ram cars and like purposes.
Year: 1899

page_text: ram cars and like purposes.
I, EDGAR ANDERSON, of Glenavon, Merrion Road, Dublin, Ireland, Student,
do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
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This invention relates to improvements in seats for use upon tram cars, omni-
buses, and other vehicles where the seat is exposed or open to the weather, or to
any seats for outdoor use, the object being to provide a seat which shall have a
covering capable of protecting the portion on which the passenger or other person
shall sit, and to provide a supplementary cover for the same for use in inclement
weather.
In carrying the invention into effect when constructing an outside seat for use
upon tram cars and like vehicles,
which the back can be made to move from the one side to the other so as to admit
make it preferably of the garden seat type in
of the passenger sitting facing in either direction, pivoting the side arms.or
brackets to the lower frame or members of the seat so as to enable them to slide
in the usual manner in openings or passages formed for the outside ends of the
seat or between brackets or frames placed for the purpose.
We form the base of the seat of open work or any usual ordinary plain surface
and I provide a lip or ledge upon the two outer surfaces of the seat frame prefer-
ably so that the supplementary cover which I carry between the side arms form-
ing the back or support of the seat can rest against and thus make an even or
plain surface throughout, the ledge on each side forming a stop to prevent the
frame from being carried over when lying in a horizontal position.
I form the side arms or supports for the back of the seat with slots or grooves
therein to receive projecting pin like pivots attached to or formed upon the sup-
plementary cover or weather seat, this supplementary cover being made open or
plain of wood or other suitable material and constructed in such a manner that
when not in use as a covering for the seat it can stand in a vertical or approxi-
mately vertical position forming an additional back or support between the side
standards or arms of the seat. We make our frame in such a manner that the
upplementary seat can be used to cover the main seat in whichever direction the
back is placed, the slots or grooves in the side arms admitting of the pins or
arrying pivots attached to the supplementary seat travelling up within them so.
s to enable each surface to be used as a protecting or weather board when the
nain seat has been rendered wet by exposure.
When attaching my improved supplementary weather board or weather seat
o tram-car seats in which a fixed side arm is employed where it is intended the
assenger shall always face in one direction I make my seat to slide within the
rooves of the fixed side arms similar to the manner herein before described when
ttaching my improved weather board or supplementary seat to the vibrating
rms of a reversible type seat.
I modify the form of my weather board and the nature of the pivot and con-
ections attached to the same to suit the type of side arm
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page_text: is to be secured and I may employ the weather board as a means of advertising
and may construct it of metal or other suitable material.
Dated this 1st day of July 1899.
MARKS & CLERK,
18, Southampton Buildings, London, W.C.,
13, Temple Street, Birmingham, and
25, Cross Street, Manchester, Agents.
I, EDGAR ANDERSON, of Glenavon, Merrion Road, Dublin, Ireland, Student,
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 improvements in seats for use upon tram cars, omni-
buses and other vehicles where the seat is exposed or open to the weather, or to
any seats for outdoor use, the object being to provide a seat which shall have a
supplementary covering for use in inclement weather to protect the portion on
which the passenger or other person shall sit.
In the two accompanying sheets of explanatory drawings Figs. 1 & 2 show
front and side elevations of one form of my improved seat with my covering in
its upper position, Figs. 3 & 4 show plan and side elevation of the same seat with
the covering down on the seat. Figs. 5 & 6 show in sectional elevation and front
elevation another form of my seat with covering down. Fig. 7 is a plan of the
same. Fig. 8 is a detail of the side arm.
In carrying the invention into effect when constructing an outside seat for use
upon tram cars and like vehicles, in one convenient manner, as illustrated in
Figures 1, 2, 3 and 4 of the accompanying drawings, I make it preferably of the
garden seat type in which the back a can be made to move from the one side to
the other so as to admit of the passenger sitting facing in either direction. I
pivot the side arms or brackets a to the lower frame or members of the seat so
as to enable them to slide in the usual manner in openings or passages b' formed
near the ends of the seat, or between brackets or straps placed on the seat frames
for the purpose.
