Hierarchy classification:

1. top of the aat hierarchies
2. Objects Facet
3. Furnishings and Equipment (hierarchy name)
4. Furnishings (hierarchy name)
5. furnishings (works)
6. [furnishings by form or function]
7. furniture
8. [furniture by form or function]
9. seating furniture
10. single seating furniture
11. chairs (furniture forms)
12. [chairs by function]

Additional parents:

1. top of the aat hierarchies
2. Objects Facet
3. Furnishings and Equipment
4. Furnishings
5. furnishings
6. furnishings by form or function
7. furniture
8. furniture by design
9. mechanical furniture

Narrower term/s

• gouty chairs
• wheelchairs[+]
  • bath chairs
• garden machines

Anotations

Scope note:

Term applied to a variety of mid-19th-century chairs designed especially for those who are sick or disabled and which often have ratchet mechanisms for raising and lowering the arms, back, or footrest or with large wheels for ease of motion. Use "touring chairs" for late 19th- and early 20th-century chairs intended primarily for tourists' use on boardwalks.