An Improvement in Open Air Seats.
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 11th Jan., 1895
Complete Specification Left, 13th Aug., 1896-Accepted, 19th Sept., 1896
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improvement in Open Air Seats.
I, TOM HENRY TAYLOR, Engineer 2 Somerset Terrace University Street,
Belfast Ireland do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
To make open air seats, such as used on tram cars, etc., servicable in all weather
by providing a means as herein set forth of increasing to a maximum or reducing
to a minimum, (reasonable) the supporting or collecting area of the seat as required,
either by reversing the seat which shall be made of strips of metal or other suitable
material in what is known as the channel or U section or similar, set at suitable
intervals apart to form the seat, or in case of a fixed seat, a skeleton seat shall be
made of thin strips of metal or other suitable material set at intervals on edge, with
moveable filling up pieces of wood or other suitable material that may be so
arranged as to be simultaneously raised or lowered between the thin strips as
required.
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TOM H. TAYLOR.
An Improvement in Open Air Seats.
I TOM HENRY TAYLOR of No. 2 Somerset Terrace University Street,
Belfast in the County of Antrim, Ireland Engineer, 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 :-
The object of my invention is to make open-air seats such as are used on
tramears and the like serviceable in all weathers by providing means hereinafter set
forth of increasing to a maximum, or reducing to a minimum the supporting or
collecting area of the seat. This is effected either by making a fixed skeleton seat
of strips of metal or other suitable material set on edge at intervals secured to end
pieces with movable filling up pieces of wood or other suitable material so arranged
as to be raised or lowered between the other set of strips as required, or by making
a reversible seat one side of which is composed of strips of metal or other suitable
material in U or channel section, or somewhat similar form set at suitable intervals
apart and secured to end pieces to form the seat, the other side being preferably
backed by strips of wood or other suitable material. In order that my invention
may be better understood I append drawings in which Fig. 1 is half section of a
fixed form of seat. A. A shewing the metal strips and B. B. the movable set of
filling up pieces. Fig. 2 shews half section of the seat with the movable wooden
pieces lowered leaving the metal strips only to form a seat of reduced area.
Similar letters in Figs. 1 and 2 refer to similar parts. A similar seat may be
formed by fixing the wooden strips B. B. to end pieces and arranging the metal
strips A. A. to be raised or lowered as required the reversible seat is shewn at
Figs. 3 & 4. Fig. 3 shewing the wooden pieces available for the seat, while Fig. 4
shews the same seat reversed, A. A. being wood or other suitable material, and

page_text: B. B. channel iron or metal of such like section: a convenient method of stamping
the iron to lighten same for the reversible seat is shewn at Fig. 5.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is.
1. A seat by which provision is made for increasing or reducing the area of the
seat either by raising or lowering one set of strips that are interspersed between
another set of fixed strips, as shewn and described, or by reversing the seat for the
purposes aforesaid as described and illustrated substantially and as set forth.
Dated this 13th day of August 1896,
JOHN BLACK,
Agent for Applicant.