US180435A

US180435A - Improvement in reclining-chairs

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Publication number: US180435A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1876-08-01
Anticipated expiration: 1893-08-01

Description

R. & W. McCABE. RECLININ'G-CHAIR. N0. 1s0,435. Patent.ed Aug.1,1876.

WITN ESS ES I 1\TITED STATES PATENT OFFICE ROBERT MCOABE AND WILLIAM MCGABE, OF MEADVILLE, PENNSYLVANIA.

IMPROVENIENT IN RECLINING-CHAIRS.

Specifieation forming art of Letters Patent N0. 180,435, dafied August l, 1876 application filed March 14, 1876.

T0 all whomw't may concern Be il; known t-hat wo, ROBERT MGUABE and WILLIAM MCCABE, of the ci'oy of Meadville, State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and Improved Adjustable Ohair, which said invention is fully Set forth in the follow ing speoification, reference being had so the accompanyiug drawings.

Figures 1 and 2 representside views of our ohair.

1 A is the back attached to the seat by a pin or sorew-bolt, 4, so as to form 2b movable joint; D, the arm with a similar joint als 1 on the back, and ab 2 011 the support of the arm E, which is also attached to oho seat by a holt or pin-joint ab 3. N is a ratchet-bar hung on the arm l), und Ehe end passes through a st-aple, M, whieh aots like a pawl, the ntches 0f the rachet-bar N catohing on one end of the staple M.

A modifieation of cbis device is shown by Fig. 1 of the drawings, in whioh R represents a pawl pivoted to oho arm D, the point of whioh' engages with one o1 other of the teeth 0f a ratchet-plate, S, secured to the chair-seat. J.his device I have found 130 operato very weil bul; I prefer to use tl1'e hanging ratcheb-bar N und staple M.

Fig, 1 shows the foot-board F folded up under the seat', where it is secured by a spring, 1:. The spring has a pin or sorew at p, which asses through the side of the fran1e of the seaiv, and catches in the foot-board F. Only the head of this pin p is shown in the drawings. Fig. 2 represents this foot-board extended. The foot-board is construeted of two parts or sections, G 311d F, connected together by hinges, and when drawn 01111 and extended, is kept in phwe by a brace, H, hinged on the seetion G by a pin 7, and when the foot-board is extended, the end of the brace is placed agninst: the rang ot' the ohair ab W. There is a groove in the edge of F, Whioh slid es on a way or cleat; 011 the inside of the frame of the ehair seat, and when this foot-board is folded back it is kept in its 1)]?L06 by the spring P and pin p, as before described.

When a person is seated in the chair, if he inclines bis body forward, it releases the ratohecs N, and then he can, by a simple movemont either baokward or forward, pince' ehe back of tlxe chair either in a reolining poSi tion 01 a more uprightone, anti the ratchets Will hold it securely in the desired position, and itcan be thus adjusted by the oooupant of the chair.

What we e1aim as our invention is as foliows 1. A chair having the sliding foot-board F G, am]. supporlsing-bnr H, arranged t;0 operate in combination with the rang 0r rail W, ns und for the purpose set fort/11..

2. The combination of the pivoted back A, arm D, and ratchet-bar N, .with the sliding foot-board F G, and supporting-bar H, all arranged to form a re'clining-chair, in the manngr speeified.

ROBT. MCOABE. WM. MGOABE.

Witnesses:

A. B. RIGHMOND, CHAS. STRATTON.