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W. W. BALL.

BUGGY SEAT. No. 295,143. Patented Mar. 18, 1884.

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WILLIAM \V. BALL, OF INDIANAPOLIfi, INDIANA, ASSlG-NOB OF ONE-'HALF TO ADDISON W. BALL, OF SAME PLACE.

BUGGY-SEAT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 295,143, dated March 18, 1884.

Application filed January 9, 1884. (No model.)

To. all whom? it may concern:

I the back and sides'a short distance, and thus be Be it known that I, TILLIAM. W. BALL, of adapted to be secured to said back and sides the city of Indianapolis, county of Marion, and State of Indiana, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Buggy- -Seats, of which the following is a specification.

My said invention principally consists in an improved corner-piece for buggy-seats, by whichv the corner is'protected and the sides and back of the seat securely fastened to the bottom.

It further consists in an improved means for securing the shifting-rail to the seat, consisting of ears on said corner-piece and other similar supports.

My said invention will be first fully de scribed, and then pointed out in theclaims.

Referring to the accompanying drawings, which are made a part hereof, and on which similar letters of reference indicate similar parts, Figiire I is a perspective View of a seat embodying my said invention; Fig. 2, a top .or plan View thereof, a portion being broken away at one corner to show the corner-piece more plainly; Fig. 3, a diagonal vertical section on the dotted line 2 z, and Fig. 4 a per spective view of the corner-piece separately.

In said drawings, the portions marked A represent the bottom of the seat; 13, the sides and back; 0, my improved corner-piece, and D the shifti ig'rail. i The bottom A and sides and back B are similar to the corresponding parts in ordinary oarriage-seats, and need no special description.

The corner-pieces O are of a peculiar formation. The lower end is spread out and formed to fit over the corner of the bottom A, to which it is attached by screws, as shown, and is thus both firmly attached thereto and serves to secure said corner together. They are then en.- smalled and extend up in the form of angleirons around the outside of the corners, where the back and sides come together, securing said parts firmly, and serving as a protection therefor after the seat is finished. The top ends are spread out into ears 0, one of which on each is hooked'to pass under the rail D and the other to pass over it, thus securing said rail at the corners without other fastenings, These ears should also extend down alongside by screws orrivets 0. These corner pieces,

, besides serving the aforementioned purposes,

are great aids during the process of building the seat, as, after being secured to the bottom, they are adapted to hold the sides and back in place while the latter are being fastened, without the aid of the usual clamps or stays, it being only necessary to fit said back and sides 6c and place them in position inside of said cornor-pieces, when, as will be readily seen, they will be sufficiently held in position to enable the workman to fasten them without dificulty.

The rail D is formed of a single rod carried from the front edge of one side of the seat around the top of the sides and back to a cor responding point on the other side, passing through the books on the corner-pieces G and through other hooks, b, on the back B, and being thus supported. At the ends it is turned up at right angles and screw-threaded, and

these turned-up ends pass up through eyes in projecting ends of the angle-irons b or similar parts, and have nuts (Z on their ends. By simply removing these nuts and springing the ends of the rail down, said rail can be readily detached from the seat, which is a much simpler operation than removing the numerous bolts and screws usually employed to secure 8o these rails.

Having thus fully described my said invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. The combination, with the bottom, sides,

and back of a bugg seat, of corner-pieces G, which cover the corners of said sides and back and extend under the same over the corners of said bottom, and thus secure the parts of the seat together and protect the corners of the same, substantially as set forth.

2. The combination, with the bottom, sides, and back of a buggy seat, of corner-pieces widened at the lower end and formed to cover the corners of said bottom and be secured thereto, 9 5 and extend thence up over the outside of the corners of the back and sides, substantially as described, and for the purposes specified.

3. In a buggy-seat, a corner-piece, C, havings ears 0, formed into hooks to support the mo substantial] y as setlforth.

hooks, and the shifting rail mounted in said hooks, and thus secured in position, substan' tially as set forth.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my I 5 shifting-rail, in Combination .With said rail, I

4. The combination of the usual seat parts, the shifting-rail, and a series of hooks on the seatassupports forsaid raihpartsofsaid hooks I hand and seal, at Indianapolis, Indiana, thi being curved to pass under said rail and apart I 4th day of January, A. D. 1884. over it, thusseouring it firmlyin position without the use of other fastenings, except at the ends, substantially asset forth.

5. Thecombinationoftheordinaryseat parts,

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In presence of G. BRADFORD,

A B, the corner-pieces thereon, provided with CHAS. L. THURBER.

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