Improved Means for Applying Covers or Aprons to Seats for the Protection of them and their Users.
Year: 1898

page_text: Date of Application, 20th Apr., 1898
Complete Specification Left, 19th Jan., 1899-Accepted, 4th Mar., 1899
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improved Means for Applying Covers or Aprons to Seats for the
Protection of them and their Users.
We, SYDNEY STUART GALSWORTHY, of Moor House, Hartlepool, in the County of
Durham, Engineer, and NEWTON HALL WHITE, of The Old Priory, Sydenham,
Kent, Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates particularly to what are known as garden seats such as are
commonly used on tram cars and omnibuses and is equally applicable to seats having
fixed or reversible backs.
The cover or apron is fixed about midway of its length along a bar whose ends
can be removably attached to the uprights of the back. For this purpose the
ends of the bar are notched to receive the uprights the bar resting on the seat
between them. One half the cover or apron forms a cover for the seat or can
be turned up out of the way over the back whilst the other half hangs down behind
the seat or can be raised to cover the legs of persons occupying the seat behind.
Dated this 19th day of April 1898.
SYDNEY S. GALSWORTHY.
NEWTON H. WHITE
Improved Means for Applying Covers or Aprons to Seats for the
Protection of them and their Users.
We, SYDNEY STUART GALSWORTHY, of Moor House, Hartlepool, in the County of
Durham, Engineer, and NEWTON HALL WHITE, of The Old Priory, Sydenliam,
Kent, 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:
This invention relates particularly to what are known as garden seats such as are
commonly used on tram cars and omnibuses and is equally applicable to seats having
fed or reversible backs.
The cover or apron is fixed about midway of its length along a bar whose ends
can be removably attached to the uprights of the back. For this purpose the
ends of the bar are notched to receive the uprights the bar resting on the seat
between them. One half the cover or apron forms a cover for the seat or can
he turned up out of the way over the back whilst the other half hangs down behind
the seat or can be raised to cover the legs of persons occupying the seat behind.

page_text: In the accompanying drawings.
Figure 1 is a side elevation of three seats.
Seat A has the back rest reversed and shows the arrangement of apron and
cover a a¹ in that position.
Seat B is protected by the cover b, and shows the apron b in position for use
by passengers.
On seat C the cover c is shown turned over the back to form a dry back to lean
against, whilst the apron c¹ is hanging ready for use by the person occupying the
seat behind.
Figure 2 is a front elevation of a seat with cover and apron in position.
In carrying out our invention we mount the combined apron and seat cover on a
rod or cross bar 1) having at either end a suitable arrangement for attachment to
the uprights E of the back.
In attaching or detaching the cover the cross bar D, when fitted with forked
ends, should be placed in a position as shewn by the line in Figure 2, that
is to say, it should be held diagonally across the frame of the seat back and
slipped over or off the uprights E.
The remaining figures show three methods of attaching the bar but other forms
might be employed.
In Figures 3 and 4 the fork d for embracing the upright E passes through a
roller e which is fitted with an india-rubber band f, the end of a being secured in a
piece of tubing which forms the rod D.
Figure 5 shows a flat cross bar D bent up at the ends and having a strap and
buckle fixed thereto.
In Figure 6 a fork d is fixed onto a cross bar D similar in shape to that shewn
in Figure 5 but made of flexible material so that it can be sprung into position.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what
we claim is: -
1. The combination of an apron or cover, a cross bar and means for attaching
the bar to the uprights of the back substantially as described and shown.
2. The means of applying aprons or covers to seats substantially as described,
and shown in the drawings.
Dated this 14th day of Januam 1900
SYDNEY S. GALSWORTHY.
NEWTON HALL WHITE.