US362016A

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Publication number: US362016A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1887-04-26
Anticipated expiration: 1904-04-26

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S. W. KNOTT. GOMBINED SEAT AND BED.

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S. W. KNOTT.

COMBINED SEAT AND BED.

No. 362,016. PatentedApr. 26, 1887.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

SAMUEL XV. KNOTT, OF ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO LEWIS A. BROXVN, OF SAME PLACE.

COMBINED SEAT AND BED..

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 362,016, dated April 26, 1887.

Application filed June 7, 1886. Serial No. 201.34 (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, SAMUEL XV. Know, of the city of St. Louis, in the State of Missouri, have invented a certain new and useful Im- 5 provement in Combined Seats and Beds, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description, reference being had to the accom- ,panying drawings, forming part of this specification, and in which Figure 1 is a perspective view illustrating my improvement, showing it in the form of a seat. Fig. 2 is an enlarged vertical section taken on line 2 2, Fig. 1. Fig.3 is an enlarged side View, of the coupling. Figs. 4 and r 5 5 illustrate modified forms of securing the upper part of the seat to the ends or arms of the seat. Fig. 6 is an enlarged detail view illustrating one form of joint used in the arms of the seat. Fig. 9 is a section, and Fig. 10 is a side view, of the coupling or elbow of the joint shown in Fig. 6. Fig. 7 illustrates the seat placed upon rockers. Fig. 8 is an end View of the device in the form-of a' seat. Fig. 11 is an end view showing the chair thrown into position for use as a bed.

My invention relates to an improved combined seat and bed; and my invention consists in features of novelty hereinafter fully described, and pointed out in the claims.

0 Referring to the drawings, A represents the seat proper, and B the ends of the seat. The seat is composed of rounds or strips 0, united by wires D, twisted around them in the manner shown in Fig. 1, or in any equivalent manner. I prefer to make the arms or ends B of gas-pipe, but do not confine myself to this material, E being the legs, F the arm-rests, G the connecting-rods beneath the arm-rests, and H extensions of the back legs, to which the upper part of the seat is secured, preferably by the following means:

I is a bracket at each end of the seat, having a number of sockets, J, in which fit the upper rounds or cleats, C, of the seat. One

5 of the rounds G entering the coupling (pref erably the center one) enters also an opening or socket, L, made in an elbow on the upper end of the extensions H of the legs. The round 0 entering these sockets is preferably screwthreaded at its ends, and the sockets likewise screw-threaded, so that the parts will be held together. The elbows M are preferably provided with enlargements or flanges N, to form a large or extended bearing for the brackets I. This manner of securing the upper round of the seat to the extension allows them to be placed at an inclination best adapted as a headrest, and permits these parts to come into a horizontal position when the device is used as a bed, as hereinafter described. 6:)

Figs. 4. and 5 illustrate the manner of securing one bar or cleat G to the. rounds H,which consists of a clip, 1?, into which the cleat O is inserted and held by screws or bolts Q. The rounds H are hinged to the legs E, as shown 5 at 0, Figs. 1, 7, 8, and 11.

The arm-rests F are secured, to the front legs, E, by a coupling, R, elbows S, and arms or rods T. The arms T are preferably pro vided with right and left threads thatscrew,

respectively, into the coupling R and elbows S, and which may be (by turning them back ward) removed to disconnect the arm-rests from the legs for the purpose of forming the seat into a bed, as shown in Fig. 11. \Vhen thus disconnected, theeXtensionsHare brought down into line with the rounds or bars G, as shown in Fig. 11, and the arm-rests F,having sleeves F,fitting loosely on the extensions H, slide out toward the outer ends thereof,and are turned down, as shown in Fig. 11, to rest upon the ground and support the extensions H. \Vhen the extensions H are turned down, the seat A is brought into a horizontal position, and the slack is taken up through means of the upper ends of the extensions H retreating from the forward edge of the seat, where the bars or cleats C are secured to a bar or round, Y, connecting the legs E, by being socured to the coupling R. Thus the seat can go bequickly and conveniently changed into theposition to form a bed, and vice versa.

As a modification of the right and left screws on the arms T, I have shown pins or projectionsVon the arms that enterinclined grooves 5 WV in the couplings and elbows, respectively. (See Figs. 6, 9, and 10.)

Still other forms of connection can be used, if desired.

In Fig. 7 the legs E are shown mounted roo upon rockers X by the following means: eare yokes pivoted to the rockers by pins or bolts e. e are projections extending upward from yokes e, which are received by sockets in the ends of the chair-legs when the chair is placed on the rockers to form a rocking-chair. The separate wires of the seat and back are connected together by separate links or rings D, through which the Wiresare passed in such a manner as that the said links or rings extend longitudinally with the seat and back and transversely to wires, the object being to allow the seat to assume a proper position with relation to the vertical and horizontal parts and allow it to fold neatly.

I am aware that the slats of both seat and back of a settee have been connected together by means of wires, around each wire between the adjacent slats there being placed spiral springs. I am also aware that the slats of both seat and back of a chair have been interwoven with thin flexible metallic strips. I therefore lay no claim to aflexibleseat and back,broadly, the slats of which are connected by means of wires; nor do I claim, broadly, a seat having a flexible seat proper and back which is so constructed that it can be converted into a bed, the back being hinged to the seat; nor' I claim as my invention- 1. In combination with a supporting-frame, a flexible seat and back connected thereto,and consisting of rounds or strips united by separate wires for seat and back, respectively, the wires of seat and back being connected, links or rings D, separate from said wires and in a position transverse thereto, constituting the connections, substantially as and for the purpose specified.

2. In combination with the front and back legs, extensions H, hinged to the back legs, arm-rests F, having sleeves F fitting on the extensions, whereby they are loosely connected with and are adapted to slide and turn upon said extensions, detachable connections T between the arm-rests and front legs, and a flexible seat and back having suitable means for connecting them to the front legs and backextensions, substantially as set forth.

'3. In combination with the flexible seat and back, front and back legs, extensions hinged to the back legs, and couplings for securing the upper cleats of the back to the extensions, consisting of brackets on the extensions provided with sockets for the elcats,substantially as set forth.

SAMUEL WV. KNOTT.

In presence of L. A. BROWN, GEO. H. KNIGHT.