US375300A - Combined chair and carriage - Google Patents

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COMBINED CHAIR AND CARRIAGE. 9 No. 375,300. I Patented Dec. 20, 1887.

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J. NICHOLS. COMBINED CHAIR AND CARRIAGE.

I No. 375,300. Patented Dec. 20, 1887.

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JOHh NICHOLS, OF BALDWVINSVILLE, ASSIGNOR TO PHILANDER DERBY 81;

OO., OF GARDNER, MASSACHUSETTS.

COMB|NED CHAIR AND CARRIAGE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 375,300, dated December 20, 1887.

Application filerl May 31, 1884. Serial No.133,2l66. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, JOHN NICHOLS, of Baldwinsville, county of \Vorcester, State of Massachusetts, have invented an Improvement in a Combined Chair and Carriage, of which the following description, in connection with the accompanying drawings, is a specification,

like letters on the drawings representing like parts.

This invention has for its object the construction of a combined-chair and carriage, wherein the parts may be readily and easily adjusted and locked in position to constitute a childs high chair or carriage, or the chair itself may be removed from the other parts to provide a low chair.

To these ends my invention consists of a.

body or frame, in the construction and combination of parts, substantially as hereinafter fully described, and particularly pointed out in the claims.

Figure 1 shows in side elevation a combined chair and carriage embodying my invention,

. and shown adjusted as a childs carriage, the

dotted lines showing the position of the tray when not in use; Fig. 2, a detail partly in section, to clearly illustrate the bolts or fastenings which lock the chair in the body or frame. Fig. 3 shows in elevation the parts adjusted to be used as a high chair, the dotted lines in the base showing the position of the tray when not in use; Fig. 4, a detail of portion of the base to illustrate the plates having orifices to receive the bolts secured to the chair and the pins to be engaged by the hooksvided as to alternately support the body wheels a, instead of the legs 3, support the back part of the frame to enable the chair to be readily wheeled or trundled about upon raising the front legs, 2, from the floor.

A chair having the seat 0, legs e, arms f, and back 9 is shown in Fig. 3 a; supported on the top or smaller end of the body or frame, and is locked in such position by means of two hooks h (see dotted lines) secured to the under side of the chair-seat, near its front end, and which engage pins '5 in the cross-pieces I), while spring-actuated bolts it", (see Fig. 2,) also secured to the under side of the seat, but near its back, project into bolt-holes in the ends of the corner supports, a, the said supports being re-enforced by the plates m, having bolt-orifices 11, as clearly shown in Fig. 4.

The front ends of the chair'armsf are provided with a notch, 6, to receive the upper or projecting ends, 0, of the vertical or back supports, 7, of the brackets 8,which are connected with the tray-D, the lower ends of said vertical supports 7 resting on the seat and the back thereof abutting the vertical portions of the armsf, as shown in Figs. 1 and 3. By these means the tray D is supported in proper position in front of the chair, and may be readily removed therefrom by raising the outer end of the tray to cause the lower part of the brackets to be moved away from the vertical supports for the arms f, when the upper ends, 0, may readily be withdrawn from the notches 6.

The trayD is provided with a pair ofspring actuated bolts, 9, one on each side thereof, so that when said tray is not required to be used it may be stored within the frame A, as indicatedin dotted lines, Figs. 1 and 3, and locked therein by the bolts 9,which enter bolt-orifices in the corner bars, 0, (see Fig. 5,) the projecting ends 0 of the brackets 8 being engaged with pins as in the corner bars, 0, of said frame.

As shown in Figs. 5 and 6, the bolts 9 have finger-pieces to permit their retraction against the force of the springs 12, said springs resting in recesses in the tray D and continually acting on studs q, formed on the bolts, to cause said bolts to be projected from the tray. The bolts are secured to the tray by screws 1', which pass through slots in said bolts and enter the tray. The bolts k are likewise slotted.

The chair is provided with a foot-rest, s,

which is connected with the front legs, 0. A handle, T, is pivoted to the corner bars, 0', at i, (see Fig. 3,) and extends nearly parallel with said bars at the front of the chair, with the handle-bar t resting against the front legs, 2, thereof, in which position it occupies but little room and is out of the way when a high chair is provided.

To provide a childs carriage, as shown in Fig. 1, retract the bolts k, referring to Figs. 2 and 3, and remove the chair from the frame or body A, change the position of said body, so as to be supported by the wheels, swing the handle on its pivots to assume the position shown in Fig. 1, with its short ends engaging the pins a, and place the chair within the body between the corner bars, 0, so that the bolts 70 will enter the bolt-holes 10 of the plates m, (see Fig. 4.,) the hooks It being engaged with the pins 12 on the front corner bars, 0, before said bolts are entered into said holes. The chair, when removed from the body or frame A, may be supported upon its own legs 6 to serve as a low chair.

I am aware that it is not novel to hinge a seat to a base or frame in such manner that the base may be turned under the seat to constitute a high chair or a low chair; and I am also aware that it is not novel to provide the base part of a chair with rollers, so that the base, when overturned, may present the rollers to the floor, thus constituting the under part of a carriage.

In this my improved chair and carriage the seat has extended below it ordinary legs of equal length, thus constituting ordinary low chairs, and when the low chair is placed upon the end of the base or on the side thereof the legs enter within the base, the latter being provided with two sets of pins, 2' and 12, and series of holes 11 and 10, to cooperate with the hooks and bolts of thelow chair, the saidhooks and bolts constituting fastening devices.

The combined chair and carriage herein shown and described is in its general form the same or much the same as that embraced by my application No. 137,519, filed July 12, 1884; but I do not wish to be understood as claiming herein any features claimed in my other said application.

The frame or base A is made tapering, so that when the device is used as a high chair, as in Fig. 3, the larger or flaring end thereof will insure steadiness, and thus have a tendency to prevent the chair from being over thrown by movements of the child; but when the device is to be used as a carriage, as in Fig. 1, itis desirable that the upper side thereof should be level, and to secure this result the small wheels, a, are provided for the larger end ofthe frame, while the larger wheels, a,are provided for the smaller end thereof.

I am aware that asmall chair removably attached to a base or frame is shown by lritish Patent No. 4,826 of 1878; but the chair shown by said patent is not a complete chair capable of use as alow chair independently of the base or frame to which it is secured.

I claim- 1. The frame or base A, having two sets of bolt-orifices, as 10 and 11, two sets of pins, as and 12, wheels (4 and a, and a pivoted handle, combined with a chair having arms, back and foot rest, and spring-actuated bolts k, and hooks h, for detachably securing said chair to said frame in two different positions, substantially as set forth.

2. A chair having arms, back, and seat, said arms extending in front of said seat and being provided with notches, (5, combined with a tray having supporting-brackets with vertical extensions, as 0, fitting said notches, substantially as set forth.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

J Olil N NICHOLS. lVitnesses:

Asa P. REILY, Lnox F. Crunnorx.

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