US291487A - Maesena benedict - Google Patents

Description

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SEAT.

Patented Jan. 8, 1884.

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 291,487, dated January 8, 1884.

- Application filed February 24, 1883. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, MARsENA Bnnnorcr, a citizen of the United States of America, residing at New York, in the county of New York and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Seats, of which the following is a specification, ref erence being had therein to the accompanying drawings.

This invention relates to seats for wagons,

cars, chairs, or other general uses; and it consists in the novel construction and arrangement of parts hereinafter described, ,whereby a superiorariicle is obtained at a low cost of manufacture.

This invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which, Figure 1 represents a plan or top view. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal section on the line 00 m, Fig. 1. Fig. 31s a cross-section on theliney y, Fig. 1. Fig.

4 is a plan view of a web forming the seat proper as it appears before being applied to the seat-frame.

Similar letters of reference indicate corre 2 5 spending parts.

The letterA designates a frame, of substantially rectangular shape, having connected to it a web, B, of cloth or other similar material, which constitutes the body of the seat, or, in

other words, the seat proper. This web B passes on its front edge through a slot, 0, formed in the front side of the seat-frame, and on its end edges through slots d, formed in the ends of the frame, while it is provided on the edges named with pockets 6 or f, extending longitudinally thereof. Into these pockets 0 or f are inserted key-rods g or ii, of metal or other suitable material, which are larger in diameter than the width of the slots 0 or d; and it will be seen that the web B is thereby firmly connected to the frame on the front and end edges, while it may be readily detached at these points, as for the purpose of repairing or renewingthe same. Said pock etseor f aremade 5 in series of three, (more or less,) and especially on the front edge, in order to render the web B adjustablenamely, by inserting the keyrod into different pockets-and the pockets are formed by doubling the web and stitching the same in parallel lines at the proper places, as

clearly shown in Fig. 4. The web B is also provided with a longitudinal pocket, 2', on the rear edge, which is formed substantially like the pockets 0 and f, but is largerto the extent of several times the diameter of the key-rod, for the purpose of bringing the foot of the incline plane, presently to be described, considerably forward or toward the middle of the seat, and into which is inserted a key-rod, k. This rod k is located upon the rear side of the frame A, and is held in position by means of hasps Z, which embrace the rod and extend under said rear side of the frame, where they are fastened by screws or other suitable means, the web being cut away-opposite to the hasps, as shown. By this arrangement of the keyrod the web B is raised on a curved or incline plane toward the rear edge, the degree of its inclination being greater or less, according to the thickness of the rod; and the web 70 thus conforming, approximately, to the shape of ones body, the seat is very comfortable in use in comparison with a flat seat.

The frame A is divided longitudinally into two sections, A A which are united or con- 7 5 nected by hinges n, and provided with hooks 0, or other similar fastenings, for retaining the same in a normal position, the hooks, when such are used, being hung to one sectionand arranged to catch into eyes on the other sec tion. N ow, whenever the web B loses the proper tension-as bywear-it can bestretched to compensate for slack therein by releasing theforward frame-section, A, and throwing the same up to a vertical position; then ad- 8 5 justing the web B transverselyas by properly shifting the key-rod g-and finally returning the section A to a lower position, so that it acts as a lever to draw the webtight in the desired manner. 0

I claim- 1. The combination, in a seat, of a frame having longitudinal slots in its front side and in both ends, a web of cloth passing through said slots on its front and end edges, and hav- 5 ing pockets on such edges, key-rods inserted in said pockets, and means for attaching the web to the rear side of the frame, substantially as and for the purpose described.

2. The combination, in a seat, of a frame,

a web of cloth having a lengitudinal pocket In testimony whereof I affix my signature in' on its rear edge, a key-rod inserted in such presence of'two witnesses;-

pocket hasps attached to the rear side of the 4 frame to engage said rods, as specified, and MARSENA BENEDICT 5 means for attaching the Web to the front side Witnesses:

and the ends of the frame, substantially as FRANCIS C. BOWEN,

and for the purpose described. 1 T. L. SMITH.

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