US1532400A

US1532400A - Ventilated seat pad

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Publication number: US1532400A
Application number: US691882A
Authority: US
Inventors: Louis M Grafe
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 1924-02-11
Filing date: 1924-02-11
Publication date: 1925-04-07
Anticipated expiration: 1942-04-07

Description

LSSZOO L. M. GRAFE VENTILATED SEAT PAD Filed Feb, l1J 1924 d l-,--19zs. l'UNITI-:D STATES PATENT OFFICE.

LOUIS M. GBAFE, 0F ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI.

VENTILATE'D SEAT RAD.

Application led February 11, 1924. Serial No. 691,882.

To all 'whom it may concern.:

Be it known that I, Louis M. Gnus, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of the city of St. Louis and State of Missouri, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Ventilated Seat Pads, of which the followin is a specification.

My invention re ates to ventilated seat pads for automobiles and has ,for its principal ob'ect a ventilated seat pad that will be simp e in construction` inexpensive to manufacture and that will be strong and durable and that will be well ventilated. The invention consists principally in securing to seat pads of any suitable construction (preferably some sort of mesh work) tubular members having perforated walls. The

invention further consists in the seat pad and in the parts and combinations of .parts hereinafter described and claimed.

In the accompanying drawing,

Fig. 1 is a perspective view of a seat pad embodying my invention,

Fig. 2 is a partial sectional view taken through one of the tubular spacing members,

Fig. 3 is a perspective view of a modified form of spacing member,

Fig. 4 is a view similar to Fig. 2, showing1 said modified form of spacing member, an

Fi 5 is a side elevation, showing the pad in place on an automobile seat. y

The seat pad shown in the accompanying drawing comprises seat and back members 1 hingedly secured together and adapted to rest against an automobile seat 2 and the back 3 thereof. These members are of any suitable construction, preferably meshwork of straw, cane, rattan or the like. Preferably the weave is verv loose so as to permit the passage of air through the members of the pad.

Secured to the seat and back members 1 are a number of tubular spacers A, preferably of light metal. As shown in Figs. 1 and 2, each spacer comprises a hollow shell 4 having extended openings 5 through the walls thereof. The base 6 of each shell 4 is provided with an interiorly threaded lug 7. A disk 8 or cap is provided for securing each shell 4 in place. Each disk 8 has a stem 9 that projects through an opening in the'y mesh work of the scat or back member 1, the end of the stem being threaded into the threaded lug 7 of the shell 4. Thus the shell 4 and the disk 8 or cap drawn j tightly against the seat or backmember.

In the form shown in Figsij 1a-each spacer A is a hollow shell 20thatlfiasa top cover 21 and a bottom cover .22: I"'Iabs or pron 23 are struck up from-Unef cover. The tabs 23 of the several shellsjg are extended through holes in thenjme'shwork of the seat and back members-1 over against said members to securethe'lshells 20 in place. A suitable cover M of cloth or the like may be placed over tlietabs 23 of each shell to prevent them fromznjuring the clothes of a person sitting on-tleseat The above described seat pad is adapted .for use in covering the seats of automobiles and the backs of said seats. Thespacers A space the seat and back members away from the automobile seat andfback and rmit circulation of air behind both memv rs of the pads. The spacer shells themselves are perforated and air is permitted to circulate therethrough. The caps or tops of the spacer shells conduct heat away from the person 'sitting on them. The spacer shells are far enough apart from each other that the pads are free to yield and no discomfort is felt by reason ofthe presence of the spacer shells.

Obviously the form of the shells may be changed and other changes may be made from the construction shown without departing from my invention and I do not wish to be limited to the precise construction shown.

What I claim is:

1. A seat pad comprising a mesh work member and a multiplicity of spacers secured to the meshwork body thereof, whereby said pad is spaced away from the seat on which it is placed.

2. A seat pad comprising a meshwork member and a multiplicity of spacers Secured to the body thereof by means passin through said meshwork, whereby said pa is spaced away from the seat on which it is placed, said spacers having perforated back members hing y secured together and n pluralityy of spacers serured to the body portions of said members. whereby said pad is spaced away from the seat on which it is placed.

5. An automobile seat pad comprising a seat member of meshwork, spacers therefor, said spacers comprising hollow metal shells each having a perforated lug in its base und a ca for securino each acer in lace each of said caps having a stem that extends 10 I through an opening,r in the seat member and is threaded into the 111,9,` of a shell.

Signed at St. Louis, Missouri, this 8th clay of February, 1924.

' LOUIS M. GRAFE.