US201129A - Improvement in folding rocking-chairs - Google Patents

Description

'D. N. SELLEG. Folding Rocking-Uhair.

No. 20i,|29.. Patented March 12, 1878.

Fig. 4.

WITNESSES- UNITED STATES PATENT OEEIoE.

, DAVID N. SELLEG, OF NEWBURG, NEW YORK.

IMPROVEMENT IN FOLDING ROCKING-CHAIRS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 201,129, dated March 12, 1878; application filed February 9, 1878.

To all whom it may congern:

Be it known that I, DAVID N. SELLEG, of Newburg, in the county of Orange and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Folding Rocking- Ghairs; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it pertains to make and use it, reference being had to the accompanyin g drawings, which form part of this specification.

My invention relates to an improvement in folding rocking-chair s, and it consists in connecting the side bars of the seat-frame to the lower end of the back and the upper ends of the rear legs by means of separate connectinglinks, whereby the chair can be folded together in a very small space and compact form, as will be more fully described hereinafter.

The accompanying drawings represent my invention.

a represents the back of the chair; b, the front legs and arms; 0, the rear legs; 01, the rocker, and e the side bars of the seat-frame. The front leg, which also forms the arm of the chair, is pivoted at its upper end to the back, near its center to the seat-frame, and at-its lower end to the front of the rocker. The rear leg is connected at its upper end, by

' means of the link 9, with the rear end of the side bars of the seat, and at its lower end is pivoted to the rocker. In-the upper end of this rear leg is formed a suitable recess, so as to receive the rear rod or bar 6, to which the seatl is fastened, and thus serves to brace and hold the parts much more securely together. The side bars of the scat are also connected, by means of the links h, with the lower end of the back, so that the back will move with the seat when the chair is being folded together.

By thus connecting the seat with both the rear leg and the lower end of the back, it will be seen that the construction of the chair is exceedingly simple, that there are no extra parts to get out of order, and that the chair can be made very strong and substantial.

By using the rigid side bars for the seat, and rigid rods to fasten the seat to, it will be seen that the seat is kept perfectly rigidwhen the chair is opened outward, and that it becomes a slack seat as soon as the chair is folded up.

If desired, the side bar 0 may have its rear end fitted into a socket in the lower end of the back, in which case the link fastened rigidly in position.

Having thus described my invention, I claim- 1. In a folding chair, rigid side bars for the seat, in combination with the back, rear legs, and the two connecting-links, the back and rear legs being made in separate pieces, and the lower ends of the legs being pivoted to the rockers d, substantially as shown.

2. The combination of the back a, front legs b, rear legs 0, rockers d, side bars e, and connecting-links g h, for connecting the rear ends of the side bars of the seat with the lowerend of theback and the upper end of the rear legs, substantially as shown and described.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing l have hereunto set my hand this 4th day of February, 1878.

D. N. SELLEG.

Witnesses:

SEWARD W. ROUND, E. A. BROWN.

9 will be

Images