US103024A - Improvement in seat-frame for vehicle - Google Patents

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JESSE W. DANN, OF COLUMBUS, OHIO.

IMPROVEMENT IN SEAT-FRAME FOR VEHICLE.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 103,024, dated May 17, 1870.

To all whom 'it may concern:

Be it known that I, JESSE W. DANN, of Columbus, in the county of Franklin and State ot' Ohio, have invented a new and Improved Mode of Constructing Seat-Frames for Vehicles; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, reference being'had to the accompanyin g drawings making part of this specification, in which- Figure l is a section view of a buggy, showing the improved seat-frame applied to it. Figs. 2, 3, 4, and 5 are different views, showing the manner-of uniting the frame and seatboard.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts inV the several figures.

rIhe object of this invention is to improve the seat-frames of vehicles by uniting VHthese frames together in such a manner'thatinterlocking joints are formed, which will render unnecessary the use of nails to hold the pieces together, at the same time providing for firmly securingtheseat-boards into theframes, as will be hereinafter explained.

To enable others skilled in the art to understand my invention, I will explain its construction and operation.

One of the usual modes of constructing seatframes or seat-bottoms for light vehicles is to halve and nail together the ends of the framepieces, and then nail the seat-boards into rabbets made into the inner edges ot the frameadopted, is not only expensive, but the frames and seat-boards thus put together soon give way at the joints in consequence of the swellingl and contraction of the Wood, and the rough usage to which the frames are necessarily exposed. v

I construct the seat-frames or seat-bottoms in the following manner: The -frame A is rectangular when iinished, and is composed of two longitudinal pieces, a a, and two transverse end pieces, b b, secured together at their ends, and inclosing a seat-board, B. The

This mode, as well as others hitherto` The stuft for the transverse orrend pieces b is run through a machine suitably adapted to Y the purpose, and beveled at the upper halt' of its inner edge, as shown at e, Figs. 4 and 5.

The stuff thus prepared lis cut in proper lengths and halved together and glued at the ends. In halving the ends V-shaped grooves are made at 11 z' for receiving the beveled edges of thecontiguous pieces, as shown in Fig. 5. In putting together the four parts constituting the frame A, I arrange these pieces around the seat-board B, the edges ot'which are beveled to correspond with the beveled edges of the contiguous pieces, thereby coniining the seat-board permanently in place at the same time that the frame is completed.

It will be seen from the above description that the ends of the frame-pieces are halved and locked together, so that they can be substantially secured in place by means of glue; also that the longitudinal edges oi'l the seatboard B are fitted beneath the overhanging portions ot' the corresponding edges ot' the longitudinal pieces a ain the V-shaped grooves. Thus no nails are required to secure the seatboard in place in the frame, and this board cannot work loose as long as the frame-pieces hold together.

Having described my invention, what I claim as a new article of manufacture is v A seat-frame or seat-bottom, constructed substantially as described.

JESSE W. DANN.

Witnesses:

J. V. BELLEN, GEORGE J. ATKINSON.

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