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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.
3 SIDNEY BACHTEL, OF HIGGINS, TEXAS.
FOLDING STOOL.1,285,580.
Specification of Letters Patent.
Patented Nov. 26, 1918.
Application filed March 14, 1918. Serial No. 222,472.
To all whom it may concern:
Be it known that I, J SIDNEY BACHTEL,
a citizen of the United States, residing at
Higgins, in the county of Lipscomb and
6 State of Texas, have invented certain new
and useful Improvements in Folding Stools,
of which the following is a specification.
This invention relates to folding stools.
One of the main objects of the invention
1o is to provide a folding stool of simple con-
struction and operation which may be pro-
duced at small cost. A further object is to
provide a stool so constructed as to be read-
ily convertible into a sun-shade or umbrella,
15 or a cane, optionally. Another object is to
provide a stool which may be quickly and
easily set up or taken down and folded so as
to occupy but very little space. Further ob-
jects will appear from the detailed descrip-
20 tion.
In the drawings:
Figure 1 is a perspective front view of a
stool constructed in accordance with my in-
vention, as used.
25 Fig. 2 is a detail of the two pivotally con-
nected supporting rods.
Fig. 3 is a detail of the three supporting
rods shown as disassembled and positioned
in parallelism so as to have the flexible seat
30 wound about them so as to provide a small
bundle.
Fig. 4 is an underneath view of the seat.
Fig. 5 is a side view of the stool converted
into a parasol.
35 Fig. 6 is a view of the supporting rods
arranged to provide a cane.
Broadly stated, the stool is comprised of
a supporting stand formed by a plurality of
supporting rods secured together in cross
40 and triangular arrangement, and a flexible
seat secured to the upper ends of these rods.
The rods 1 and 2 are pivotally secured to-
gether at their approximate centers by a pin
3 passed through the same. This pin pro-
45 jects beyond the underface of rod 2 and
serves to pivotally support a securing hook
4 mounted thereon at its upper end. This
hook is adapted to engage through an eye 5
secured in a third rod 6 which is independent
50 of rods 1 and 2. This third rod is ,further
provided with an eye 7 disposed substan-
tially at right angles to eye 5 and adapted to
receive the outer arm of a hook 8 fixedly se-
cured in rod 1. The eye 7 and hook 8, and
55 eye 5 and hook 4, are so related as to releas-
ably secure free rod 6 in an inclined positionextending through the lower angle formed
by rods 1 and 2. By this means, the three
rods are secured in crossed triangular ar-
rangement so as to provide a supporting 60
stand for the flexible seat 9 which may be
formed of canvas or other suitable material.
This seat is provided, at each corner of its
forward edge, with the triangular securing
members 10 and 11 which are adapted to be 65
inserted into the eyes 12 and 13 secured in
the upper ends of rods 1 and 2, respectively,
these eyes being slightly open so as to permit
insertion or removal of members 10 and 11.
Supporting strips 14 and 15 are inserted 70
through members 10 and 11, respectively, one
end of these strips being secured to the back
bar 16 secured in seat 9 at the back thereof,
and the other ends of these strips being se-
cured through a triangular securing mem- 75
ber 17 which is fastened to the inner face of
back bar 16. A supporting bar 18 is secured
to back bar 16 in parallel spaced relation
thereto, and is provided at its outer end with
an offset or recess 19, and at its inner end 80
with a similar offset 20. Bar 18 is adapted
to be inserted into an eye 21 secured in the
upper end of free rod 6. By placing the
eye 21 through offset 19 and turning rod 6
through an are of approximately 90 , the 85
rod 18 is inserted into eye 21, after which
the rod 6 is moved so as to bring eye 21 into
the offset 20. When in this position, eye 21
is at the center of the back edge of the seat,
the seat thus being secured at three points 90
so as to be supported by the rods 1, 2, and
6, as in Fig. 1 of the drawings.
Rod 6 is provided, a short distance from
its upper end, with an eye 22 fixedly secured
thereto. The distance from the upper end 95
of rod 6 to eye 22 corresponds approxi-
mately to the height of eye 21. By this con-
struction, by releasing hook 8 and eye 7, and
disengaging hook 4 from eye 5, the two cross
rods 1 and 2 may be moved upward along oo
rod 6 until the upper face of rod 1 is brought
into engagement with the underface of back
bar 16 of the seat, thus bringing the hook 4
into position for engagement with the eye
22. By securing this hook through the eye 105
22, rods 1 and 2 will be firmly secured in
horizontal position so as to hold the seat 9
extended, the rod 6 being in a vertical posi-
tion. This provides a sun-shade which may
be held by rod 6, this rod constituting the 110
handle of this shade. This will be clear
from Fig. 5 of the drawings in which the
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Bachtel, Sidney J. Folding Stool, patent, November 26, 1918; [Washington D.C.]. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1257240/m1/3/?q=%22%22~1: accessed July 4, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting UNT Libraries Government Documents Department.