A COMBINED BOOT-BLACKING STOOL AND SEAT
Year: 1876

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to. Edward Corani, of Regent's Park Road, in the County
of Middlesex, Gentleman, for the Invention of "A COMBINED BOOT-BLACKING
STOOL AND SEAT." A communication from abroad by Jay Ess, of Paris, in the
Republic of France.
Scaled the 2nd June 1876, and dated the 15th March 1876.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Edward Corani at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents on the 15th March 1876.
EDWARD CORANI, of Regent's Park Road, in the County of Middlesex, Gentleman
"A COMBINED BOOT-BLACKING STOOL AND SEAT."
The object of this Invention is to provide shoeblacks with a portable apparatus
which combines a light seat for their customers' use with a stool on which to rest
their feet while having their boots cleaned. To this end the box which contains
the blacking and brushes (and which forms the stool on which the customer rests
his foot while the operation is proceeding) is attached to two arins, to which a
tripod frame formed of light iron rods and carrying a seat is hinged. The third
leg of this tripod is pivotted to the top and bottom bars of the frame in such
manner as to allow of its swinging back on the frame and lying flat therewith.
The stool by reason of its hinged connection with the frame is capable of being
folded back within the frame and lying snugly beneath the seat. To secure it in
this position a spring catch is provided which will lock the stool to the seat or to
the frame, and the apparatus thus folded up will be capable of casy transport from
place to place.
To arrange the apparatus for use it will only be necessary to release the spring
catch, drop the raised stool to the ground, and bring the third leg of the tripod into
position for supporting the frame.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed by
the said Edward Corani in the Great Soal Patent Office on the 15th September
1876.
EDWARD CORANI, of Regent's Park Road, in the County of Middlesex, Gentleman.
"A COMBINED BOOT-BLACKING STOOL AND SEAT." A communication from abroad
by Jay Ess, of Paris, in the Republic of France.
The object of this Invention is to provide shoeblacks with a portable apparatus
which combines a light seat for their customers' use with a stool on which to rest
their feet while having their boots cleaned. To this end the box (which contains
the blacking and brushes, and which forms the stool on which the customer rests 1
his foot while the operation is proceeding) is attached to two arms, to which a
tripod frame, formed of light iron rods and carrying a seat, is hinged. The third
leg of this tropod is pivotted to the top and bottom bars of the frame in such
manner as to allow of its swinging back on the frame and lying flat therewith.
The stool by reason of its hinged connection with the frame is capable of being
folded back within the frame and lying snugly beneath the scat. To secure it in
this position a spring catch is provided, which will lock the stool to the seat or to
the frame, and the apparatus thus folded up will be capable of easy transport from
place to place.
In the accompanying Drawing I have shown the apparatus constituting a com-
bined stool and seat in several views.
Fig. 1 shows the apparatus in side elevation as opened out for use and with a
person seated thereon in a position for the shoeblack to commence operations.
Fig. 2 is a plan view of the apparatus; Fig. 3 is a front view of the same; and
Fig. 4 shows the apparatus closed or in its portable form, and under the arm of tho
shoeblack.
A is a wooden box carrying a foot rest a and forming the stool for supporting
at a proper height for the shoeblack the booted foot while the operation of blacking
is proceeding; B, B, is a tripod stand formed of wrought iron and fitted with a
wooden seat C. This stand is connected to the stool by the arms D, D, which are
made fast to the bottom of the box or stool. The extended ends of these arms are
provided with lugs to receive the rounded cross bar 6 of the tripod frame, and
thereby form a hinged connection therewith; b¹ is the swinging leg of the tripod
frame; and 63 are struts for supporting the back of the seat; E is a spring catch
attached to the box A for engaging with the top bar of the tripod frame when the
apparatus is folded up, and thereby locking the box under the seat.
To arrange the apparatus for use it will only be necessary to release the spring
catch by pressing upon its projecting end, when the raised stool will be free to drop
on to the ground; the tripod leg b¹ is then to be swung into position for supporting
the frame.
Having now set forth the nature of the Invention of "A Combined Boot-blacking
Stool and Seat," as communicated to me by my foreign correspondent, and
explained the manner of carrying the same into effect, I wish it to be understood
that under the above in part recited Letters Patent I claim, the arrangement of
boot-blacking apparatus above described with reference to the accompanying
Drawing.
In witness whereof, I, the said Edward Corani, have hereunto set my hand
and seal, the Fourteenth day of September, in the year of our Lord One