US179660A - Improvement in fastenings for chair-cushions - Google Patents

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A. A. LATHROP.

FASTENINGS FOR CHAIR cusnnms. No; 179,660. Patented Ju1y11.1876.

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AD ELBERT A. LATHROP,

PATENT QFFIGE.

OF CHICAGO, ILLINO S.-

I'MPROVEMENTlN FASTENINGS FOR CHAIR-CUSHIONS.

Specification forming partof Letters Patent No. 179,660, dated July 11, 1876 application filed October 25, 1875.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ADELBERT A. LATHROP, ot' the city of Chicago, Cook county, State of lllinois,.have invented a. new and useful'lmprovement in Fastening t'or Chair Cushions, of which the following is a full description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, iu-which Figure 1 is a plan View, showing a mode of attaching the straps to one form of cushion; Fig. 2, a plan view, showing the mode of attachingrthe straps to a round cushion.

This improvement is designed to he used with thin cushions, such as are made of pieces of carpets, &c., which have neither suflici'ent body or weight to keep them in position; and for this class of cushions it is desirable that they should be free to move, to a certain extent, on the bottom of the chair to prevent wearing of the clothing. Its nature consists in connecting the cushion to the rounds or back of the chair by means of one or more elastic straps.

In the drawings, A represents the cushion, and B the elastic straps. The cushion A is usually made of a piece of carpet, cut to fit the form of the chair; and it may be bound and lined, or not, as desired. At the back is attached to the cushion a sufficient number of elastic fastening-straps to hold it in position, or return it to position when moved. The elastic straps maybe tied to the rounds of the chair, or brought around them, and the free ends fastened to the cushion by loops, or

otherwise. This arrangement gives the cushion an easy movement on the .chair, and prevents it from working out partly, or entirely,

while the chair is in use, as the elastic straps will return it to position whenever freed.

By attaching or fastening a strap at or near the center ot'the cushion, and fastening its ends at the front and back, the cushion will have a free movement, and always return to the proper position. The dotted lines in Fig. 2 show this mode of attachment.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure

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