US667986A - Folding nursery or toilet chair. - Google Patents

Description

Patented Feb. I2, l90l. N. P. MEADE.

FOLDING NURSERY 0R TOILET CHAIR.

(Application fi led Sept. 15, 1900.)

(No Model.)

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F UlLDlNG NURSERY OR TOILET CHAIR.

SPEGIFICA'IIUN forming part of Letters Patent No. 667,986, dated February 12, 1901.

Application filed September 15, 1900. berial No. 30,095. (No model-t .To (LZZ whom it 772mg concern:

Be it known that I, NELLIE P. MEADE, a citizen of the United States, residing at Richmond, in the county of Henrico and State of Virginia, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Folding Nursery or Toilet Chairs; and I do declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the ac companying drawings, and to the letters and figures of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

My invention has relation to improvements in folding chairs of that kind or style especially adapted for utilization as nursery or toilet chairs; and the object is to provide a chair of this kind and for the general and special purposes named which is of simplified construction, which may be readily collapsed or folded and as conveniently extended, and which is strong, durable, certain in manipulation and action, and capable of being folded for disposition or transportation or extended and arranged for occupancy.

With these objects and purposes in view the invention consists or resides in the novel construction of parts and their combination or aggroupment, as will be hereinafter fully described, and the novelty thereof particularly pointed out in the claims.

I have fully and clearly illustrated my improvements in the accompanying drawings, to be taken as a part hereof, and wherein- Figure 1 is a perspective of the chair as extended and in arrangement or position for occupancy. Fig. 2 is a side view in elevation, showing the side rail of the seat broken off in order that the engagement of the upper or front end of the front extension of the rear legs with the holding-brackets may be seen. Fig. 3 is a side view of the chair as it appears in its collapsed or folded condition, also showing the return or reversed end of the slot in the side pieces or bars of the seat. Fig. at is a detail view showing the invention applied and utilized as a seat on a watercloset-seat support, wherein the opening in the closet-seat is generally too large for the convenient occupancy of a small child.

A designates the front legs of the chair, and

B designates the rear legs, pivotally united or connected to each other at a proper point by bolts or pins 1 and connected at their respective lower end by rings or cross-bars 2 3 in a well-known manner. The upper ex-tensions of the front legs are also connected by a crossbar 4, as indicated in the drawings, and the upper ends of the roar extensions of the front legs are pivotally connected to the rear end portions of the side bars or pieces of the seat.

0 designates the seat, which may be made solid or unbroken; but since the chair is particularly designed to be used as a nursery or toilet chair the bottom is made with an appropriate opening 4:, serving a well-known purpose.

Rigidly secured to each side of the bottom and extending substantially the length thereof are side pieces or bars 5 6, to which the rear extensions of the front legs are pivotally connected, as at 7, as heretofore mentioned. Closely adjacent to the inner side faces of these side pieces 5 6 are secured keepers or brackets 8 S, duplicates in construction and consisting of metal plates adapted to be secured to the under face of the chairseat and bent down in depending vertical direction, as at 9, and then bent inward and parallel with the plate, which is secured to the seat, as at 10, the part 10 forming a seat or keeper in which the reduced end or nose 11 of the forward extension of the rear legs of the chair lodge and engage when the legs are extended and the seat is held in elevated position for occupancy.

The invention when the legs are collapsed or in folded position may be very aptly utilized as an adjunct device to be placed upon the common water-closet seat wherein the opening of the water-closet seat is too large for convenient and safe occupancy of a small child. To utilize the device for this purpose, the legs of the chair are folded and the chair in this condition placed on the regular seat of the water-closet, and in this condition the child is safely and comfortably seated in the chair, the back of the chair being moved in upright position, as indicated in Fig. 4 of the drawings.

It will be further perceived by recourse to the foregoing description and by reference to down until the upper ends of the forward ex tensions are brought to contact with the under face of the seat and then pushing the rear legs forward until their forward ends engage in the brackets or keepers,when the chair may be occupied, the back being raised, and the seat be securely held in the desired positionfor occupancy.

