two principal or body frames are opened
and turned back on their joint so as to invert one of the said body frames and make
the raid body frames form a very obtuse angle with one another and bring the canvas
seat or bed when it has been adjusted into a horizontal position. The supporting
frames are also turned back on their joints so as to form supports or props for the
ends of the principal or body frames the said supporting frames and body frames
being connected together by the hooks on the said body frames being engaged with
the eyes on the supporting frames or props.
The length of the canvas seat or bed having been adjusted it is fixed to the end of
the longer part of the inner body frame and the chair is thus converted into a
lounge.
I will now proceed to describe with reference to the accompanying Drawings the
manner in which my invention is to be performed.
Figure 1 represents in side elevation the combined article arranged as a chair and
Figure 2 represents a back elevation of a portion of the same; Figures 3 and 4 represent
the chair closed, Figure 3 representing a side elevation and Figure 4 a plan of the
same; Figure 5 represents the chair converted into a lounge, parts of the body frames
being broken away.
The same letters of reference indicate the same parts in the several Figures of the
drawings.

page_text: The combined chair and lounge consists essentially of the four rectangular frames
marked respectively a a²; bb; c c and d d. The two frames a, a and b, 62, which it
will be seen are nearly of the same shape and construction, constitute the body of the
chair or lounge. I will hereinafter call these frames the body frames. The inner
body frame b, is fitted within the outer body frame a, a² as best seen in Figure 4
and the two body frames a a and b, 62 are jointed together by the bolts or pins e, e.
The other two frames c c and d d which I will hereinafter call the supporting frames
are jointed respectively to the two body frames a a², b 62, that is, the supporting
frame c is jointed to the body frame a at f, f and the other supporting frame d is
jointed at g, g to the body frame b. The two supporting frames c and d in the case
of a chair are used for supporting the back a of the chair (see Figure 1) and for
adjusting the inclination of the said back, the inner ends of the two frames c and d
being connected together and disconnected in the manner hereinafter described; and
the said supporting frames c and d when the chair is converted into a lounge _act
as end stays or props to the body of the lounge as represented in Figure 5. The
front or short part of the inner body frame b, 62 constitutes the frame of the
front of the seat and the long part 6 of the said body frame constitutes the back
legs of the chair. The longer part a of the outer body part a, a² constitutes the
frame of the chair back and the shorter part a² constitutes the front legs of the chair
(see Figure 1).
The way in which the two supporting frames c and d are connected together and
the two body frames ab maintained at the required distance apart and the adjustment
of the back of the chair effected will be best understood by referring to Figures 1
and 2. Fixed on the inner side of each of the outer bars of the supporting frame d
is a slotted plate h and on the inner face of each of the outer bars of the other
supporting frame c is a headed pin or stud i. Slots corresponding with the inclined
slots in the plates h, h are also made in the wood of the bars of the supporting
frame d. The inclined slots in the plates h, h and bars of the frame d are marked k, k.
In the said slots kk the headed pins or studs i, i may be engaged for connecting the
two bars c, d together. By introducing the headed pins ii into pairs of slots at
different heights in the frame d the adjustment of the back of the chair at three
different inclinations may be effected.
By means of the cross bars c² ² on the supporting frame c the two supporting
frames c and d are prevented from turning inwards on the pins i, i when pressure is
put on the chair.
On the body frames a a² and bare jointed hooks l, land on the supporting
frames d are eyes m, m with which the hooks 11 may be engaged for connecting
the said body frames with the supporting frames or props when the chair is converted
into a lounge as represented in Figure 5.
The seat for the chair or bed for the lounge is made of strong canvas or other strong
a² and
fabric n one end of which is connected to the cross bar a³ of the body frame a,
may be coiled upon the said bar a³ for adjusting the length of the canvas or other
flexible seat or bed n when required; and the other end of the canvas n is after
adjustment mado capable of being connected to the outer end of the body frame b, b²
either at the end 62 or at the end b. For this purpose the extreme end of the canvas n
has a loop p made in it and a second loop q is made at a short distance in advance of
the end loop p. A removable foot rail of a length a little greater than the width of
the frame a a can be inserted into or withdrawn from either of the loops p, q in the
canvas for fixing the canvas seat or bed. When the canvas n forms the seat of the
chair Figures 1 and 2 the foot rail is passed through the loop 9 and the said
foot rail placed beneath the end 2 of the body frame b 62 as seen in Figure 1.
When the canvas n forms the bed of the lounge the foot rail is removed from the
loop q and passed into the loop p and the foot rail passed under the end p of the
frame b, 62 as seen in Figure 5.
In converting the chair Figures 1 and 2 into the lounge Figure 5 the positions of
the parts are changed in the following manner.
The bar or foot rail r is removed from under the seat end 2 of the chair and the

page_text: said foot rail withdrawn from the loop g in the canvas n. The two jointed supporting
frames c and d are next disconnected from one another by withdrawing the pins i
from the slots k k in the slotted plates and bars of the frame d. The body frame a a
is turned in the direction of the arrow Figure 1 until the part a makes a very obtuse
angle with the part b, which part has been raised, the said frame a a² being thereby
inverted as represented in Figure 5. The supporting frames c and d are so turned on
their joints, as to form supports or props for the ends of the body frames a a²; b b²
and the said body frames and supporting frames or props are connected together by
the hooks, on the body frames being engaged with the eyes m, m on the supporting
frames or props. The removable foot rail having been placed in the end loop p of
the canvas n the said foot rail is placed under the end 6 of the frame b, 2 when a
horizontal or nearly horizontal canvas seat or bed n is formed and the chair converted
into a lounge as represented in Figure 5.
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Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my inven-
tion and the manner in which the same is to be performed I declare that I
claim as my invention :—
A new or improved combined chair and lounge consisting essentially of two
rectangular body frames jointed together and two rectangular supporting frames or
props jointed respectively to the two body frames, in conjunction with the appliances
described and illustrated for adjusting the inclination of the back of the chair and for
connecting the supporting frames or props to the body frames and for connecting and
adjusting the canvas or flexible seat of the chair or bed of the lounge substantially as
hereinbefore described and illustrated in the accompanying Drawings,
Dated the Nineteenth day of July 1889
W. T. WHITEMAN,
Agent for the Applicant.