US1772980A - Utility chair - Google Patents

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Aug. 12, 1930.

E. L. BENNETT UTILITY CHAIR Filed April 10. 1926 a ma H mm W V6 T m 9 w Patented Aug. 12, 1930 ETED STAS EDGAR L. BENNETT, OF DETROIT, lVIIGHIGAN UTILITY Application filed April 10,

My invention relates to household furniture and consists in an improved chair structure.

The object of my invention is to provide a chair which ordinarily presents the usual chair appearance but which will have greater utility than the ordinary chair. I secure this object by providing the seat of my chair with an extension which will seat two or more per- ;to sons or may be used as a table for any desired purpose; by providing my chair wit-h other extensions or shelves which may be used for preparing and serving foods or for other purposes; by providing suitable pockets or re- 15 cesses in the chair proper in which the extensions referred to may be hidden from view; and by providing suitable electric wiring and outlets for facilitating the use of electrical equipment in connection with my chair.

I have originated a number of details which will be described later, and the provision of these or similar'necessary details are minor objects of my invention.

In the accompanying drawings which illustrate a selected embodiment of my invention 7 Figure 1 is an isometric view of my improved chair with its partsshown in projected position for maximum use.

:1) Figures 2, 3, 1, and are vertical sections I taken on lines 22, 33, H, and 5-5 of Figure 1; V

The chair illustrated is a straight chair having front legs 1, rear legs 2 extending up- .2; wardly to form the rear posts 3 which are connected by spaced rails f and 5. Suitable rungs 6 brace the chair legs and preferably mount a shelf 7 on which books, papers, and other articles may be placed. The chair seat 4 8 is of substantial depth and forms a receptacle for a sliding shelf 9 which may be pulled out from one side of the seat to form an extension thereof. Shelf 9 is equipped with one more legelemen'ts 10 which are preferably hinged at 11 to the bottom of the shelf near the outer edge thereof and may be folded against the bottom of the shelf to be stored with the shelf beneath the seat 8. The bottom portion 12 of the seat forms with the top portion 8 and the sides 13 a box for receiving 1926. Serial No. 101,018.

the shelf 9 and its legs 10. A spring 14: yield ingly holds the legs 10 in folded or extended posit-ion. The shelf 9 has a downwardly eX- tending flange 15 which slides on seat member 12 and forms a housing for the legs 10. Preferably the shelf member 9 has a handle 16 for pulling the shelf from beneath the seat. The space between posts 3 and'rails 4 and 5 is filled with a shallow box 17, the front of which forms a panel for the seat back and the rear of which is hinged to the remainder of thebox and is adapted to be moved into the horizontal position indicated in dot-and-dash lines in Figure l to form a shelf at the rear of the chair. At least one of the rear legs and post conceals a conduit 18 for an electric wire terminating at its lower end in a standard receptacle element 19. The upper portion ofthis post mounts a lamp bracket 20 through which the conduit extends and terminates in a lamp socket 21. Bracket 20 is rotatable on the post 8 so that the socket on the end of the bracket may be directed in any desired position. As shown it is directed so as to shed a light downwardly and forwardly. By turning the bracket to the rear it would be in a better position to have attached the cord of a toaster or cooking grill which may be set upon the shelf 17 or the bench 9. Preferably the wiring includes one or more other outlets such as at 27 to which electrical equipment may be connected, in which case the lamp and other equipment may be used simultaneously.

At least one of the front legs is provided with an elongated recess adapted to receive a standard 22, the upper end of which is inclined as best shown in Figure 3 and is flattenedso asto be received into a pocket 23 formed on the undersurface of a shelf 24. The standard 22 and shelf 2% may be swung horizontally to the most convenient angle and may also beadjusted in height by inserting a pin 25 on the lower portion of standard 22 into difierentnotches 26 provided in the sides of the recess in the chair leg.

' Standard 22 and shelf 24 are of such size as they may be easily placed in the shallow box comprising the chair back panel and thus placed out of sight. r

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members anu spaced substantially from each studios, small apartments, and other places directl upon either of said shelf elements as Where light housekeeping is carried on, aldesire though its use is not limited to such living In testimony whereof I hereunto aflix my conditions. signature this fifth day of April, 1926. 5 Obviously the various details by which the EDGAR L. BENNETT. m

parts are connected and assembled with each other may be varied indefinitely. and I contemplate the exclusive use of such modifications of my invention as are included in the w scope of my claims.

I clalmz 1. In a chair, a seat member, a back member, a leg and post member, a plurality of shelf elements mounted on said seat and back oil:

other, and a lamp bracket mounted on said leg and post member and adapted to be moved to direct the light from its lamp over any one of said shelf elements. 12 2. In a chair, a seat member, a back memher, a leg and post member, a plurality of shelf elements mounted on said seat and back members and spaced substantially from each other and adapted to extend forward a ly, laterally and reaiwardly of said chair {)0 respectively, and a lamp bracket mounted on said leg and post member and movable to shed the light from its lamp over either of said shelf elements. g

3. In a chair, a front leg, a rear leg and I 1 p back post, a standard projecting upwardly from said front leg, a shelf mounted on said standard, a shelf at the rear of said back post, a lamp bracket mounted on said post and rotatable thereon to direct light over a selected one of said shelves, and an electric conduit leading through said post to said bracket.

4. In a chair, spaced rear posts, a back between sald posts, a member forming a horizontal shelf thereon, and a lamp bracket mounted on one of said posts and rotatable about the same to direct the light from its lamp rearwardly over said shelf forming 4;, member or forwardly and downwardly in front of said back.

5. In a chair, a back, a shelf forming member on the rear of said back, and a lamp brackct mounted on said back with a horizontal arm as!rhayingialamp. s ke i miter nd said arm being rotatable about its inner end so as to direct the light from its lamp rearwardly over said shelf forming member or forwardly and downwardly in front of said back.

6. In a chair, a seat member, a rear leg and back post member, a front leg member, shelf elements mounted on said rear leg and post member and on said front leg member respectively and spaced substantially from each on 0th r, and a lamp bracket extending upward- 12 ly from said rear leg and post member and then downwardly at an angle of forty-five degrees to the vertical and being rotatable about its axis on said rear leg and post mem- 65 her so as to shed the light from its lamp Y C-Il

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