US509196A

US509196A - George a

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Publication number: US509196A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1893-11-21
Anticipated expiration: 1910-11-21

Description

( No Model.)

a. A. GLAPP.

OPERA GH'AIR.

Patented Now-21, 1893.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

GEORGE A. OLAPP, OF QUINCY, MASSACHUSETTS e OPERA-C HAIR.

SPEGIFIOATIONforming part of Letters mete No. 509,196, dated November 21, 1893.

Application filed June 19,1893.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, GEORGE A. CLAPP, of

' Quincy, county of Norfolk, State of Massachusetts, have invented anImprovement in Opera- Chairs, of which the following description, in connection with the accompanying drawings,is a specificatiomlike letters and figures on the drawings representing like parts.

This invention has for its object to provide a novel opera chair which may be readily moved back by the occupant of the chair without rising from it, to enable a person to pass.

In theaters and other public places where an audience is seated for a performance it is very desirable to use as little space as possible for each chair, and as such chairs are now made, a person occupying a chair is obliged to rise and tip up the seat of the chair in order to let another person pass to a seat in the same row. I have aimed to so support the chair seat that it may tip upon its frame, and also be pushed back away from a row of chairs in front, to thus affordagangway of sufficient size to let a person pass without seriously incommoding the occupant of the seat. In accordance with my invention the seat-frame is mounted on rockers, as will be described.

Figure 1, in side elevation'shows a chair embodying my invention, the chair being in its normal forward position, with seat down; Fig. 2 a like view with the seat pushed back; Fig. 3 a rear view of the chair; and Fig. 4 shows one of the legs detached.

The base of the chair consists of two feet A, A, having ears a, a, between which are entered the lower ends of the legs or supports B, the lower end of the leg mounted on a pivot I) being beveled or shaped as shown in Fig. 4, thus leaving surfaces 1), b to act as stops and limit the extent of the rocking movement of the legs. The upper ends of the legs, beveled to form stops b 1) for the seat 0, are embraced by the ears 0, c, to which is connected Serial No. 478,089. (No model.)

the back 0 the back being shown as provided with suitable arms 0 The ears 0, c, and the upper parts of the legs are connected by a.

pivot pin 3, the location of the pivotal points I) and 3 being such as to cause the weight of the parts to put the chair normally in the position Fig. 1. The seat itself is pivoted at 4 on or with relation to ears 0, 0, so that the seat may turn about said pivot 4, as usual. Suppose the seat, Fig. 1, to be in its usual position in a row, and occupied, and that another person desires to pass the one occupying the seat. To provide for this, the 08011, pant of the chair has only to push himself back while in the seat, as in the position Fig. 2, the stop b then resting against the foot.

Having described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, 1s

1. The herein described opera chair composed of a back having ears; a pivoted seat; and rocking legs, one pivotedito each ear, said legs having stops at each side of their pivotal connections, and pivotal supports at their lower ends, substantially as shown and described.

2. The back having ears, the seat pivoted thereon, the legs having'stops at their upper ends, pivots jointing the ears of the back with the said legs,'and feet having ears to which the lower ends of the legs are jointed by piv-' GEO. A. OLAPP.

Witnesses: V

GEO. W. GREGORY, M. J. SHERIDAN.