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Description

(No Model.)

B. G..WOOD.

I SHIFTING RAIL FOR BUGGY SEATS. No. 300,295. Patented June 10, 1884..

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RICHARD G. XVOOD, OF CINCINNATI, OHIO, ASSIGNOR, BY llIESNE ASSIGN- BIENTS, OF ONEIIALF TO THE QUEEN CITY FOR-GING COMPANY, OF SABIE PLACE.

SHlFTlNG-RAIL FOR BUGGY-SEATS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 300,295, dated June 10, 1884.

Application filed April 2'1, 1883. (No model.)

To @ZZ whom, it may concern: ons of the hollow standard or pillar B. The

Be it known that I, Brennan G. V0013, a pillar B is made, preferably,of cast malleable citizen of the United States, residing at Ginmetal. Exteriorly it maybe of any approved cinnati, county of Hamilton, State of Ohio, shape or design. For lightness, it is cored out have invented certain new and useful Imin the center of its length, the central perfoprovemcntsinBuggySeats and Shiftingllails, ration terminating at each end in a bore of 5 5 of which the following is a specification. proper size to snugly fit the shanks of the ar1n The obj cct of my invention is a seat for repieces 0, back-supports D, and rail-bolts It. movable-top vehicles. Each end of the piece B is diminished, form- IO It consists in aconvenient means for attach- :ing tenons to enter holes bored in the seat,

ing the lazy-back, arn1-rest, and cushionand wooden rails F and shouldered projecsupports, and, when desired, readily securing tions. The bottom shoulder or collar rests or removing the shifting-rail which supports upon the seat, while the upper one supports the top. the rail F, thus acting as a stay -bolt between :5 It consists alsoin anovel arm-rest,which may the seat and rails F when the parts are sebe used plain, and, when desired, i'urnishcsa cured together. The arm -supports 0 and 6 ready means for upholstering or stuffing the back-supports D have collars c and d to rest same. upon the rail]? or shifting-rail G, and below The invention will be first described in conthese "collars shanks to pass through the piece 20 nection with the drawings forming a part of B and extend below the seat. Thelower parts this specification, and then particularly pointof the shanks are screw-threaded to receive ed out in the claims. tightening-nuts, which secure the parts firmly In the accompanying drawings, in which together. "When the lazyback H is omitted,

similar reference-letters indicate like parts bolts E are substituted in place of the armwhercver they occur throughout the various rests and back-supports G and D. The shift views, Figure 1 is a perspective view of an ing-rail G is attached to the seat, Fig. 1, by 5 open-top buggy-seat embodying my improveremoving the arm-rests, end bolts, E, and back nients. Fig. 2 is an enlarged detail view supports D, then placing the shifting-rail upshowing in vertical section the rear part of on the rails F, passing the shank of the bolt 30 the back-rail and the hollow supporting pillar pieces 0 and D through the pieces B,and again or standard. Fig. 3 is a full-sized perspectightening up the nuts. tive view of the pillar or standard which The shifting-rail may remainpermanently supports the arm-rest, back, and shifting-rail, attached to the top and be removed and rewhen such is used. Fig. 4 is a perspective placed with it. I thus avoid the unsightly View of one end of my improved seat,with the appearance and inconvenience of the naked shifting-rail secured 111 place. OUtWfllCllY-PFOJGOUDg pllls which support the 'My improved seat consists of front and rear top. pieces, A, and end pieces, A, framed to- The arnrrests O are made of malleable iron gether by mortises and tenons, or other suitand castwith an open loop, 0. Bythis means .40 able means. hen the seat is to be used for I am enabled to stitch on a cushion or stuffed loose cushions, the inner edges of the framearm-rest when desired. 99 pieces are grooved to receive the rahbeted The seatframes, backs H, and rails F are edges of the panel A; but, when desired, the all bored by patterns, so that the parts are inpanel may be omitted and webbing stretched terchangeable, and when shipped, as they usu- 5 across the under side of the frame, to provide ally are, knockdown, they can be put toan upholstered spring-seat-such as are comgether without fitting. 5 monly used for chairs, sofas, The back XVha-t I claim as new, and desire to secure by and side pieces of the seat are perforated near Letters Patent, is their outer edges, to receive the neck or ten- 1. In a buggy-seat, the combination of the seat-frame, rails F, and pieces B with the shifting-rails removably secured to said rails arm-rests O and back-supports D, the said F by bolts passing through the shifting-rails, 10

parts 0 and D having screw-threaded shanks rails F, hollow standards, and seat-frame, subpassing through the rails F, pillars B, and the stantially as described.

5 seat with nuts to hold the parts together, sub- RICHARD G. WOOD.

stantially as specified. Witnesses:

2. The combination, with the seat-frame, GEO. J-. MURRAY, the hollow standards, and the rails F, of the J noon J. GEssERT.

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