US242220A - Reclining-chair - Google Patents

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I S. POTTER & J. D. BEAVER. Reclining Chair.

No. 242,220. Patented May 31,1881.

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SIMON POTTER AND JAMES D. BEAVER, OF POUGHKEEPSIE, NEW YORK.

RECLlNlNG-CHAIR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 242,220, dated May 31, 1881.

' Application filed March 30, 1881. (Model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, SIMON POTTER and JAMES DUANE BEAVER, citizens ofthe United States, residing at Poughkeepsie, in the county of Dutchess and State of New York, have jointlyinvented new and useful Improvements in Reclining-Chairs, of which the following is a specification.

Ourimprovements relate to reclining-chairs; and our object is to produce a reclining-chair of the simplest construction, cheap and durable, and incapable of being tilted forward or backward or otherwise disturbed in its position when adjusted to the desired angle for the comfort of the user.

To this end we construct the chair-back and the front legs of single pieces and make the back legs curve upward to the front to form a substantially horizontal support f or the seat, pivot them, as hereinafter described, to the front legs, and provide them on their under front parts with notches adapted to engage with a cross-bar carried by hanging arm-rests pivoted to said back pieces or front legs, whereby the back may be adjusted to any angle, substantially as hereinafter described, the main point or feature of improvement consisting in the combination, with the chair-back and the front legs, formed of single pieces, of hanging arms pivoted thereto and carrying a cross-bar at their lower free ends, and substantially horizontal seat-supports provided with notches on their front under ends adapted to match over said cross-bar and terminating at the rear as the back legs of the chair, as hereinafterspecifically set forth.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 represents a perspective of a chair embracing our improvements; Fig. 2, a vertical sectional elevation, the chair being set at a greater reclining angle; and Fig. 3 the chair as folded, in which the cross-bar of the hanging arms is brought above the seat-supports.

The chair-back and the front legs are composed of one and the same bars or pieces A A, and to these are pivoted at the proper 'points in the construction of chairs of this class, as at a a, the seat-supporting bars B B, which latter, in so far as they form the seatsupports, appear as substantially horizontal to the plane of the floor when the chair is in use, and at their rear curve backward and downward to form the back legs, distinguished by B in the drawings. The front underneath parts of the bars B or seat-supports are provided with notches b I) I), which are intended to match with and securely grasp by a biting hold a cross-bar, O, angular in cross-section or square, which is carried by the lower free ends, 0, of the arm-rests D D, pivoted to the back A above the seat. The back and seat proper are preferably of one piece of cloth, carpet, or flexible slatting.

To adjust the chair to different angles requires merely the manipulation of the seatsupports and the hanging arm-rests to cause the notches of the one to match over the angle edge of the cross-bar of the latter, beneath the seat-a matteraseertained instantaneously on viewing theconstruction; but to fold the chair for transportation or removal the parts are moved until the crossbar carried by the arms is above the seat-supports, as in Fig. 3, and this is effected by having the arm-rests free attheir lower ends, so that they can be raised up over the seat-supports at their front ends. There are suitable brace-crosses E E for the front legs and for the back legs.

It will be observed that the arms form distinct pivoted hangers for the locking crossbar, and must move together when the latter is released from its notches in the front under part of the seat-supports.

We claim-- 1. 1n areclining-ehair, the combination, with the chair-back and front legs, made of single pieces A A, of the hanging arm-rests D D, pivoted above the seat and carrying an angu lar cross-bar, G, and the seat-supports B B, provided on their underneath front parts with notches l) b b, intermatchiug with said crossbar 0, to lock the back at different angles, substantially as hereinbefore specified.

2. In a reclining -chair capable of being folded and having pivoted notched bars for the seat, the seat-supporting arms hanging freely at their lower ends and rigidly connected by a cross-bar adapted to be swung over and free of the seat-bars to fold the chair, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof we have hereunto set our hands and seals in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

SIMON POTTER. JAMES DUANE BEAVER.

Witnesses:

JOHN H. MILL'ARD, HENRY W. GILBERT.

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