D designates the back of the chair, having the lower end or edges secured to the rear end portion of the seat, so that it can or may be turned down on its hinges and be substantially in alinement with and on the chair seat or bottom. The back may be of any desired material, having the side rails or pieces formed with slots 12, running parallel with the side pieces and made of such length as to permit the back to assume the desired positions of verticality or upper position and folded or laid-down position. In the slots 12 of the side pieces of the back are slidinglydisposed pins or bolts 13 13,extending through and secured in the upper ends of the back braces let 14:, the lower ends of which are provided with inwardly-directed pins or bolts 15 15, which slidingly engage in longitudinallyarranged seats 16 16, formed in the side pieces of the seat of the chair. The slots 16 are of such length as to permit the movement of the lower end of the braces or supports to such distance or extent as to admit the back being turned down flat on the seat, with the bolts or pins lodged in the rear ends of the slots. The front ends of the slots 16 are turned back or reversed, as seen at 17, the reversed portions serving as seats or locks into which the pins of the side braces automatically rise and engage to lock the pins therein, and thus prevent the lower ends of the braces from sliding back in the slots and at the same time holding the braces in their functional relation to the back, whereby the back is held rigid in its proper upright position.

The functions of the respective parts, elements, and constructions have been specified inthe premises of the description relating or pertaining thereto; but in order that the manipulation and utilization of the chair may be briefly epitomized and collated the following is stated: That when the chair is in collapsed or folded condition, as illustrated in Fig. 3 of the drawings, it may be extended and placed in condition or position for use and occupancy by pulling or moving the rear legs down until the front ends of the extensions contact with the under surface of the seat adof the legs engage Within the keepers. When the engagement is thus made, pressure or weight applied to the seat tends to. fix and hold the legs in extended position and the seat elevated and horizontal. The back of the chair may then be turned up on its hinges and the lower ends of the side braces pushed forward, causing the pins therein to slide in the slots in the side pieces of the seat until the pins reach the reversed ends of the slots, whenaslightbackward movement of the back of the chair will draw the pins of the braces into engagement with the reverse ends of the slots. and lock the back for the time in its upright position.

To collapse or fold the chair, the back is turned forward to permit the lower end of the braces being disengaged from the reversed ends of the slots in the'side pieces of the seat, which being effected the lower ends of the braces may be moved rearward in the slots and the upper ends thereof moved to the upper ends of the slots in the side pieces of the back, the back being in the meanwhile turned down flat on the seat. The front end of the seat may then be raised until the upper ends of the rear legs are disengaged from the keepers, when the legs move readily into collapsed position, as indicated in the drawings.

What I claim is- 1. Ina folding chair, the combination of a seat formed with slots in its side pieces extending from adjacent to the rear ends thereof forward and terminating in reverse ends, a back hinged to the rear portion of the seat, and formed with longitudinally-disposed slots in its side piece, and brace-pieces having pins at their upper ends to slidingly engage in the slots of the side pieces of the back, and pins in their lower ends toslidingly engage in the slots of the side pieces ofthe seat and adapt ed to lock in the reverse ends of such slots.

2. A folding chair comprising a seat, having slots in its side pieces formed with reverse ends, crossed legs pivotally secured together at their crossings, and the front legs having the extensions above the pivotal point, hinged to the rear portion of the seat, and the rear legs formed at their upper ends with shouldered projections, keepers orbrackets secn red to the front portion of the seat to take and hold the shouldered projections of the rear legs, a back hinged to the seat and formed with vertical slots in itsside bars or pieces, and brace-pieces having pins in their upper ends to slidingly engage in the slots of the side bars of the back, and pins in their lower ends to slidingly engage in the slots of the side pieces of the seat and detachably lock in the reverse ends of said slots.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

NELLIE P. MEADE.

Witnesses:

LOUISE FONTAINE GADoT, NEILIE S. WILKINSON.

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