US1377605A - Reclining-chair - Google Patents

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G. L, STARKS. RECLINING CHAIR. APPLICATION FILED FEB. 2. 192i.

Patented May 10, 1921.

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UNITED STATES PATENT. OFFICE.

GEORGE L. STARKS, 0F HARRIETTSTOWN, NEW YORK.

REOL'INING-GHAIR.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May 10, 1921.

Application filed February 2, 1921. Serial No. 441,810.

T 0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE L. STARKS, a citizen of the United States, residing at Saranac Lake village, town of Harriettstown, in the county of Franklin and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Reclining-Chairs, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to an adjustable long chair, designed to support the sitter in a reclining posture. Such structures are Well known and my invention consists in a new combination of mechanical elements producing such a chair having features of adjustability and simplicity of structure which are novel.

In the drawings:

Figure 1 is a longitudinal side elevation of my improved long chair;

Fig. 2 is a plan view on line 2-2 of Fig. 1;

Fig. 3 is a partial side elevation, showing the spring frame and mattress in elevated position; and

Fig. 4: is a perspective View of the slide member and guide.

My long chair consists of a frame A, supported upon suitable legs '13, having at one end of the frame and preferably pivoted thereto, a back or support C, adjustable to various angles by suitable cooperating detents on the back and frame respectively. Arm rests D are also preferably provided. All these matters are substantially old and are shown herein only to make clear the relation of the novel portions of my long chair. Upon the frame A and extending from about the pivot point upon the frame of the back of the chair, is mounted a skeleton spring support made up of cross-members 2, spaced apart by hinged side members 1. Between these skeletons and engaging the cross-members 2, a multiplicity of coiled springs 3 are mounted, thus forming a mattress supporting spring frame. This frame is preferably fiexibly connected to the main frame A as by a hinge 1 or the like. The side members of frames. 1 are preferably formed of two pieces connected at about mid-length by a hinge 11, permitting easy fieXure of the spring-frame. Between the two midmost cross-members 2 and loosely connected thereto are mounted several bearing plates 22, for a purpose to be hereinafter described. Mounted upon the main frame, with its ends in suitable bearings 3 is an arch or cam member 3, the movement of which upon its bearings is controlled by a lever 4. Upon the free or foot end of the frame A are secured slide plates 5 and a guide member 55. The operation is as follows: A suitable cushion E is preferably laid over the spring frame, the occupant of the chair, reclining thereon, normally with the legs straight upon a flat cushion. If it is desired to flex the legs, the occupant draws the lever A upward, thus turning the arch 3 upward. In this movement the arch contacts with the bearing plates 22 and lifts them and the middle of frame 2 upward into the position shown in Fig. 3. In this movement spiral spring 33 assists and the arch finally reaches stop 22 against which it is held by spring 33. The hinges 1 and 11 permit of easy flexure of the spring frame 1 and the connection of spring frame 1 to the main frame A by hinge l causes the free connected to the cross-members adjacent the hinges; an arch, mounted for rotation in the main frame, beneath the actuating plates; means to actuate the arch to lift the actuating plates and their connected cross-members.

2. In combination, a main frame; a skeleton spring support, made up of cross-members, spaced apart by hinged side members; a multiplicity of actuating plates loosely connected to the cross-members adjacent the hinges; an arch, mounted for rotation in the main frame, beneath the actuating plates; a stop upon one of the actuating plates; means to actuate the arch to a vertical position and against the stop, to lift the actuating plates and their connected cross-members.

3. In a long chair, a main frame; a skeleton spring support, formed in two parts; an actuating plate connected to both members; an arch mounted for'rotation in the main frame, beneath the actuating plate; means to actuate the arch to simultaneously lift the actuating plate and both parts of the spring support.

Signed at Saranac Lake, twenty-ninth day of Jany., 1921.

GEORGE L. STARKS.

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