US751907A - Monmjtho - Google Patents

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PATENTED PEB. 9,1904.

R. G. PURST.

HAMMOGK.

' LPPLIoA'rIoN FILED AUG. a, lana.

NO MODEL.

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Patented February 9, 1904. l

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RICHARD C. FURST, OF BURLINGTQN, NEW JERSEY.

HAIVINIOCK.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 751,907, dated February 9, 1904.

Application iled August 8, 1903.

To a/ZZ' whom t may concern:

Be it known thatI, RicnAnD C. Funs'r, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Burlington, New Jersey, have invented certain Improvements in Hammocks, of which the following is a specification.

AMy invention relates to hammocks; and it consists of certain improvements in the supports for the body of the hammock or the body itself whereby I am enabled to provide a hammock having a support for the back when the hammock is occupied by a person sitting in a transverse position.

My invention is fully shown in the accompanying drawings, in which` Figure 1 is a perspective view showing the hammock stretched out to its full length in the position it occupies when suspended by the usual rings. Fig. 2 is a sectional view taken on the line ac, Fig. l. Fig. 3 is a plan view of a portion of the structure, and Fig. 4 is a view illustrating a modified structure em-` bodying my invention.

As ordinarily constructed the suspending cords or clues of a hammock are all of the same length, producing when the hammock is stretched its full length the usual cradle, having a cross-section in the shape of a horseshoe. While a hammock constructed in this manner is comfortable enough when the person occupying the same is lying down stretched out full length, there is very little comfort and more or less difficulty experienced when occupying the hammock in a transverse position. Ordinary hammocks provideno back-support, and in order to make as near an approach thereto as possible one edge or side of the hammock is pulled around and adjusted at the neck of the occupant. This arrangement, however, is generally unsatisfactory, and it is for the purpose of overcoming this more or less serious diiiiculty common with all hammocks that I have devised the structure forming the sub# ject of my invention and embodied in this present application.

The body of the hammock is represented at l and may be of any suitable materialhfor instance, the ordinary woven hammock made from a single cord, or it vmay be what is familiarly known as a Lh/IeXican-grass ham- Serial No. 168,772. (No model.)

mock. In all forms of hammocks thebody is vsecured to rings or other members 2 by cords or clues, (indicated at 3 in the present instance,) but differing from the usual arrangement, in which the connecting cords or clues are all of the same length. I provide a series of clues, some of which are of different lengths, one portion preferably decreasing their lengths in a definite ratio.

The object of my invention being to provide a back for the occupant of the hammock when sitting in a transverse position, I therefore arrange the cords 3 for the portion indicated by the bracket A, gradually decreasing in length from a point approximately at the center of the hammock to one of the side edges of the same. This will shorten this edge and raise the body of the hammock to the position shown in Fig. 2. To provide a proper seat for the occupant, a certain portion of the cords 3 are of the same length-those, for instance, inclosed by the bracket B-and for the'purpose of making a slight edge at the other side of the hammock to catch under the bend of the knee and form a brace for the same a few of the cords on the other edge of the hammock (indicated by the bracket C) are Y shortened in a deiinite ratio. This gives the hammock a shape clearly shown by the cross- -sectional view, Fig. 2, providing a convenient seat and affording a comfortable and proper support for the back and a brace for the knees.

Instead of shortening .the cords or clues 3 in the manner as noted in Figs. l, 2, and 3 I may provide, as in Fig. 4, cords or clues 3a of the same length and slierten up in proper ratio thereto the body ln of the hammock, as indicated by the brackets D and E. It will be understood, however, that such a structure unless made of closely-woven fabric is more diiiicult of construction than one in which the adjustment is made by means of definitelyshortened cords or clues 3. In some instances I may arrange the cords or clues with a special device or with means for shortening the same in definite ration, whereby the back-support may be formed.

Having thus described my invention, I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patentl. The combination in a hammock of the IOO body portion, forming one element, and a series of clues connected to said body at the opposite ends thereof and forming the other element, one of said elements being shortened a certain distance in respect to the other on a line extending across the hammock, ywhereby said hammock when in use provides support for the back.

2. In a hammock, the combination of the body, and a series of cords or clues connected thereto and arranged in graduated lengths for a certain distance on a line extending across the body of the hammock, such arrangement serving to shorten one side of said body. y

8. In ahammock, the combination of abody, and a series of cords or clues of different lengths secured thereto, the cords or clues being shortened from one side to the other of said body in different ratio, on a line extending across the body of the hammock.

' 4. The combination in a hammock, of the body portion, a series of clues connected thereto, and means for shortening one portion of the body of said hammock in a delinite ratio on a line extending across the hammock to form a back-support.

-5. The combination in a hammock, of the body portion, a series of clues connected thereto, and means for shortening portions of the body of said hammock in definite ratio on lines extending from the sides or edges of the same, to form a support for the back and brace for the knees.

6. The combination in a hammock, of the body, a series of clues connected to the opposite ends of same, said clues being arranged in sections, a section on one side being graduated in length from a point at the edge to a point near the center of the body to form a back-support, and another section being of uniform length and forming a seat-support.

7 The combination in a hammock, of the body, a series of clues connected to the opposite ends of same, said clues being arranged in sections, a section on one side being graduated in length from a point at the edge to a point near the center of the body to form a back-support, a central section of uniform length forming a seat portion, and another section having two or more clues shortened in regular order to form a brace to rest under the knees of the occupant.

In testimony WhereofI have signed my name to this specification in the presence otWo subscribing Witnesses.

RICHARD C. FURST.

Witnesses:

CHAs. P. SMITH, P. H. SMITH.

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