Untitled record

Sheets—Sheet 1,

A. B. STEVENS.

NURSERY CHAIR.

No. 192,467. Patented June 26, 1877.

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N. PETERS, PHOTO-LITHOGRAPHER, WASHINGTON. D. C.

Sheets—Sheet 2.

A. B. STEVENS.

NURSERY CHAIR.

No. 192,467.

Patented June 26, 1877.

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N.^; PETERS, PHOTO-UTHOGRAPHER, WASHINGTON. D. C.

United States Patent Office.

^STEVEKS, ^op PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA ASSIGNOR OF or same^FplS^{GHT T}° ^{HALE &amp; KILBUEK} manufacturing COMPANY,

IMPROVEMENT IN NURSERY-CHAIRS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 192,467, dated June 26, 1877; application filed March 29, 1877.

To all whom it may concern:

_o,^,^e known that I, Asher B. Stevens, of Philadelphia, in the State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and useful Improvement

Convertible Infant Chairs and Carriages, of whieh the following is a specification :

Ihis invention relates to that class of intant-chairs which are also convertible into carnages; and consists in combining, with the seat, legs pivoted thereto, and crossed and held in such angles to one another that the seat may be raised or lowered, and so supported that it may be used as a high chair or a low one supported upon an extended base, at pleasure. The table may be attached in the same plane with the seat, and so the chair be converted into a crib, an adjustable frame being fastened to the sides of the table, whieh in conjunction with the arms and back of the chair, will form a frame around the entire bottom of the crib.

In the annexed drawing, making a part of this specification, Figure 1 is a vertical longitudinal section. Fig. 2 is a front elevation, Fig. 3 is a side elevation of the crib. Fig 4 is a perspective view of the table and frame. Tig. o is a sectional elevation, showing the mode of supporting the seat in its elevated position with an intermediate frame.

The same letters are employed in all the figures in the indication ot identical parts.

A is the seat, having on the sides flatheaded studs A¹ and round-headed studs A². B is the back, aud 0 the arms, having on their sides flat-headed studs O¹ and round-headed studs C². Two metallic bars, D and Ε, are respectively, hinged to the front and back corners of the under side of the seat, and are shaped as shown, or substantially so.

Instead of attaching the leg-bars directly to the seat, or to lugs ou the seat, the latter may rest on a frame, such as is shown at X in Fig. 5, and the legs be pivoted to this frame.

On the bars D and E are secured wooden legs D¹ E¹, the bars being bent, as shown, so as to give an outward flare to the legs in whatever position they may stand. On the outsides of E and the insides of D are stud-pins E² and D², which are intended to form stops for the leg-bars when extended, as in Fig. 3. Across the outer pair of leg-bars, in the case illustrated by D, I place a rod, D³, which couples them together, and also serves as a stop, engaging the hook-formed recess E³, the sides of whieh are so formed as to clasp the rod D³ closely as they are attached, so as to hold them somewhat tightly together; or a spring may be attached, orthepointof thehook may itself be elastic to spring over the rod D³.

Thus, when the seat is raised the weight is supported on the rod D³; or by detaching that attachment the seat will fall, extending the legs until the seat rests on the stops D²B². The wheels F are placed on the end of the legs, instead of being above the ends, as in other cases where the carriage or wheel-chair is formed only in the lowered position of the seat·

G is the usual foot-rest. H is a table, attached by arms H¹, having longitudinal slots, which receive the flat-headed studs C¹, while the arms rest on the studs C². The slot permits the table to be moved away from the ends of the arms 0 to give room to seat or remove the child, and, when this is done, the table may be slid close to the ends of the arms G, resting on the studs A², the necks of which are received in notches in the arms, thus confining the child in the seat. .

To form a crib, the table has a frame, H³, normally folded inside the rim made by arms H , which extend around the front edge of table and rise above its surface. The frame H³ is confined by a bent rod, H², passing through it and rim H¹, but which may be removed, and then frame H³ may be raised, extending the hinged straps H⁴, which, when extended, are stopped by a pin, and then the strip H⁵, which turns on a pivot on H³, is turned down and hooked into a catch on H¹. The table is then attached to the studs A¹ and A on the sides of the seat, notches on the arm H³ engaging the studs C². The seat and

192,467 the table, being in the same plane, form the bottom of a crib, of which the back B, arms C, and frame H³ form a frame. .