US344248A - Head-rest - Google Patents

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S. OAWLEY.

HEAD REST.

(No Model.)

Patented June 22,1886.

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 344,248, dated June 22, 1886.

Application filed November 10, i885. Serial No. 182,386.

To all whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, SAMUEL GAWLEY, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Kendallville, in the county of Noble and State of Indiana, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Head-Rests for Car-Seats, Chairs, and Cots, of which the following is speciiieation.

This invention has for its object to provide a simple and convenient head-rest for the backs of ear and other seats; andit consistsin aframe composed of a single piece of wire bent, as hereinafter described, to form arms to bestridc and bear upon the seat-back, a curved frame to support a flexible cover forming the hea d-su pporting surface, and coils or springs connecting said frame to the seat-back-engaging arms, and not only giving the frame a greater degree of elasticity, but also enabling said frame to project forward of the seat -back engaging arms.

The invention also consists in certain minor details, all of which I will now proceed to describe and claim.

Of the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, Figure l represents a perspective view of the frame of my improved head-rest, the covering being removed. Figs.

- 2 and 3 represent, respectively, edge and front views showing the cover in place.

Ihe same letters of reference indicate the same parts in all the figures.

In carrying out my invention I bend a single piece ofwire, as follows, to form a frame adapted to be engaged with a seat-back and to support a flexible supporting-piece for the head of a person occupying the seat: commencing at the central portion of the length of wire, I bend it so as to form a cross-piece, 2, and two curved side pieces, 3 3, collectively forming a frame, which is formed to support a covering, a, of cloth or other iiexible material. At the ends of the side pieces, 3 3, I bend the wire into coils 4 4, and then bend it downwardly to form arms 5 5, and then upwardly to form arms 6 6, said arms 5 5 and 6 6 being in the same plane. From the upper ends of the arms 6 6, I bend the wire backwardly and then downwardly,to form arms 7 7, extending substantially parallel with and behind the arms 6 6. The arms 6 6 and 7 7 form open loops,which bestride the seatbaek, the arms 6 G bearing on the front and (No model.)

the arms 7 7 on the rear of said back. rIhe ends of the length of wire are preferably bent inwardly, as shown in Fig. I, and covered by a sheath or tube, t, secured to one or both of said ends, so that they cannot tear or injure the surface of the seat-back.

I prefer to insert the ends of a wooden bar,

b, in the coils 4 4, to serve as a handle for the to device. The ends of the bar are of such size as to readily enter the coils 4 4, and the bar is enlarged at a little distance from its ends, so that it cannot slip through the coils.

It will be seen that when the frameis applied to aseat-back its upper portion,with the iicxible cover thereon will constitute a convex rest, normally projecting forward from the general plane of the front surface of the seat-back, so that it is in position to support the head and 7o yield comfortably without causing an uncomfortable backward bending of the neck, and adapted to yield, so as to give an easy support and permit the head to be thrown back, if desired, the yielding movement being permitted partly by the inherent elasticity of the convex portions 3 3 of the frame and partly by the coils 4 4.

I am aware that a head-rest has been made from a single piece of wire bent to form the 8o parts 5, 6 6, and 7 7, adapted to bear on a seatback, and continued upwardly to form a frame to support a flexible cover above the seat-back.

My device differs from any other of this class of which I am aware, iirst, in the described peculiarities in the construction of that portion of the frame which projects above the seatback-viz., the coils 4 4 and the convex form of the frame composed of the parts 2 3 3; secondly, in the bar or handleinserted in the coils 4 4, and, thirdly, in the sheath or covering applied to the ends of the length of wire of which the frame is made.

Therefore, what I claim is- I. The improved head-rest composed of the single piece of wire bent to form the loops 7 7,

G G, and 5 5, formed to beslridc and rest upon a seat-back, the coils 4 4 above the seat-backengaging portions, and the convex frame 3 3 2, projecting forward from the seat-back-engag- ICO ing portions and provided with a flexible covering, said frame being directly sustained and permitted to yield by the coils44, the forward projection of said frame preventing it from yielding too far ina backward direction, as set In testimony whereof I have signed my name forth. to this specification, in the presence of two sub- 2. The improved head-rest composed of the' seribing witnesses, this 27th day of October, single piece of wire bent to form the loops 7 7, A. D. 1885.

5 6 6, and 5 5, formed to bestride and rest upon I a seat-back, the coils 4 4 above the seat-back- SAMUEL CANVLEY. engaging portions, and the convex frame 3 3 2,

projecting forward from the seat-baok-engag- Witnesses:

ing portions, combined with the bar or handle D. OSHEA,

1o b, inserted in the coils 4 4, as set forth. C. M. KIMBALL.

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