US113060A - Improvement in adjustable seats for vehicles - Google Patents

Description

A that it ban readily RICHARD E. .Tonus or coitDsoimuerr,lNourril cARor-JINA.4

Letters Patent No. 113,060, dated Marchv 28'y 1871.

iMPRovr-:MENT IN'AoJusTAeL'E SEATS FOR VEHICLES.

'The ySchedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of, the same.

To all whom/lit may concern l p Y Be it known'that I, RICHARD E. J oimspof Goldsborough, in the county loflVayne and State'of North Carolina, have in'vented certain new and useful Imy provements in Adjustable Seats'for Vehicles; and I do hereby declare that the following is afull,`clear, and exact description of the same,rreference being had to the accompanying `drawing and to the letters of reference marked thereon making part of this speciiication, in which- Figure l is a vertical sectional view of the carriage or buggy-body, with each ofthe seats in position.

f Figure 2 is a vertical sectional view, with the front or hinged seat thrown down,`ieaving its supports or frame-work free to receive the jumping seat.

Figure 3 is a rear end view of the body with the jumping seat in position, resting ou or. supported by the bed-piece or follower.

My improvement relates entirely to that class of carriage o1 buggy-bodies in which is used or which is designed to be constructed with what is 'termed the jumping-seat. By myimprovement, with the utmost facility, the carriage or buggy can be changed from a single to a double-seated vehicle, and which result is'faccomrplished by an arrangement of mechanism which is cheap and durable in its construction, and exceedingly simple and convenient in operation.

The nature of my linvention consists in hinging or so securing the ordinary seat, cr what is the front seat 'of the vehicle when he jumping-seat is thrown back, to the frame-work, w ich supports .it in such manner brought on a line parallelwith the bottom ofthe ve icle, as when desired to be used or throwrr down at' `ight\ angles thereto, furnishes a neat front-board for t e jumping-seat when the samev i\s\thrown forwarder only a single-seat vehicle is desired. This seat is`provided with folding arms, so arranged that when the seat is thrown down the arms shall oier no obstruction or in no manner prevent its falling in the vertical position required.

Y My invention also consists in providing the jumpingseat with standards or arms, so arranged and secured. on its under'- face that when the seat is thrown back they will enter sockets or eye-'bolts on or connected with the lbed-piece or follower', and thereby furnish vertical supports for the seat. y l

' My invention also consists in so connecting this seat to the body by means of pivoted levers, that a freel jumping movement is secured, whereby the seat can l be thrown back and secured on the bed-piece, as stated,

or forwarded so as to rest on the ordinary seat-support.

The great advantage of my invention is found in the fact that it can readilybe applied and used on the ordinary single-seat body, requiring, as it does, no enlargement of its dimensions to secure its successful operation;

and, asthe size of the bodyis not changed, the ordinary' length of the coupling between the axles is not altered, but preserved, and, consequently, the draft is in no manner increased, except so -far as-it involves the carrying the actual weight of the seat and its 0perating mechanism, which is usually not moreV than iifteenponnds. f l

To enable others skilled in the art tormake and use my invention, I will now proceedto describe its construct-ion and operation.

' A represents the wagon, carriage, orVbuggy-body,

and about the construction of which there is'vnothing new.

The body Ais attached to the front axle inv thei usual style', 'and to the rear axle by the rods B B vand hed-piece or follower B', the bed-piece resting on the f upper arch of the elliptic or other spring in the ordinary manner.,

' These rods B B are constructed with sockets b b at their outer ends to receive and secure the standards or supports of the jum ping-seat 5 or, if preferred, these may be dispensed with and socket-s may be .provided directly in the bed-piece B', or eye-bolts may be attached to the bed-piece,- either method being well adapted for the purpose designed.

G is the frame-support for the seat, and is constructedand secured at or near the center oi' the body A; in the usual manner.

To the front cross-bar c of the frame O is attached,

by means of hinges C G', or other suitable hinge-conf nection, the seat D.

rlhis seat D may be of any desired style, and is pro? vided with arms D' D', so connected to the seat, by means of hinges d d, that they can readily be folded when the seat is thrown in a vertical position as shown in g. 2.

E is the jumping seat, and is connected with the body A of the vehicle by means of levers or bars E E.

These levers are pivoted to both the seat and body, las clearly shown at e and c', figs. l and 2.

The Seat E may be the ordinary box-seat, such as 'is shown in the drawing', or of any other desired form.

yF F are supports or standards, and are lrigidly attached on the' under face of the seat E.

These standards or supports F F terminate in a flanged prong or head, f, so recessed as to leave a shoulder, f', for the socket or eye b to butt 'against when the prong or head is inserted therein, whereby the standards F F are retained in position to properly support the seat E.

F' F are springs, secured on the lower end of the standard alongside of itsV prong or head f, and, entering the sockets b with the prongs of the standards, securely lock the same in position.

G is an open V shaped brace-rod or lever, itscpeu ands being secured on the under face of the seat E, while .its angular face, which is slotted at g, passes )ver a button-headed bolt or pin, G', on the bed piece B'.

VOf course the various features herein described might be slightly altered, and some, indeed, dispensed with, such, for instance, as the springs F' F and the brace-lever G, without, in the slightest degree affect- 'mg my invention.

The operationy is as follows:

The seats and theirentire operating mechanism are in position shown in iig. 1. The carriage or buggybody being now arranged as a double-seated vehicle, the front seat D being in position and resting on and supported by the frame-Work O, the rear orY jumping seat E being supported by the brace-lever Gr and the standards F F, their pronged heads entering the sockets b b, and being securely locked therein by means of the springs F' F'.

To change the double ,into a single-seated vehicle you have simply to turn the arms D' Don the hinges d 'd toward the center of the seat and then throw the seat D down, as shown in g. 2, it falling in avertical position and forming a neat face or front for the framework C. This leaves the upper fa'e of the frame C free to receive the j nmping-seat E, which is now swung,

forward on the pivoted levers E' E', its standards Fv 11"4 having been first withdrawn from the socket-s, which is easily done simplyby pressing the springs F F' toward the prong or, head f, the standards F F and brace-lever G falling` between the vertical uprights or side pieces ofthe frame O. Y

Having thus fully described my invention, What I- claim therein as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States, is

1. The jumping seat E, standards F F, with springs F' F' attached, bed-piece B, and rods B B, and sockets b b, when the same are so combined and arranged as to operate substantially as described.

2. The `jumping-seat E, braceflever Gr, and bed-piece B', when the same are combined and arranged substantially as described.

v3. ,The seat D, when the folding arms D D', and so hinged to the frame O as to operate substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing Witnesses. RIOHD. E. JONES.

Witnesses Envmar JAMES,

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