US664322A - Reclining-chair. - Google Patents

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No. 664,322. Patented Dec. I8, |900.

H. J. JACOBS.

RECLINING CHAIR.

(Application led Aug. 1B, 1900.)

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

HENRY J. JACOBS, OF BUFFALO, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR TO THE BUFFALO LOUNGE COMPANY, OF SAME PLACE.

RECLlNlNG-CHAIR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent NO. 664,322, dated December 18, 1900.

Application flled August 18, 1900. Serial No. 27,244. (No model.)

T all 1,071,071?, it may concern:

Be it known that I, HENRY J. JACOBS, a citizen of the United States, residing at Buffalo, in the county of Erie and State of New York, have invented new and useful Improvements in Reclining-Chairs, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to that class of reranged in a vertical row, one below another, and their upper sides are inclined and their lower sides abrupt, similar to ratchet-teeth.

Each of the ratchet-bars d is preferably cast in one piece with a bracket D, having a vertical slot d', in the rear wall of which the ratchet-teeth are formed. The locking-lips c3 of the yoke Cpass through the slots of the brackets D and are adapted to slide verti- 6o cally in said slots and interlock with a set of the ratchet-teeth for holding the adjustable chair-back in a more or less inclined position. The arms of the yoke may be provided with indented or ontwardly-bulged port-ions e, which form convenient handles for manipulating the yoke.

When the angular ends of the yoke are located in the upper portion of the brackets D and it is desired to move the chair-back to a 7o more upright position, the occupant of the chair can readily adjust the back by simply pulling the same forwardly, the free angular ends of the yoke riding automatically over the inclined upper sides of the ratchet-teeth until the chair-back arrives at the desired angle, when the ends of the yoke interlock with the adjacent teeth of the brackets by the pressure of the occupant against the chair-back. When the free ends of the yoke 8o are located at the lower end of the brackets and it is desired to adjust the chair-back to a more reclining position, the occupant pulls the back forwardly sufficient to release the front ends of the yoke from the teeth of the brackets and raises the yoke-arms until the back reaches the desired angle, when by leaning against the back the angular ends of the yoke interlock with the toothed bars.

In case the occupant should accidentally 9o release the chair-back in adjusting it rearwardly the angular ends of the yoke, owing to the vertical arrangement of all of the ratchet-teeth d, will automaticallyr engage with the next or adjacent set of teeth, thereby preventing the back from falling rear` wardly to the limit of its movement and rendering its adjustment more convenient.

By arranging the upright toothed bars on the rear posts of the chair-body, as shown, roo and employing a vertically-swinging yoke in connection therewith these parts require no clining-chairs in which the adjustable back is held in a more or less inclined position by a bail or yoke extending across the rear side of the 'back and having forwardly-extending 'arms which interlock with toothed bars arranged on the chair-body.

The objects of my invention are to simplify the construction of the devices which hold the adjustable back in position and to so arrange the same as to render the chair sightly in appearance and so as not to require a departure from the conventional form of such chairs.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l is a side elevation of a reclining-chair provided with my improved adjusting device, the up- 25 holstery being omitted. Fig. 2 is a rear elevation of the chair. Fig. 3 is a perspective i View of the bail or yoke. Fig. 4 is a similar view of one of the toothed brackets.

Like letters of reference refer to like parts in the several figures.

Ais the stationary body of the chair, which has the usual front posts A', rear posts A2, and the arm-rests A3, secured to the upper ends of said posts.

B is the adjustable back, which is hinged at its lower end to the rear portion of the chair-body adjacent to the seat, as shown at h.

C is an approximately U-shaped yoke or bail which is pivoted to the back B, so that its free arms or side bars c are capable of swinging vertically. The cross-bar c of this yoke extends across the rear side of the chairback, about in line with the arm-rests A3, and is pivoted to the upright side members .of ther back by clips c2 or other suitable means. The yoke-arms are provided at their free ends with lips or projections c3, which are arranged at right angles to the arms and engage with toothed upright bars d, secured to the rear posts A2 of the chair-body. 'Ihe teeth of each of these bars face forwardly and are all archange in the Veorixsytluction of the,chair-vvhichdetracts-from its sightliness, but permit-the.

saine to be made according to approved conventional forms. This construction and arrangement of the adjusting devices also dispenses with the use of separate Catches for locking the front ends of the yoke-arms in position, thereby reducing the cost of theI chair and facilitating the adjustment of the back.

I claim as my inventionend to the chair-body, "of upright toothed bais secured to said rear posts and facing A forwardly, and each having allofitsteeth arrangedvrticelly, one below angther, Said teeth having forwardly-inclined upper sides and abrupt lower sides, and a' verticallyswinging yoke pivoted to the chair-back and `having arms which extend forwardly to said toothed bars and terminate in lips-or angular `portions which engage with said toothed bars,

substantially as set forth. Y

-Witness my hand this 10th day of August,

HENRY J. JACOBS.

Witnesses:

CARL FfGEYEn, JNO. J. BONNER.

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