US87025A - Improved folding desk and seat - Google Patents

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auf@ Wk AARON CHANDLER, 'or DAVE NPORT, i0WA,ANn SAMUEL F. EsTE'LL,

' 0F* RICHMOND, INDIANA.'

Laim Patent No. 87,025, .dated Fam/ry 16, i869.

IIMPROVED FOLDING- DESKAND SEAT.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making of tha Ilma.

To all whom it ma/y con/cem:

Be it known that we, AARON CHANDLER, of Daven# port, in the county of Scott, and State of Iowa, and SAMUEL F.'Es'1ELL, of Richmond, in thecountyof Wayne, and State of Indiana, have invented a new and improved Combined Folding Desk and Seat for schoolpurposes; and we do hereby declare that the following iS .a fnlland exactdescription thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, making a part of this specification. v V

The nature of our invention relates `to an improved inode of constructing a combined folding desk 'and seat for schoolpurposes,and in the general construction land arrangement of parts to be hereinafter described.

To enable vothers skilled in the art to make 'and use onrinvention, we will proceed to describe the same with reference to the drawings, in whichi Figure `1 is a perspective view of our improved folding desk 'and seat;

Figure 2 is a vertical cross-section ofthe same, representing the desk proper and seat, when revolved or folded together; and 1 l Figure 3 is a partial cross-section, showing the catch or fastening, by means of which the desk is secured when brought to its proper position.

Similar letters in the different figures refer 'to like parts. v l

The desk A is pivoted tothe braces D D', at h h', and is further supported by the spring-catch I, placed midway of its length.

The endpieces EE of oook-rack are of iron, cast with projecting pins t t, that are so adjusted as to slide in the vertical slots u u, provided in the standards s s.

The board J is rigidly attached tothe standards, and is designed to hold the requisite ink-wells'. It also serves as an-extension of desk A.

G represents a board, secured by screws to the standards, and forming a back for the seat B.

The braces H H are pivoted to the standards, atb b', and are provided at their upper extremities with pins e e, which are adjusted to slide in the slotted bar 'L L,

as shown in figs. 1 and 2, of the seat B, thereby allowing the seat to revolve readily upon the pivots a: :15,the braces H H assuming, at the same time, an uprightposition, as shown in iig22.

The spring-catch I is provided with a thumb-piece, n, ,rising above the board J, and having an arm, o, which may be so turned as to come in contact 'with the seat-back'G, thus securing the catch from accidental displacement.

By turning the thumb-piece, and releasing the catch, l the back part of thedesk will drop down, the pins. t t

remaining in the slots uu, and the braces D D folding Withthe standards, until Vthe whole assumes the position shown in iig. 2.

Having thus fully described our said invention, What we claim, and desire t'o secure by Letters Patent, is- Y The combination of the desk A, springfcatch I, brace D, standards s, with slots u, seat B, slotted *bar L, and brace E, arranged as described.

AARON CHANDLER. SAML F. ESTELL. Witnesses:

JOSEPH RIDGE, ARTEMAs Renners.

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