US1213312A

US1213312A - Chair.

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Publication number: US1213312A
Application number: US7412316A
Authority: US
Inventors: Albert Wanner Jr
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 1916-01-25
Filing date: 1916-01-25
Publication date: 1917-01-23
Anticipated expiration: 1934-01-23

Description

A. WANNER, JR.

CHAIR.

APPLICATION FILED JAN.25,19I6.

Patented Jan. 28, 1917.

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Specification of Letters Patent. Patented Jan; 23, 1917.

Application filed J'anuary 25, 1916. Serial N 0. 74,123.

To all whom it may concern: v Be it known that I, ALBnRT-WVANNER, J r., a citizen of the United States, residing at New York city, in the county of New York and State of New York, have invented cer tain new and useful Improvements in Chairs, of which the following is aspecification. I

The object of this invention isto'provide for chairs, for instance of the bent-wood class, a bracing means for the legs which shall afford a more substantial and a I stronger support thereto than the braces of the ring, bow or the like bent structures now used, and which at the same time will reduce appreciably the cost of manufacture and improve the appearance of'the chair.

To this end my invention consists in certain novel combinations and arrangements of parts hereinafter set forth and finally embodied in the clauses of the claims.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view of chair of the bentwood class provided with my improved bracing means; Fig. 2 is a vertical front to rear sectional view of the chair, the caning forming the seat being asyet unattached;

Fig.. 3 is a horizontal sectional view taken below the seat supporting frame and said bracing means and looklng upwardly toward the same; and, Fig. 41 illustrates a detail. (Z designates the front legs and b the back legs, the latter being the extremities of a bent-wood structure which, as usual in this type of chairs, forms at c the main part of the back of the chair.

The structure which supports the seat includes a bent-wood seat supporting frame (Z circular in form and in the present instance being continuous, and which also includes the member e.

The front legs a have dowels f on their upper ends entered in the usual manner into suitable sockets in the frame (Z.

The structure including the back legs 5 and back 0 is secured against the outer periphery of the frame (Z by the usual lag screws 9 driven from the. inside of the frame through the same into said back and back-leg structure. The inside surfaces of the legs a where they adjoin the frame (Z are preferably flush with the inside surfaces of said frame (Fig. 4) the inside surfaces of the legs Z) where they adjoin the frame are of course outwardly offset with relation to the inside surface of the frame (Z, since these surfaces bear against the outer surface of said frame. I

The member 6 consists of an elongated plate, preferably of wood, bent to suitable shape, that is to say, in the preferred form having its outer circumference conforming in the main to the inner circumference of the frame (Z, its two endsprojecting off more or less in the same direction. The said ends have recesses '6, cut in their top edges. The thus-formed member 6 is assembled with the frame (Z and legs a and b by introducing it, with its ends projecting rearwardlyand between the back legs, upwardly into the frame (Z until its top edge is paral lel, or substantially so, with the top surface of the frame (Z, and its ends abutting against the under side of the frame (Z. 'Thereupon it is secured in place preferably as follows: Two screws h are driven through the member 6 into each leg and a single screw 2' driven through said member intothe frame (Z, the latter screws alternating with the screws it. This construction, as will be obvious, affords a very substantial and rigid connection between the several legs and the seat supporting structure, each leg being secured directly to said structure in such a manner that any movement that might affect any. particular leg is not imparted to the other legs, as in the case of bent-wood chairs having ring braces and the like for the legs. Moreover, the bracing means 6 is in itself more rigid than braces heretofore used, because it is a curved plate and in the preferred form conforms to the inside shape of and is secured flat against the frame (Z. It will be further noted that any strains which would be imposed on the back legs by the weight of the occupant tilting back in the chair are resisted by the rearwardly projecting ends of the member 6, which are secured against laterally facing surfaces of the back-legs. The frame (Z has always heretofore required to have a certain amount of vertical thickness to afiord a strong dowel joint between the same and each front leg; in my construction the thickness of the frame (Z may be considerably reduced, if the desired chair design requires it, because the said joint is so considerably reinforced by the member 6.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is 1. In a seating appliance, an open seatsupporting frame and an upright plate-like member secured against the inside face of and depending from the frame, in combination with legs secured to the frame and each having an inwardly facing surface thereof bearing against and secured to the outer face of said member.

2. In a seating appliance, an open seatsupporting frame and an upright plate-like member bent in plan and secured against the inside face of and depending from the frame, in combination with legs secured to the frame and each having an inwardly facing surface thereof bearing against and secured to the outer face of said member.

3. In a seating appliance, a substantially circular seat-supporting frame, an upright plate-like member curved in plan to the curvature of, and secured against the inside face of and depending from, the frame, in combination with legs secured to the frame and each having an inwardly facing surface thereof bearing against and secured to the outer face of said member.

4. In a seating appliance, an open seat supporting frame and a leg having an inwardly facing surface thereof outwardly offset with reference to the inside surface of said frame, in combination with an upright plate-like member secured at a point removed from the leg to the inside face of said frame and having its upper edge recessed adjacent the leg and its thus-recessed portion extending under the frame and secured to said surface of the leg.

5. In a seating appliance, an open seatsupporting frame, a pair of front legs de pending therefrom, back-legs depending from the frame and having inwardly facing surfaces thereof outwardly offset with reference to the inside face of said frame, in combination with an upright plate-like member bent in plan and secured to the inside face of and depending from the frame and also secured to the inside faces of the front legs and having its upper edge at each end thereof recessed and the thus-recessed ends extending under the frame and secured to the back legs.

6. In a seating appliance, an open seatsupporting structure having an upright plate-like portion depending therefrom at its inner side, in combination with legs secured to said structure and each having an inwardly facing surface thereof bearing against and secured to the outer face of said portion, said portion being bent in plan between the legs.

7. In a seating appliance, an open seatsupporting frame and a pair of legs secured thereto, in combination with a bent bracing member for the legs secured to said frame and having its ends secured respectively to said legs and arranged close to said frame.

8. In a seating appliance, an open seatsupporting frame and a pair of legs secured thereto, in combination with a bracing member substantially conforming in shape with and secured to the inside surface of said frame and having its ends projecting in substantially the same direction and respec tively secured to said legs.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature;

ALBERT WANNER, J R.

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