US893679A - Chair. - Google Patents

Description

PATENTE JULY 2'1, 1908.

A. WANNER, JR. CHAIR.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE 23,1905.

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CHAIR.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented July 21, 1908.

Application filed. June 23, 1905. Serial No. 266,547.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ALBERT WANNER, Jr., a citizen of the United States, and resident of Hoboken, Hudson county, New Jersey, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Chairs, of which the following is a specification, accompanied by drawings.

This invention relates to improvements in chairs, and its objects are to so construct the chair that its parts are interchangeable and it is capable of ready and accurate adjustment as one member of a series or row of chairs to conform to different degrees of ourvature in the individual row or different rows, and to compensate for irregular spaces between successive chairs in a iven row, thereby enabling the chairs to be alined in accordance with the predetermined floor plan.

Another object of the invention is to simplify the construction of chairs of this char acter and do away with unnecessary parts.

Further objects of the invention will hereinafter appear and to these ends the invention consists of a chair for carrying out the :1 above objects embodying the features of construction, combinations of elements and arrangement of parts having the general mode of operation substantially as hereinafter fully described and claimed in this specification and shown in the accompanying drawings, in which,-

Figure 1 is a side elevation of a chair embodying the invention partly in section; Fig. 2 is a rear elevation of a portion of the chair; Fig. 3 is a horizontal sectional plan view in enlarged detail of one of the side standards on the line 3 3 of Fig. 1 Fig. 4 is a vertical sectional view in enlarged detail taken through the parts of the joint shown in Fig. 2 and on line 44 in Fig. 3; Fig. 5 is a top plan view in enlarged detail of a modified form of side standard; Fig. 6 is a vertical sectional.

view of Fig. 5 on the line 6 6; Fig. 7 is an enlarged detail perspective view of the socket of the side standard shown in Fig. 5.

Referring to the drawings A represents the back supports which carry the back B and seat C, which in this instance is shown in the form of a folding seat supported from the brackets D suitably secured to the back supports A by means of the sleeves E and set screws F. The side standards, to which may be connected the arms G, comprise the front legs H and the side struts I connecting the legs directly with the back supports A and thus obviating the necessity of additional supports or legs connected to the standards. By making the side struts I in the form shown with an approximately straight body portion and an inturned rear end the practical width of the seat is increased and the folding of the seat portion C on the bracket D is provided for. As shown, the legs A and H are thrust through sleeves J and-K in the side struts I, and suitably secured thereon by means of the set screws L and M. By loosening the set screw L the front legs H may be laterally adjusted at anytime to practically widen the seat, the brackets D remaining stationary to support the seat independently of the side standards. By loosening the set screws F the elevation of the seat C may be changed, as desired, as the seat is entirely independent of the side standards. According to this construction a very simple and strong chair is produced which is cheap to manufacture. The parts may be knocked down and shipped in sections and different side standards may be applied to the back supports as desired to make either a larger or smaller chair or a chair of different ornamentation. By connecting the legs H directly to the back supports, additional strength is afforded and less material is required in the construction of the parts. Furthermore the chair comprises but four legs as ordinary chairs instead of siX legs as would be necessary if side standards were used having two legs instead of only one.

In the modification shown in Figs. 5, 6 and 7, the side struts I are formed in sections. In this instance these struts being shown in the form of two sections, one of which is provided with a pin O and the other with a cooperating socket P. The pin and socket as shown in this instance taper downwardly so that in assembling the parts, the socket is applied to the pin from beneath, and in order to aid in maintaining the parts securely together, a screw threaded stud Q is provided on the pin which projects through an aperture R in the bottom of the socket and a nut S is applied to said stud. As shown, the pin 0 is carried by a sleeve T through which the back support A is thrust, while the major portion of the strut I is provided with a sleeve K as before, through which the front leg is thrust.

This chair is particularly adapted for the end of a row of chairs in a theater, and it is also constructed in such manner that it may form a part of a row or series of chairs such as disclosed and claimed in the co-pen'ding application for a chair of Edwin P. Wanner, filed June 23rd 1905, Serial No. 266,548 to which application I have permission to refer. In that application the row or series of chairs is constructed in such manner as to be adjustable so that the distance between chairs may be variedor the angle of the chairs in the row may be varied. In those instances in which a single chair is used, it is preferably constructed in accordance with the present invention.

Obviously some features of this invention may be used without others and the invention may be embodied in widely varying forms, therefore, without limiting the invenpendent floor bases the former set forward of tion to the devices shown and described, and without enumerating equivalents, I claim and desire to obtain by Letters Patent the following: I

1. The combination of the back-support, the seat and the side standards, said side standards and back-support having indethe latter and each side standard comprising a strutformed with a sleeve at its rear end pivotally arranged on the adjoining back support and extending from said sleeve first in a forwardly turning curve and then substantially straight, substantially as described.

2. The combination of the back support, the seat and the side standards, said side standards and back support having independent fioor bases the former set forward of the latter and each side standard comprising a strut formed in two pieces having a pin and socket connection between them and said strut also having a sleeve at its rear end pivotally arranged on the adjoining back support and extending from said sleeve first in a forwardly turning curve and then substantially straight, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have signed this specification in the presence of two subscrib ing witnesses.

ALBERT WANNER, JR. Witnesses I CHARLES L. FINK, WM. H. KUNTZ.

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