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Patented August 9, 1904.
UNITED
STATES
PATENT OFFICE.
BENJAMIN F. GILMER, OF DENISON, TEXAS.
ROCKING-CHAIR FAN.
PECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 766,822, dated August 9, 1904.
Application filed December 18, 1903. Serial No. 185,747. (No model)To all whom it may comcernz:
Be it known that I, BENJAMIN F. GILMER,
a citizen of the United States,.residing at Deni-
son, in the county of Grayson and State of
5 Texas, have invented a new and useful Rock-
ing-Chair Fan, of which the following is a
specification.
This invention relates to attachments to
rocking-chairs whereby a fan may be caused
10 to vibrate by the motion of the chair, and has
for its object to simplify and improve the con-
struction and provide means whereby the im-
proved device may be detachably connected to
any form of rocking-chair or similar struc-
15 ture and without injury to the chair; and the
invention consists in certain novel features of
construction, as hereinafter shown and de-
scribed, and specified in the claims.
In the drawings illustrative of the inven-
20 tion, in which corresponding parts are denoted
by like designating characters, Figure 1 is a
side view of a rocking-chair with the improved
attachment applied. Fig. 2 is a front view of
the device detached.
25 The improved device may be attached to any
of the various forms of rocking-chairs, and
consists of a base or supporting member 10,
clamped, as at 11, to the rocking-chair 12,
preferably near its forward part, and having
30 a guide 13 extending laterally therefrom, as
shown. Supported slidably in the guide is a
standard 14, resting by its lower end at 15
upon the floor 16 and provided at its upper
end with a yoke 17 18. Mounted for rotation
35 in the yoke is a shaft 19, carrying a fan of
any approved form, but preferably composed
of spaced blades or wings 20, as shown.
Connected by one end to the standard 14 is a
retracting - spring 21, and leading from the
40 other end of the spring is a cord or flexible
wire 22, which is wound several times around
the shaft 19 and connected at its other end
in this instance to an eye 10x, carried by the
supporting member 10. The lower end 15 of
45 the standard 14 will be provided with means,
such as a soft -rubber or similar shoe or a
spur, to cause it to adhere to the floor with
sufficient firmness to prevent slipping when
the chair is rocked. By this simple arrange-
50 ment it will be obvious that when the chair 12is rocked forward and backward the guide
13 will move upwardly and downwardly upon
the standard 14 and cause the latter to vibrate
to and fro upon its lower end as a center,
while at the same time the flexible member 22 55
will be carried downward with the forward
portion of the chair at the forward movement,
and thus rotate the shaft and correspondingly
rotate the fan and at the same time incidentally
expand the spring 21, and at the return stroke 6o
the reaction of the spring in taking up the
slack of the flexible member will rotate the
fan in the opposite direction, as will be obvi-
ous. Thus the fan will be rotated and moved
bodily forward and backward with the mo- 65
tion of the chair.
The members 10 and 14 will preferably be of
wood of the same quality and finish as the
frame of the chair to correspond therewith,
and the guide 13 may be merely a screw-eye 70
inserted into the member 10, while the shaft 19
and fan-arms may be of metal plated or other-
wise ornamented and the fan-blades of cloth
stretched over frames attached-to the fan-arms,
as shown, whereby strength and lightness will 75
be combined.
The fan-blades and other parts may be orna-
mented in any desired fanciful manner.
It will be noted that a very simple, cheaply-
constructed, and easily applied and operated 8o
device is produced which may be readily ap-
plied to any style or form of rocking-chair
and that the parts may be modified in minor
particulars without departing from the prin-
ciple of the invention or sacrificing any of its 85
advantages.
Having thus described the invention, what
is claimed is-
1. The combination with a rocking-chair
having a lateral guide, of a fan attachment 90
comprising a standard slidably supported in
said guide and resting upon the floor, a shaft
mounted for rotation upon said standard and
carrying a fan, a retractive spring, and a flexi-
ble member connected at its ends to said spring 95
and to a fixed part of the chair and intermedi-
ately wound around said shaft, whereby the
rocking motion of said chair will cause said
fan-shaft and fan to be rotated.
2. The combination with a rocking-chair, of 100No. 766,822.
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Gilmer, Benjamin F. Rocking Chair Fan, patent, August 9, 1904; [Washington D.C.]. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth509919/m1/2/: accessed July 8, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting UNT Libraries Government Documents Department.