IMPROVEMENTS IN TOILET GLASSES AND MIRRORS
Year: 1878

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to William Bendall, of Birmingham, in the County of
Warwick, Cabinet Maker, and William Cutler, of the same Place, Glass
Merchant, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN TOILET GLASSES AND
MIRRORS."
Sealed the 7th May 1878, and dated the 25th February 1878.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION filed by the said William Bendall and William
Cutler at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 25th February
1878.
WILLIAM BENDALL, of Birmingham, in the County of Warwick, Cabinet Maker,
"IMPROVEMENTS IN
and WILLIAM CUTLER, of the same Place, Glass Merchant.
TOILET GLASSES AND MIRRORS."
This Invention refers to improvements in the mode of staying and regulating the
position of the glass on its frame or bearers, so that any desired angle may be
adopted and maintained; and it also refers to such an arrangement of the parts of
the frame and glass as enable it to be packed flat; and, further, it consists in
constructing the foot or base of such glasses so that the glass may be turned hori-
zontally at any angle desired. This will be readily understood on reference to the
accompanying Drawings, in which (Fig. 1) represents the front view, and (Fig. 2)
the back view of a glass, (Fig. 3) showing, detached, the back stay bar.
(a) is the glass mounted on its frame (b) and foot or base (c), to which foot the
frame (b) is hinged at (d); (e) is a tray for holding any loose article; (f) is the
back stay bar attached to the back of the frame at (g) and to the base (c), and con-
consisting of a telescopic tube with adjusting screw (h) and balance spring; this stay
bar by its extension or contraction governs the angle at which the glass may be
fixed vertically. The foot or base (c) is formed in two plates, working on a pivot (1),
so as to allow of the upper plate being turned upon the lower, and thus admitting
of the horizontal position of the glass being changed at will.
(Figures 4 and 5) shew similar views of a glass, with the same stay bar, but
having the glass suspended from the top instead of hinged to the foot; or the glass
may be hung upon centres, or from any part of the frame with equal facility of

page_text: adjustment as regards the stay bar; or by another modification, not shown in the
Drawings, but easily described, the frame may be furnished with a back leg like an
easel, and a thin metal quadrant rack or bar is secured to the back of the frame,
which bar, passing through the back leg from front to back, is fixed in position by
a thumbscrew passing through the back leg from one side thereof. This rack or
bar can be hinged in the frame, so as to fall flat when out of use, and thus offer no
impediment to the flat packing together of the parts of the glass.
Having thus described the nature of the said Invention, and the manner in which
the same is to be performed, we claim the several improvements in toilet glasses
and mirrors by which the position of the parts of the glass relatively to each other
may be varied and adjusted at will, as herein more fully set forth and specified.
In witness whereof, we, the said William Bendall and William Cutler, have
hereunto set our hands and seals, this Twenty-first day of February, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-eight.