US766822A - Rocking-chair fan. - Google Patents

Description

PATENTBD AUG. 9, 1904.

B. F. GILMER. ROGKING CHAIR FAN.

APPLICATION FILED DEG.18, 1908.

N0 MODEL.'

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BENJAMIN F. GILMER, OF DENISON, TEXAS.

ROCKING-CHAIR FANIl SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 766,822, dated August 9, 1904. v

Application iiled December 18, 1903- Serial No. 185,747.` (No model) To whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, BENJAMIN F. GILMER, a citizen of the United States,l residing at Denison, in the county of Grayson and State of Texas, have invented a new and useful Rocking-Chair Fan, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to attachments to rocking-chairs whereby a fan may be caused to vibrate by the motion of the chair, and has for its object to simplify and improve the construction and provide means whereby the improved device may be detachably connected to any form of rocking-chair or similar structure and without injury to the chair;and the invention consists in certain novel features of construction, as hereinafter shown and described, and specified in the claims.

In the drawings illustrative of the invention, in which corresponding parts are denoted by like designating characters, Figure 1 is a side view of a rocking-chair with the improved attachment applied. Fig. 2 is a front view of the device detached. Y

The improved device may be attached to any of the various forms of rocking-chairs, and consists of a base or supporting member 10, clamped, as at 11, to the rocking-chair 12, preferably near its forward part, and having a guide 13 extending laterally therefrom, as shown. Supported slidably in the guide is a standard 14, resting by its lower end at 15 upon the floor 16 and provided at its upper end with a yoke 17 18. in the yoke is a shaft 19, carrying a fan of any approved form, but preferably composed of spaced blades or wings 20, as shown. Connected by one end to the standard 14 is a retracting-spring 21, and leading from the other end of the spring is a cord or fiexible wire 22, which is wound several times around the shaft 19 and connected at its other end in this instance to an eye 10X, carried by the supporting member 10. The lower end 15 of the standard 14 will be provided with means, such as a soft-rubber or similar shoe or a spur, to cause it to adhere to the floor with sufficient firmness to prevent slipping when the chair is rocked. By this simple arrangement it will be obvious that when the chair 12 Mounted for rotation' is rocked forward and backward the guide 13 will move upwardly and downwardly upon the standard 14 and cause the latter to vibrate to and fro upon its lower end as a center, while at the same time the iiexible member 22 will be carried downward with the forward portion of the chair at the forward movement, and thus rotate the shaft and correspondingly rotate the fan and at the same time incidentally expand the spring 21, and at the return stroke the reaction of the spring in taking up thc slack of the flexible member will rotate the fan in the opposite direction, as will be obvions. Thus the fan will be rotated and moved bodily forward and backward with the motion of the chair.

The members 10 and 14 will preferably be of wood of the same quality and finish as the frame of the chair to correspond therewith, and the guide 13 may be merely a screw-eye inserted into the member 10, while the shaft 19 and fan-arms may be of metal plated or otherwise ornamented and the-fan-blades of cloth stretched over frames attachedto the fan-arms, as shown, whereby strength and lightness will be combined.

The fan-blades and other parts may be ornamented in any desired fanciful manner.

It will be noted that a very simple, cheaply-` constructed, and easily applied and operated device is produced which may be readily applied to any style or form of rocking-chair and that the parts may be modified in minor particulars without departing from the principle ofthe invention or sacrificing any of its advantages.

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed is-- 1. The combination with a rocking-chair having a lateral guide, of a fan attachment comprising a standard slidably supported in said guide and resting upon the floor, a shaft mounted for rotation upon said standard and carrying a fan, a retractive spring, and a ilexible member connected at its ends to said spring' and to a iiXed part of the chair` and intermediately wound around said shaft, whereby the rocking motion of said chair will cause said fan-shaft and fan to be rotated.

2. The combination with a rocking-chair, of

a fan attachment therefor comprising an arm for detachable connection to the ohair and having a lateral guide, a standard Slidably supported by said guide and resting upon the Hoor, a shaft mounted for rotation in the upper end of the standard and earryinga fan, and a flexible member connected at one end to a fixed part of the chair, and at its other end to a retraotive spring Wound around said shaft, whereby the I O rocking motion of said chair Will cause s aid fanshaft and fan to be rotated.

3. The combination with a rocking-chair having a lateral guide, of a fan attachment comprising a standard slidably supported in

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