I form the base e of the seat of open work or with any ordinary plain surface,
and I provide a lip or ledge d at each side of the seat base preferably so that the
supplementary cover e which I carry between the side arms a supporting the
back of the seat, can rest against and thus make an even or plain surface through-
out. The ledge on each side serves as a stop to prevent the frame from being
carried over when lying in a horizontal position. I sometimes provide studs or
strips of rubber or other resilient material for the cover to rest against.
In one manner of arranging my seat I form the side arms or supports al a¹ for
the back of the seat with slots or grooves f therein to receive projecting pin like
pivots attached to or formed upon the supplementary cover or weather seat e.
When a stronger seat is required I may make the supporting standards solid and
arrange sliding rings or collars to slide upon them the sliding members having
bosses for the pivots to enter. This supplementary cover may be open or plain
of wood or other suitable material and constructed in such a manner that when
not in use as a covering for the seat it can stand in a vertical or approximately
vertical position forming as shown in Figs. 1 & 2 an additional back or support

page_text: between the side standards or arms of the seat. I make my frame in such a man-
ner that the supplementary seat e can be used to cover the main seat in whichever
direction the back is placed, the slots or grooves f in the side arms admitting of
the pins or carrying pivots g attached to the supplementary seat travelling up
within them so as to enable each surface to be used as a protecting or weather
board for the main seat to prevent it being rendered wet by exposure.
When attaching my improved supplementary weather board or weather seat
to omnibus or like seats in which a fixed side arm is employed and where it is
intended the passenger shall always face in one direction, I make my seat to slide
within the grooves of the fixed side arms similar to the manner hereinbefore
described when attaching my improved weather board or supplementary seat to
the vibrating arms of a reversible type seat.
I sometimes form upon or attach to the side arms, guide blocks h for directing
the seat cover from one inclination to the other in a seat with movable side arms,
as shown in Figures 5, 6, 7 and 8, so that when the seat arms are moved from one
side to the other, the cover pivots g travel up the grooves f as shown in Figure
and on reaching the guide blocks the inclined surfaces thereon permit the
cover to fall for again covering the seat.
I provide stops by means of the blocks or on the standards to keep the seat e
in a vertical position at either side when raised in the direction indicated by the
arrow in Figure 5, to permit the underside of the seat e to be used as a back sup-
port when the upper surface is wet.
To prevent the pockets of passengers being picked I may place a hinged back
board or guard k upon the side arms as shown in Figures 5 and 6. I sometimes
arrange springs m on the seat cover and around the pivot bar to keep the cover
board in a horizontal position. I provide rollers upon the edge of the cover for
running smoothly over the seat base, or over guide strips or bars attached to the
seat.
I modify the form of my weather board and the nature of the pivot and con-
nections attached to the same to suit the type of side arm or member to which it
is to be secured and I may employ the weather board as a means of advertising
and may construct it of metal or other suitable material.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is:-
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1.) The improved seat for use upon tram cars and other vehicles, having a
pivoted and sliding supplementary board or cover for protecting the main seat
when the hinged frame or back is placed in either of its two positions, substan-
tially as hereinbefore described and as illustrated in the accompanying drawings.
2.) In a reversible or garden seat type of tram car or vehicle seat, the combina-
tion of a pivotally carried cover or weather board with the slotted or grooved arms
or brackets within which the board pivot or carrying bar can slide for the pur-
pose of protecting or covering the seat, substantially as hereinbefore described
and as illustrated in the accompanying drawings.
MARKS & CLERK,
18, Southampton Buildings, London, W.C.,
13, Temple Street, Birmingham, and
25, Cross Street, Manchester, Agents.
MARKS & CLERK,
18, Southampton Buildings, London, W.C.,
13, Temple Street, Birmingham, and
25, Cross Street, Manchester, Agents.