An Improvement in Seats.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 6th June, 1891
Complete Specification Left, 6th Apr., 1892-Accepted, 6th June, 1992
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improvement in Seats.
SAMUEL FOXON Cooper 88 Sharrow Lane Sheffield Yorkshire do hereby declare
the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
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In form and material similar to those generally used for parks, pleasure grounds,
the tops of trams, buses, &c., but so arranged as to close automatically soon
as vacated by occupier.
This improvement which is intended chiefly for outdoor seats, can be adapted to
almost any kind of seat, and for ease of description I will suppose an ordinary
4 legged chair with this difference, that the bottom (which is curved upwards for
2 or 3 inches from back edge), instead of being fastened to its supports, is cut so
short as to pass easily between the side supports, and sufficiently wide as to project a
little over front support.
The bottom is then pivoted to the inside of each side support at such a
distance from back edge that the preponderance of weight on front portion from
pivot, shall cause it to fall and rest on front support. The 2 back supports, which
stand immediately over back legs, are inclined a little backward, and the 2 inner
edges which face each other, are grooved so that the loose solid back when inserted
in the grooves may easily slide down, and resting upon curved portion of bottom
will gradually raise front portion of same until the surfaces of bottom and back are
in close contact, and the upper edges of each even. The incline of back then allows
a thin metal plate which runs the length of front edge of bottom, to slide so as to
cover the edges of both bottom and back, thus effectually keeping both surfaces dry
under all conditions of weather.
Dated this 6th do
SAMUEL FOXON.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improvement in Seats.
SAMUEL FOXON Cooper 88 Sharrow Lane Sheffield Yorkshire.
I 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 my "invention" relates to improvement in outdoor seats and consists only
in arrangement of seat and back, which in my improvements are arranged as
hereinafter explained.
The seat, instead of being fastened to supports in the usual way, is cut so short as
to pass very easily between side supports, and sufficiently wide from back edge to
front edge as to project a little over front support.
The seat is then pivoted a in any convenient way to the inner edges of side
supports a little distance in front of back supports; the preponderance of weight
from pivot being on front portion of seat, allows it to fall and rest on front support.
A. thin metal plate b, running along front and side edges of seat, and sufficiently
wide to cover the edges of both back E and seat F when closed, is pivoted on each
of the side edges of seat near to back edge of same. The said metal plate having
previously been pierced with 3 elongated holes running nearly across its width, one
on either side to allow pivots of seat to pass through, and one in centre of front
with screw or peg driven in front edge of seat, so as to hold its upper edge even
with upper edge of seat.

page_text: The two back supports C which stand immediately over back legs, and inclining
a little backwards, have each a groove d in their inner edges which are opposite
each other, from top downwards to a convenient depth, and the back, which is made
same size as seat, is made to receive two rounded pegs, one on either side edge and
near to top, and projecting so far from edge as shall make up extra width between
back supports caused by said grooves. The back is then placed in position, by
inserting the said pegs, in the grooves, and allowing it to slide down until it reaches
back edge of seat. The edges of seat and back are then hinged together in any
convenient way, when weight of back, pressing on back edge of seat, will gradually
raise its front edge until surfaces of both seat and back are in close contact.
said inclination of back supports then allows the said metal plate to slide so as to
cover both edges of seat and back.
The
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said
invention, and in what manner the same may be performed, I declare that what
I claim is:
1st. That, the said peg and groove allowing free movement of back, make the
arrangement so simple that it may be adapted to almost any form of seat.
2nd. The scat carrying metal plate covering both edges of seat and back, has the
effect of keeping both dry and clean under all conditions of weather.
Dated this 6th day of April 1892.
SAMUEL FOXON.