US89976A - Improvement in car-seats - Google Patents

Description

J. S.'DIACK.

Car Seat.

No. 89,976. Patented May 11, 1869.

Witnesses I I N. PETERS. Phola-Uliwgmphcr. Washmg'nn, D. c.

i To all whom it may concern.-

aunts-mag strut hilt i1 JAMES S,.'D1ACK,OF AURORA, ILLINOIS. I i I Lette'rsPatent No.89,976, dated Ma/y1 1,1869, I

IMPROVEMENT CAR-SEATS.

- The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making partof the same.

Be it known that I, JAMnsS. DmcK, of Aurora, in the county of Kane, and ,State of Illinois, have invented a new andvaluable Improvement in'Railway-Seats; and I'*d o hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, "and exact description of the constructionand operation of the same, reference being had to the annexed drawings, making a part of this specification,

and to the letters and :figures of reference marked thereon.

Figurel of the drawings is a plan view of my de- Figure 2 is a longitudinal section of the same.

My invention relates to seats for railway-cars; and' It consists in constructing and adjusting the samein such manner that the operator may form them into continuous sleeping-couches, at will.

'The letter A,of the drawings, represents the carseats proper; and letters B are the upright ends n thereof.

i .On the inside of these ends respectively, and above the seats proper, I afllx a stripof metal, with lugs or grooves, as shown ata, to form rests for the bottom of the chair-back, to which lugs the back is connected by suitable pins, marked 0, near the bottom of its ends.

Said lugs and pins are so constructed and arranged that" the chair-back may rest in said lugs, or may be removed at pleasure. I v Letter 0 is-the chair-back, the bottom of which,

when to be used for sitting, is adjusted, by its pins 0, in the 'rear one of the lugs above mentioned.

K It is also connected with the end-pieces B, by the slotted bars D. a

These bars are attached to the said seat by means of pins (1, and they are connected to the end-pieces respectively by pins with bolt-heads,that are adjusted in the slots of said bars, as shown. These last-named pieces are marked s in the drawings. I

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The letter E is a foot-box, constructed in the form of a trough, and pivoted at each end to the lower ends of the side-pieces respectively, as shown.

The letter Fis a hinged board, attached'to the side of foot-box E, in the manner represented, the "office of which is to aid in the formation of a continuous lounge, as hereinafter mentioned.

The letters Y are pins, attached to the seat at the points shown, which serve to arrest the fall of the seat backward beyond the arms of the seat nex .in rear, and thereby act as protections against accide t to the limbs of a reclining passenger.

- To form a continuous lounge, the operator turns up the hinged board Ii, and the foot-box underneath the adjoining seat, and adjusts them in the manner shown on fig. 2. He then turns down the seat-backs, by ad-,-

jnsting-the pins s, and turning said backs to the right or left, as the case may require, nntil they assume-the .position represented by letter O or 0' upon the draw- Ihese devices enable the operator to change a sitting for a reclining posture at will, and thereby, in a greatmeasure, dispense with cars arranged for sleep ing only.

' I hereby disclaim all right of invention to anything shown by the patent of John Danner, patented De- 'cember 27, 1859..

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The foot-box .E and hingedboard F, when con-* structed asherein specified, and when used in combi nation with the adjustable car-seat herein described.

,LIn testimony that I claimv the above, I'have hereunto subscribed my name, inthe presence of two wit- JAMES s. DIAOK.

Witnesses:

J was D. Fox, CHARLES G. METZNER.

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