US352055A

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Publication number: US352055A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1886-11-02
Anticipated expiration: 1903-11-02

Description

(No Model.) I 2 sheets-sheet 1.

G. HARVEY.

GAR SEAT. No. 352,055. Patented Nov. 2, 1886.

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v CAR SEAT.

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No. 352.055, Patented Nov. 2, 1886.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

GEORGE HARVEY, OF WINNIPEG, MANITOBA, CANADA.

CAR-S EAT.

EPECIPICA'I'ION forming part of Letters Patent No. 352,055, dated November 2, 1886.

Application filed March 13,1886. Serial No.1fi5,1l0. (No model.) 7

To allwhom it may concern? Be it known that I, GEORGE HARVEY, a subject of the Queen of Great Britain, residing at Winnipeg, in the Province of Manitoba and Dominion of Canada, have invented oertain new and useful Improvements in Car- Seats; and I do herebydeclare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, which will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use 4 the same.

My invention-relates to car-seats, the object being to provide a device of this character which may be readily and quickly reversed, and in which the back and seat may be inclined to afford an easy and comfortable support for the traveler.

back adjusted to take the place of the seat all at one movement.

With these ends in view .the invention consists in the improved construction and combinations of parts, hereinafter fully described, and pointed out in the claims.

In the drawings, Figure l is an end elevation of a carseat embodying my invention.v

Fig. 2is'a section showing the inner side of one end of the frame, and Fig. 3 is an end elevation showing the seat and back reversed.

Corresponding parts in the several figures are denoted by the same letters of reference.

Referring to the drawings, A represents one of the end rails of the supporting-frame,which is supported by suitable legs, a, and extending upwardly from said end rail are standards b,

at the upper end of which is located an armrest, B, suitably cushioned, as shown.

0 represents the seat, and D the back,which are cushioned upon their inner sides, as shown.

E E represent bars which extend from the seat and back,'to which they are pivoted, to a point on the inner side of the arm-rest, at which point they are pivotally connected by a pin, a.

F represents a hinge connecting the back and seat at their meeting sides. If desired,

there may be a hinge arranged to connect the back and seat near each end thereof; or there may be only one hingeemployed. In the latter case the hinge would be arranged midway the sides of the back and seat.

G G represent blacks arranged at each end of the side rail, A, and having vertical openings or passages (I, inwhich work catch-bolts f, having finger-pieces g, by which they may be operated, said bolt being adapted to engage a recess on the under side of the seat, said seat being supported on the block G, andwhen the seat and back are reversed said catch-bolt in the block G engages a recess in the seat. The catch-bolt in the block G engages a recess in the lower end of the back, and when the position of the back and seat is reversed said catch-bolt engages a recess, 9, in the seat, near the upper end thereof, while the catch-bolt in the block G engages a recess, h, in the inner end of the seat. It will thus be seen that the seat and back are supported in an inclined position.

H represents blocks secured to the inner side of the end rail, A, and having cushions or blocks 1', of rubber or other elastic material. The inner end of the seat rests on one of these blocks, as shown, and when the position of the parts is reversed the back rests on the other block.

I represents a bar pivoted centrally to the inner side of the supporting-frame of the end rail, and having at its upper endaprojection, j, which is adapted to engage an opening, 70, in the under side of the'seat, and which when the back is changed to form the seat engages an opening, Z, in the same.

At the side of the seat and back are provided straps m, by which the seat and back are operated.

The operation is as follows: The strap at the side of the seat is pulled outwardly, the catchthe seat. The back is supported upon the 2. Inacar-seat, the eombinatiomwithasnp block adjacent to block G, and the projec- 1 porting-frame,of aseat and back, bars pivotaltion on the end of the bar I engages the recess i lyconneeting the back and seat with the arm- Z in the back, and the catch-bolt in the block rest of the frame, and a bar pivoted to the sup G engages the opening 5 near the upper end porting-frame and adapted to engage a recess of the back. in the under side of the seat, as set forth.

It will be apparent from the above descrip- 3. Ina car-seat, the con1bination,with a suption that the position of the back and seat may I porting-frame, of a seat and back hinged tobe readily and quicklychanged when desired, gether at their meeting ends, bars pivotally and with but little trouble or exertion on the connecting the seat and back with the armpart of the person making the change. i rest of the frame, and a bar pivoted to the Having thus described my invention, what frame and having a projection at its upper I claim is end to engage a recess on the under side of the l. The combination, with a supporting seat, as set forth. frame, of a seat and back hinged together at g In testimony whereof I affix my signature in their meeting edges, blocks arranged at the I presence of two witnesses. front and rear of the supporting-frame and 1 carrying catch-bolts to engage recesses in the seat and. back, and bars E E, pivotally connected with the seat and back, and to the armrests of the snpportingframe, substantially as set forth.

GEORGE HARVEY.

Witnesses:

WILs W. Esrns, ELBERT I\II])DLETON VARY.