Need help with an antique glider

I came across this unique glider during a recent trip to the north Georgia mountains. The guy I purchased it from said it had been in his barn since about the 1960s. I have 2 questions:

1. Does anyone have any information on this piece? I'm having trouble identifying it and there are no markings anywhere on it.

2. I plan to finish restoring it for my own home. I need to figure out a solution for the bottom cushion. It looks like it used to have a pad of some sort on it but again I'm having trouble finding any information or original pictures to go off of. Does anyone have some input as to how to recreate a bottom pad that functions with the built in springs? This is what makes this piece really unique so I want to use it rather than just recreating a separate pad to sit on top of the base. Also the piece of material that's currently attached is not original, I can tell it was added afterward by the way it's attached so don't go by that. See pictures below, thanks in advance:

glider by Southern Restorations posted Nov 2, 2016 at 1:25 PM

glider by Southern Restorations posted Nov 2, 2016 at 1:25 PM

glider by Southern Restorations posted Nov 2, 2016 at 1:25 PM

glider by Southern Restorations posted Nov 2, 2016 at 1:25 PM

glider by Southern Restorations posted Nov 2, 2016 at 1:25 PM

 

Welcome! But your pictures are not visible to others as your "Gallery Album" is set to Private. If you'll change that to Public, that should take care of it.

 

Thanks, I think that did it. Let me know if you can see the album now

 

Pics are now available!

Not being a "furniture person" I'm afraid I can't help. But others who can should be along soon.

 

This is what I would call a platform glider-rocker. When I think glider, I envision the big sofa gliders out on the porch. I don't imagine this was very old when put out in the barn in the 60s. The style is colonial and the wood is oak. Your sinuous spring seat (Are you missing one? The spacing looks off) had a decking that usually consisted of a fiber mat about 3/4" thick. Depending on how dense the fiber, it may have been backed with canvas. Most likely on top of that would be a layer of foam.

 

Thank you this helps a lot. I wasn't sure what this type of seat was called. Now that I know the term I was able to find some examples from Google. It's not missing a spring, they are just spaced a little off. It looks like I can use the material that's already attached as the base and make a cushion to sit on top of that. Thanks for the quick response. I should be able to bring this back to life after I reinforce some of the joints, tighten up the gliding mechanisms and reupholster it of course.

 

No better place to calm a too-sleepy and fighting-going-to-bed young child in a hot/warm area of the country than to let a child curl up or stretch out on a "glider" on a porch in the cool of the evening when the sun was setting or had already set.

Oh the countless hot summer nights (pre-central-air-conditioning days) I was sound asleep on Grandma and Grandpa's front porch "glider" and then was picked up and carried to a bed inside their house for the night.

If the "glider" didn't do the trick a grown-up could always hold and rock a child in a rocking chair on the front porch or hold a child in a "swing" suspended from the ceiling at one end of the porch to cool off and relax a child (and an adult as well).