Improvements in and relating to Music Stools and the like.
Year: 1896

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in and relating to Music Stools and the like.
I, ALEXANDER PLANT, of H. and A. G. Alexander and Company Limited
Chair Manufacturers, Eastfield, Rutherglen, in the County of Lanark, do hereby
declare the nature of my invention to be as follows:-
This invention has reference to improvements in and relating to stools used for
sitting on in playing the piano, and the like, and consists in forming below the seat
part a platform or balcony for containing or housing, and getting access to the
printed sheets and books of music and the like.
This would be carried into practice by forming a top base part for the seat
carried on four legs secured to the corners of same, the seat part being stuffed and
covered over with suitable material.
To the legs preferably about a third of their height from the lower end I fit
four horizontal rails, and to these rails I secure a platform board or tray covering
the space between them. Some distance above the aforesaid rails, I secure
parallel rails, and between these sets of rails, I fit at spaced distances apart a series
of vertical or angled ballisters or pillars.
By this means the books or sheets of music would be housed in this balcony, and
'free access obtained by the setter or player to same.
Dated the 8th May 1896
W. R. M. THOMSON & Co.,
96 Buchanan Street, Glasgow, Agents.
Improvements in and relating to Music Stools and the like.
I, ALEXANDER PLANT, of the Firm of H. and A. G. Alexander and Company
Limited, Chair Manufacturers, Eastfield, Rutherglen, in the County of Lanark,
do hereby declare the nature of my invention and in what manner the same is to
be performed to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement, that is to say :-
This invention has reference to improvements in and relating to stools used for
sitting on in playing the piano, and the like.
And in order that my said invention and the manner of carrying same into
practice may be properly understood, I have hereunto appended an explanatory
drawing in which elevations in perspective of three slightly modified constructions
of music stool are shown in accordance with my improvements.
Referring to these drawings, my improvements consist in forming below the seat
part a platform or balcony for containing or housing, and getting access to the
printed sheets and books of music and the like.

page_text: This would be carried into practice as shown in Figure 1 by forming a top
part A for the seat A2 carried on four legs A' secured to the corners of same, the
seat part A being stuffed and covered over with suitable material.
To the legs A preferably about a third of their height from the lower end I fit
four horizontal rails a and to these rails I secure a platform board or series of
transverse spars a¹ covering the space between them. Some distance above the
aforesaid rails a I secure parallel rails a² and between these sets of rails a a³ I fit
at spaced distances apart a series of vertical or angled ballisters or pillars a³.
By this means the books or sheets of music would be housed in this balcony, and
free access obtained by the sitter or player to same.
In the arrangement shown in Figure 2 the front top rail a² and row of ballisters
or pillars a³ are dispensed with, and in the arrangement shown in Figure 3 the
front ballisters a³ are also dispensed with, and a set of transverse spars a fitted
-between the longitudinal top rails a² so as to form two sets of trays on the balcony.
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 :-
The constructing of music stools and the like with a platform or balcony below
-the seat part, substantially as herein described in reference to and shown in the
accompanying drawings.
Dated the 5th day of Februar 1907
W. R M. THOMSON & Co.,
96 Buchanan Street, Glasgow, Agents.