Improvements in the Construction of Chairs.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 10th Oct.. 1895
Complete Specification Left, 9th July, 1896-Accepted, 5th Sept., 1896
Improvements in the Construction of Chairs.
WILLIAM MILLER 5 Princes Street Pollokshields Glasgow Manager of
Furniture Department do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
My invention has relation to improvements in the construction of chairs, being
principally applied to child: chairs, whereby a simpler and stronger construction of
back and seat is secured.
Along with greater comfort and a better sanitary arrangement for the user.
These improvements being attained by means of the following methods.
1st. The profile of the chair has its various rails shaped to suit the curves of the
users body (instead of straight or angular lines).
2nd. The back leg or support of the chair is all in one piece, binding back, seat,
and supports firmly together and combined with hench-rail and bottom-rail forms
one framing of four pieces. (Where formerly two seperate framings were used
of seven pieces.)
3rd. By framing into the inside faces of shaped back and seat, numerous lengths
of turned spars or dowels, placed longitudinally about half an inch apart extending
over the seat and up the back in one unbroken series, a very comfortable and well
bound chair is secured.
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Dispensely with the usual straight shaped horizontal tails that
require to be shouldered and fitted with tennons or pins.
This Ninth day of October 1895
WILLIAM MILLER.
WILLIAM MILLER Cabinet Factory Manager 5 Princes Street Pollokshields
Glasgow 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 :-
My invention consists of an arrangement of round spars kept about half an inch
apart being framed horizontally into and between, profile framings of chairs or
settees. The same being intended to take the place of the usual stuffed or
perforated vencer seats and backs. The spar backs and seats of the chairs are
constructed to form one continuous line, shaped to accommodate the curves of the
body and afford a comfortable and sanitary seat to the user. The latter point
being specially important when the invention is applied to baby chairs such as
the one shown in the accompanying drawings see Fig. No. 1 which is a perspective
drawing of a childs chair, such as are intended to be mounted on the usual
adjustable stand.
Fig. No. 2 is a representation of my invention applied to an adults chair.
It will now be seen that by making use of the rounded spars (marked A on
Figure No. 1) framed up, or inserted between, the inside faces of the chair

page_text: profiles, and leaving an open space between each of the said spars, as shown at B
Fig. No. 1.
Ventilation of both back and seat is well secured, and no receptacle is created
for the lodgement of dust or dirt. And as the back and seat is formed in one
continuous line and the spars rounded there is no protruberaners to cause
discomfort to the user.
The construction of these chairs is accomplished by boring holes of similar
diameter to the spars, and at suitable intervals, along the line of back and seat on
the inside faces of the clinir profiles inserting all the spar ends into one profile, and
then cramping the corresponding or opposite profile into position as in ordinary
chair construction. And by making use of shaped back and seat supports as
shown at E Figure No. 1, in conjunction with rails marked C. D. F Figure 1.
The back and seat is firmly united and merged into each other by nicans of the
same (two profile framings.
So that in looking from the front of the chair, there can be no decided line,
where the back may be said to end, and the seat to begin.
Thus forming a stronger and more comfortable junction of back and seat than
when the usual framed back is fixed to the ordinary style of seat at an abrupt
angle.
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
claim is
1st. A new method of forming a continuons, comfortable and sanitary seat and
back rest, for chairs and settees without stuffing, or perforated vencer all as set
forth in the foregoing specification and the accompanying drawings.
2nd. When my invention is applied to baby's chairs (as shown in Figure No. 1)
a simpler method of framing such chain, whereby fewer seperate pieces or rails
are used in their construction see rails marked ('-D—E—F on Figure No. 1
thus dispensing entirely with the usual seperately framed up back and seat, with
various crossrails which require to be shouldered and fitted with tennons or
dowels.
Dated this Eighth day of July 1896.
WILLIAM MILLER.