On this day in 1883 Marcellus Baldwin was granted the patent for RECLINING CHAIR. U.S. Patent No. 270,724.
The object of this invention is to afford a novel and convenient reclining-chair with head and food rest, and so adapted that the declension of the back of the chair may be adjusted from the arm of the chair and will automatically throw the head-rest forward to give increased comfort for the head, and an extension foot-rest which is supported in the same plane with the seat and is returned within and concealed by the chair seat and back when not in use; and it consists, first, in a moveable hinged head-rest attached by suitable devices to the chair-seat, and the means for throwing said head-rest forward by an opposite declension of the chair-back when extended; second, in the arrangement horizontally of the foot support and its flexible extension within the chair seat and back; third, in the arrangement of the slotted plate in the back of a chair to regulate the extension of the foot-rest and its easy adjustment in line with the chair-seat; fourth, in the means for securing the foot-rest from free movement or in a fixed position when extended.
