US111714A - Improvement in seats for vehicles - Google Patents

Description

'D. R. ALLEN,

Carriage Seat.

No. 111,714. Patented Feb. 34, I871.

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Letters Patent No. 111,714, dated February 14, 1871.

IMPROVEMENT lN SEATS FOR VEHICLES.

' The Schedule referred to in these LetteraePat'ent and making part of the name.

f Beit-k'nown that I, DANIEL 1t. Annex, of Combei'land, in the county of Cumberland and-State of Maine, have inventeda new and useful Improved Seat for Vehicles and for Agricultural-Machincs; and I hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being bad to the accompanying drawing forming part of this specification, in which- Figure 1 shows a side elevation.

-Figure 2, a front-end elevation.

Same letters show like parts.

My improved seat can be upheld by a single post, or more than one, and either vertical or inclined.

In the accompanying drawing- A shows the inclined standard upholding the seat.

FY0111 this standard extend springs, or tongues, or hai's'of metal, B O, in such manner and direction as to support or carry-the connections I), which are so attached to the seat E as to allow of its swinging or oscillating motion from side to side and haelnvard and tor-ward.

\Vhile thus swinging, the said seat, by reason of its being snspendedor supported by the connections, will he always horizontal or nearly so.

The tongues B and '0 may be made rigid, and of any material, if desired, and a suificient spring up and down imparted to the seat either by any curved form attending the structure of the connections I), or by theuse of springs F, which-can be either of rubber or metal. 7

Diiiercnt from the device patented by me in Letters Patent before this issued to me, No. 109,368, Nov. 22,- 1870, the pointsii-om which the seat is supported iu'this position are, in this application, underneath the seat E, which permits the said seat to be made with no back, or as low a one as maybe desired.

Witnesses Instead of theinclined standard two or more .upright ones can be used, and lntve theconnections attached directly to them, or the scat may he supported by rods or connections having universal joints, capable of allowing tlie'motiou of the seat to any hand or direction, and fitted with springs, it desired.

The said connections 1) can, as herein illustrated, or in any equivalent manner, be united directly with the seat so as to allow oi its vibratory motion, and may have, if desired, to give steadiness to the motion, weights.

In the drawing G shows posts or standards extending down from the seat, from which the seat is supported, the vibratory motion being obtained at their lower ends; but it can be also so constructed that the said mot-ion shall; he obtained at i-i other end of said standards.

It is plain that the seat and its back may be made rigidly connected together, and the connect-ions which admit of the oscillatory motion be attached to the said back and not to the seat, or to the seat and not to the back.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-.-

1. The connections or supports I) when used to uphold the seat 1*] by such means as to permit of its oscillating, motion, and still keep the said seat horizontal or nearly so, as herein described.

2. The seat E, when siispended by connections D arranged underneath said seat, and. with or without the springs or bars 13 G, as herein. set forth.

3. The springs l when applied, as herein set forth, either to the top or bottom of the supports 1).

lDiANlEL R. ALLEN.

W. H. CLIFFORD, l). H. Wrnsox.

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