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UNITED STATESPATENT OFFICE.
IDA MAY COFFY, OF SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS.
LAWN-ROCKER.
No. 826,314. Specification of Letters Patent. Patented July 17, 1906.
"nolication filed May 24, 1905. Serial No, 262,016,
To all whom it 7may Coi2Cer2n: when in upright position to rest upon the
Be it known that I, IDA MAY COFFY, a citi- underlying outer cross-bar 3 of the base-
zen of the United States, residing at San An- frame 1, and thereby hold the adjoining end
tonio, in the county of Bexar and State of of the rocker or swinging frame against down- 6o
5 Texas, have invented new and useful Im- ward movement, the two braces when thus
provements in Lawn-Rqckers, of which the arranged preventing the rocker-frame from
following is a specification. rocking or swinging. The lower edges of the
This invention relates to a new and im- braces 14 are held from outward movement
proved lawn-swing, the object of the inven- when resting on the cross-bar 3 by sto; s 15, 65
to tion being to provide a swing of this tyL e fixed to said cross-bar. A cord or like re-
which is simple of construction, durable, in- tracting connection 16 is attached at one end
expensive of manufacture, and ornamental, to each brace 14, and thence extends in-
and in which simple and effective means are wardly and passes through a guide-eye 17 on
provided for throwing the rocker into and one of the rockers 5 and is provided at its 70
15 out of operation to adapt the device for use opposite or free end with a ring or engaging
as a lawn-swing or stationary duplex chair or member 18, adapted to engage a keeper-ain
seat. 19 on said rocker.
The preferred embodiment of the inven- It will be understood from the foregoing
tion is illustrated in the accompanying draw- description that when the braces 14 are ar- 75
20 ings, in which- ranged in upright position and rest upon the
Figure 1 is a vertical longitudinal section bars 3, as shown in Fig. 1, the rockers 5 will
of a lawn-swing constructed in accordance be held from movement, thus permitting the
with my invention, showing the braces ad- device to be employed as a stationary duplex
justed to adapt the same for use as a station- chair or seat. . By pulling upon the rings 18 8o
25 ary duplex chair or seat. Fig. 2 is a vertical the braces 14 may be swung inwardly and
cross-section of the same, taken on the line held out of connection with the bars 3 by en-
2 2 of Fig. 1. gaging said rings with the pins 19, thus per-
Referring more particularly to the draw- matting the rockers 5 to be rocked upon the
ings, the numeral 1 represents a supporting sills 2. A platform 20 is mounted upon the 85
30 base or frame comprising a pair of parallel cross-bars 8 and 9 and may be of any suit-
bars or sills 2, connected near their ends by able structure to serve as a common foot-rest
outer transverse braces 3 and intermediate of for the persons occupying the seats.
their ends by a transverse cross-bar or brace The invention thus provides a device
4. Mounted upon the base or frame is a which may be employed as a swing or sta- 90
35 rocking or swinging frame comprising a pair tionary chair or seat at will and which may
of rockers 5, the central portions of which are be converted to either use by the simple ad-
properly curved to rock upon the sills 2. justment of the braces 14.
Each rocker 5 is provided with upwardly and Having thus described the invention, what
rearwardly curved portions 6, terminating in is claimed as new is- 95
40 scroll-shaped ends 7, which are slotted or 1. A lawn swing or chair comprising a base
otherwise formed or constructed to produce composed of sills connected by end and cen-
an ornamental structure. tral transverse bars, a rocker-frame compris-
The central portions of the rockers 5 are ing side rockers suitably connected and hav-
connected by outer transverse cross-bars 8 ing a cross-bar disposed above the interme- 00
45 and an intermediate cross-bar 9, which lat- diate cross-bar of the base, said cross-bars
ter is formed with a groove 10, receiving a having an interengaging connection to pre-
tongue 11 on the bar 4, said tongue and vent the rocker-frame from slipping laterally
groove extending longitudinally of the swing off the base, seats upon the rocker-frame,
and serving to prevent the rockers 5 from hinged braces upon the rocker-frame adapted 105
5o shifting laterally and jumping off the sills 2. to engage the outer cross-bars of the base to
To the portions 6 and 7 of the rockers 5 are hold the rocker-frame stationary, and means
secured seats 12 and seat-backs 13, which for retracting the braces and securing the
may be of any preferred construction and same in retracted position to the rocker-rigidly connect or join the ends of the rock- frame. 110
55 ers. Hinged to the lower rear portion of 2. A lawn swing or chair comprising a base
each seat 12 is a brace 14, which is adapted composed of sills connected by end and cen-
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Coffy, Ida May. Lawn-Rocker., patent, July 17, 1906; [Washington D.C.]. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth510268/m1/2/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Government Documents Department.