US29553A - Metallic chair-bottom - Google Patents

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v. STOCKTON. METALLIC CHAIR BOTTOM.

Patented Aug. 7, 1860.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

VOLNEY STOCKTON, OF IVILLIAMSBURG, OHIO, ASSIGNOR TO HIMSELF, AND MITCHELL & ICAMMELSBERG, OF CINCINNATI, OHIO.

METALLIC CHAIR-BOTTOM.

Specification of Letters Patent No. 29,553, dated August 7, 1860.

To all whom it may concern: l

Be it known that I, VOLNEY SToon'roN, of W7illiamsburg, in the county of Clarmont and State of Ohio, have invented a new and useful Metallic Chair-Bottoni; and I do hereby declare that the following is a `full and exact description of the same.

lMy invention consists in making the seats of plantation, garden and other chairs which require to be very strong and at the same time light and portable and also capable of being readily kept clean, of thin sheet metal peculiarly corrugated to render it sufficiently elastic to accommodate itself to the form of the person using it, and so form a nice and comfortable seat. For plantations and other places where numbers are required its cheapness will prove a great desideratum, as its manufacture is very simple and the material very low in price. A chair is thus constructed, which is easily put together and which can be sold for a very low price.

In the drawings Figure l shows the plate of metal as it appears before being applied to the chair, and F ig. 2 is a section of a chair with the seat attached. The plate of metal A is stamped into the shape shown from a square plate and the corners B are out out by the stamping process to accommodate the vertical posts of the chair, by means of a suitable stamp, the corrugations, as shown at, C, presenting the appearance of a closely interlaced basket work. The

stamping of the corrugations may be made at one and the same operation with the stamping out of properly sized and shaped plates for a chair bottom, from a square plate of metal. Any metal may be used such as thin sheet iron, tin plate, or zinc. The corrugations are intended to give elasticity, to a certain degree to the seat to enable it to take such a form by depressing into a cup like shape, to give a most comfortable seat to the person using the same.

The method in which the seat is to be secured to the four top horizontal rounds of the chair is illustrated in F ig. 2. The plate A being laid on the rounds the projecting pieces a are bent over the rounds D to the under or inside of which they are secured by tacks or other suitable nails and a chair bottom is made at once durable and cheap. lere rain to lodge thereon of course, being of metal it would rust or oxidize, to prevent which it can be varnished painted or japanned and a few holes being perforated in the center or lowestpart the rain will run off, the depressed portions of the corrugations forming` so many channels to conduct the water to a place of exit through which it can find its way olf the chair to the ground.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States is as follows:

As a new article of manufacture a chair bottom of corrugated sheet metal as herein shown and described.

VOLNEY STOOKTON.

Witnesses:

JOHN Q. ADAMS, IVM. CLoUGH.

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