Improvements in Seats.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 22nd July, 1893
Complete Specification Left, 13th Sept., 1893-Accepted, 14th Oct., 1893
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Seats.
We, THOMAS ELY, of 25, Rye Lane Peckham, Draper, and JOSEPH MALLETT,
of 68, Southampton Street, Camberwell, Carpenter, both in the County of Surrey,
do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to an improved seat adapted to be fixed to the backs of
counters and similar places, the object being to provide a seat for use by shop
assistants which when not in use automatically turns out of the way under the
counter.
In carrying out our invention we provide a pillar which can turn on centres fixed
on the floor and the underside of the counter respectively. On this pillar a
suitable seat can revolve, the seat being provided with a rack which can engage
with a pin on the pillar to allow of the height of the seat being adjusted. In the
pillar is a spring so arranged as to normally turn the pillar to keep the seat in
position under the counter. When required for use the seat is turned outwards and
the weight of the person using it will keep it in the required position but directly
the person rises the spring turns the pillar and brings the seat under the counter.
Instead of the spring turning the pillar it may be arranged to turn the seat direct.
Dated the 22nd day of July 1893.
G. F. REDFERN & Co.,
4, South Street, Finsbury, London, Agents for the Applicants.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION
Improvements in Seats.
We, THOMAS ELY, of 25, Rye Lane, Peckham, Draper, and JOSEPH MALLETT,
of 68, Southampton Street, Camberwell, Carpenter, both in the County of Surrey,
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 an improved seat adapted to be fixed to the backs of
counters and similar places, the object being to provide a seat for use by shop
assistants which when not in use automatically turns out of the way under the
counter.
In carrying out our invention we provide a pillar which can turn on centres fixed
ou the floor and the underside of the counter respectively. On this pillar is a
suitable seat, the seat being provided with a rack which can engage with a pin on
the pillar to allow of the height of the seat being adjusted. In the pillar is a
spring so arranged as to normally turn the pillar to keep the seat in position under
the counter. When required for use the seat is turned outwards and the weight
of the person using it will keep it in the required position but directly the person rises
the spring turns the pillar and brings the seat under the counter. Instead of the
spring turning the pillar it may be arranged to turn the seat direct.
In order to enable our invention to be fully understood we will describe the same
by reference to the accompanying drawings, in which :
Figure 1 is a back view of a counter with our improved seat applied thereto :
Figure 2 is a plan of the same; and,
Figure 3 is a vertical section on the line 3-3, Figure 1.

page_text: a represents an ordinary counter and 6 is the tubular pillar to which our seat is
applied, the said pillar moving on centres c and d fixed to the floor and underside
of the counter respectively.
I
e represents the seat placed on the pillar b so that it can slide thereon when
required. is the rack on the seat, the teeth of which can engage with the pin g
on the pillar. is a spring in the pillar, the said pin y passing through an eye or
loop at the top of the spring, it being so set as to normally turn the pillar to keep
the seat under the counter, as shewn in the several figures of the drawings. By
this arrangement when the seat is not required it will be held in its normal position
under the counter by the spring as herein before described. When, however the
seat is required for use it is simply necessary to turn it outwards into the position
shewn in dotted lines in Figure 2 and the weight of a person sitting on the seat will
keep it in this open position. Immediately, however, the person rises from the seat
the spring automatically turns the pillar b and brings the seat e under the counter.
By engaging any one of the teeth of the rack with the pin g the height of the
seat will be correspondingly adjusted.
In the drawings we have shewn the spring for turning the pillar bas being a flat
spring. It will be obvious, however, that other forms of springs may be employed.
Other means of adjusting the height of the seat may also be made use of and, instead
of the spring turning the pillar and with it the seat, a spring may be arranged to
turn the seat direct on the pillar.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what
we claim is :-
1. The combination with a counter of a seat provided with a spring so that when
the seat is not in use it automatically turns out of the way under the counter,
substantially as described.
2. The combination of parts forming the improved seat for counters and similar
places, the said parts being arranged and operating in the manner and for the
purpose substantially as herein before described and illustrated in Figures 1, 2 and 3
of the accompanying drawings.
3. The manufacture and use of the improved seat for counters and similar places
herein before described and illustrated in the accompanying drawings.
Dated the 13th day of September 1893.
G. F. REDFERN & Co.,
4, South Street, Finsbury, London, Agents for the Applicants.