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Back-Frame
Height of the back
to be equal to the
height of J. B.'s back.
The support for the
head must not be
flush with the back.
It may be a board
parallel to the back
covered with stuffed
leather: receding from
or approaching to the
back by two screws.
The depth of the
seat to be
equal to the length
of J. B.'s thighs.
Side-Rails
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To make the chair
wider or narrower
at pleasure
These side frames
to converge and
diverge from each
other. Quere by
a right and left
handed screw?
Seat-Frame
The back hind rail
to raise and lower
a little by a pair of straps
& hooks playing about
the front rail
as round an axis:
this to accommodate
the Os Coccygis and
the upper ends of
the thigh bones which
tend to sink below
the level of the lower
ends.
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Chair
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Hind legs slanting
a good deal backwards:
so as not to tip
over when the back lets down
Back
Back turning on
a joint or hinge
fixed to its angle
by 2 straps one
on each side each with
rows of holes to
hitch on to a hook
in the side of the
seat — or by leather straps
and buckles
Seat: Stuff.
Bottom
Seat of platted
cane or strained
canvas.
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On each side
a square strong
upright frame,
with the horizontal rail
at least as high
as the writing table
consequently considerably
higher
than the elbow-rail
of an ordinary
elbow chair
Elbow-Supports
Supports for the
elbows to let hang down
from this rail by
leather straps with buckles
and holes & a hook
Armpit supports
Shoulder-Screen
For protection
of the arm and
shoulder from
cold, a wing
sloping downwards
from the back
not always upright but
capable of varying
its angle with the rail
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Chair
Shoulder-Screen
rail. As there
will be no stress
on it, something
very slight such
as a bent cane
will be sufficient.
The wing on the left
hand must be
hollowed out, or
otherwise so shaped
as to give sufficient
play for the
right wing in
writing.
Foot-board.
Foot rail
to raise and lower
as above by straps
(one on each side)
by which it is
suspended from the
frame of the seat
or by a process
or projection from
the frame of the
seat.
Its angle of with the
horizon & may
be made to vary
by using two such
straps one in front
the other behind.
And if necessary
it may turn on
hinges or centers
at the hind part.
Arm-pit supports,
hooks suspended from
the side-rail, or attached
to a socket
playing up and down
an upright pin.
v. J. B.'s sick-chair.
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Chair.
Seat Stuff.
Seat — convex — made
so by hard stuffing.
Seat — whether
to raise and
lower?
Seat-Frame
Instead of lowering
the seat,
better to raise
the feet by a
foot-stool at
least as high
as the fender,
whereby they will
be exposed to the
fire without being
screened by the
fender. Height of
the seat above the foot-stool
equal to length
of J. B.'s Legs
Shoulder-Screen
For sheltering
the thighs Legs from
the current of
air that flows
in to the fire
there must be
a screen which
may be made
to strip & unstrip
and may be connected
either with
the Chair, the
Foot-stool or both.
It should be
full as high as
the under-sliding
table at Hendon
Should not that
Table slope off away
a little as if a
slice was cut off
from the corner
that the left
may have more
play?
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Chair
Covering.
Covering the
Yellow & white
striped pattern
with black brain
work, or rather
for the sake of
light a white
suppose a corded
dimity? Glazed
for coolness sake.
The seat and other
parts most exposed
to dirt
and least to the
eye might be
of the coloured
pattern as above
Elbow-Support
The changing
elbow-rail not
parallel-sided
but broader behind
than before
and moving to
the body
Arm-pit Support
Arm-pit supporters
to take
might also be
added.
They might be
mounted on the
side-rail and
made to swivel
to and fro
and perhaps take on and off
How to raise
and lower them
by the strap
principle? They
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Chair
Arm-pit Supports
They might hang
by straps hanging
on a higher rail
mounted on the
main side rail
Back. Stuff.
The back may
have a little stuffing
just at the places
for the shoulders
so there is an a broad
strip left unstuffed
between them to save
the back bone from
being heated.
Foot-Board.
The Food Board
to hang upon straps
hung upon over the
front-legs.
It may be raised
up to any angle by a
wedge-bar or pair of
wedges hung upon
straps, or connected by
pin and hole with the fixt upright behind.
Leg Screens
There must be side
wings to protect the
legs from cold on one
side & fire on the other.
but perhaps in order
to be out of the way
they may close to inwards.
Side-Rails
Height of the Side-Rails
a little lower than J. B.'s
Chin: so that the chin
may upon occasion rest
upon it.
Back Frame
Straps attaching the
Back Frame to the
Seat, not to come up
so high as to interfere
with the eyes
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Fashion. Levity Table Legs
Strengthened on the
inside by rings
or circular plates
test the strengthening
at the joints
of canes, reeds &c
strung together by a slender
axis: the leg tapering, conceal.
Lifting-Band
Should be loose
enough to hang
down out of the
way when used
not used +
+ A simple broad ribbon the ends passing through the table by correspondent slits prevented from being pulled through by being wound once or twice round a pair of slender rollers.
When used its
center of magnitude
should be
over the centre of
gravity of the Table
Ledge Surrounding
to keep fluids
from spilling over
— not a simple upright plate, which
would be apt to
break off — but a
upright plate joining the
horizontal level
insensibly by a
sloping plate forming
an inclined
plane
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Chair
Seat-Frame.
To admitt the
left thigh to sink
on turning to the
left to work the front
rail of the seat to be
in 3 scallops —
This upper part of
the Front Rail might
upon occasion be
replaced with a
strait one, or with
one in two scallops
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Chair
Patterns.
As objects of comparison
take
1. J. B.'s Sick Chair
2. J. B.'s New Arm Chairs
3. French Chair
4. Rush English Chairs.
Their defects will
indicate the remedy.
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