US326184A - Child s photographer s chair - Google Patents

Description

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

OTIS CONVERSE \VHITE, OF \VOROESTER, MASSACHUSETTS.

CHILDS PHOTOGRAPH ERS CHAIR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 326,184, dated September 15, 1885.

Application filed April '13, 18:5. (No model.)

To wZZ wham it may concern/.-

Be it known that 1, OTIS GoNvERsn WHITE, of the city and county of Worcester, of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Chairs for Supporting a Child While in the Act of Being Photographed; and I do hereby declare the same to be described in the following specification and represented in the accompanying drawings, of which- Figure 1 is a front elevation, Fig. 2 a rear elevation, Fig. 3 a side view, and Fig. 4 a vertical section, of a chair embodying my invention, the nature of which is defined in the claims hereinafter presented.

In the said drawings, A is a concavo-convex seat, provided at its rear with an ear, a, adapted to slide upward and downward on a metallic back piece, B, and held thereto, not only by a screw, b, extending from it (the said car) through a slot, 0, in the back piece, but by a nut, 01. screwed on the screw and against the back piece. The said back piece has two arms, 6, projecting in opposite directions from it, each of which, near its outer end, is hooked and provided with a clampscrew, f, going through the prong of the hook and screwed into the arm. WVithin the hook is a cylindrical hole or bearing to receive the rod g of a curved clasp, 72, such rod being extended downward from the clasp near the end thereof. On setting up the clamp-screw the rod can be clamped in the arm, so as to be prevented from turning or being moved upward or downward therein.

To the front of the back piece a back-rest, O, is fastened.

There extends rearward from the upper part of the said back piece a project-ion, h, and a curved neck, 70, the said projection being pro- 0 vided with a pivot or journal, 6, as represented. The neck is furcated or composed of two prongs, ll, disposed at a short distance apart, and having between them the curved and slotted tail-piece m of a headrest, D. A screw, m, goes from one prong through the slot of the tail piece, and also through the other prong, and there is screwed on it (the said screw) a nut, a. On setting up the nut the prongs can be clamped to the tail-piece.

The pivot is to enter the top of a stand of proper construction for supporting the chair.

On an infant or small child being seated in the seat and resting against the back, the clasps are to be arranged so as to clasp the waist and extend under the arms of the child, after which the clasps are to be clamped in position and the head-rest is to be brought up to the head and-fixed in position. The infant or child will then be supported for being pho- 6o tographed.

I claim- 1. The combination of the seat and back with the two independentlyadj ustable waistclasps, as set forth. 55

2. A chair such as described, consisting of the back B, the seat A, adjustable on said back, the waistclasps h h, also adjustable, and the head-rest D, adjustable, as set forth.

3. Aphotographerschild-supporting chair, consisting of the back B, having the pivot 43,, the seat A, the independent waist-clasps h h, and the head-rest D, all adj list-able 011 said back, as set forth.

OTIS CONVERSE WHITE.

Witnesses:

R. H. EDDY, ERNEST B. PRATT.

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