US677180A - Stool. - Google Patents

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Patented June 25, I 9OI. A. ll. CUBRIER.

No. e77,|ao.

STOOL.

(Application filed Dec. 18, 1900.)

(No Model.)

WITNE SSE 8 A7TOHNEYS UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE. I

ALFRED MAXWELL OURRIER, OF ST. REGIS FALLS, NEW YORK.

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 677,180, dated June 25, 1901,

Application filed December 18, 1900. Serial No. 40,266. (No model.)

To (LZZ whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, ALFRED MAXWELL OURRIER, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of St. Regis Falls, in the county of Franklin and State of New York, have invented a new and Improved Stool, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

The invention relates to furniture; and its object is to provide a new and improved stool for use as a piano-stool or the like and which is simple and durable in construction and arranged to move horizontally to enable the user to reach about in the immediate neighborhood without leaving the seat.

The invention consists of novel features and parts and combinations of the same, as will be fully described hereinafter and then pointed out in the claims.

A practical embodiment of the invention is represented in the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar characters of reference indicate cor responding parts in both the views.

Figure 1 is a perspective view of the improvement,-and Fig. 2 is a plan view of the same with parts in a different position.

The improved stool consists, essentially, of a base A, a support B, and a seat 0, vertically adjustable in the support B, as hereinafter more fullydescribed. The base A comprises the standards A A and a con nectingbar A and on the latter are hinged the end sections B 15 of the support B, having a middle section 13 hinged to the end sections B B From the middle section B rises up- .wardly and forwardly an arm 13*, formed in its free end with a nut B in which screws the screw-rod O of the seat 0 to permit of adjusting the latter vertically to suit the convenience of the user. By the arrangement described the seat 0 can be bodily moved from right to left in a straight line, preferably in alinement with the connecting-bar A, so that the user of the seat can move, for instance, in front of a piano from one side to another, so as to readily reach the keys of the keyboard, or in case the device is used in front of a desk the user can conveniently reach about in the immediate neighborhood of the desk.

It is understood that by having the support B made in sections hinged together, as shown, the operator when seated on the seat 0 can readily move the latter from one side to the other, as the sections 13 B B swing correspondingly to allow the desired movement. The proportion of the hinged sections is rel= ative to three sides of a hexagon, with a right angle of ninety degrees from the center of the middle section to the center of the hexagon.

It is further understood that as the center of gravity of the seat 0 intercepts the connecting-bar A no matter in what position the seat may be, it is evident that the stool is not liable to be upset by the user.

. Having thus fully described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- 1. A stool comprising a series of sections jointed together and a seat supported on one of said sections, supports to which the end sections are jointed and means connecting such supports substantially as set forth.

2. A stool comprising a series of sections jointed together, supports to which the end sections are jointed, an arm projecting from the middle section into the angle formed between the same and the end sections and the seat carried by said arm substantially as set forth.

3. A stool comprising a base, a seat, and a support for said seat consisting of a number of sections extended'in longitudinal series, and jointed together at their meeting ends, the outer ends of the outer sections of the series being jointed to the base substantially as set forth.

4. A stool, comprising a base, a support, and a seat, the support consisting of a plurality of sections hinged together, the end sections being hinged to the base and the middle section carrying the seat, as set forth.

5. A stool, comprising a base having standards and a connecting-bar, a support made in sections, of which the end sections are hinged to said bar and the middle section carries an arm having a nut, and a seat having a screw-rod screwing in said nut and extending over said connecting-bar, as set forth.

6. A stool consisting of a seat-support corn- ICC prising an intermediate bar-section and end name to this specification in the presence of bar-sections jointed together, the seat carried two subscribing Witnesses.

by the intermediate section and movable laterally in approximately a straight line, and ALFRED MAXWELL CURRIER' 5 supports to which the end sections are jointed lVitnesses:

substantially as set forth. W. B. BABCOOK, In testimony whereof I have signed my V. R. DOWNER.

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