US309782A - Jacob hawser - Google Patents

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J. HANSER, VEHICLE SEAT.

No. 309,782. I I 'Patented Dec. 23,1884,

Warren rn'rns PAfr'nNfr rrrcna JACOB HANSER, OF OXFORD, OHIO, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO GEORGE V. MEYER, OF SAME PLAOE vEi-oLE-SEAT.

SPECIFICATION formng part of Letters Patent No. 309,782, dated December 23, 1884.

Application filed April 2, 1884. (No model.)

o all whom it' may concerz.: piece B; J, stiff wires arranged below and Be it known that I, J AOQB HANSER, of Oxagainst the cushion-frame; L, angular bends ford, Butler oounty, Ohio, have invented cerat one end of each wire, seating in holes bored tain new and useful Improvements in Vehiclein the under face of the cushion-frame; M, the 5 5 Seats, of which the followingisaspecifcation. spiral Springs between the wires J and the This invention rel'ates to the general conlattice-work under the cushion; N, a turn of struetion of the cushion part iof the 4seat for the wire of each spring around its supportingcarriages, &c., and to its arrangement with wire J; O, a turn of the wire of each spring reference to the frame-work of the seat. around its superposed lattice bar; P, a wire 60 ro The invention will be understood from the forming a juncture between two neighboring following description, taken in connection Springs; Q, one of the tufting-buttons of the with the accompanying drawings, in which cushion, and R the `retaining -Wire of the Figure 1 is a front view of a earriage-seat tufting-button. The cushion-frame d, with 'with the top portion or cushion part turned the cushion and its spring -work, forms a 65 1 up vertically, so as to expose its bottom, and structure independent of the seat proper. It with a portion of the front bar, D, broken away; is attached to the seat by means of the hoolc Fig. 2, avertical transverse section of the seat I and slotted piece which serves as an attachwith the top part turned up, as in Fig. 1, and ment and as a hinge, permitting the cushionwith thefront bar, D, entirely removed; Fig. frame, Sac., to be lifted like a box-lid,'as indi- '70 3, a section of the cushion proper ata tuftin'gcated in Fig. 2, and at the same time permits button; and F'g. 4, averticalsection of a porits ready detachment when desired. When tion of the top part of the seat, exhibiting the the cushion-frame is down, it eloses upon the arrangement of the springs, &c., the parts top of the front bar,D, thus forming below the being shown as upside down-/-that is, with the' cushion-fra1ne a convenient shallow reeeptacle 75 entire cushion portion of the seat turned over, for the storage of carriage-curtainsftc., and

bringing its bottom side up. the front bar,D,is removable, and the proj ee- In the drawings, A represents the usual tions O furnish facilities by which such front body portion of a earriage-seat; B, a piece of bar can be fitted to any existing carriage-seat thin metal provided with a horizontal slot, and without the necessity off'eutting the seat, and 80 secured to the inside surfaces of the seat-back at the same time the front bar is readily rebelow the level of the cushion part; C, thin movable for permitting the seat-bottom to be projections'fron the inner ends of the side swept clean. pieces of the seat, below the level of the eush- In practice the cushion will generally have ion part; D, a removable front bar reaching a front fringe over the front bar, D. The 85 across the front of the seat, resting upon the front bar may, if preferred, be secured to the bottom of the seat, slotted at the ends, and front lower edge of the cushion-frame. The engaging the projections C, 'and having a lattice-workFserves asasubstantial and fiexiheight to reach from the bottom of the body ble backing for the cushion, and, being free portion of the seat to the under surface of the to rise and fall in the sockets H, is free to rise 90 40 cushion-frame; d, the cushion-frame, eonsistand fall and follow the springing motion. The ing of four wooden bars joined at the corners; wires J serve as abutments for the Springs.

E, the cushion-work of the seat, secured by The Springs are forned in pairs from a single its margins to the frame work; F, a latticewire, as shown in Fig. 4, the wire l? serving work of thin metal strips, seated against the as the union of the two springs of a pair, and 9 5 under side of the cushion-work; G, downalso serving to space the springs upon their wardly-projecting angles or tongues formed sustaining-rods. The turn N at the foot ofv with thelattiee-work F; H, sockets secured to the Springs allows them to be readily Strung the inner side of the cushion-frame, and fitted upon their supporting-wires. The turn O at to receive freely the shanks G; I, a hooked the head of the Springs enables them to be oo metal strap seeured to the rear edge of the readily hitched to the lattice-work. There cushion -frame and engaging in the slotted may be as many springs and rods to sustain then as is (leened expedient. The retainingwires B; for the tnftirgr buttons, are formed with a central Vring; or eye. The thretd engages the eye of the button and the eye of the Wire, and the wire th us takes the place of buttons on the lower surface of the cushion.

I claim as my invention 1. The combination of seat A, the renovnble front bar, D, attached thereto, and the cnshion-frane d,hinged to the rear of the seat and adapted to close down upon the top of sztid front bm'.

2. The combination of the seat, the oushionfrane hinged to its rear, the removable front bar, and the projections O, secu'ed to the inner surfaces of the sides of the seat.

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JACOB HANSER.

W'itnesses F. J. CoNn, A. M. TRUAX.

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