Improvements in Seats with Footstool and Clothes Bars connected therewith.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 10th Feb., 1892
Complete Specification Left, 10th Nov., 1892-Accepted, 4th Feb., 1893
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Seats with Footstool and Clothes Bars connected
therewith.
We JAMES GILFILLAN and JOHN HARPER of Rosehill, Bowling in the County
of Dumbarton Wrights do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:
This invention relates to improvements in folding seats, more particularly to the
Patent described in Specification No. 7277 and dated 1891 A.D. And the objects
are to combine certain parts in such a manner as to make it available as a bath-
room and out-door seat. And in order that these improvements may be clearly
understood, reference will be made to the drawings of the before-mentioned
Specification.
One of the improved parts consists of a cork mat, or a light framed footstool of
wood or other suitable material, covered or fitted with cork and either permanently
fixed to the said frame, or made to detach from it, so that the faces may be reversed
should one get wet or soiled; and will be hinged to the cross bar, B, which bottom
cross bar for these improvements will be (preferably) a metal tube with a shoulder
formed at each end for the purpose of holding the side bars, A, A, the required
distance apart, this arrangement affording a more simple and efficient fixing for
hinging, as one end of each of the strips forming the hinges will be simply looped
round the said tube.
A connecting chain, cord, or rod, or chains, cords, or rods, will link together the
footstool or mat to the seat piece, K, and in such a manner that the parts will all
fold up compactly. The seat piece in this instance is constructed with two side
bars, and connected at or near their centres by a cross bar. On one side of the
said cross bar a bottom seat piece will be tongued into both side and cross bars
and for the purpose of sustaining cork fixed in a similar manner to that described
for footstool frame. The other side of cross bar will be entirely open, into which
space the footstool or mat will lodge when the seat is folded together.
Another improvement consists in providing a cork back piece, so that the body
of the user may everwhere touch cork, and is accomplished by forming the top
cross bar wider, and more flat in section than that seen at, E, it will have a wide,
shallow, longitudinal grove in its face for the purpose of holding the said cork in
position.
Another improved part consists in hinging one or more clothes bars on each of
the outer edges of the side bars, C, C, and in such a manner that they fold closely
across the frame when not in use, but when required may be opened to any angle
and there secured by means of a nut or the like, or by a rubber or elastic washer
placed on the hinge or pivot to cause friction on the bar or bars.
Dated this Bighth dow of in
1899
JAMES GILFILLAN.
JOHN
LO RPER.
JUHAT
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Seats with Footstool and Clothes Bars connected
therewith.
We JAMES GILFILLAN and JOHN HARPER, Rosehill, Bowling, in the County
of. Dumbarton, Wrights, 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 folding seats similar to those described in Specification

page_text: No. 7277 and dated A.D. 1891, and our present objects are to combine certain
parts therewith in such a manner as to make them available as bathroom or outdoor
seats. In order that these improvements may be clearly understood reference will
be made to the accompanying drawings, in which :-
Figure, 1, is a front elevation of the seat in its closed state,
Figure 2, is a side elevation of the seat when open, and
Figure, 3, is a vertical section of the seat as shown in Figure, 2.
In these drawings the same reference letters are used to mark the same or like
parts whenever they are repeated.
The supports of the seat consist of two strongly constructed rectangular frames
hinged together, an inner and an outer one. The outer frame consisting of a pair
of side bars, A, connected by a bottom cross bar or tube, B. The inner frame
consists of a pair of side bars, C, connected at the bottom by a cross bar, D, and
at the top by a similar bar, E, whilst the upper parts of the two frames are
connected by a rod or tube F running through the cross bar, E. The inner
frame, C, D, E, is narrower and shorter than the outer frame, A, B, enabling it to
be fitted within the latter when the frames are folded together as shown in Figure, 1.
The frames are made of wood metal or other suitable material but when made of
wood the top cross bar, E, has a hole bored longitudinally through it, in which
there is placed a metal rod or tube, F, the ends of which extend through the side
bars, C and A, of the frames. A nut is screwed on each end of the tube, F, and
recessed within the outer sides of the inner bars, C. By means of these nuts and
tube, the side bars, C, are bound firmly to the top bar, E, and are also tied through
it to each other. The top bar, E, is fixed in an inclined position relatively to the
side bars, C, thereby adapting it to serve as a back support when the seat is in use.
When constructed for bathroom purposes a cork back piece, E¹, is fixed in any
convenient manner to, E. The ends of the tube, F, project beyond the inner
bars, C, and pass through the bars, A, of the outer frames where nuts marked, J,
are screwed on their outer ends, in order to secure those bars to the tube, the bars
being free to turn upon the tube after the manner of a hinge. The bottom cross
bar, D, is fixed to the side bars, C, by means of a rod or tube, F, passing through
each cross bar, D, or in any other convenient manner.
One of the improved parts marked, B¹, consists of a mat or footstool combined
with the aforesaid seat. It is made of cork, wood, or other suitable material. In
the drawings it is shown as a light frame vencered or fitted with cork or other
suitable material, see Figures, 2 and 3. It is hinged to the cross bar, B, which
cross bar for these improvements is preferably a metal tube provided with
shoulders, B³, formed upon each end for the purpose of holding the side bar, A, A,
the required distance apart. A nut G is screwed on each end of the round tube, B,
similarly to tube, F, as previously described, this affords a more simple and
efficient fixture for hinging the footstool, B', as one end of each metal strip, B³,
forming the hinges is bent round the said tube, B, and composes the requisite
hinges for, B¹.
The seat piece, K, consists of two side bars, K', connected at or near their centre
by a cross bar. K³, and a seat piece tongued into the said bars. In constructing
the seat, K, for bathroom uses the said seat piece is fixed as shown at, K³, Figure 3,
for the purpose of holding the said cork, K, or other suitable material fixed thereto
in a similar manner to that described in connection with footstool frame. The seat
piece, K, is made of suitable width, to enable it to be fitted in between the side
bars of the inner frame, C, which is supported on cross bar or tube, M, the ends of
which extend into metal sockets or bearing pieces, M', fixed to the side bars, A.
At the rear ends of side bars, K', we attach metal pins K which project into and
work within grooves formed within the side bars, C, one of which grooves marked, P,
is shown in Figure, 3. The connecting chains or cords, K', link together the foot-
stool, B, and the seat piece, K, and adapt the parts for being folded compactly
together the footstool or mat reposing between the side bars and open ends of
the bars, K

page_text: Another of our improvements consists in hinging one or more clothes bars or
rails, C¹, on each of the outer edges of the side bars, C, C, adapted as shown in
the drawings for being folded closely across the frame as shown at C³, Figure 1,
when not in use. When in use these clothes rails are capable of being set at any
angle and there fixed by means of a milled nut, C³, as shown in Figures, 2 and 3.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what we
claim is ;-
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I. The combination of parts forming as a whole our improved folding seat, foot-
stool and clothes bars, substantially as herein described, and as shown in the
accompanying drawings;
11. The combination of footstool or mat B' with a folding seat, and the mode of
connecting and operating it conjointly with seatpiece, K, substantially as herein
described;
III. The combination with a folding seat of clothes bars substantially as shown
and for the purposes herein described.
JOSEPH LOCKWOOD,
263, Argyle Street, Glasgow, Agent for the Applicants.