US512204A

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Publication number: US512204A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1894-01-02
Anticipated expiration: 1911-01-02

Description

8 M. MILES, De'od.

M, J. HAISE, Administratrix.

SEAT.

No. 512,204. Patented Jan. 2,1894.

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MANOAH MILES, OF RUSSELL, KANSAS; MARTHA J. HAISE ADMINISTRATRIX OF SAID MILES, DECEASED.

SEAT.

SPECIFICATION forming part Of Letters Patent NO. 512,204, dated January 2, 1894.

Application filed January 21, 1893- Serialllo. 459.164. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern: arms are provided with inwardly-bent keep- Be it known that I, MANOAH MILES, a citiers 13, which embrace the flanges of the standzen of the United States, residing at Russell, ards. Each arm is further provided upon its in the county of Russell and State of Kansas, under side with a depending-pin 14 in line 5 haveinvented anew and useful Seat, of which with the line of perforations 3 of the flange the following is a specification. of the standard, so that as will be obvious by My invention relates to improvements in first disengaging the arms and subsequently seats; the objects in view being to provide a moving the back or seat sections upon their seat of that class comprising two swinging pivots the arms 12 may he slid over the up- IO members, that is a seat-section and a back-' per ends of the standards and their pins ensection capable of being adjusted relatively gaged by any one of the perforations in the to each other, and to be so arranged or disflanges thereof. posed as to produce an ordinary seat or a re- By such a construction it will be seen that clining chair or seat. a person may adjust the back and seat with- 6 5 [5 The objects and advantages of my invenout leaving the seat but while occupying the tion, together with the novel features thereof same; or, in case the seat is employed for inwill be hereinafter described and particularly valid persons, the attendant may readily adpointed out in the claims. just the same without removing the invalid Referring to the drawings:Figure 1 is a or causing any discomfort. 2o perspective vlew of a seat constructed in ac- The standards are connected by a crosscordance with my invention, the same being brace 15, and the same is provided at its opshown with the foot-extension in position. posite ends with openings 16. In front and Fig. 2 is a transverse vertical sectional view in rear of the cross-brace tie-rods 17 connect.

of the seat. Fig. 3 is a vertical longitudinal the standards and serve to lend further rigid- 25 section through a portion of the seat and a ity to the structure.

standard. Fig. 4 is a detail of one of the ad- 18 designates a foot-section, the side-bars justing-arms. of the frame of which, are extended to form Like numerals of reference indicate like slide bars 19,which bars ride in the openings parts in all the figures of the drawings. 16 formed in the cross-brace 15 and over 0 In practicing myinvention I employ a pair the cross-rods 17. The foot-section when exof opposite standards 1, which, in this intended forms a continuation of the seat-secstance, are provided with upper semicircular tion; whereupon by lowering the backacouch ends 2, each having a flange 3 extending outis produced. Opposite pins 22 project from wardly, said flange having at intervals perfothe standards and serve as ameans of support 3 5 rations 4:. In the standards 1 at each side of for the seat and back-sections when lowered.

the center and eccentric with the upper curved I would state that I do not limit my invenends thereof, holes 5 are formed, and at the tion to the precise details of construction illusinner sides of the standards near their upper trated and described,but hold thatI may vary edges L-shaped brackets or keepers 2 are 10- the same to any extent and within the scope o 4o cated. of mechanical skill, Withouta departure from 6 designates the back-section having the my invention as herein set forth. side-rails 7 and 8 designates the seat-section Having described my invention, what I having similar rails 9. The inner ends of claim is these rails 7 and 9 are pivoted to the stand- 1. In a seat, the combination with opposite 5 5 ards by means of pins 10 that pass through standards, and intermediate pivoted seat and the perforations 5 and said rails. back sections, independently pivoted to the Pivoted loosely, as at 11, to each of the sidestandards and at their adjacent ends of arms rails 7 and 9 are curved locking-arms 12, which pivoted to the seat and back -sections and are L-shaped in cross-section and designed to adapted to move over the upper ends of the 50 loosely ride over the perforated curved flanges standards, perforations formed in the stand- 2 of the standards. The outer edges of these ards, and pins depending from the arms for engaging the perforations, substantially as specified.

2. In a seat, the combination with the opposite standards, having semicircular ends forming Ways provided with perforated flanges and intermediate seat and baek-sections pivoted at their adjacent edges between the standards, of arms L-shaped in cross-section for embracing the standards and riding over the flanges thereof, said arms being pivoted to the opposite sides of both the seat and back-sections, and provided with pins for engaging the perforations of the flanges, substantially as specified.

3. In a seat, the combination with the 0pposite standards, having upper curved ends