US322530A - Fan attachment - Google Patents

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(Model!) T 0. E. YEATON.

FAN ATTACHMENT.

No. 322,530. Patented July 21, 1885 Wib aesses NITE STATES ATENT Orrics.

FAN ATTACH M ENT.

SPECIFICATION forming part Of Letters Patent NO. 322,530, dated July 21, 1885.

Application filed May 26, 1884. (ModeL) I To aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, CHARLES E. Enron, of Chelsea, in the county of Suffolk and State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Fans for Rocking Chairs, which will, in connection with the accompanying drawings, be hereinafter fully described, and specifically defined in the appended claims.

This invention has for its object the production of an improved fan adapted to be readily attached to and removed from rockingchairs, and when so attached to be automatically actuated by the rocking of the chair;

0 and it consists in the construction and combination of the divers devices embodied therein, as hereinafter more particularly and fully set forth and claimed.

Figure 1 is a side elevation of a chair with my invention thereto applied. Fig. 2 is an elevation taken as from the left hand in Fig. 1, and showing the lower portion of my invention with the means of attaching it to the chair-rocker, which latter is shown in transverse section. Fig. 3 is a detached elevation taken from the same standpoint as Fig. 2, and showing the upper part of my invention. Fig. 4 is a top or plan view of the standard. Fig. 5 is an inverted or under side view of the fansupporting bracket.

In said views A represents a chair, which is introduced for the purpose of illustrating my invention. 13 is a rocker of the chair; 0, a side bar of the seat-base, and D an arm piece or rest. An angle iron, E, having a horizontal arm, a, curved to correspond to rocker B, and a vertical arm, I), is removably secured to the rocker by means of projecting angles (1 (1, formed on arm a, and the thumbscrews 6 therein, threaded, as shown in Figs. 1 2. The upper reduced end, j, of vertical arm I) is inclined outward, as shown in Fig. 2, to make room for the upholstery upon arm-piece D; and in the upper edge or face of said part j, I form in the same horizontal plane a series m, to enter and engage the corresponding indentations in the head of arm I), as shown in Fi 1.

ll n the lower end of standard at is formed the open slot 1), which receives the stud Z, formed on arm b, as shown in Figs. 1, 2, said slot being of such length as to allow either of hooks q to be interlocked in the head of arm b, as stated, and as the size of the person occupying the chair may require, the fan carried by the standard to be at greater or less distance above the seat 0, while, by means of the series of indentations 7c, the standard may be arranged toward the front or back of the chair to suit the wishes of the occupant, the stud Z being the pivot of motion of the standard m when so adjusted in indentations 7c.

The fan F is preferably formed with four wings, a, secured to spindlet by the socketed brackets a, or in any suitable manner. The fan-spindle t is journaled in arms 8, extending from shank z of the spindle-carrying bracket, said shank i being journaled in bosses n of standard m, as shown in Fig. 3.

Upon the rear end of arm a, I pivot a lever, f, near its lineal center, and in the end of this lever is pivoted the truck h, while to the for-' ward end of said lever I secure cord 00, which passes thence upward alongside standard in and within the groove in the face of guidingpulley z, pivoted on an ear of the standard, whence it passes over the grooved pulley b, secured on fan-spindle t, and thence descends to and is secured to the upper end of spiral spring y, the lower end of which is attached to stud l of arm 12, which stud extends through slot 10 of standard m, as stated, the spring serving to secure the standard on said stud.

It will be obvious that when the chair is rocked backward the forward end of lever f will be depressed by the action of stud g and truck h, and that by the action of cord as spring y will be elongated, and that the tension upon the cord, caused by the resistance of said spring, will cause it to rotate the fan 5 and when the chair is rocked forward the counteraction of the spring will impart a reverse movement to the fan; and hence as the chair is rocked backward and forward a recipr0cating rotary movement of the fan will be maintained.

For convenience in seating ones self in or ICO rising from the chair a fin, o, is formed on the fan-bracket at the junction of its spindle z and arms 8, and a corresponding recess, w, is formed in the head of standard m, both at its outer side and front edge, said fin being seated in the former-stated recess when operative; but by'slightly raising the fan, which spring 3 readily admits, it may be turned toward the back of the chair, when said fin will be seated in the recess at the front of the standard, and so held until changed to the position shown in Fig. 1 for use.

Instead of angleiron E, the arm I) for supporting standard at and the pivot of lever f may be'independent each of the other; but the angle-iron is preferable, as thereby the apparatus may be removed from the chair and replaced without care in adjusting the parts, each having, by reason of said angle-iron, its proper position relatively to the other. A thin stay, 0, is shown as uniting and strengthening the arms of said angle-iron.

I am aware that it is not new to produce the reciprocating rotation of a fan attached to a chair by means of a lever and spring united by a cord, the lever being actuated by the rocking motion of the chair, and the spring being actuated by the lever through the cord. Hence I do not broadly claim such device; but

What I do claim as my invention is 1. The fan supporting standard formed with indentations w w, and the fan-bracket formed with a pivoted stem or shank, z, and fin o, to interlock in said indentations, whereby the fan may be arranged and secured to extend over the occupant of the chair or parallel with the side of the chair, substantially as specified.

2. The fan-supporting standard m, formed with a series of hooks, (1, arranged one above the other, in combination with a support adapted to be secured to the chair and to be engaged by said hooks, substantially as specified.

3. The combination, with angle-iron E, formed with arm a, having clamps d formed thereon, and also formed with vertical. arm I), having indentations 70 arranged along the line of its upper end, of a fan-support formed and adapted to be engaged with said angle-iron, substantially as specified.

4. The combination, with the fan-supporting standard m, having a series of hooks, q, arranged one above the other, of angle-iron E, having arm b, formed with a series of indentations, 7c, arranged along the line of its upper end and respectively adapted to receive said hooks, substantially as specified.

5. The combination, with standard m, formed with hooks 9, arranged one above the other, and with a longitudinal slot, 12, near its lower end, of angle-iron E, formed with arm I), having stud Z, adapted to engage in said slot, and a series of indentations, is, arranged along the line of its upper end and adapted to be engaged by said hooks, substantially as specified.

6. The combination of standard m, having a series of hooks, q, arranged one above the other, angle-iron E, formed with arm a, having clamps d, and stud g, and arm I), having stud Z, and a series of notches, k, arranged along the line of its top, leverf, having truck h and pivoted on stud g, spiral-spring g and cord 00, secured at one end to the free'arm of lever f and at the other to said spring, and engaging pulley b on the fan-spindle, substantially as specified.

CHARLES E. EATON.

WVitnessesi T. W. PORTER, EUGENE HUMPHREY.

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